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Northbrook, Illinois, United States

Wood Dale, Il

• Establish, oversee and continuously improve the branch ocean import processes. • Supervises and manages a team of 10 • Provides input to management for use in developing the office business plan. • Measures, monitors, and communicates updates regarding performance against specific initiatives as outlined in the office business plan. • Gathers data and provides input to support the creation of financial performance goals, including a revenue and expense budget, for the office. • Tracks and monitors use of technology for key operational activities within the office. • Understand key business terminology and concepts. • Establishes relationships with key stakeholders throughout the office. • Assesses team talent as an input to the talent planning process. • Partners with employees to create quality PDPs. • Provides input and actively participates in the creation of the office business plan * Measures, monitors, and communicates updates regarding performance against specific initiatives or components of the office business plan • Gathers data, provides input, and actively participates in the creation of financial performance goals, including a revenue and expense budget, for the office. • Develops and adapts operating structure to accommodate changes in office strategy, business needs, or as new work of increased scope and complexity requires. *• Transforms key operational activities into scaled and automated environments within the office. • Understand key business terminology and concepts

Greater Milwaukee Area

Report directly to the Sr. VP of Midwest. Provide overall leadership, creation and strategic direction and administration for all functions within Milwaukee business unit and Wisconsin.•Responsible for P&L of $40Mper annum•Established turnaround plan which resulted in $200K YOY EBIT increase•Manage team of 5 including 1outside sales manager•Successfully took over management of stations largest account and increased volumes through a share the wallet strategy and value based selling.•Part of leadership team responsible for establishing ocean shared service centers for USA Country organization.

Elk Grove Village Il 60007

Responsible for all aspects of air import operations and services overseeing staff of eight and an annual budget of $30M, instrumental in establishing standalone US Customs brokerage team in 2010.

Elk Grove Village Il

Designed, developed and implemented centralized dispatching in the business unit along with the rollout of third party tool (ExWorks). 500K EBIT savings through load consolidations and leveraged purchasing

Elk Grove Village Il

Lead a team of six with focus on increasing service to our internal customer (other Panalpina Business Units) while driving productivity and assisting in EBIT growth.

Responsible for the preparation and submission of entries for various Panalpina Global Accounts, awarded employee of the month in 2007 and 2008