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Knoxville, Tn, Us

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

• Lead cross-functional team of Subject Matter Experts and Senior Business Analysts in a continually changing landscape involving acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, and start-ups.• Manage variable number of FTE’s to supplement in-house resources dependent on overall workload and nature of projects in flight.• Establish and facilitate governance process involving business leadership in order to ensure prioritization of resources and efforts toward the most impactful challenges facing or opportunities in front of the organization.• Develop and articulate a product vision that supports outcomes, value, and prioritization of work.• Facilitate documentation of key business processes and create repository to house a library of documented business processes.• Develop & maintain 18-36 month strategy for back office team in accordance with organizational goals and departmental budgets.• Support on-going operations across all systems being utilized by multiple divisions.• Capture and prioritize enhancement and amendment requests related to current systems.• Introduce ITOps and DevOps best practices, processes, and policies to maximize support responsiveness and production throughput.• Employed manufacturing-style approach to IT feature production including delivery and continuous improvement boards.

Knoxville, Tn

• Collaborate with business functional teams in conceptualizing and delivering business process and informational solutions.• Analyze and assess business processes, systems and procedures to identify improvement initiatives and ways to monitor for sustaining results.• Define, develop, validate and document requirements, objectives, deliverables, and specifications on a project-by-project basis in collaboration with business partners and functional departments.• Recommend, schedule, and perform initiative definition and project management maintaining project management methods and governance.• Validate business requirements, process designs, systems testing, and master and transactional data integrity. • Support strategic company objectives such as M&A, integrations, functional support needs, upgrades, process optimization and continuous improvement.

Vonore, Tennessee, United States

• Responsible for end-to-end supply chain across 3 divisions, managing 300+ suppliers covering $200MM in annual spend, all warehousing & materials operations, and outbound logistics to 150+ wholesale customers representing $500MM in annual revenue.• Monitor and control budgetary expenditures related to all responsibility areas above.• Coach production supervisors in areas of scheduling, productivity, efficiency and employee safety.• Doubled inventory turns in first 12 months by employing lean on-hand inventory metrics, improving purchasing strategy and negotiating reduced lead times for high-cost components.• Consolidated outbound freight partners to save 25% in annual spend.

Sweetwater, Tn

• Audited & updated Bills of Material for all models to improve accuracy of materials costing• Developed offline MRP functionality to accommodate lean ordering principles resulting in 90% reduction in part & BOM-related line stoppages• Implemented perpetual inventory and cycle count process• Created and executed department-specific production schedule tool to measure throughput and schedule attainment for key operational areas

Vonore, Tn

• Responsible for entire supply chain as it pertains to service parts business for over 150 dealerships operating in 43 countries worldwide.• Supply chain functionalities include sourcing, procurement, warehousing/inventory management, order picking, packaging, and shipping. • Manage 6 full time and 2 annual temporary employees.• Dedicated lead for custom development and implementation of Salesforce CRM system to manage, monitor, and document all service related communication between MasterCraft and the customer.• Salesforce CRM system admin responsible for data integrity, development of new system functionality, and process improvement.• Conduct in-person dealer visits to train dealership employees, audit processes and identify improvement opportunities.• Host annual Service Advisory conference with key dealership representatives to garner real world feedback in order to sharpen strategy & improve focus to drive Service organization forward.

Vonore, Tn

• Developed and implemented Supplier Scorecard in order to objectively measure, rank, and communicate performance of all top 20 partner level suppliers on both a monthly and annual basis.• Organized annual Supplier Day in which average performance across partner level suppliers is communicated, top performers are recognized, and new metrics and goals are communicated for the coming year.• Drove and expedited temporary countermeasures, root cause analysis, and permanent corrective actions within the supply base resulting from quality spills that impacted the production line.• Responsible for management of internal quality auditor who tracked and reported day-to-day quality spills that impact production.

Vonore, Tn

Dedicated project manager for all new product development tasked with keeping the brand on the leading edge of design and technology, while maintaining a competitive and justifiable cost structure for finished products. Responsible for strategic negotiations with key suppliers to secure long-term partnership, guaranteed pricing, exclusivity, and year-over-year cost savings. • Lead negotiations with suppliers in order to establish long term agreements involving both indexed and fixed pricing, as well as securing year-over-year guaranteed savings.• Leveraged buying power and strategic relationships in order to negotiate $4.5M in cost savings through LTAs, VAVE projects, and strategic sourcing efforts.• Worked closely with cross-functional team to ensure that performance standards and perception of quality are maintained during VAVE and strategic sourcing projects.• Coordinated bill of material audits with engineering and operations in order to improve both the accuracy of product costing, and the integrity of purchasing and forecasting information.• Heavily involved in new product development process in order to help keep the brand on the leading edge of design and technology, while maintaining a competitive and justifiable cost structure for finished products. • Dedicated sourcing project manager for all new model development projects ranging from initial charter and concept stages to design validation and implementation into regular production.

Vonore, Tn

• Reduced inventory valuation from $5M to $1.9M through implementation of lean ordering principles and JIT delivery scheduling to positively affect the company’s cash flow position.• Managed an annual spend volume which grew from $9.67M covering 30 suppliers, to over $36M covering 195 suppliers in support of manufacturing for 2 different boat brands.• Served lead role in negotiation and implementation of web-based system with primary MRO products supplier to streamline the purchasing process and reduce cost.• Responsible for supplier consolidation and determining sourcing options to maximize purchasing leverage.• Work closely with the department head to set strategic planning goals for supply chain management and leverage buying power.• Troubleshot daily supply chain issues with department heads throughout the company to maintain smooth material flow.