Supply Chain Project Manager

Jason T. Henry *** Dorchester Ave #*** • South Boston, MA 02127

317-***-**** • *********@*****.***

CAREER PROFILE

• Excellent professional track record for positions in supply chain and operations management with a financial emphasis

• Proven ability to analyze and digest complex financial business scenarios

• Diversely skilled with cross functional expertise in manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution

• Established project manager with the ability to organize, motivate, and lead both small and large teams to achieve team goals

• Demonstrated expertise in major cost improvement projects, creating both cost reduction, cycle time improvement and greater

overall efficiency

• Displayed strong capabilities in analyzing current systems and processes to drive significant improvements

• Recognized as an adept problem solver, enabled by my strategic, analytical, and creativity skills

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Supply Chain Management • Strategic Sourcing • Team

Leadership

• Operation/Production Management • Inventory Control and Reduction • Situational Analysis

• Financial Analysis • Cost Management • Process

Improvement

• Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc., Lawrence, MA July 2007 – June 2009

Supply Chain/Materials Buyer

Supply Chain Management and Strategic Sourcing

• Responsible for managing knit fabrics as well as foam commodities along the supply chain from development through

production to ensure timely delivery of materials for newly launched and existing shoes.

• Leveraging inventory management information created and maintained a 99% on time deliver record.

• By breaking down component costs, negotiated better prices that translated into $750K in yearly material savings.

• Revised business processes along the “Source to Pay” cycle in anticipation of SAP implementation.

• Reviewed and revised supply chain to achieve NAFTA and “Made in USA” regulatory requirements.

Project Management and Cost Management

• Responsible for managing procurement teams tasked with strategically reshaping supply chains.

• Leveraging lean manufacturing principles, directed a multi functional team to implement a pull system, resulting in a $115K

reduction of held inventory and a decrease of double handling material, by eliminating obsolete product relocation.

• Led a multi functional and international team that rearranged the shoe component sourcing and assembly strategy, thereby enabling in

the finishing factory a two minute reduction in labor time for a pair of shoes and a 12% daily increase in output, an additional 720 pairs

of shoes a day.

Financial Management and Material Control

• Responsible for monitoring and managing inventory costs and pricing.

• Introduced new suppliers to increase competitive bidding.

• Changed select suppliers to reduce lead time and increase flexibility, resulting in an annual savings of over $100K.

CARRIER CORPORATION (A United Technologies Company), Farmington, CT June 2006 – December 2006

Pricing Strategy Analyst (MBA Internship)

• Responsible for analyzing business performance, including price, share, industry, sales, and profitability for a $3B global

business.

• Devised monthly marketing and pricing scorecard for $520M corporation to assist pricing leaders and product management in

growth and profitability marketing decisions.

• Created a model to analyze distributor order rate trends across multiple product lines through 34 distributors; results used by

Sales and Pricing teams to drive sales growth and to assess volume impact of pricing actions.

• Analyzed 3 year historical sales performance across three major channels to establish baseline for sales forecasting and target

setting. Model was used as a guideline for Sales and Marketing teams.

• Constructed price measurement tracking model for the global business to analyze overall performance and develop pricing

strategies.

• Developed tools to analyze distributor share performance.

MICRONUTRIENTS, Indianapolis, IN June 2000 – June 2005

Process Engineer/Operations Management

Process Improvement

• Responsible for analyzing and implementing process improvements throughout the copper recovery process which formed a

stable copper salt from acidic and basic copper solutions for animal feed.

• Developed process to establish strong linkage between raw material supply and production output by forecasting raw material

delivery that aligned with production line rates, thereby reducing cycle time.

• Improved throughput by reutilizing over 500 tons of returned finished goods.

• Revised key process business procedures to meet ISO 9002 safety requirements, thereby reducing annual recordable injuries

by 40% in the first year and 75% over five years.

Project Management and Team Leadership

• Responsible for leading cross functional process improvement teams.

• Leveraging pilot plant development, work scaled up and optimized new crystallization process.

• Defined crystallization critical process parameters and optimal operating conditions.

• Created appropriate operation guidelines and trained 3 people for the 24/7 operations required to execute revised

crystallization process.

Supervision

• Responsible for the supervision of cross functional operations employees.

• Supervised 12 employees involved in various operations including warehousing, distribution, and the analytical laboratory.

• Developed analytical laboratory procedures and trained laboratory analysts.

• Provided oversight to the water treatment required to meet environmental requirements; developed a new testing system to

anticipate environmental overages of measured inorganic metals, thereby reducing overages to less than 2% per month.

EDUCATION

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA September 2005 – June 2007

Master of Business Administration

Member of the Supply Chain Management and Finance Clubs

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, MI September 1994 – May 1998

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering

Undergraduate research project in alternative processes for ethylene synthesis

INTERESTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Dedicated skier with fervor for any mountain with snow.

• Avid fan of The University of Michigan Wolverines (football and basketball) and the Boston Red Sox.

• Rescued dog owner and enthusiast.

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