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Solon, Oh

Direct six co-manufactures with a combined total spend of $80 million, monitoring finished goods costs, ensuring supply and inventory attainment, quality assurance, project management, new product startups and employee safety. Led initial project concepts through the product development process to develop new products, including initial production process development, regulatory approval, package design, process validation, product costing, start up, product launch, and pipeline production. Leverage strong business acumen to work across Nestle functions to determine the financial viability of the commercialized product before launch.• Selected to work on the Anderson, IN, factory start up. Received multiple awards for reducing start-up issues.• Successfully project managed $10 million of capital improvement projects at multiple co-packers in 2017, including the addition of a new retort and new creamer line installation project, resulting in increased capacity at both sites and a $25 million increase in sales for Nestle Professional beverage. • Delivered $2 million in cost savings during a non-dairy creamer factory start up by working with a comprehensive team to identify all cost savings and supply opportunities.• Facilitated information sharing and training of co-packer and internal team members using Power Point, Skype and personal presentation skills, reducing travel to offsite locations.

Solon, Oh

Managed 20 co-manufactures to ensure contract, finished goods and raw and pack pricing was in compliance on quarterly basis. Negotiated several capital and supplier agreements. • Negotiated co-manufacturing agreements including ongoing production, capital, supply, equipment amortization and raw & packaging materials agreements, resulting in ensuring on-going supply and expediting the setup of any new co-manufacturers. • Worked with and developed high performance work teams to improve project communication by reducing redundant tasks to improve speed to market for new products, resulting in the launch of a new bakery product to the market one month earlier than estimated.• Worked on project teams to clearly identify the success criteria of cost saving projects, including cost savings targets, estimated project costs, payback timing, implementation strategy, and time-line before being presented for consideration which eliminated redundant tasks and reducing the project approval process to 4 weeks.

Solon, Oh

Managed internal factories and co-manufacturers to ensure compliance to the Nestle Quality Standards while maintaining daily quality operations.• Led several factory department level process mapping sessions to map out standard work tasks to identify opportunities for optimization of the department, resulting in clearly identifying responsibilities and improving QA Technician utilization by 10%.• Developed an action plan for reducing consumer complaints at the largest volume Food Service Co-Packer, resulting in a 40% reduction in overall consumer complaints.• Used a DMAIC problem solving tool to determine if leaking packages were caused by manufacturing, consumer, shipping or storage.