Vanessa Jacobson Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Ar

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Created 15+ unique SOPs for the manufacturing department, leading to the implementation of Six Sigma and Kiazen projects• Lead and design company-wide projects for both efficiency and new facility builds• Developed a roadmap to increase production efficiency by identifying necessary equipment and conducting time studies on a full life cycle process• Integrated Value Stream Mapping to current Lean manufacturing practices, resulting in decreased operational costs by 37% and increased daily unit output by 475%• Developed Hour x Hour and SQDCT boards to ensure multiple facilities’ data is easily accessible, effectively eliminating errors and increasing efficiency• Leveraged BioTrack, OneDrive and Office to capture inventory, conversions, compliance, efficiency and safety data in a centralized database for reporting and analytics• Created knowledge transfer documentation for onboarding process for production workers and manufacturing team • Enforce all GMP and OSHA standards• Responsible for converting bulk batch IDs to retail batch IDs for retail distribution

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Engineered new ordering, scheduling, and inventory management procedures by analyzing store trends, decreasing department operating costs 4%• Improved workplace environment by ensuring that all regulatory measures are followed, creating an easy to work storefront for all employees• Mentored team members in customer relations and product knowledge by holding daily shift meetings which continued to improve customer satisfaction• Delegated assignments to team members according to their individual strengths, improving department efficiency by 15%