Own the KHC North America Productivity Pipeline, ideation through execution for warehousing and transportation.
Lead process for cross functional collaboration to develop 2-to-3-year pipeline of ideas including process improvements, best practice sharing, technologies, automation, etc. to drive efficiency.
Own productivity reporting with finance partnership.
Bring recommendations of new tools/technologies to solve our current business problems/opportunities and the business case to justify. Including leading strategic project to install technology and infrastructure to automate and streamline carrier interactions with warehouse including gate, pre-arrival, and onsite coordination.
Own LMS and YMS technology strategies and solution optimization
Build the Capital Expenditure Strategic plan for the North America network to ensure the correct maintenance, cost improvement projects are budgeted and accounted for on an annual basis.
Ensure proper execution of Capital Expenditure plan and review and align with stakeholders’ capital approval requests for warehouse package.
Develop Material Handling Equipment strategy for total North America network.
Manage Capital Asset strategies for entire North America warehouse network and ensure proper projects to avoid business interruption for ~1B of assets.
Coach and develop team of project managers to effectively execute and prioritize projects to deliver optimal results and efficiencies.
Lead coordination between digital team and warehousing/trans team to ensure all digital/IT projects are aligned and meet timelines.
Own automation workstream from ideation, alignment to execution. Automation within the 4 walls of our warehouses.
Lead the ESG/Net Zero roadmap and tying projects to overall KHC ESG goals.
Provide consultation and support in operational issues through resolution.
Partner closely with Logistics Operations team to ensure alignment of priorities based on operational gaps and opportunity areas.
Develop relationship with manufacturing to bring best practices between manufacturing and logistics to enable KHC to capitalize on scale where applicable.