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Hollee Gambrel

Hollee Gambrel

Operations
Casey,IL

Summary

Motivated professional enthusiastically seeking a new opportunity to leverage 10 years of Operational experience in the CPG Industry. Highly adept in implementing and enforcing operational processes, improving operational stability and efficiencies. Devoted to managing day-to-day protocols to establish high level goals. Excellent communicator who enjoys being a strong collaborator.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Operations Planner (Brands: Payday, Heath, SKOR)

The Hershey Company
Robinson, IL
02.2023 - Current
  • Sole planner to sequence and optimize production schedules to reduce downtime and increase efficiency for Payday, Heath and SKOR candy brands.
  • Purchase all packaging and components to support production for respective brands.
  • Maintain relationships with existing suppliers to ensure timely delivery of products and services.
  • Maintain Bill of Materials (BOM) to ensure accurate requirement projections and effective execution of engineering and Finished good version changes.
  • Purchase bulk ingredients by TL and Rail to meet demand.
  • Analyze data from various sources to make informed decisions regarding production schedules.
  • Manage MRP parameters to ensure timely material purchase order creation and delivery to support schedules and to meet inventory management objectives.
  • Communicated with internal departments to coordinate resources needed for successful scheduling operations.
  • Communicate schedule conformance requirements and track rates and reliability of individual SKUS.
  • Analyzed inventory levels for accuracy and work with Inventory control for corrective action when necessary.

Director of Operations

IWON organics
Telecommuting/ Remote Empolyment, CA
06.2022 - 09.2022
  • Established entire Quickbooks Enterprise database for Company Operations. Including costing, site set up, all finished goods items, builds and components, vendors, customers, all reporting and sales order/ email templates.
  • Directed implementing SPS automation. Established connectivity to automate customer orders to populate without manual entry as well as auto-invoicing.
  • Analyzed and organized forecasting data across variety of sources to identify sales trends, inventory patterns and areas of opportunity.
  • Establishing initial company operational guidelines, protocols and processes.
  • Oversaw and managed 2 CA inventory warehouses, internal operational practices, all customer order fulfillment, inbounds/outbound trucks and customer relations.
  • Identifying opportunities for improvement across manufacturing, order fulfillment and inventory management.
  • Collaborate with accounting to reconcile EOM inventory and AR reporting.
  • Established goals and expectations for direct reports using daily check-ins, training staff and enforcing expectations.
  • Analyzed and organized forecasting data across variety of sources to identify sales trends, inventory patterns and areas of opportunity.

Manager of Operations

Pyure Brands LLC
Naples, FL
12.2016 - 05.2021
  • Established efficiencies while managing 15+ commercial ingredients and 22+ retail finished goods in 3 US warehouse locations
  • Developed a purchasing database consisting of over 460 vendors to execute production plans for Retail division and purchase ingredients for Commercial sales
  • Led order fulfillment for over 500 Commercial customers and over 70 Retail customers including notable retailers such as Walmart and Amazon
  • Drove down cost using BOMs to evaluate fished goods and control expenses
  • Built cross-department process improvements based on identification of productivity or quality issues
  • Identified cross-functional inventory needs for two departments with separate timeline requirements
  • Collaborated heavily with Marketing and Sales for product launches including a major multi division re-branding roll out across 22 retail SKUS
  • Quoted and scheduled all logistics required for production runs, bulk blend transit and finished goods to warehouse

Operations Executive

Pyure Brands
Naples, FL
01.2014 - 12.2016
  • Directed all customer order fulfillment for both the retail and commercial company divisions
  • Drove accounting accuracy, performing daily cash functions, including A/P and A/R tracking, budgeting, payroll transactions, credit card
  • Led order fulfillment in local warehouse for less than MOQ orders
  • Initiated controls and managed business operations to meet customer expectations and company goals
  • Trained and managed an Operations Associate to process ecommerce and retail sales
  • Delivered fast, friendly and knowledgeable service for routine questions and customer complaints

Education

Bachelor of Science - Art

Olivet Nazarene University
Bourbonnais, IL
05.2008

Skills

  • Active Listening
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Capacity Planning
  • Cross Department Collaboration
  • Detail Oriented
  • Excellent Organizational Skills and Time Management
  • Learning Agility
  • Logistics Oversight
  • Motivated Self Starter
  • Multiple Site Inventory Management
  • Problem Solving Abilities
  • Procurement Planning and Purchasing
  • Production Scheduling
  • Project Management and Tracking
  • Retail and Commerical Order Fulfillment
  • SAP/S4/ JDA/ Microsoft Suite/ Powerpoint/ Excel/ Outlook/ OneDrive/ Formstack/ Quickbooks Enterprise/ BOX sync/ Sharepoint/ EDI Highjump/ EDI SPS/ Google suite

Timeline

Operations Planner (Brands: Payday, Heath, SKOR)

The Hershey Company
02.2023 - Current

Director of Operations

IWON organics
06.2022 - 09.2022

Manager of Operations

Pyure Brands LLC
12.2016 - 05.2021

Operations Executive

Pyure Brands
01.2014 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Science - Art

Olivet Nazarene University

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