Operational Excellence Consultant

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Summary

This Operational Excellence Consultant is a senior executive with an impressive 25-year career of accomplishments in CEO, COO, and SVP positions. She is a prominent picture executive who can set strategy, execute the details, and drive financial performance. This Operational Excellence Consultant is a strategic visionary with demonstrated success leading transformation and change management that contributes to overall growth and economic improvement for supply chain/manufacturing companies. She is a decisive leader who uses collaborative leadership and a proactive approach in all functional areas to generate revenue, bring operational excellence, produce impressive results, and build great teams.

This Operational Excellence Consultant has a proven track record in the strategic development of supply chain, financial/inventory analysis, improved operational efficiencies, and quantifiable cost savings for direct and indirect spending. Her strengths include prioritizing initiatives, identifying key stakeholders’ needs, and creating sourcing processes resulting in immediate and sustained expense reduction. She has expertise in supply chain/inventory control, vendor selection and management, contract negotiation, project and staff management, logistics, fulfillment, manufacturing, and sales. This Operational Excellence Consultant is also known for using technology solutions to develop processes that drive sales, streamline operations, reverse trends, increase inventory turnover, and, in general, improve overall efficiencies.

She is also talented in creating new markets, innovative problem-solving, cultivating business relationships, and growing margins to impact the company’s bottom line positively. Common themes throughout her professional career have been outstanding team-building and collaborative leadership and her ability to see the big picture and execute to drive financial performance and team excellence. This Operational Excellence Consultant is an assertive executive whose empowered approach to the team drives impressive results.

Highlights

• 25+ years of experience
• Collaborative Leadership
• Emerging Markets
• Supply Chain Re-Engineering
• Building Teams that Deliver
• Driving Growth

Relevant Accomplishments

• Grew and developed a new emerging business to grow sales by over 300%
• Personally recruited & hired new leadership and manager-level talent
• Coordinated the design and implementation of an enhanced system to ensure proper documentation with all customer shipments, which resulted in increased efficiencies and SOPs
• Leveraged supply chain resources to achieve efficient, time, and complete delivery of products to customers, resulting in an OTD accuracy of 93% from 67%
• Developed and implemented a cross-training program to provide seamless coverage during the absences of employees
• Created and implemented a Vendor Scorecard to secure performance from overseas vendors
• Directed multimillion purchasing units for National retailers such as The Children’s Place, GAP, and Best Buy.
• Hired, trained, and motivated top-performing team members.
• Team player and partner. Utilize collaborative leadership.
• Consistently identified and developed talent in others. Mentor and collaborated leader. Considered hands-on but drives empowerment in others.
• Employed technology to streamline people, processes, and procedures.
• Designed, implemented, and scaled a new entertainment/e-commerce portal for Best Buy.com.
• Designed, implemented, and scaled a new worldwide intranet for Quayside Publishing. Drove efficiency, cost containment, and revenue. The information system resulted in a 50% increase in employee productivity, a 15% reduction in inventory targets, a 10% increase in target sales, and improved customer service.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained SOPs across different industries, which were relentless with innovation and driven towards higher levels of efficiency.
• Sourced and developed excellent working relationships with outside and internal vendors. Created and maintained successful vendor management programs that drove cost savings for The Children’s Place, Best Buy, Mahoney Builders, Quayside, and Bellcomb Inc.
• Implemented ISO 9001 and a new Quality Management System for Bellcomb Inc. to meet customer expectations and deliver on customer standards.
• Bellcomb Inc.’s customer on-time delivery improved from 60% in 2013 to 91% in 2014. Delivering sales growth in newly identified markets by 35% over 2013 and cutting cash burn rate by 50%
• Participates in critical negotiations to deliver margin & profitability for every organization.
• Deliveries cost containment and cost savings initiatives in every organization.
• Drove company sales to $7 million in less than three years with a value-added approach and delivery for Mahoney Builders, LLC.
• Negotiated and secured over $38 million of rent relief over three years to drive cost savings to the bottom line for the Best Buy Real Estate initiative.
• Successful leadership as Strategic Sourcing Company Team Leader at Best Buy; responsible for market analysis and optimization of product-category suppliers to provide a competitive advantage to company-wide category programs. Improved margin by 50%, increased sales by 10%, and resulted in over $20 million cost savings.

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