Rutgers University - Newark

Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

Go-to-Market Change Management Lead at Mars Wrigley North America at Mars Wrigley

Leading, facilitating & navigating a team of subject matter experts through the challenges of bringing new consumer product innovation to market within Zarbee's brand portfolio through critical thinking and rationale project management.

Kenvue

Project & Portfolio Manager

Skills: Business Process Improvement · Problem Solving · Microsoft Project · Strategic Leadership · Project Management

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health

Project & Portfolio Manager, Zarbee’s

Skills: Problem Solving · Critical Thinking · Communications Management · Thought Leadership · Business Strategy · Operating Models · Global Affiliate Model

Mars

Senior Program Manager at Mars Global Pet Nutrition

Skills: Communication · Business Process Improvement · Problem Solving · Program Management · Product owner · Technical Leadership · Agile Project Management · Communications Management · Product Development · Change Management · Thought Leadership

Change Management Manager & Orchestration Layer Product Owner Go-to-Market Transformation

Skills: Problem Solving · Communications Management

Senior Project Manager - Twix® & Maltesers®

Project Manager - M&M's®

•	Manage item life cycle of filled bar, seasonal, & merchandising portfolio products
•	Lead cross functional meetings and project deliverables on item maintenance activities  
•	Lead cross function collaboration meetings to improve item life cycle systems
•	Lead marketing sub-process improvement to optimize project execution 
•	Provide solutions to senior management when operational or executional challenges occur
•	Develop and documented business processes for effective item setup
•	Develop training & trained new activity specialists

Activity Specialist

•	Managed item life cycle of $950M portfolio of seasonal products
•	Developed process to audit finished goods to ensure adherence to bill of materials
•	Coordinated & proofed sales materials such as brochures, selling stories, and price lists
•	Managed inventory of sales samples and materials at a third-party marketing services
•	Developed item workflow escalation process through new tracking tool 
•	Oversaw Seasonal Marketing budgets and provided operational support through managing coupons execution, purchase orders & invoices
•	Provided solutions to senior management when operational or executional challenges occurred

Marketing Operations

•	Manage contract packaging segment of External Manufacturing Supply($1 billion business unit) specific experience with Mars Internal Demand Fulfillment Centers and third party vendors
•	Analyze and interpret the current demand for the segment in order to create and coordinate the 16-week production schedule for the respective sites
•	Oversee operational results by scheduling in donors and packaging materials to ensure production of a quality product at the least cost by optimizing cash flow through high inventory turns  
•	Schedule outbound shipments to insure uninterrupted production and timely deliveries to demand fulfillment centers
•	Maintain SAP finished goods inventory levels for scheduled items
•	Schedule the release of quantities to obtain the maximum competitive economic advantage and minimize the risk of write-offs of obsolete raw and packaging material
•	Developed Repack Process
•	Led 3rd Party CoPack Traceability Improvement Project
•	Selected to participate in Obsolete Packaging Inventory Correction Project
•	External Manufacturing Supply liaison to Seasonal Sales Samples Team
•	SAP proficient
•	Apollo JDA proficient
•	GRD Material Database proficient

Supply Chain Analyst

• Exercise interpersonal skills in managing customer relationships  
• Collaborate and manage logistics services for top grocery accounts such as - Publix, Smart & Final, Wegmans and Giant Eagle
• Process customer orders
• Analyze and creatively resolve customer issues 
• Manage logistics and process orders for Seasonal Sales Samples & McLane Data Auditing Samples
• Selected to participate in the MARS BIG Idea Challenge
• SAP proficient
• Vendor Management Inventory proficient

Customer Logistics Representative / VMI Analyst

•	Officiate and train new team members
•	Accelerating through complex training program
•	Represented to CareerTV.com &amp; College students
•	Consult and assist customers with product selections
•	Attained multiple top sales week leader
•	Handle cash, credit, and check transactions
•	Recommend innovative order tracking system

Blinds To Go

Management Trainee

•	Prepared spreadsheets and analyzed market figures
•	Serviced &amp; demonstrated TerraCycle Products 
•	Traveled extensively to various retail locations
•	Researched environmental groups
•	Designed sample packages for producers of the film, “An Inconvenient Truth” 
•	Revamped TerraCycle Media directory 
•	Formulated TerraCycle – Bottle Brigade Program binders

Sundeep Patel