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St. Louis, Mo, Us

Promoted to Vice President Supply Chain & Procurement, leading continued Supply Chain initiatives while developing a strategic effort to reduce direct and indirect spend. This includes five teams consisting of Procurement, Demand Planning/Supplier Relationship Managers, MDM, COE Systems, and QC/QA.Strategic Initiatives▪ Champion Supply Chain, Demand Planning, and COE teams in a continuous optimization of days on hand inventory. Maintaining a 41% reduction post Covid with increased service levels of +95%.▪ Lead Procurement Directors in identifying key initiatives through strategic category planning, and product development to beat CPI indexing and deliver net cost savings.▪ BI Steering committee advisor identifying needed tools across SC & Procurement teams with cross functional application; including Sales, Bids, and Business Development teams.▪ Advising on inventory reserve policy with CFO/CPO identifying obsolescence, optimization opportunities.▪ Aligned teams to focus on liquidation outlets, developing SOP, KPI's, and category partnerships that increased our return 200% YTD.Team Development▪ Expanding Individual Development Plan (IDP) across all teams including MDM, QC/QA, Demand Planning, Procurement, and COE Systems. ▪ Expanding Procurement team to include additional category managers, and analyst in support of savings initiatives.▪ Sponsored external training including leadership, public speaking, contract negotiations, and executive presence. ▪ Created a forum of peer skill/knowledge training with elective participation. The forum gives participants cross-functional training opportunities that relate to current responsibilities and future interests. The forum also provides an opportunity to develop speaking and presentation skills among peers in a low pressure environment.

Promoted to Vice President Supply Chain while leading several successful strategic initiatives, including network optimization, item rationalization, transportation, and menu management. Strategic Initiatives▪ Menu Management: Aligned master data, sales, supply chain, and operations teams in an end-to-end enhanced menu management project. Improving life cycle management, menu item optimization, and operational efficiencies increasing margin while reducing donate discard values with an ultimate benefit to customer experience.▪ Data enrichment and utilization: Utilizing current software systems to enrich the customer experience and accessibility to data for operational excellence. Providing a competitive edge in service needs and wants as a differentiator in RFQ opportunities and bid extension contributing to a 5-year high award rate in Q3 2022.Network Optimization▪ Successfully identified 2 new Optimal DC locations with a multi-million freight savings and reduced transit times to customers. New locations supported the launch of additional internal fleets and have reduced inbound freight volatility in high volume markets.Team Development▪ Implemented training opportunities increasing adoption rate and efficacy of new technologies. ▪ Championed development of additional KPI power BI tools increasing inventory availability 5 points and streamlining inventory risk assessment for disposition.▪ Implemented succession planning efforts, focusing on identification of team member strengths while recognizing individual opportunity for continued professional development.

Change Management Leadership▪ Increased fill rate to 98% and perfect order (CPO) to 96%▪ Increased EBITDA YOY and contained cost of goods (under CPI/AVG)▪ Standardized menus with sales team lowering SKUs by 2k, and optimizing purchasing efforts▪ Created supplier scorecards tracking OTIF – On Time & In FullNetwork Optimization▪ Leading a task force developing strategies to improve TKC networks including: capital improvements, warehouse relocation, and racking optimization▪ Heading redesign and implementation of company’s redistribution strategy, with oversight of ongoing optimization▪ Oversee teams leading each project launch, move, and reconfiguration through weekly project management of customer location reassignment, leveraging freight optimization through a reduction of distance to customers from POS locationsTechnology Solutions▪ Delivered new technologies to improve and automate warehouse flow-through▪ Implemented advanced planning & inventory optimization software with KPI dashboards increasing forecast accuracy, lowering inventory 13%, decrease donate discard, and netting an increase in inventory accuracySupplier Diversity Partnerships▪ Develop a process for a comprehensive supplier diversity program that identifies, and lead the inclusion of Minority-owned, Women-owned, Small-Disadvantaged, and Veteran-owned enterprises as supplier partnersMaster Data Management (MDM)▪ Created MDM team to lead enterprise level data governance, impacting cross-department efficiencies, customer facing data accuracy, and compliance through data compilation and stewardship▪ Establish data profiling discovery reports – structure, content, relationship with real-time reporting ▪ Launched Product Information Management (PIM) Znode ▪ Established an automated TKC menu management process Quality Assurance & Quality Control Oversight:▪ Established Quality Control team with multi-department workflow capabilities and reporting reducing previous loss events

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)▪ Developed exclusive products and packaging with Frito-Lay, PepsiCo ▪ Partnered to build a pouch protein facility in Vietnam with Mitsui North America in an emerging market▪ Netted yearly cost of goods savings through a cost-plus partnership with key Seafood commodity supplierBid & RFP Oversight▪ Head bid management team responsible for RFP submissions, identifying market advantage and defining overall margin strategy▪ Established bid specific supplier and item partnerships to further market advantage▪ Championed database of all public RFP submissions for market/competition analysis Technology Advancements▪ Company subject matter expert for design and conversion to Oracle, leading implementation process and ongoing advancement of system utilization▪ Launched utilization of CUBISCAN to optimize product volume data

• Lead Purchasing Agents in identifying cost reduction opportunities• Monitor OTIF and implement strategies that maximize cash flow and customer satisfaction• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to achieve the greatest outcomes in support of supply chain management strategic goals and initiatives• Routinely meet with suppliers to bring new and improved product solutions to market and drive continuous improvement• Manage transportation costs and focus on reducing total landed cost• Analyzed purchasing trends to reduce spot purchase needs and maximize order efficiency

• Lead objectives related to the supply chain function (inventory turns, material planning, contract and sourcing compliance)• Responsible for Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) related to Supply Chain in the Region • Product life cycle management • Supplier consolidation initiatives• Team development and performance improvement • Supply chain optimization support• Network optimization support• Inventory planning optimization

• Inventory management.• Responsible for tracking and reporting improvement of supplier performance.• Analyze commodity pricing and trends to forecast raw material pricing.• Identified potential new suppliers for review.

• Coordinate sales effort with team members, maintaining positive business and customer relationships focused on quality outcomes.• Identify and pursue potential new business clients.• Identify, prioritize, and integrate business partners’ long-range plans.• Manage internal and external stakeholder expectations & satisfaction.