Loyola University Maryland

University of Maryland

Senior Manager @ W. R. Grace & Co. | MBA, CPIM

Strategic ownership for a global portfolio of raw materials with >$700M annual spend. Lead a team to secure goods at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO), reducing all forms of risk sourcing from external partners, while driving earnings through cost avoidance and reductions; key skills: high-value contract negotiation, RFQ implementation, EHSQ scorecarding, financial risk management programs and market intelligence sourcing.

W. R. Grace & Co.

Senior Manager, Global Procurement

Conduct network optimization and scenario planning for 17 production lines globally, annually producing >100MM lbs & $398M revenue. Through my leadership of our S&OP process, the business is able to proactively manage the supply chain to support business targets and customer service.

Supply Planning Lead

Use production and network optimization tools to generate a 16-week capacity plan for 34 lines at 10 plants, producing 172MM cases annually. As part of these responsibilities I evaluate the network to ensure service to sales while simultaneously identifying opportunities to deliver material at lowest landed cost.

PepsiCo

Master Production Planner

Manage inventory for a network of warehouses, achieving order fill-rate >99.5% (FY'17). Delivering on this high-level of service requires the ability to interface with air, rail and sea carriers to ensure on-time delivery from 7 global manufacturing sites. As part of managing the logistics component of this distribution network I served as Project Lead for 2 Transport Optimization Projects with cumulative savings >$450K annual.

Senior Supply Chain Planner

Manage weekly forecasts for a network of make-to-stock warehouses in the New Jersey, Philadelphia and Mid-Atlantic regions. I delivered year-over-year forecast accuracy improvement in 2015 of 117% (#1 rank of >50 North America Demand Planners). Responsibilities included demand oversight of PepsiCo's first and largest DSD Warehouse Automation Project.

Demand Planner

Directly managed 14 employees across 3 separate Customer Service & Operations Teams: Bulk Delivery, Merchandising and Full-Service Vending. Demonstrated stretch-capability by increasing responsibility of the role to include delivery routing, increasing productivity targets for both machines per day (+40%) and cases per day (+35%).

Service Manager

Sales leader for approx. 100 regional accounts , growing both margin & volume by 115%. I also served as a lead for the Project Georgetown sales blitz, which generated 374 leads, refined to 118 targets and converted 11 strategic accounts in Metro DC over a 60-day span.

Jason Fried