Phil Gee Email & Phone Number

Tucker, Ga

Served as the senior executive leader responsible for strategic direction and leadership of all operational functions including: - Business Planning - Manufacturing - Production & Inventory Planning - Quality Assurance - Product Development - Engineering & Maintenance - Procurement - Regulatory & Scientific Affairs - Warehousing, Distribution & Transportation - Export Sales

Tucker, Georgia

Served as the senior executive leader responsible for strategic direction and leadership of all functions including: - Business Planning - Human Resources - Finance - Information Technology - Manufacturing - Production & Inventory Planning - Quality Assurance - Product Development - Engineering & Maintenance - Procurement - Regulatory & Scientific Affairs - Warehousing, Distribution & Transportation - Export Sales

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for providing strategic direction and functional leadership for three operational areas.The Leaf Processing & Quality Assurance team provides oversight of domestic 3rd party leaf processing operations, ensuring domestic purchased leaf is processed to RJRT/ Customer specifications and the lowest practical costs. Additionally, this team is responsible for leaf quality management processes of leaf purchased globally for use in domestic manufacturing operations.The Leaf Storages team provides planning, management and execution of all warehousing, shipment and inventory of leaf products purchased domestically and offshore for use by RJRT and its Customers.The Leaf Logistics team provides planning, management and execution of all leaf transportation logistics, domestically, import and export.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for providing strategic direction and functional leadership for three operational areas. The Transportation team provides corporate strategic planning, process management, transportation regulatory compliance and performance/cost improvement for the physical movement of goods via commercial truckload, less-than-truckload, rail, intermodal, air and ocean import/export.The Logistics Planning and Systems team provides planning and process management for small package shipment, direct marketing mail distribution and IT solutions. The Logistics Planning also provides direct support to the SAP Business Process Ownership role for Operations and R&D.The Trucking Department team provides planning and process management for movement of goods and supplies between Winston-Salem based RJRT manufacturing, storage and office facilities. Additionally, Trucking is responsible for acquisition and maintenance of rolling stock (excluding field sales vehicles) and industrial vehicles.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for providing strategic direction and functional leadership for all aspects of finished goods inventory management and physical distribution of domestic product from the point of manufacture to direct buying wholesale customers. Additionally, this position was accountable for development and implementation of the Vendor Managed Inventory Process with major direct buying customers. This position requires significant communication, collaboration, negotiation and teamwork across many internal and external groups including marketing, sales, customers, manufacturing, finance, information resources, suppliers and government regulators.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for strategic and tactical planning for the Manufacturing Division. Areas of planning accountability included manufacturing equipment/ facility utilization, inventory optimization, human resource planning and coordination of major manufacturing initiatives across the production, engineering, marketing and distribution organizations.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for materials and production planning for the Whitaker Park Manufacturing Complex. Provided manufacturing planning leadership for a team consisting of material and production planners, material receiving management and receiving operations associates

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for leading human resource planning and administration activities for a major manufacturing complex of approximately 2,100 operations, managerial and technical associates. Key accountabilities included: employee relations; compensation & benefits; professional, technical & operations training; and organizational analysis & staffing. Served as co-leader for the Operations Division cultural change management initiative. This major initiative focused on developing and implementing processes and training programs to evolve the culture to increased employee involvement and focus on core competencies, cross-functional teamwork and alignment to business plans, goals and objectives.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Responsible for planning, organizing and directing production activities at a major manufacturing complex. Provided direct leadership of line managers, production, mechanical, electrical and administrative associates.

Responsible for planning and administering human resource activities for the Engineering organization. Key accountabilities included: employee relations; recruiting & job placement; compensation & benefits, and training. Provided direction and leadership in planning and implementing a major reorganization of the Engineering organization. Developed and implemented a cross-functional technical career progression process across Engineering, Manufacturing and R&D.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Primarily responsible for capacity planning, facility layout, staffing and equipment procurement for the company's $2 billion expansion and modernization program. This assignment involved worldwide travel to equipment supplier locations.