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Leading supply chain initiatives to deliver the best customer experience and enable growth.

Led team to create distribution strategy focused on best service for our customers. Success contingent on change management, executive messaging, team member empowerment, and communication.

Created project roadmap to align with the Service Dept strategic objectives. Led cross-functional improvement projects focused on providing the best Service experience to our customers.Collaborating with the HR / Talent teams to streamline processes and provide an exceptional experience for our employees.

Founded CI department for the B&S Products Group. Developing CI culture. Created strategic plan, metrics, project pipeline, and communication plan.Led cross-functional teams to improve engineering and project management processes resulting in increased speed to market and reduced errors through fewer bill-of-material mistakes, fewer deviations, less downtime, and less rework. Focused on commercial outdoor power equipment product category. Led kaizen events in manufacturing and administrative processes to drive continuous, gradual improvements; trained and developed peers as “leaders of change.”

Managed new product development (NPD) projects in Outdoor Power Equipment (OPE) by leading teams through a structured, toll-gate NPD process. Worked strategically with sales and marketing to collect voice of customer data and translate it into project deliverables Created project timelines and budgets to drive accountability cross-functionally among engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, purchasing, and quality teams. Provided frequent, concise project status updates to president and directors Delivered $100,000-$350,000 annually in cost reductions impacting bottom line financialsContinually improved the NPD process to increase speed to market

Managed industrial conveyors product line of 5 staff and 17 operators.Rejuvenated lean manufacturing program at a highly-cellularized facility manufacturing built-to-order conveyors. Created kaizen program to promote continuous improvement

Exercised continuous improvement tools in an effort to drive 5% productivity year-over-year and make USA manufacturing best-cost.

Implemented lean and continuous improvement techniques in New Product Development to decrease time from concept to market.