Customer Service Operations Manager

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Victor E Clark

Address: *** ********* *****, *********, ***** 76001

Phone: 817-***-**** Email: ********@***.***

LinkedIn: victor-clark-15044b35

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

A versatile, accomplished, and goal-driven Operations Manager with skills in providing the vision, quality, and leadership in distribution, production, operations management, employee development, safety training, and sales/customer service. Possess leadership skills to build departmental infrastructures for multiple departments while facilitating smooth transitions during periods of significant change and growth. Extremely effective at integrating operational systems/processes to solve complex business problems and recognized for fostering open lines of communications, making effective decisions under adverse conditions, and quickly revising tactics to achieve goals within aggressive time frames. Excellent Customer Relationship Management and out of the box thinker and create innovative ideas for solving everyday problems more efficiently. Effective team leader with active coaching, mentoring, and training skills and possess multi-task capacity, working independently and in a team, as well as the flexibility to meet shifting goals and tight deadlines. Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills with good interpersonal, managerial, and organizational skills to communicate with different departments and the public and work in a fast-paced and demanding environment. Skill Areas: Excellent Communication Skills Contract Negotiations Continuous Improvement Cross-Functional Leadership Customer Service management Supply Chain & Logistics Transportation Management Budget and Cost Analysis Profit & Loss Management Sales and Marketing Management Procurement Management TQM

(Total Quality Management) Safety Management (OSHA, Food) Distribution Management Maintenance Management Problem-Solving Business Acumen Business Logistics Lean Manufacturing with a degree in Biology PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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● Responsible for identifying significant manufacturing and distribution inefficiencies and implement corrective and preventive controls to improve profitability with an enhanced lean vertical process flow for Star Bucks 14 SKU RTE specialty food line. Unloading and loading via forklift when needed GOURMET XPRESSLLC Irving, TX (2021-2023)

GM/Facility Management

Gourmet Xpress llc is a privately-owned mass food distribution provider of fresh herbs for domestic and international foodservice markets, which is based in Mexico.

● Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing the operational and financial business model for the DFW area market distribution based on a lean approach that included establishing a sales division. PARADISE PRODUCE Dallas, TX (2017-2019)

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A privately-owned manufacturer and distributor of fresh produce foods provider for the Dallas, Texas area market

• Keys objectives were to identify inefficient financial and operational opportunities to implement favorable processes for P/L improvements

HARDIES FRESH FOODS Austin, TX (2015-2017)

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Victor E Clark

Phone: 817-***-**** Email: ********@***.***

LinkedIn: victor-clark-15044b35

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A broad line mass distribution fulfillment center with a staff of 60 that included 7 direct reports and a customer base that included J.W. Marriott, Cy-Fair ISD, Samsung, Apple, IBM, Dell,

● As General Manager, responsible for the direction and continuous lean business process performance to achieve probability with 20 vehicles refrigerated fleet.

● The sales team of 6 increased regional business by over 15%.

● The operations and transportation team reduced operating expenses 25% within 9 months via rescheduling drivers and reconfiguring delivery routes.

● Increased operating income by more than 50% by implementing a better lean manufacturing process flow with more internal vertical integration.

● The customer service team increased customer order taking above 90%.

● The transportation team achieved a weekly 93% of on-time delivery.

● Work with Sales strategically to expand marketing growth by 14%

● Forklift capability and capacity when needed

DEL MONTE FRESH N.A. Portland, Oregon (2014-2015) GM/Plant Manager

A mass manufacturing and distribution facility with a staff of 180 that included 6 direct reports and a customer base that included Wal-Mart, Costco, Fred Meyer, Food Service of America, Sysco distributors, 7-eleven, Core Mark.

● Responsible for the direction and lean business process performance to achieve probability with 2-shift staffing of 190 associates with a 7 refrigerated fleet unit.

● The sales team of 3 increased sales by over 15% year-to-year.

● Led the strategy of the new sales market with institutional foodservice category

● Slashed costs by 25% in the first 9 months of tenure.

● Increased OI over 200%.

● Restructured & improved financially poor performing departments by 60% to operate above the target benchmark.

● Implemented certified organic processing for the new business market.

● Team building and retention

COUNTRY FRESH INC. Grand Prairie, TX (2009-2014) GM/Plant Manager

A mass manufacturing and distribution facility with a staff of 190 including 7 direct reports and a customer base that included Wal-Mart, QuikTrip c-stores, Race Trac, American Airlines, Kroger, 7-eleven, American Airlines.

● Accountable for the direction and lean business process performance to achieve probability with staffing of 185 associates

● Increased weekly sales from 135k in 2009 to 500k in 2013 that included 8 new Walmart DCs, 3 QuikTrip DCs, and school business, increased productivity by more than 300% in 5 years.

● Reduced inventory loss by 75% and rose gross profit from 0 to 9% within 4 years

● Restored profitability and efficiency with a rating of over 95% and reduced labor by 31% via detail training, restructuring, and reorganization

● Gained SQF level 2 status within 6 months of tenure EDUCATION:

B.S. Degree

Multiple Food Safety Certifications

Bi-lingual (Spanish)

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