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Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for building (previously no corporate function), implementing and leading the Corporate Global Supply Chain Function for Cargill across all global businesses including ~1100 plant locations and ~7000 warehouses in 70 countries. Corporate team of ~350 with ~4200 in the embedded organization. Responsible for People/Process/Data/Technology strategy across Supply Chain Planning, Customer Service/Order Management, Supply Chain Design and Optimization (SCDO), and Intelligent Supply Chain (ISC) for the corporation. In addition, have operational responsibility for SCDO model development and implementation, application development, deployment, and scaling for ISC initiatives, and CS/OM activities in global shared service centers. Direct report to CSCO, regular report outs to CEO.

Akron, Oh, Us

Responsible for developing and implementing Goodyear North America's strategy as well as for daily operations in the areas of Demand and Supply Planning, Customer Service, Transportation, Warehousing, Materials Management, and Procurement. Leading a team of 175 to ensure delivery of high levels of Customer Service while driving for lowest Total Delivered Cost and optimizing inventory levels to improve cash flow. Direct report to the President of Goodyear North America and participate in monthly operating reviews with CEO and senior leadership team.

Akron, Oh, Us

Overall responsibility for the architecture and implementation of Operational Excellence across the end-to-end integrated supply chain. Main focus is creating a platform for change that enables the delivery of company wide cash flow and productivity targets, leads Goodyear to excellence in Lean/TPM, and drives value to shareholders. Responsible for driving Goodyear's Operational Excellence vision globally including plant optimization, complexity reduction, network optimization, and a robust loss analysis program to drive lowest total delivered cost. Direct report to SVP of Global Operations, participant in monthly operating reviews with senior leadership team.

Chicago, Il, Us

Continued responsibility for HNA operations with the additional responsibilities of global transportation and warehousing strategy, policy, budgeting, and contract management. Manage global logistics budget across Europe, APAC, LATAM, North America, and RMEA. Tasked with driving global cost out initiatives as well as standardizing and implementing global KPIs. Direct report to Global VP of Logistics, and regular report outs to executive team including COO and Zone Presidents.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for managing the warehousing and transportation strategic direction and daily operations for Heinz North America. The team is responsible for managing 3rd party logistic providers for both Dry and Frozen warehousing and transportation to drive the optimum balance of people, processes, and technology to deliver superior innovative supply chain solutions that create value. Key objective is to drive continuous improvement within the logistics area and across departmental boundaries to find the best “total delivered cost” and service solution to ongoing opportunities generated from the dynamics of the market place as well as the current business challenges.

Chicago, Il, Us

Long Fong Foods is Heinz's frozen food business headquartered in Shanghai with 4 regional manufacturing facilities across China. Responsibilities include driving cost, quality, service, and inventory at the 4 factories, as well as national Quality, EH&S, Engineering, Procurement, Logistics, and Planning functions.

Chicago, Il, Us

Full operations responsibility for large continuous operation potato processing plant with 900+ employees producing the OreIda brand. Manage a direct staff of 8 and and extended staff of 78. Responsible for Cost Out, Yield, Quality and Sanitation, Health and Safety, Schedule Attainment, Capital Budgeting, and Continuous Improvement programs.

Chicago, Il, Us

Site responsibility for quality, cost, service, environmental, health, and safety for a Single Serving Condiment and Sauce food manufacturing plant Managed a direct staff of 8 managers covering all plant functions, and extended staff of 25.

Boston, Ma, Us

Full site responsibility in Arecibo, PR for quality, cost, EHS, and delivery for a large Industrial Circuit Breaker manufacturing plant with a workforce of 400+ across 2 business units and 3 buildings. The operations include metal fabrication, electro-plating, welding, and circuit breaker assembly operations. Manage a direct staff of 8 managers covering all plant functions, and extended staff of 24.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for all sourcing and materials management for 9 plants in Puerto Rico.

Boston, Ma, Us

Complete manufacturing startup responsibility for Joint Venture making Air Circuit Breakers and Vacuume Circuit breakers in Shanghai, PRC. This included construction, line specification, procurement, and installation, materials management, and localized sourcing of components. Also transferred production line from Liverpool England along with all appropriate work instructions, product documentation, and quality systems.