Ryan Gaffney Email & Phone Number

United States

Leader of the GTM Change Management and Integration team supporting field projects across GTM, Service Operations, Transportations and Sales.

Plano, Texas, United States

Leader of the Supply Chain and Operations Change Management and Integration team supporting field projects across Manufacturing, Warehouse, Quality, Total Rewards, Automation, and Digital Transformation.

Plano, Texas, United States

North East Region

• Project Manager of seven large projects across the country. Maine: Capacity, Massachusetts: HVDC/PFP, Connecticut: PFP, Iowa: Capacity, SouthCarolina: Capacity, Indiana: Bin Conversion, Bronx: Advantage.• Managed the critical path of the projects from start to finish. Responsibilities included running weekly project calls, influencing managers and zone leaders to perform project critical tasks, creating training material, building bidding websites for frontline employees to navigate a change• Subject Material Expert in virtual bidding, and owner/creator of nationally utilized automated tools to increase CA efficiency.

Milford Ct

• Direct manager of 11 Sales Representatives and 9 support personnel across 28 large format CPG accounts.• Responsible for executing a sales plan of 11.1MM+ on an annual basis. Delivered sales growth of 350M+ (104% to PY) in 2019.• Owner of the Zone Unsalable SME agenda. Leading the Zone to 71M better than financial plan with new managerial processes.• Regional ownership of safety programs and zone leader in customer satisfaction team. Reduced recordable injury rate by 50% resulting in a cost reduction of 105M+ in workers comp vs. PY. Leveraged as a region expert for safety culture and improvement.• Key account contact for the zone’s Shoprite business. Developed relationships with the owner group and market managers to sell incremental sales equipment and locations at a regional level.

Killingly Ct

• Direct manager of 6 frontline Supply Chain Managers, 3 administrators, indirect manager of 150+ team members in a seven-day, three-shift operation. Held monthly 1 on 1 performance development reviews, setting department vision goals and expectations.• Responsible for shipping 42 million cases annually with an annual operating budget of $14.5 million. • Ownership of beating annual financial plan and building periodic forecasting tools. • Responsible for creating and executing a dynamic staffing strategy to ensure the department delivers volume commitments through varying summer/holiday volume.

Killingly Ct

- Demonstrate strong leadership skills to coach, develop, and influence a frontline team consisting of 3 highly skilled coordinators and 70 material handlers. - Organize and facilitate daily pre-shifts, providing a high level overview of team objectives, open action plans, and emphasized safety initiatives.- Use analytical thinking skills through qualitative and quantitative analysis demonstrating a strong drive to fix problems and design solutions- Support various components and activities spanning the project management life cycle such as business case analysis, detailed requirements, software design/testing/deployment and management issues- Exposed to PepsiCo's Operations framework through various placements in Production, Warehouse, Maintenance, Quality, and Fleet Operations- Perform at fast pace, with self-motivation, and strong initiative

Killingly Ct

-Responsible for managing a team of 10 skilled mechanics, 3 controls specialists, and a scheduler/planner across a 24 hour operation in a 100MM+ automated warehouse.-Worked with Maintenance, Operations, and Leadership teams to troubleshoot system failures, minimize downtime, and execute a preventative maintenance plan to mitigate impacts to shipping and distribution targets.-Created a new site wide safety program for all lifting equipment and lifting operations. The program was noted by an EHS auditor to be one of the best he's seen in the nation across all Frito-Lay sites. Ownership of the program included building a team to complete training for 100+ employees, daily/weekly/monthly/annual inspections of all lifting equipments, and constructing a risk register for all equipment to determine areas of high risk to be mitigated with action plans.-Actively managed the parts and labor financial accounts by creating a monthly spending budget for the team and successfully building employee work schedules while minimizing overtime.-Knowledge of engineering/maintenance for the following distribution and automation equipment:Programable Logic Controllers (PLC)DEMATIC Conveyor systems and controlsPreventive maintenance programsAutomated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS Cranes)Automatic palletizing equipment Robotic multi-shuttlesPhotoelectric sensors, encoders, limit switches etc.Control Cabinets and communication componentsHVAC systems

Killingly Ct

- Collaborated with maintenance and technical teams to develop a solution for the Smartfood seasoning process. This resulted in a 97% reduction in downtime and increased customer satisfaction by 68%.- Lead business meetings with outside manufacturer sales representatives to define product requirements. Negotiated final pricing, timeline and scope of work for complete installation of new slurry heater.- Performed analysis on overall plant downtime and identified areas where the highest downtime occurred. Based on these findings developed a project to address high failure rates on potato chip line.- Identified high failure rates of electrical conduits and worked with equipment owners in that processing area and established a plan to convert over to stainless steel conduit and eliminated downtime.- The total return on investment for the projects performed during my three month internship with PepsiCo was estimated at $30,000

University Of Connecticut

- Responsible for oversight and resolution of various residential dormitory issues on the Storrs Campus. - Promoted to Supervisor after first semester of work and managed 70 student workers.- Trained and shared best practices with team members resulting in a more efficient operation.

University Of Connecticut

-Responsible for oversight and resolution of various residential dormitory issues on the Storrs Campus. -Trusted with the master keys, access to all buildings for dorms on campus and school vehicles.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering (Minor-Mathematics)