Aaron Fogel

Created a centralized operations team through focused recruitment, training, and mentorship

• Optimized Delivery and Pickup processes for increased cost savings: reduced variable labor cost from $0.66 in FY2022 to $0.43 in FY2024
• Established successful partnerships with key Stakeholders to strengthen the Delivery and Pickup business
• Fostered a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by regularly challenging existing business practices and encouraging out-of-the-box thinking.
• Led company conversion efforts to transition 20,000 Amazon Associates into Whole Foods Market Team Members resulting in lower annual variable labor costs, ~$94MM
• Enhanced company productivity by implementing new picking technology to improve Units per Hour (UPH) from 58.8 in FY2022 to 86.3 in FY2024
• Operated in environment with high public visibility.

• Improved Team Member engagement with food safety concepts by introducing comprehensive training programs and new merchandising standards into Store Process
• Transitioned over 600 individual documents into a single food safety policy library
• Operated in highly visible environment achieving 2 S-Team level goals
• Achieved notable improvement in Food Safety metrics for the organization: In FY 2019 reduced repeat food safety violations by 59% and reduced cold holding violations by 44%
• Developed strong working relationships with Sr Level Leaders and Executive sponsors.
• Created and implemented the Rapid Improvement Store Engagement (RISE) process as a mechanism to improve overall food safety execution across 480 WFM stores

• Improved receiving metrics, reduced Aggregate Out of Period invoices by ~$378 YoY and Improved PO accuracy by 400bps from 95.95% to 99.95%
• Improved overall program execution by creating a comprehensive receiving dashboard used as a metrics accountability and scoring mechanism
• Simplified receiving process by implementing Store Process across 450 WFM physical stores