Los Angeles, California, United States
Accomplished leader with broad experience in supply chain, sourcing and operations, known for delivering results and driving competitive advantage throughout supply chain. Proven ability to implement sustainable solutions for the organization through strategic processes realignment. Provides unique cross functional perspective through breadth and depth of expertise in suppliers, manufacturing processes, materials and global regulations. Areas of expertise include: • Sourcing and Vendor Relations • Costing and Budgeting • Supply and Demand Planning • Inventory Management • Strategic Quality Operations • Manufacturing • Product Development • Materials and Product Testing • Regulatory Compliance/RSL • Sustainability and ESG • Data and Information systems • Process streamlining/Improvement • Team building
• Lead sourcing, quality, production, development and preproduction strategies for achieving product advantage • Creation of global capacity for on time delivery of superior product • Delivering budgeted financial and inventory goals • Transformational agent from owner based to structured, process driven organization • Priority on Partnership; commitment to mutually beneficial long-range relationships with strategic vendors to deliver • 360° product development to post consumer management
• End to end product excellence expertise in complex sourcing and manufacturing environments • Functional areas of responsibility included Quality, Compliance, Preproduction, Sourcing, Consumer Analytics, Testing, with strong dotted lines in Production, Costing and Product development • Led team of 80+ with eight direct reports