Ryan Sheils Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Responsible for purchasing and positioning of $1.5B in annual inventory throughout entire Target network for the Laundry department, amounting to 600+ items across over 2000 different locations
• Maintain best in division OOS across entire category (inclusive of both Additives and Detergents) at over 50bps below goal/average of 0.5% OOS
• Created and trained out new division-wide spending management routines through the construction of a new tool for the purpose of comparing planning receipts, relief, and EOH to actuals, gaining alignment from key.
• Develop and maintain exceptional relationships with 30+ external vendors to collaborate on inventory best methods and strategies, educating them on company best practices and strengthening company shipping and fill.
• Implemented new promotional processes to ensure inventory availability and safeguard against future promotional inventory risk for recurring General Incentives (GI), resulting in relief in excess of $150M per GI week.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Supervised teams of up to 15 employees, verifying that production and quality technicians were carrying out daily tasks and managing shifts to ensure that safety, quality, and productivity goals were being met
• Interpreted data and downtime trends using Microsoft Office Suite and PepsiCo software, leading to process improvement projects in manufacturing and decreasing production line downtime hours by 43%
• Overhauled entire inventory system for quality control utilizing Lean Six Sigma training techniques, optimizing existing system to enable more efficient storing and tracking of lab equipment and apparatus

Virtual

• Strategized alongside a cross-functional group to develop and pitch concepts concerning water conservation to PepsiCo executives
• Placed in the top 20% of all PepsiCo intern groups with the presentation of a virtual pitch for the purpose of integrating PepsiCo into the gaming community