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Eric M. Dadey

Nashville,TN

Summary

Vice President / General Manager / Chief Operating Officer Customer obsessed, results driven leader with 17 years of professional management experience in manufacturing and assembly production. Offering a diverse range of skills in leadership and operational focus that lends to a balance of best practices and profitability while maintaining company culture.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

VICE PRESIDENT oF OPERATIONS

AMERIT FLEET SOLUTIONS
NASHVILLE, TN
06.2021 - Current
  • Serve as member of executive board that sets company’s strategic direction and demonstrates enterprise-wide leadership.
  • Owning profit and loss for company’s operational budget.
  • Responsible for exploring new development opportunities with external partners, dealers, Sales and Operations that are aligned to business goals.
  • Built safety first culture.
  • Developed client facing Dashboard for all KPIs.
  • Results: beating forecast by $20M in 2022 with Field Operating Profits reaching 21%, and growth of account by 42M in 18-month span.
  • Averaged 1.5 Out of Service (OSV) level during Peak season in 2022, +700% improvement YoY.
  • Developed short-term and long-range strategic business goals (KPIs) executed by senior management. Resulting in 32% productivity gains.
  • Achieved 98.9% PM and DOT compliance 2022.
  • Reduced average days to schedule and time to repair (TTR): Repairs (11.5 to 5.1 days) and PMs (7.3 to 2.1 days) 3.83 total during Peak season.
  • Upgraded and trained invoice processing procedure resulting in 305% improvement in first 30 days.
  • Pricing threshold established, bundled all PM services to improve customer experience.

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER

AMAZON
NASHVILLE, TN
08.2019 - 06.2021
  • Launched after-hours onsite Mobile Maintenance (MM) & Repair program to service Delivery Station Partners (DSP) to maintain safety and compliance of fleet regulated assets with maximizing uptime.
  • Grew pilot (4 stations, 30 DSPs, and 2K vehicles) to steady state (240 station, 1,821 DSPs, over 65K vehicles) within first year, program savings reaching $12.11M.
  • Achieved 98.2% on-time PM Compliance, 97.3% DSP enrollment rate, 75% program adoption.
  • Developed selection criteria for vendor selection and onboarding training for five new vendors.
  • Developed vendor incentive Loyalty Rewards Program.
  • Awarded additional program segments to manage: Step Vans, Box Truck, Fleet Safety Technicians (FST), and Telematics an additional $150M P&L.
  • Improved on-time preventative maintenance by 44% in 2020.
  • Authored Automated Forecasting, Capacity, and Planning dashboard.
  • Owned zoning, permitting, and environmental requirements.
  • Solved for COVID-19 social distancing constraints, creating vendor shuttling service, implementing virtual launch to scale MM program (+335%) while keeping everyone safe.

SENIOR OPERATIONS MANAGER

AMAZON
TAMPA, FLORIDA
05.2017 - 08.2019
  • Led operations to #1 ranking in Robotics (AR) Sortable Fulfillment Center (FC) Network.
  • Recognized as Outbound SME, traveling to underperforming FCs developed standards, processes, and auditing tools. Proven Results: +14% OEE, +12% employee engagement, +75% DEA. Connection Scores: +9.4% Leadership Behavior Index, +8.1% Engagement Index, +12.0, Building Culture, +8.6 Manager Ratings, +9.3% Team Ratings, +5.6% Leaders Rating, and +7.7% Work Environment.
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt: Coached, mentored, trained 24 leaders yielding $5.3M project savings.
  • Quality Process owner- drove 44% YoY improvement to Delivery Estimate Accuracy (DEA) metrics.
  • Project Bolt” Founder- Yielded 42% walk score and 35% staffing utilization improvements.

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER

PAPERWORKS
BALDWINSVILLE, NEW YORK
03.2015 - 04.2017
  • Managed end to end Supply Chain and Operations of global paper products manufacturer exceeding 1B cartons and $250M P&L.
  • Developed SC Operations Command Center for North America and Canada.
  • Improved on-time delivery to 98.11%.
  • Reduced Premium Freight by $3M YoY and reduced overall DOH of inventory by 12 days (21 to 9).
  • Championed Lean Manufacturing Projects in excess of $5M documented annual savings.
  • Executed 5 plant consolidations and 3 relocations in 10 months (labor and machinery).

