ROBERT S. BRIGGS

Los Angeles, CA ***** 818-***-**** addcnj@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/robertsbriggs

SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS EXECUTIVE

Successful hands-on, results-oriented senior executive with 25+ years of progressive experience in operations management and profitable turnaround of lagging businesses. Diverse experience in start-up to rapid growth business, creating infrastructure, financial controls, and business processes to achieve strategic objectives and bottom-line profits. Strong operational leadership creating profitable business through team building, effective cost controls, strategic planning, and revenue growth strategies.

CORE STRENGTHS

Multi-site Global Operations

Strategic Planning and Development

Standardization/Best Practices

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

P&L Accountability/Finance

Project Management

Continuous Improvement

Cost reduction and containment

System Implementation

Team Building/Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Synovos, Inc. Bio-Life Science Div. Los Angeles, CA 1/2013 – 12/2019

Program Manager, Enterprise Accounts

$450MM Integrated Supply Chain Management Company, focused on indirect material supply chain activities (MRO) in US, Europe and Asia driving material and process savings while minimizing production downtime & stock-outs. Reporting to the VP European Operations, Pharmaceutical/Bio-Life Science Division. Directing the day to day activities of 9 global sites, directing 6 site managers, 14 indirect Procurement Specialists and additional 37 indirect Inventory Specialists serving JLL/Amgen, Genentech/Roche and Shire/Takeda Pharmaceutical. Responsible for driving continuous improvement initiatives, pursuing operational excellence, analytical decisions, strategic procurement and managing an $80 MM procurement budget.

Managing budgetary guidelines to meet or exceed operational goals.

Leading Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Procurement functions to deliver best in class service and cost. Owning forecast accuracy, fill rate and on-time delivery, managing integrated supply contracts, with substantial cost reduction by leveraging economies of scale.

Implemented processes, establishing key performance metrics (KPI’s), identifying, mitigating, and communicating key supply risks and action plans related to supply chain planning and material replenishment reporting out to global Governance.

Project leader FDA/cGMP Pilot program, developing GxP process, implementing quality guidelines and regulations to verify compliance of materials purchased that come in direct contact with raw material ingredients.

Project Lead for global inventory data cleaning/scrubbing and integrity process for 27K SKU’s, identifying $15 MM excess/obsolete inventory, 4.3K SKU’s erroneous or duplications requiring correction or removal.

Developed and wrote SOP’s for global standardization, materials purchased, received, issued and inventory processes.

Project lead for implementation and operational integration of new Widows-based, MS SYNC CMMS and ERP systems.

Cross functional Program Manager, building relationships with cross functional partners driving collaboration. Building a culture of continuous improvement.

Experience in leadership development, creating accountability across teams and communicating at a leadership level.

Provided safety leadership to ensure sites strict adherence to corporate safety standards.

VRI Incorporated Holding, Pvt Ltd, Indore, India and Irvine, CA 8/2008 – 11/2012

VP Operations, Project Development and Financial Planning

Retained by Private Equity Investors for startup and first stage enterprises in the US and India. Primary contact for communications with state Finance Ministries and PM office India, legal counsel and Board of Directors, providing strategic leadership for all program activities. In partnership with the board and staff, established and implemented current plans and policies and long-range strategic plan and objectives. Polished leadership presence and experience creating accountability across teams and communicating at a leadership level. Experience managing several teams, multiple projects, understanding project planning, targets and deliverables management, decision-making and escalation points. Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in both verbal and written format.

Global Investors Summit, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, signing MOU with TRIFAC for $100MM Agra-Science and Food Industrial Park project development.

KA Industries, LLC. Carson, CA 7/1999 – 6/2008

VP Operations & General Manager

$80 million Consumer Packaged Goods Company. Managing day to day operations of a 80,000 square foot manufacturing production facility, supervising 150+ direct and indirect reports, supply chain, procurement, distribution, inventory and compliance.

Responsible for strategic direction, budget, continuous improvement efforts and performance for a 24/7 production operations.

Implemented HACCP system, proactive food safety program.

Improved profit margins by 10% while reducing quality defect losses by 15%

Implemented system directed receipt put away process using cubic capacity planning within the WMS, increasing storage capacity by 20%

Planned new layout and slotting of facility absorbing 3200 SKU’s and averaging 1200 same day order requirements filled.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, SKILLS

LANGUAGE

English – conversational in Spanish

EDUCATION

Long Beach, California State University

Business Administration

Long Beach, CA

CERTIFICATIONS

Learning-Era

SCRUM, Certification, February 2020

SCRUM Master, Certification, March 2020

Gemba Academy LLC

Lean Six Sigma, Certification, Oct 2015

American Institute of Baking

HACCP, Certification, May 2006

SKILLS

MS Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint

Software familiarity: IBM Maximo CMMS/EAM, SAP ERP, JDE ERP, Salesforce CRM, Anaplan Planning, Sage WMS, SYNC DEAM WMS, SOS WMS, Stop DataPro Safety, UltiPro Payroll, Concur Expense Management, SaaS

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