Christine Allen
Metro Detroit Area,,Michigan
Summary
Experienced People Leader with background in leading and developing diverse teams to accomplish project objectives. Strengths include strategic planning, process improvement, and stakeholder management. Known for leveraging technical skills to improve organizational efficiency and drive project success. Decisive planner with excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Program Manager- Business Continuity
Mars Petcare
Franklin, TN
02.2021 - Current
- Senior Manager of associates focused on end-to-end supply chain continuity from managing projects mitigations $1 Billion+ of Raw Material and Packaging risks annually
- Developed and implemented Process and Strategy for Business Continuity initiatives ranging from immediate impact to 5 year+ potential risk
- Created Short Term Business Continuity Process to quickly identify stakeholders, next steps and decisions needed reducing turnaround from issue identification to action from several days to minutes.
- Lead resilience strategy team to reduce Long term risk on 8 of 10 critical items to maximize category growth
- Regional Crisis Lead for 3 major IT Global outages managing communication across segment and to Leadership Team, conducted After Action Reviews and implementing new process based on feedback and best practice
- Led program across all Dry Dog and Cat brands to enhance freshness and implement superior proposition strategy, owning facilitation and communication from 7 cross-functional workstreams regionally and globally
- Managed Global Commercial project to centralize lamb supply to Australia/New Zealand saving $6 Million annually
- Led high visibility project to ensure PFAS was removed from packaging across all items prior to upcoming required legal changes, required new artwork and substrates for 100+ of items across the Dry and Care & Treats portfolio mitigating $2 Billion in regulatory risk
Project Manager
Mars Petcare
Franklin, TN
10.2016 - 02.2021
- Managed innovation and renovation projects for the Wet Dog and Cat Segments of Natural Brands portfolio, and the Feline Cat Care and Treats Segment
- Led multiple work streams enabling the North American Reset responsible for bringing $15 million back to the business through MCCs and LCCs
- Repatriated entire rigid container business while incorporating major design overhaul resulting in savings of $4 million, while responding to delays due to COVID, providing updates to leadership, and working with supplier to ensure seamless flow through of packaging
- Led business continuity initiative across 7 production sites and 11 brands to recover customer service levels after supplier incident, requiring daily leadership updates as well as supplier relationship management.
- Collaborated with the Global Innovation team to provide front end framework for longer term innovation initiatives and with several international co-manufacturers to maintain pipeline
- Identified, evaluated and deploying a user-friendly tool that allows business leaders to evaluate resourcing availability and constraints allowing for prioritization and planning to deliver portfolio ambitions
- Launched new ancestral brand, CRAVE, to fill category white space across 3 technologies in 6 months at national scale adding $20 million in incremental sales in Year 1
- Led bringing key specialty brand Nutro to scale beginning with Walmart, Target and other big box retailers
- Spearheaded Feed Clean project to reformulate 50+ items to Non-GMO including the sourcing of new ingredients and new production processes at sites
- Led 2 breakthrough innovations to launch in less than 1 year to bring the first 'out of pocket' initiatives ever on Temptations cat treats
- Cultivated a sub-team to drive collaboration across all project managers resulting in monthly snack & learns, cross technology ways of working sessions and increased engagement scores.
Project Manager
Tyson Foods (Formerly Hillshire Brands)
Chicago, IL
10.2013 - 10.2016
- Lead Project Manager over the Hillshire Farm business unit, responsibilities include project prioritization across 4 sub-brands, leading monthly gate review meetings, managing direct reports and report out to VP level
- Launched Hillshire Snacking sub-brand from inception through post launch review
- Lead cross-functional teams for innovation and process management projects, create and maintain timelines, and ensure all functions are completing assigned tasks in a timely manner
- Responsible for innovation and process management projects for Lunchmeat, Snacking, and Food Service value streams
- Led team to integrate Aidells into legacy Hillshire system- including stage gate, supply chain and marketing processes
- Developed training plan and onboarding for new project managers on process/product modification projects.
Supply Planner
Tyson Foods (Formerly Hillshire Brands)
Chicago, IL
08.2012 - 10.2013
- Develop and maintain a 13 week master production plan for Corn Dog and Bakery Co-Pack finished goods and raw material across multiple manufacturing facilities
- Lead weekly operations meeting interacting regularly with brand and customer marketing, plant operations, and project management
- Responsible for validating long term schedule (months 3-18) and maintaining the JDA model in support of plant planning requirements to improve schedule outputs
- Assists in budgeting process for supply chain
- Responsible for providing long term plans and PSI
- Responsible for driving resolution of any shelf life issues on packaging and raw materials with procurement/distressed sales team through the S&OP process.
Supply Planner
Newell Rubbermaid
Huntersville, NC
10.2011 - 08.2012
- Responsible for all overseas purchasing for Food, Beverage, Kitchen and Home Organization categories of Rubbermaid Consumer
- Collaborate with sourcing to ensure that supplier contracts are upheld and product is shipped as scheduled
- Work with Demand Planning to ensure that customer needs coincide with product availability
- Responsible for analysis of new customer demand for production and supplier feasibility.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration -
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MISkills
- Advanced Leadership Skills
- Managing through Ambiguity
- Project/Program Management
- Building Effective Teams
- Stakeholder management
- Process building and Continuous Improvement
- Resilience Planning
- Change Management
- Mentoring, coaching and development
- Portfolio planning and prioritization
- Strategic Planning
- Resource Management
Timeline
Program Manager- Business Continuity
Mars Petcare
02.2021 - Current
Project Manager
Mars Petcare
10.2016 - 02.2021
Project Manager
Tyson Foods (Formerly Hillshire Brands)
10.2013 - 10.2016
Supply Planner
Tyson Foods (Formerly Hillshire Brands)
08.2012 - 10.2013
Supply Planner
Newell Rubbermaid
10.2011 - 08.2012
Bachelor of Business Administration -
Western Michigan University
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