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Summary
The supplier evaluation and audit evaluation expert consultant is a versatile process improvement consultant with global experinece propelling enterprise transformations across a highly matrixed organization. Her partnership with senior executives enables her to steward culture change and prioritization through a standard methodology of business planning and deployment which link strategic imperatives with key performance indicators. With strengths in Lean, Engineering, root cause analysis, risk management, option analysis, and vendor selections, she is an effective and collaborative problem solver that is customer centric. The expert is adept at synethizing internal and external best practices into a comprehensive solution allowing an organization not only a clear starting point, but also a roadmap forward to process maturity. She is described by others as genuine, resilient, respected, trustworthy and calm under pressure.
Highlights
- 20+ years of experience
- Lean/TPM/Early Management
- 10+ process improvement implementations
- Global transformation leader
- Skilled trainer, facilitator and auditor
- Technical vendor selection analysis
Relevant Accomplishments
- Developed vendor option analysis of a quality management system to accelerate client selection process based on ISO 9000 criteria
- Performed operational excellence assessments of manufacturing facilities in Mexico, France, Greece and the United States
- Led risk analysis of supplier audit process that resulted in opportunities to standardize the internal global best practices and reduce the man hours to complete audits by 30%
- Partnered with Quality and Regulatory Organization to debrief a food safety incident with recommendations to CEO and Board of Directors
- Led risk analysis of Workday implementation which was the first General Mills system launched enterprise wide on the same day with no major disruptions
- Established and managed an Engineering department of 8 employees that enabled a 20%+ productivity goal in less than 3 years, while improving quality and reducing safety incidents
- Led deployment of Early Management intellectual property for Engineering and R&D organization that resulted in a 40% reduction in man hours during start-ups and sustainable production rates that met or exceeded initiative goals
- Led program to systemize Stage-gate process including vendor selection and system validation pilots in Sweden and the United States to confirm conservative 12-month payback
- Trained and facilitated cross-functional teams on continuous improvement methods
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