Todd Jensen Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Empowering manufacturing companies to reach the next level

Responsible for Innovation strategy, development and implementation. - Operating profit more than doubled in my 3 years- Created a 5 year innovation strategy- Launch more products in my time than in previous decade

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Director of Food safety and Quality for the global baking businesses for General Mills. This includes all global retail and foodservice channels.- Enabled the renovation of the Pillsbury Cookie business to include a ‘Safe to Eat Raw’ statement on each package driving sales growth 30+%- Developed product improvement strategies which drove product complaint.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Global technology development leader for the Baking platform at General Mills. My role consistents of leading a team of highly motivated scientists as we develop new technologies for vaious global businesses across General Mills. - Launched a multi-year initiative to gain $100M in savings and capacity creation across all global dough product lines..

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Operations manager for a large General Mills research team. I manage a team of over 50 people in both the US and India. The team supports scientific research, develops new testing methods, and completes routine and non-routine testing. The role consists of improving efficiency, increasing margins, and finding innovative ways to increase capacity without.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Operations manager for the Natural Valley granola bar business. Responsible for cost reduction, operational assessments, capacity analysis, capital reviews, and manufacturing strategy. This corporate level role was the key strategic position for all manufacturing facilities for the Nature Valley brand. In addition, I was the liaison between manufacturing.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led R&D innovation teams developing new products, optimizing existing products, and increasing product margins through product, process, and packaging design. Teams ranged from 5 to 12 people, and varied over many different businesses and technologies. I developed many cost savings methodologies that were adopted by the entire company, and are still used.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed many products and processes across various businesses for General Mills. Products ranged from line extensions, to new product platforms, and also includes capital installation projects of over $30MM in scope. Main function was to ensure that new products could run on existing manufacturing lines, or if upgrades were needed, identify and.

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: AIChE

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering