Craig Hoffart
Summary
Influential Leadership - Organizational Effectiveness - Performance Excellence
Business Executive with public and private equity experience in precision products, technical services and profitable growth. Successfully grown and supported hundreds of products from new product introduction to full scale market integration. Producer of continuous improvement initiatives, lean methodologies and change agent strategies. Exceptional leadership and integration experience to drive the business and teams to the next level.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Operating Officer – Wholesale Distribution
SUNSET WHOLESALE WEST, LLC
01.2021 - Current
- Lead transformation of a multi-million dollar B2B distribution company, supplying small business's with a variety of more than 20,000 consumer products
- Company restructure including cultural re-organization of sales strategy, warehouse layout, logistics, retail store, online and cash carry customer experience
- Supply Chain methodology upgrades to improve inventory days of supply, in-addition to POS and ERP enhancements
- Motivated to drive overall strategic playbook for rapid expansion into multiple facilities nationwide.
Chief Executive Officer/Chief Operating Officer - Consumer Retail Automation
REVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONIC DESIGN, LLC
01.2017 - 01.2021
- Overall executive leadership and strategies for a multi-patented manufacturing distribution platform, providing consumers with a high variety of customizable point of sale products
- Recruited and led organization from proof of concept to scaled production
- Instrumental in fostering key customer and supply chain partnerships, in addition to capital raise
- Company acquisition completed 2021.
Principal/Advisor – Management Consulting
METRIC RISE CONSULTING, LLC
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Partnering with businesses in need of experienced leadership to maximize value of their services by identifying and driving measurable improvements
- Industry agnostic transformation of deploying a Sales-Income-Operating Playbook into the business, exhibits profitable growth, performance excellence, talent development, effective change management and sustained accountability throughout an empowered culture.
Senior Vice President Operations
ONCORE MANUFACTURING, LLC
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Recruited by president and private equity board to lead operations, regain customer confidence, further capture market share and increase shareholder value
- Rapid transformation success with company sale
- Developed a continuous improvement strategy incorporating voice of customer and best practice sharing to solution quality issues, improve on time delivery, drive supply chain responsiveness and ensure improvements were sustainable
- Retained >$100M in customer revenues
- Led VPs and GMs in development of a (Safety-Quality-Delivery-Inventory-Cost) visual management system
- Reduced work order aging from +1,200 to 90 within 60 days, scrap reduction by 25%, reduced days of inventories by 10 days of supply and improved overall operational costs by 25%
- Developed a new product introduction process, incorporating short lead supply chain solutions along with a cross functional technical team which resulted in reduced cycle times of 50%, improved customer yield of over 50%, reduced defective parts per million by 25% and improving customer fill rates to >95% on time
- Increased revenue per employee by >11% through strategic workforce optimization
- Site consolidations reducing manufacturing facility and office footprints by >140k sq.ft.
Corporate Director Business Transition MA's/Multi Site GM
BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INC.
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Led (3) North American (MX/AZ/ND) ITAR divisions, GMs and supporting staff to provide manufacturing and engineering services to aerospace, medical and commercial industries
- ($150M Revenue : 650 EE's)
- Managed business transitions, lean sigma deployment, workforce optimization, supply chain solutions and change management responsibilities for strategic Mergers & Acquisitions
- 90-120 day integration plans
- Developed a global visual accountability management system, resulting in improved KPIs, lean operations, best in class quality assurance, efficient organizations and profitable growth
- 95% OTD
- Streamlined aerospace and defense contract negotiations as focal company sponsor by earning customer confidence
- Completed negotiations in $40M
- Managed supplier consolidation and development improving QBR scorecard performance by >25%.
General Manager/Executive Dir of Operations
BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INC.
01.2004 - 01.2013
- Managed highly complex low volume manufacturing operations, business support functions, supply chain strategies, and 3PL to service Military, DPAS aerospace, industrial, and computing industries
- Developed performance metrics based on best practices and accountability management (SIOP,DMAIC, 8D, A3 fundamentals) resulting in a company-wide adoption of a KPI balanced score card and integrated manufacturing system, driving world class and gold supplier performance
- Aerospace System for EMS”
- Led the strategic rebranding to diversify the portfolio in reaction to industry off-shoring and economic slowdowns
- Managed the organization back into growth mode and double digit profitability including the re- creation of 150 jobs.
Manufacturing & Quality Engineering TPM Director
BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INC.
01.1999 - 01.2004
- Responsible for new product development, rapid scaling, one piece flow manufacturing, workforce efficiency, test, quality and supplier development in addition to ongoing product life cycle support
- Utilized product family value stream, lean concepts, and TQM tool suites
- Engaged customer satisfaction teams to improve overall performance and drive sustainable results
- Established processes, tooling and procedures for domestic to Asia/Mexico sourcing transitions.
Engineering Manager - Supply Chain Analytics/Planning – Quotes Manager
TURTLE MOUNTAIN CORPORATION
01.1990 - 01.1999
Education
Bachelors - Industrial Technology - Operations Management
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Moorhead, MNSkills
- Financial Profit & Loss
- Strategic Planning & Growth
- Pre/Post Mergers & Acquisitions
- Cultural Transformation
- Integrated Supply Chain
- Vendor Qualification
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Capacity & Resource Planning
- Succession Management
- Compliance & Regulatory
Training
*Innovative Leadership - Center for Creative Leadership Lean
*Six Sigma plus – “Green & Black Belt” training programs
*Aerospace Defense Compliancy ISO9001/AS9100D/9102 NADCAP, COMSEC, FAI & FMEA training
*Aerospace Defense Compliancy ISO13485
*FDA Quality Management Medical Device Manufacturing
*Environmental Protection & Safety Agency - Certifying Official Sentry Facility Safety Program
*EHS/ISO14001 Lean Manufacturing & Root Cause Corrective Action
*ERP/CRM system deployments: Mapics, BAAN, Oracle, Profit Key, Epicor, AGILE, Kinaxis, Salesforce, ZOHO
Timeline
Chief Operating Officer – Wholesale Distribution
SUNSET WHOLESALE WEST, LLC
01.2021 - Current
Chief Executive Officer/Chief Operating Officer - Consumer Retail Automation
REVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONIC DESIGN, LLC
01.2017 - 01.2021
Principal/Advisor – Management Consulting
METRIC RISE CONSULTING, LLC
01.2016 - 01.2017
Senior Vice President Operations
ONCORE MANUFACTURING, LLC
01.2014 - 01.2015
Corporate Director Business Transition MA's/Multi Site GM
BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INC.
01.2013 - 01.2014
General Manager/Executive Dir of Operations
BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INC.
01.2004 - 01.2013
Manufacturing & Quality Engineering TPM Director
BENCHMARK ELECTRONICS, INC.
01.1999 - 01.2004
Engineering Manager - Supply Chain Analytics/Planning – Quotes Manager
TURTLE MOUNTAIN CORPORATION
01.1990 - 01.1999
Bachelors - Industrial Technology - Operations Management
Minnesota State University Moorhead
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