SUMMARY
Strategic thinking business partner with a track record of achieving results-oriented goals through building relationships and process improvement with an interdisciplinary team leadership style. Known for strong business acumen, program management, and innovative in problem-solving skills. A visionary believer in cross-functional collaboration, as a mediator in negotiations. A leader in program management; demonstrates expertise team development. Proficient in public speaking, communication skills, and influencer; committed to service excellence. Interpersonal Skills include:
Process Improvement - Service Management - Operations Execution
Business Development - Vendor Management - Budget Oversight - Coach/Mentor
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Led quantitative planning of commodity pricing spend of $20 M; inventory management, negotiated contracts, and cost reduction programs while sustaining and improving performance.
Actively led and participated in various cross-functional teams, including engineers, US plant buyers, and sales to ensuring manufacturing and logistics to optimize profitability.
Applied Lean & Quality Assurance principles and skills to improve supply chain functions and efficiency. Strengthened supply chain operations management.
Proactively built cross-functional team relationships for successful project management, achieving engagement and manage the supply chain efficient process; increased productivity for business marketing.
Marketed and successfully launched (accelerated pace), Inventory Vendor Management pilot program (2011 – 2014); led to further expansion to 5 US plants, providing access while mitigating supplier inventory.
Led organization’s partnership with Science Museum of MN (2011 - 2016) expanding the Science Fusion series: exposes students of diverse communities to career opportunities in STEM fields.
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CARLIN O’BRIEN, INC., Minnetonka, mn 1998 – 2005
Privately owned full-service brokerage Retail/Wholesale Broker serving the food and beverage industries.
Account Manager, Retail Sales
Grew 70 accounts by developing strong relationships (convenience stores, grocery, and specialty) focused on resolving client's problems with products and programs; including a national level with clients such as Target.
Exceeded sales goals, including growing sales by 61% with an upscale grocery store chain.
Performed Manager role for 12 territory managers, including supervisory and accountability leadership as well as mentoring and coaching. Developed change management leadership skills.
Developed and Expanded Carlin O’Brien’s specialty confections business within large department store retailers, grocery stores, and wholesalers in the Twin Cities market.
Served as Sales Information Expert and Account Representative Manager for Twin Cities territory.
EDUCATION / CONTINUING EDUCATION
AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY, Minneapolis, MNMaster of Arts in Leadership – Graduation Date: April
Top managers, supervisors and key personnel will be assessed based on case findings. 5. Gathering Internal Data for Review: • Upon completing interviews, relevant data on supply chain management, operations management, finance and economics, HR, and IT activities of the organizations will be reviewed. 6. Strategies and Analysis: • Integrating information, which was collected in all the previous stages, finding out the gaps between current activities and: a) Supply chain management.
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Interpersonal skills Interpersonal skill is when you are able to interact with others and have a conversation without any issues. Also being able to get along with other team members. This is very helpful in business because you can share ideas to each other which makes the business run much more smoothly and successfully. Having a great interpersonal skill allows me help other people if they are in need of
.M1: Explain how interpersonal interaction skills are used to support the business context: Interpersonal Skills: Interpersonal Skills are the skills that we use in our everyday life which is also known as people skills. It is because this skill is related to the way you communicate and interact with the people around you on a day to day basis. For example when employers are hiring people, this skills is one of the skills they will look at to evaluate the candidates. People with this skills is said to be more successful in not only their professional life but also in their personal lives.
Business skills can include marketing, finance, and sales knowledge, which are critical for creating successful marketing campaigns, managing finances, and closing deals. Obtaining “Business skills,” can be done with your own learning by getting a degree at a university. Without these skills, it's challenging to compete in the real estate industry and achieve long-term success. Realtors also need strong “interpersonal skills,”A realtor's job is all about building relationships and connecting with people. Strong interpersonal skills, such as active listening, effective communication, and empathy, are essential in developing trust with clients, understanding their needs, and guiding them through the buying or selling process.
