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Brenna Taylor

Seattle, Washington,WA

Summary

Results-driven and passionate Supply Chain Manager with 6 years of experience in strategic planning, procurement, inventory management, and distribution.


Possesses extensive knowledge in end to end supply chain operations, business continuity, and promoting cross-functional collaboration. Eager to create a better world through sustainability focused operations that create improved well-being for people, animals, and the environment.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Logistics

Rebellyous Foods, Seattle, WA
03.2022 - Current
  • Built end-to-end supply chain operations from ground up, managing team of four direct reports, leading procurement, inventory management, and distribution activities to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products that adhere to rigorous food safety standards.
  • Leads raw material vendor relationships, including vendor selection, negotiation, and contract management to ensure optimal pricing and quality of goods and services.
  • Oversees all department goals and objectives, monitoring key events and milestones, while tracking and implementing operational improvements to obtain optimal center effectiveness.
  • Manages regulatory compliance and certifications for supply chain, including Safe Quality Food, The Non-GMO Project, and National School Lunch Program standards.
  • Executes raw material forecasting and purchasing in alignment with S&OP.
  • Manages all raw material, packaging, and finished goods specifications and change management, as well as claims diligence and packaging optimization work.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams to lead major projects, including contract manufacturing deployment, process improvements, packaging design, quality assurance, and product development.

Supply Chain Manager

Rebellyous Foods
03.2020 - 03.2022
  • Led supply chain and logistics operations, managed three direct reports, and focused on scaling processes through contract manufacturing deployment, implementing cost cutting measures, and improving center effectiveness. Included establishing secondary suppliers, logistics optimization, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation.
  • Project manager for retail product launch, coordinating activities across departments and leading retail packaging design work. Required extensive project management work, tracking objectives, goals, and project timeline. Acted as representative to communicate with stakeholders across business and make recommendations to ensure project milestones and goals were achieved.
  • Led and implemented Safe Quality Food programs for supply chain and logistics department, achieving and maintaining an "Excellent" audit score rating (above 95).

Operations Manager

Rebellyous Foods
11.2018 - 03.2020
  • Tracked procurement and supply chain management goals, developing departmental plans and providing recommendations and status updates regularly to leadership teams.
  • Led initial raw material sourcing and material management in coordination with product development.
  • Built and led bench and small scale production operations, managed team of five production staff, oversaw initial logistics and order fulfillment, and supported transition to in-house large scale production operations.

Operations Coordinator

Rebellyous Foods
05.2018 - 11.2018
  • CEO & founder’s first hire, supporting initial product development work, participated in customer outreach and demos, supported investor engagement, facilitated preliminary human resources and operations work.
  • Served as coordinator and representative for public engagement, leadership reporting, and customer engagement activities.
  • Supported CEO in her participation in Y Combinator (startup accelerator program, Summer 2018).

Corporate Campaign Coordinator

The Humane League
02.2017 - 05.2018
  • Led national animal welfare campaigns to instigate comprehensive policy reforms among major food companies, coordinating on the ground actions with other nonprofits.
  • Wrote op-eds, managed social media accounts, generated donor appeals reaching 200,000+ people.
  • Implemented protocols and software to track and streamline department’s data, making it sharable and user-friendly across departments. Trained 65 staff to utilize new web applications to improve collaboration.

Education

Corporate Sustainability Leadership Accelerator -

Terra.Do
12-2024

MBA - Supply Chain Management

University of Maryland
College Park, MD
08-2021

BS - Biology, Minor Political Science

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
12-2015

Key Skills

  • Expert in project management
  • Adept in procurement, logistics, food safety (Food Safety Preventive Controls Allianace trained)
  • 4+ years of experience with ERP systems (NetSuite, SAP)
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Interests

My mission is to advance solutions that create improved well-being for people, animals, and the environment I am passionate about driving positive change through supply chain operations that promote:

  • Sustainability and sustainable sourcing 
  • Decarbonization 
  • Animal welfare
  • Environmental conservation

Timeline

Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Logistics

Rebellyous Foods, Seattle, WA
03.2022 - Current

Supply Chain Manager

Rebellyous Foods
03.2020 - 03.2022

Operations Manager

Rebellyous Foods
11.2018 - 03.2020

Operations Coordinator

Rebellyous Foods
05.2018 - 11.2018

Corporate Campaign Coordinator

The Humane League
02.2017 - 05.2018

Corporate Sustainability Leadership Accelerator -

Terra.Do

MBA - Supply Chain Management

University of Maryland

BS - Biology, Minor Political Science

Old Dominion University

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