Michele Plaxico
Homewood,Illinois
Summary
Seeking a position that will utilize my leadership skills and experience, allowing me to make an immediate contribution, as an integral part of a progressive team/ company. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Maintenance Planner
Michael Foods/Post Holdings
08.2022 - Current
- Coordinate maintenance employees and resources while ensuring all jobs are done effectively and within allotted scheduled time
- Develop Preventative Maintenance and standard job plans
- Source and purchase all tools, parts and equipment for production and plant in general
- Create purchase requisitions for stock room inventory and planned work
- Identify and recommend actions for improvements
- Coordinate, plan, negotiate pricing for all capital projects and improvement plans
- Investigate invoice discrepancies/pricing
- SAP training and ensuring all employee's are utilizing program correctly and effectively
- Report monthly spending and Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Identify issues and provide corrective actions, when required
- Lead Contractor/Vendor Safety program
- Provided safety education and technical training to maintenance crew to establish equipment repair standards.
- Performed quality assurance steps for repairs to approve equipment for use.
Purchasing/Scheduling/Receiving Supervisor
Michael Foods/Post Holdings
02.2017 - 08.2022
- Manage Receiving team and area where incoming products are stored
- Manage production material inventory levels
- Plan and schedule production runs for multiple plants
- Source and purchase all materials for production
- Create, generate, and maintain daily schedules in SAP, and monitor production runs to ensure adherence to schedule and meeting company deadlines to customers
- Provide timely responses and results to production escalations and issues
- Work closely with Quality, Procurement, Demand Planning, Customer Service, Marketing, Accounting, Shipping and Maintenance teams
- Order weekly egg allotments, for each plant, based on demand
- Investigate and manage inventory level discrepancies
- Create new product views and, roll out new products and/or materials and ensure all staff is properly informed and trained
- Lead and oversee Contractors Safety team, to ensure all contractors are following Contractors Policy
- Manage production material inventory levels
- Generate and submit material purchase orders, to vendors, so that inventory levels can be consistent with throughput
- Create new material codes and update material pricing in SAP
- Communicate effectively with vendors, on issues and escalations related to purchased materials
- Directed and coordinated roles and responsibilities of receiving floor staff with efficiency and intelligence.
- Conducted employee training and onboarding processes with strategic goals in mind.
Sales Support Manager
Dunlop Protective Footwear
03.2014 - 07.2016
- Managed all logistical, financial, sales, and marketing activities related to nationally based business
- Assessed and planned inventory levels for domestic and Canadian warehouses
- Conducted research and investigations into lost, missing, or inaccurate deliveries
- Pre-qualified leads and assigned to appropriate distributor for follow-up
- Utilized ERP systems to enter and track purchase orders and plan inventory levels
- Created and delivered accurate invoices for all domestic customers
- Reviewed, approved and/or denied vendor invoices
- Managed Trade Agreements for all U.S
- Distributors
- Developed sales reports to track sales activity and identify areas of opportunity for each customer
- Researched, planned, and executed various marketing events including expos, advertising, and marketing campaigns
- Managed one order entry person and oversaw and managed order process and shipping of more than 60,000+ pairs of boots to customers, in less than 2 years of start-up in U.S
- Played integral role as primary Point of contact for all U.S
- Based distributors, building productive relationships to assist in building their Dunlop portfolio and sales
- Developed solutions to sales challenges and maximized business opportunities
- Attended retailer and distributor product and sales training events to consistently increase product knowledge
- Attended retailer and distributor product and sales training events to consistently increase product knowledge.
Account Representative
Market Day/Gordon Food Service
08.2012 - 03.2014
- Successfully drove growth across all assigned accounts, effectively doubling year over year (YOY) sales
- Received all escalations regarding product or financial issues, managing issues through to resolution
- Proactively built and maintained customer relations, communicating with key decision makers, and ensuring awareness and education of new products and programs
- Continually sourced, identified, and presented potential solutions and services offered to new accounts
Supplier Contracts Manager
Staff Management
11.2011 - 07.2012
- Managed contingent workforce project, with $20M annual spend for this national client
- Effectively negotiated 48% savings within eight months of being contracts manager
- Successfully increased time to onboard new employees by 85% over previous year
- Conducted negotiations of 150 Master Service Agreements, while successfully managing contract employees
- Mitigated business risks by analyzing contracts' potential impacts and avoiding unfavorable terms
Education
Master of Science - Management Organizational Behavior
Benedictine University
Lisle10.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Management
Ashford University
Clinton, IA05.2009
Skills
- Managing/Supervising
- Purchasing
- SAP
- Detail Oriented
- Committed to Safety
- Committed to Quality
- Problem Solving
- Scheduling
- Process Development
- Effective Communicator
- Sincere Interest in Helping Others
- Operations & Sales Management
- Training, Guiding & Coaching
- Responsiveness to Requests for Service
- Salesforce
- Microsoft CRM
- Customer Service & Retention
- Relationship Building & Development
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Project Bids
- Procedure Writing
- Technical Documentation
Certification
OSHA 10 Hour – May 2019
Timeline
Maintenance Planner
Michael Foods/Post Holdings
08.2022 - Current
Purchasing/Scheduling/Receiving Supervisor
Michael Foods/Post Holdings
02.2017 - 08.2022
Sales Support Manager
Dunlop Protective Footwear
03.2014 - 07.2016
Account Representative
Market Day/Gordon Food Service
08.2012 - 03.2014
Supplier Contracts Manager
Staff Management
11.2011 - 07.2012
Master of Science - Management Organizational Behavior
Benedictine University
Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Management
Ashford University
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