Rob Conte Email & Phone Number

South Carolina, United States

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

MICHELIN Connected, Fleet North America

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

MICHELIN Connected Fleet North America services and solutions are designed to provide the tools and information fleet operators and managers need to easily manage their fleets on a daily basis and transform their operational efficiency.

Greer, South Carolina, United States

Contract position providing tactical support for outbound export intermodal operations at BMW's consolidation facility located at the Inland Port. Assisted the section leaders in streamlining strategies and developing KPI for the outbound department. Lead outbound operations training for transitioning 3PL analysts and specialist. Supported BMW operations.

Greenville, South Carolina

• (Joint venture of Michelin North America and Sumitomo Corporation)Assumed overarching responsibility for 1650 delivery vehicles including pick-up trucks, cargo vans, class three through seven box trucks, and class.
• Served as SME for telematics solutions, fleet safety, and vehicle maintenance and repair decisions.
• Orchestrated the integration of the Tire Centers and TBC fleets in a consolidated and centralized organization.
• Spearheaded the 2018 RFP and selection process for a companywide telematics vendor.
• Led purchasing, budgeting, and vendor relations activities for the material handling equipment fleet of nearly 1,400 assets in NTW wholesale network.

Duncan, South Carolina

• (Subsidiary of Michelin North America)Fostered safety-centric culture by utilizing telematics data and developed the Safety Exception Index (KPI measuring interval of miles driven between occurrences of adverse driving.
• Rightsized fleet in terms of vehicle count and capacity by conducting comprehensive vehicle life cycle analysis and utilization review as well as implementing replacement plan, resulting in significant reductions in.
• Received 2015 Tire Center Team Excellence Award for significant contribution and efforts to improve the global safety culture and for reducing comparative fleet expenditures by $3,000,000 during 2015.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Opened and operated a wholesale tire distribution center serving the New York City Metro area. Oversaw all functions and supervised 15 non-exempt and exempt direct reports in a 60,000 square foot facility, including.
• Teamed with business development in obtaining new customers and maintaining and improving existing relationships.
• Completed three years of managing Long Island distribution center with internal audit scores ranking in top 5% nationally and aggregate inventory shrink percentage of 0.0002%.

Sears Full Line Store - Shelby, North Carolina

• Improved and enhanced hardline (home appliances, home improvement, lawn/garden, and electronic) sales and profit for $12,000,000 full line store. Led team of 16 sales associates, eight support associates, and two.
• Achieved upper quartile customer satisfaction index scores for second half of 2011 and 1st quarter 2012
• 2011 top performing store in Mid-Atlantic region for air conditioner and dishwasher units sold.

National Footwear Distribution Center - Gaffney, South Carolina

• Functioned as the Sears onsite liaison to the 3PL that operated the national footwear distribution center (570,000 square foot facility distributing approximately 40,000,000 pairs of footwear annually to domestic Sears.
• Enlisted systems support, finance, and asset protection teams to assist in the development of processes designed to accurately report inventory variances and reduce shrink.
• Facilitated workshops between merchandise vendors and the Sears vendor compliance team to identify root causes of non-compliance, which ultimately reduced vendor chargebacks and decreased handling and waste within the.

Sears Full Line Store - Spartanburg, South Carolina

Oversaw all operational and support activities of $20,000,000 full line Sears store. Managed shipping/receiving, asset protection, inventory control, cashiering, cash office, store office, human resources, and facilities maintenance teams consisting of 40 support associates, six supervisors, and two technicians. Led all recruitment efforts. Reviewed.

Trenton, New Jersey And Denver, Colorado

• Provided telephony and administration for six sites and nearly 1,000 users. Administered multiple Avaya PBX systems. Programmed and managed 2,400 toll-free telephone numbers for multiple clients in three call centers..
• Successfully implemented a Cisco 7800 VoIP system and upgraded tools, such as call accounting and monitoring/recording.

National Tire & Battery Stores - Northeast Region

• Maintained operations management responsibility for 26 National Tire & Battery (NTB) automotive repair stores in the Philadelphia and New England markets, with annual revenue of $60,000,000. Focused on areas of cost.
• Facilitated region coordination of NTB stores transitioning from primary Sears systems and processes to those utilized by TBC.

National Tire & Battery Stores - Philadelphia Market

Assumed complete operations management responsibility for 18 National Tire & Battery (NTB) stores in the Philadelphia market.

National Tire & Battery Store - Langhorne, Pennsylvania

• Oversaw a National Tire & Battery (NTB) automotive repair store with $3,000,000 in annual sales and 15 exempt and non-exempt associates. Maintained full P&L accountability. Oversaw inventory control, merchandise.
• Improved customer service index and returned the store to profitability by end of 1999.

Sears Auto Center - Freehold, New Jersey

• Co-managed a Sears Auto Center automotive repair store with $4,000,000 in annual sales and 20 associates. Coordinated operational aspects including inventory control, asset protection, payroll processing, and.
• Selected as district systems projects leader in multiple markets, training management staff and leading physical deployment of the SOLAR human resources and Tire Point of Sale (TPOS) systems.

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