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San Diego, California, Us

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Positioned to manage strategic business accounts, overseeing the identification, analysis, and onboarding of global factories to increase market penetration and revenue. Actively manage relationships with key account leadership, facilities, and internal teams, pitching new solutions and managing product testing to ensure successful launch of new products.Leverage extensive background to close strategic opportunities, winning multiple large contracts with Fortune 500 and large accounts. Positioned U.S. Paint presence in multiple new locations, resulting in exceeding sales targets.

Medina, Minnesota, Us

Selected to execute the launch and management of a greenfield manufacturing facility, responsible for P&L, budget/capital management, supplier management, plant/supplier quality, and manufacturing operations, directing a team of 14.Led the overarching strategy to establish the facility, developing operational policies, supplier relationships, and short- and long-term business strategies to drive performance in SE Asia. Successfully doubled sales goal in first year and achieved a 300% increase in year 2, resulting in a significant expansion of the employee base to support growth.Built a culture focused on continuous improvement and streamlining of operations, achieving greater efficiency, quality, and cost savings. Delivered strong results with decreasing PPM, optimizing freight savings, and improving processes to increase productivity.Directed the identifying, vetting, and onboarding of 300+ suppliers to support local manufacturing with suppliers throughout 9 countries in Asia.

Medina, Minnesota, Us

Oversaw the global sourcing operations for Polaris Powertrain division, managing a multi-million dollar spend and leading a team of 6 Sourcing Agents. Managed supplier relations, contract negotiations, and supply chain operations for 5 major categories.Transformed operations through improved processes and strategies to achieve greater efficiency, attainment of timeframes, cost optimization, quality improvement, and enhanced internal collaboration. Created standard work for contracts and contract negotiations, deploying throughout purchasing and led continuous improvement initiatives to deliver on business objectives.Captured cost savings and improvement in quality through a detailed analysis of supplier base, overseeing supplier performance, new contract negotiations, onboarding, and reduction of supplier efforts to achieve multi-million dollar cost savings.

Medina, Minnesota, Us

Positioned to manage and turn-around key business initiatives, successfully analyzing challenges and establishing strategic programs to mitigate issues and improve overall operations. Achieved recognition and placement in top 1% of the organization for the highest amount of cost savings realized at Polaris through the leadership of strategic quality and cost initiatives.Responsible for paint, plastics, and component issues, managing the identification of new suppliers, analysis of quality standards, negotiations, onboarding of suppliers, and development of action plans for current suppliers to resolve production quality and on-time delivery issues.

Medina, Minnesota, Us

Planned materials for upcoming builds on Slingshot and Indian power train programs through successful product launch. Uncovered, communicated, and developed action plans for multiple supplier quality issues prior to production.Initiated, solved, developed, partnered, and rolled out a new tool to flip PDP parts to production planning teams more efficiently.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Managed shipping exceptions and EDI for 180K containers of imported freight, leading projects to streamline operations and improve cost/efficiency. Analyzed ocean vessel and port of entry assignments, DC allocation procedures, and distributions to achieve improvements.Trained 200 analysts on new processes and procedures to further organization’s effectiveness in global transportation

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led a team of twelve operations employeesDrove cross function projects to improve efficiencies and reduce transportation expense of over $180,000Conducted forums to increase developmental opportunities for 200 employees

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Hub operations Sorter / Loader/Supervisory candidate/ Safety Committee representative