Theresa Schuck Thorp, Cppm Email & Phone Number

Wayzata, Minnesota, United States

Cleveland / Minneapolis

Led and managed all marketing & communications efforts for publicly traded metals service center. Planned, designed and implemented strategies to drive customer interest and employee engagement via multiple channels. Define, create and manage company brand internally and externally, provide creative solutions for the internal and external communications and promotional marketing needs of the enterprise, and plan, create and produce marketing collateral while collaborating with executive leadership in the development and execution of company-wide sales and marketing strategy. Develop, implement, and direct enterprise-wide external marketing strategy & activities, focusing on programs designed to inform and educate customers and business partners of products, processes, services, and value, including content design and delivery. Plan, create, and develop high quality and effective custom visual, virtual, print and electronic marketing collateral, including email, eNewsletters, internal and external websites, posters, presentations and video. Manage the Olympic Steel brand internally and externally, providing creative solutions to the internal and external communications and promotional marketing needs of the enterprise.

Cleveland / Minneapolis

Collaborate with Executives and Regional Vice Presidents to develop and execute company-wide sales and marketing strategy. Implement sales processes nationally to drive revenue growth. Marketing knowledge expert. Specialties: Sales, Marketing, commercial integration, website and print content design, business insights, operational efficiencies, continuous improvements, process improvements, revenue growth, project management, procedure development and national deployment, strategy development and execution, international revenue growth planning and execution, training, change management, prospect generation, performance reports, dashboard design and production, carbon steel and metals sales.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Purchasing: Manage steel plate purchasing. Analyze inventory on hand, incoming steel, and outbound demand, compared to current and expected steel market pricing, to strategically time and execute steel plate purchases. Maintain targeted steel inventories at lowest price. Manage indirect purchasing. Analyze current spending trends to identify opportunities to reduce indirect purchasing expense. Collaborate with operations to execute cost savings processes. Manage indirect vendor selection; supply chain management. Negotiate agreements with vendors and suppliers. Project Management: lead cross functional team in account profitability profile & analysis. Identify opportunities for revenue improvement and cost reduction; implement process improvements and procedure changes to capture additional revenue and savings. Manage operational and equipment maintenance projects from current state needs analysis, existing inventory analysis, budget development, supplier / service provider selection, timeline, internal and external resource selection and scheduling, to production shutdown, plan execution, budget and performance output and cost versus plan, in addition to post implementation test and validation process. Specialties: procurement, supplier management, supply chain relationships, inventory management, forecasting, expediting, logistics, cost minimization, profitability maximization, process improvements, project management.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area / Cleveland

In my thirteen years at Olympic Steel, I've continually moved up and across the organization, enjoying roles of increasing responsibility. I've lead teams, managed budgets, managed sales, production, and maintenance projects, lead our sales force to increase revenue through commercial integration efforts, presented sales performance results at national sales meetings, and earned my PHR accreditation, CPPM certification and Green Manufacturing Specialist certificate along the way.Intrigued? Highlights of my accomplishments within Olympic Steel are included by position, detailed below.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Manage business system implementation. Analyze current state and future state business process, collectively determine best practices and create process maps. Design and execute technical training program for operations, manufacturing, sales and administrative functions at operating divisions across the country. Develop training content, educational objectives and materials for all process experts. Educate users on best practice business procedure and system transactions across manufacturing / operations and administrative functions. Manage resource scheduling. Partner with internal groups, senior management, IT technical specialists and external solution providers to achieve implementation objectives. Specialties: Microsoft Dynamics AX, SEMS, technical training, project management, resource scheduling, systems implementation, business process mapping, process improvements, technical training material design and production.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Manage HR department objectives and team members. Specialties: Labor relations, grievances and arbitration, recruiting, payroll, leaves of absence, policy interpretation, management consulting.PHR certification from 2008 - 2014.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Manage payroll: timecards, paid time off, leaves of absence for team of 120+. Manage recruitment, selection process and onboarding program for sales, admin and operations positions. Administer benefits program, including education and open enrollment. Coordinate safety training program.

Certificate, Marketing Strategy

Activities and Societies: College of Business Masters Level Marketing ProgramMarketing Strategy Applied Marketing Strategy & Decision.

Cppm, Certified Professional Project Manager, Project Management

Activities and Societies: Earned CPPM, through study and application of Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Control, Closure.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), General Management And Human Resource Management, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Four time Presidential Scholars Award winner. Delta Sigma Pi - Professional Business fraternity; elected to both.

Education record

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Human Resource Management And General Management

Activities and Societies: magna cum laude