Procurement Director

CALVARY AUTOMATION
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
03.2014 - 11.2014
  • Recruited to strategically manage $150M annual spend for custom automation manufacturer.
  • Developed purchasing strategy to determine key suppliers and analyze preferred vendors.
  • Managed company’s 1st Built to Print (BTP) Contract $31M executed at 22% discount ($4.85M savings).
  • 25% SKU Reduction to increase performance and reduce data entry error and carrying costs.
  • Reduced vendor base by 30% with average spend savings of more than 18% overall.
  • Negotiated contract – distribution to direct ($3M spend with 20% savings).
  • Reduced direct purchasing spend ($150M spend with 5% savings).

BUSINESS UNIT MANAGER - PLANT MATERIALS MANAGER

TRW AUTOMOTIVE
AUBURN, NEW YORK
04.2013 - 02.2014
  • Managed $225M P&L for Materials, Planning, Scheduling, Operations, Warehousing, and Transportation divisions.
  • Responsible for overseeing product roadmap development, execution, and delivery.
  • Authored and executed employee development program with skill assessment trainings. Resulting in growth from $80M to $225M without additional indirect staffing.
  • Improved on-time delivery by 15% achieving 99.5% customer satisfaction rating.
  • Eliminated stock outages by studying and detecting bottlenecks and establishing Kanban systems.
  • Created warehouse running lanes, dedicated aisles, color codes, and pickup windows.
  • Reduced premium freight from $40K / month to under $5K / month ($1.82M savings annually).

LOGISTICS LAUNCH MANAGER

MARQUARDT SWITCHES
CAZENOVIA, NEW YORK
12.2010 - 01.2013
  • Recruited to transition global manufacturing portfolio from 10% automotive parts to 80%, $300M P&L.
  • Successfully launched 17 new automotive product lines for Mercedes, Chrysler, and GM.
  • Planned and managed execution, build out, and launch of two manufacturing plants in Mexico.
  • Developed customer Just in Time (JIT) warehouse within one mile from production plant resulting in no parts outages for customer in consecutive years, maintaining 99% on-time delivery rate.

SENIOR PROJECT MANUFACTURING & OPERATIONS MANAGER

LOCKHEED MARTIN
LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK
12.2008 - 12.2010
  • Control Account Manager of $200M program for Undersea Division with U.S. Security Clearance.
  • Managed strict schedule and budget delivering project $10M under budget and ahead of schedule.
  • Awarded VIP of Industry, “Cambridge Who’s Who Registry of Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs.”.
  • Awarded “SPOT Award” for managing materials and processes with zero findings ($40M in inventory).

Education

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) -

SUNY OSWEGO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO
12.2006

BACHAELORS DEGREE - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

SUNY OSWEGO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO
12.2005

Skills

  • Strategic planning and execution
  • Cost analysis and savings
  • Process improvements
  • Profitability and revenue generation
  • Policy and procedure development
  • Performance metrics analysis
  • Business Development
  • Recruiting And Hiring
  • Forward-Thinking
  • Consumer Products
  • Customer And Employee Rapport
  • Relationship Building
  • Private Equity
  • Targeted Marketing

Certification

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Control Account Manager (CAM)

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Control Account Manager (CAM)

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Timeline

VICE PRESIDENT oF OPERATIONS

AMERIT FLEET SOLUTIONS
06.2021 - Current

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER

AMAZON
08.2019 - 06.2021

SENIOR OPERATIONS MANAGER

AMAZON
05.2017 - 08.2019

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER

PAPERWORKS
03.2015 - 04.2017

Procurement Director

CALVARY AUTOMATION
03.2014 - 11.2014

BUSINESS UNIT MANAGER - PLANT MATERIALS MANAGER

TRW AUTOMOTIVE
04.2013 - 02.2014

LOGISTICS LAUNCH MANAGER

MARQUARDT SWITCHES
12.2010 - 01.2013

SENIOR PROJECT MANUFACTURING & OPERATIONS MANAGER

LOCKHEED MARTIN
12.2008 - 12.2010

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) -

SUNY OSWEGO

BACHAELORS DEGREE - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

SUNY OSWEGO

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