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Pierceton, Indiana, Us

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

Responsible for the accurate publications of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Pipeline and Demand reviews, as well as facilitating monthly reviews and driving actions to achieve continuous organizational alignment between customers, sales and all manufacturing sites. Our team's mission is to:* Simplify customer complexities, by creating a unified "One Supply Chain" experience. * Be the best "External Manufacturing Partner" by integrating our supply chain with our customer's supply chain to promote partnerships, transparency, and trust.* Tighten business integration with our own supply base, leading initiatives that decrease cost, decrease lead-time and increase our agility and service.

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

Create, monitor, and manage sales and marketing budget variance reporting, providing timely analysis of misses, opportunities and action items. Oversee and monitor the new product introduction sales project pipeline and lead the monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) pipeline review for the domestic and international sales and operations teams. Led several continuous improvement activities for the Sales & Marketing team including an initiative to streamline and improve accuracy, granularity and reporting tools for forecasting system. Additionally, led the effort of introducing a pipeline tracking software, giving visibility and credibility to the sales and marketing pipeline. Established reporting tools that make the data available quickly for analysis and decision making. Initiated the use of unique identifiers, allowing conversion, throughput and comparisons of expected vs. actuals. Orchestrated and completed the identification of thousands of sku’s allowing company to understand revenue and contribution by client, division, market segment and even sku’s. Assisted in the discovery / analysis of potential sales performance companies, and then once selected, led the effort to introduce and orchestrate training events and activities. Enjoy turning “stuff” into meaningful data. Develop charts, graphs and images that assist in communication plans, presentations or external market facing pieces. Continued responsibility for tradeshows, advertising and general marketing for the Life Sciences group.

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

My current position is very “universal” and broad and I get the opportunity to be involved in a lot of different aspects of the business, which include marketing, public relations, and employee relations. When opportunities arise I am also asked to lead high level corporate projects that allow me to put into practice my project management abilities – which are a passion of mine. Projects that I have been involved in include leading due diligence and integration teams for acquisitions, implementations of our corporate manufacturing software at our domestic divisions, and most recently I was Project Manager for the team responsible for leading the implementation at our Changzhou, China facility.

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

Responsibility over Quote and Concept Engineering and Customer Service for Paragon’s Case & Tray Division. Also responsible for creating a new Project Management team to manage all aspects of the design and development of a surgical delivery system. The overall goal for the department was to serve as the liaison between all functional areas for the company and the customer.

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

Responsibilities over Quote & Concept Engineering, Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Pattern and Documentation Control. Supervised up to 25 employees with the day-to-day engineering functions for the design and development of surgical delivery systems. Direct the department in preparation of samples, drawings, sketches, etc. for development of new products. Assist in the preparation of schedules to meet customer demands. Understand on a daily basis schedules for all projects (as many as 100+) in development (concept through release to production). Develop and maintain department / project reports that track proficiency. Monitor project flow as it relates to Design Control Procedure. Assisted in re-structuring the Design Control Procedure resulting in a 33% reduction in lead-time to the customer. Worked with other functional areas (i.e. sales, purchasing, manufacturing, pattern) to obtain whatever cooperation, agreement or assistance needed to get a job done. Responsible for generating quotes for delivery systems. Maintain master project binders. Responsible for employee hiring, training and development, as well as conduct performance reviews for employees. Conduct regular staff meetings. Involved in the budgeting process, as well as, corporate strategic planning sessions. A team member for the implementation of new corporate manufacturing software. Coordinate customer complaints and corrective actions.

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

Supervised 2-4 employees. Technical Services was a division of the Engineering Department and was responsible for all minor design projects or ECN projects, all CNC and laser programming, as well as, documentation control. Responsible for scheduling the CNC’s and laser etch machine with manufacturing. Involved in bringing laser etching in house and was one of the first trained in programming the machine. Scheduled and chaired all production launch meetings. Responsible for reviewing all documentation for completeness and accuracy before it was released to production.

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

New position for Paragon created to enable design projects to reach the production stage in a timelier manner. Responsible for managing all project tasks during the phase of first article approval / transition to production, checking blueprints for completeness prior to issuance, interfacing with production personnel to resolve issues that slow or prevent the manufacturing cycle.

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

New position for Paragon created to serve as a liaison between manufacturing, quality and business development. Assisted in the development and transition of new products within business development, documentation control and presentation (both existing and new product), manufacturing process and application refinement, system support, compliance monitoring for both current policies, procedures and standard practices as well as ISO generated documentation, system auditing and corporate training. Served on the internal auditing team for ISO 9001 certification.

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

Pierceton, Indiana, Us

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