Los Angeles, California, United States
Kelly Marley Extremely knowledgeable procurement and operations specialist with a strong understanding of the wholesale, retail and distribution industry, seeking a company that will benefit from my extensive experience in streamlining operations and making them more cost efficient with a strong background in international supply chain, operations, procurement and logistics. Core Competencies: Drives innovative business improvements. Develops new insights into solutions that result in organizational improvements. Promotes a work environment that fosters creative thinking, innovation and rational risk taking. Balances immediate and long term priorities. Seeks to meet critical objectives while considering the impact of those decisions and activities on the ability to achieve long-term goals. Delivers results. Focused on the critical few objectives that add the most value and channels own and others’ energy to consistently deliver results that meet or exceed expectations. Imports and exports good ideas. Relentlessly seeks, shares and adopts ideas and best practices in and outside the company and embraces change introduced by others. Develops and inspires others. Builds and maintains relationships that motivate, guide, and/or reinforce the performance of others toward goal accomplishments. Lives the values. Demonstrates the values of the company through words, actions and by example.
Special projects in various industries with a specialized level in food and beverage.
Managing production and operations. Implementation of efficient processes and procedures. Implementation of SOP’s for consistent performance.
Daily purchases and negotiating related to all seafood/protein items wholesale for further processing.
Developing procurement strategies that are incentive and cost effective. Purchasing grocery and frozen seafood approximately 1300 SKU’s. Sourcing and engaging reliable vendors. Strong negotiation skills. Review existing and new contracts. Performing risk assessments on potential agreements/contracts.