Leadership Journal Report Assignment Skills Inventory: The skills inventory, which includes technical, human, and conceptual skill, helps me to measure my three leadership competencies of me. It lets me to understand how my skills separate to three leadership skill approaches. According to our textbook, although all of three skills are important to leaders, the importance of each skill varies between different management levels. By scoring it, I got 19 in technical skill, 21 in conceptual skill, and 25 in human skill, which is the highest one.
One thing I never forget about how my mom and his coworkers spoke of Sam Walton. They said every time Mr. Walton comes to visit he slows the operation down because he interacts and talks to his employees from the store manager all the way down to stockers and housekeeping crew. He will sit in the break room and talk about regular stuff like fishing, hunting and then talk about future operations. He listened to what other people had to say regardless of their work status. They talk about how much they trust him and never doubted that he will do something happen before he leaves the store whether it is additional or expansion of a break area or personal matters.
Topic Part 1: Is shared and distributed leadership the only way forward for leadership within the current health and care context? Part 1 Introduction- Statement about Leadership Yukl(2010) defined Leadership as the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives. Winston and Patterson (2006) stated leadership aimed to identify the diversity of their followers in order to achieve goals and can provide some support, training and education to the followers to help them to improve their abilities within the organization’s goals and resources to ensure the goals can be reached.
He has been an entrepreneur consultant for over 18 years. Also, Robert’s job requires him to oversee all of the departments, including human resources (HR), operations, and accounting (McGraw-Hill, 2013). Paul Munez is the Customer Service Director for the company and obtains his Bachelor of Arts by which he has worked in a business capacity for 10
As a result of the events of Dremliner, Boeing has improved their supply chain management process by incorporating continuous improvement strategies and implementing ways to encourage open lines of communication amongst their supply base. Boeing 's supply chain management places emphasis on on-time deliveries and streamlining common standard processes across their suppliers. Boeing has developed several tool to not only monitor and audit the best practices and overall performance of the supplier, but aid in collaborative communication amongst their entire supply base.
Process Drive to achieve functional excellence and integration across all major processes. - Core supply chain processes driving the business. - Best in class approaches to our core processes (manufacturing, integrated demand planning, procurement, cycle-time, compression, dynamic deployment) - Bulk linkages with suppliers and customers. C. Organization Providing the critical success factors of cohesion, harmony and integration across organization entities - Level of cross functional integration is required to manage core processes effectively - Leverage cross-company skills and abilities - Performance measurement and reporting structure help to achieve objectives D. Technology Empowers the Supply Chain to operate on a new level of performance and is creating clear competitive advantages for those companies able to harness it.
Different scholars identified various kinds of leadership styles that affect the job performance, satisfaction and learning and development of subordinates. Warrick, D.D (1981) cited that there are no doubt variables other than a leader’s style that affect employee performance and development but leadership style plays a significant role and not to be underestimated. An awareness of leadership styles and their consequences are very important because it may either facilitate or inhabit skill development. The major theories on leadership are the traits, leadership styles and contingency theories.
Our success is measured in the confidence we gain, the improved team morale they foster, the conversations we no longer struggle to initiate and the conflicts they are able to resolve. The interpersonal soft skills employees are learning—and the insights they are gaining—form the foundation upon which they will coach and mentor employees to higher performance; and make informed business decisions; and lead our company through future industry challenges and market forces. (8 Critical Competencies Necessary for Frontline Leaders in the Wholesale Distribution Industry, n.d.)All of the leadership competencies in action have the potential to benefit the business and the bottom line. Competency-based learning is the basis for a leadership development program to change current knowledge, skills and attitude of our staff in preparing internal changes that directly influence joining up new business and continuous technical improvement. To fill the soft skills gap, management provide leadership training to potential employees to make incremental improvement for the benefit of the
For example at the Downingtown, P.a. store they sponsor Downingtown East, West, and West Chester University and many more. They run softball events for the employees who are WCT’s (Wing Certified Trainer) and there are plenty of areas where you can move up in the company. Also, they have a Blazin Wing Challenge which is you have to eat 12 traditional wings in 6 minutes with our hottest Reform Blazin sauce on them. Another Chapter to relate to would be Chapter 10 Conflict Management: Dealing with Issues, Risks, and Crises.