Robert Moore Email & Phone Number

St. Louis County, Missouri, United States

In my role as a Portfolio Demand Manager, I keenly execute a modified S&OP/IBP framework, optimizing and aligning the primary research work center in the pipeline, resulting in reduced meetings, enhanced organizational communication, and a transparent prioritization and decision hierarchy. Also, I administer a resource modeling team, overseeing the development of resource models and implementing supply chain model management techniques to maximize capacity while achieving successful scientific outcomes. Furthermore, I conduct an operational analysis, identifying and addressing major execution roadblocks for a specific crop, as well as presenting multiple actionable solutions with accompanying financial analysis. I implement statistical forecast techniques for labs with poor demand signals, while enhancing planning and addressing resource needs effectively.Key Successes:• Initiated influential leadership in a consulting capacity to enhance planning, metrics, and budget development within a research function comprising over 700 individuals with an annual budget of approximately $190M.• Transformed the organizational mindset from a cost center to a work center orientation, emphasizing deliverables that positively impacted budgeting, mid-term planning, and metrics.• Co-led a pioneering team in developing a comprehensive pipeline-wide metrics framework, linking project status to operational efficiency for improved performance assessment.• Conducted and executed a monthly seminar series, showcasing operational knowledge areas organization-wide to foster improved relationships between researchers and operations support.• Coordinated, and enhanced the budget development process for the business unit, instituting improvements that reduced activities by 80% and improved activity usage by 40%.

St. Louis County, Missouri, United States

Here, I headed an initiative to implement capital purchase processes, enabling the purchasing team to coordinate seamlessly across the entire research organization and efficiently utilize all capital resources. I formulated and implemented purchasing metrics that illuminated the strengths and weaknesses of the company's overall purchasing process.Key Successes:• Led a new purchasing team through an organizational restructure, overseeing an ERP changeover amidst the challenges of COVID, resulting in the creation and implementation of streamlined processes for purchasing and resource cross leveling.• Guided the team through the migration to ERP, gaining proficiency in SAP during the transition.• Analyzed and implemented a comprehensive contract for capital management and maintenance, providing detailed spending insights and enhancing capital management and repair processes.• Troubleshooted capital and expense purchases by collaborating with internal payment centers and other businesses, ensuring timely payment and the uninterrupted supply of goods and capital.

St. Louis County, Missouri, United States

I headed a team responsible for executing and reporting research on groundbreaking plant biotechnology traits, focused on controlling insect pests within a laboratory environment. I fostered collaboration with submitting labs and cultivated relationships across labs to optimize communication, flexibility, capacity, and throughput. I oversaw a section of the research and discovery pipeline, specializing in in vitro testing of novel insecticidal toxins for the next-generation transgenic pipeline. I ensured the freedom to operate by meticulously adhering to USDA PPQ permit directions and maintaining compliance for FTO.Key Successes:• Spearheaded the implementation of new automation, imaging analysis, and resolution of data acceptance quality issues for a new system, resulting in a substantial 54% increase in capacity.• Formulated key metrics for the platform to monitor quality, leading to the attainment of ISO certification.• Successfully achieved a significant annual spending reduction of $100K.• Innovated by creating an assay calculator for streamlined program budget development.• Introduced sample batching for specific projects, increasing throughput from 100 samples per month to 600 per month.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba

Rock Island, IL

Master Of Science - Ms

Urbana, Champaign, IL