PJ Williamson
Nolensville
Summary
Senior Principal at Slalom Consulting with expertise in strategic advisory and client relationship management. Led initiatives resulting in a 20% reduction in operational inefficiencies through enhanced supply chain optimization. Skilled in cross-functional team leadership and change management, delivering solutions aligned with client objectives.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Principal
Slalom Consulting
01.2023 - Current
- A Client Partner at Slalom serves as a strategic advisor and relationship manager, working closely with clients to understand their business needs and drive impactful solutions.
- Cultivate long-term partnerships at multi-billion-dollar clients and align consulting and professional service offerings to meet client goals, deliver value for money and ensure successful delivery.
- Collaborate with internal delivery teams, industry experts, and stakeholders to provide tailored strategies, foster innovation, and create value.
- Lead business development, account growth, and maintaining a deep understanding of industry trends to help clients navigate complex challenges and achieve sustainable success at scale.
Senior Manager
Amazon Transportation Services
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Responsible for leading and developing the strategic vision for postal logistics in North America, which represents 30% of the daily inventory volume to be moved through the Amazon logistics network.
- A force multiplier, I lead networkwide initiatives across operations, technology and process improvement on behalf of C-Suite leadership to create a defect-free supply chain for Postal Logistics at Amazon.
- Develop and implement detailed standard operating procedures and network policy that inform the strategic, operational and tactical decisions made across all postal logistics in North America at Amazon.
- Lead, measure and execute all mid to long term planning for North American postal logistics.
Senior Program Manager
AMAZON NASC ACES Operations & Sustainability
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Responsible for developing best practices, implementing process improvements, metrics and programs to maximize compliance and cost savings for NA Sort Center Operations Sustainability.
- Evaluate performance objectives and metrics across the network to proactively identify process improvement opportunities within NASC, on behalf of C-Suite leadership for all NA Sortation Centers.
- Develop and implement detailed standard operating procedures to support daily operations and partner with operational leaders within the SCs to execute implementation of process improvements, driving stabilization and standardization across the network.
- Lead all coaching and process path improvement across a network of operational leaders in Sortation Centers to reduce network variation in process standards and closes knowledge gaps across the network of 76 Sortation Centers in NA.
Lead, Sortation Center Continuous Improvement Team
AMAZON TOM, Logistics
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Responsible for developing best practices, implementing process improvements, metrics and programs to maximize compliance and cost savings for TOM Sort Center Logistics.
- Define and drive compliance of TOM standard work into the daily routines and habits of TOM Logistics staff across at the micro and macro levels of the Transportation business in all North American Sortation Centers.
- Collaborate with counterparts in Amazon Transportation Services, Sort Center Operations and ACES, TOM Safety, Learning, Engineering and SC SME’s to drive standardization and documentation of core process elements to support network growth alongside lasting and sustainable change.
- Provide metrics for TOM reporting decks and communicate key performance indicators to TOM Senior leaders in support of network objectives.
Executive Officer Center Development Team
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)
01.2011 - 01.2017
- Improved Organization Design - targeted inefficiencies, streamlined outdated practices, and reduced redundancies that saved 1,200 man-hours, approximately $500K USD of staffing costs over five years.
- Revitalized staff performance, pinpointed disruption to productivity; designed and initiated innovative environment that lowered nuisance noise levels and removed distractions, improved working conditions, and generated greater staff focus, morale and output.
- Advanced organizational vision and streamlined processes to ensure Comprehensive Crisis and Operations Management Centre (CCOMC) remains the pillar of strategic change in NATO. Led optimization and streamlining of working practices and processes at the newly established CCOMC at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.
- One of NATO's two strategic military commands responsible for all Alliance military operations.
Surface Warfare Officer
ROYAL NAVY
01.1999 - 01.2017
- The nation’s professional experts and leaders on defense and security; protects Britain’s interests, citizens, territory and trade by being ready to defeat the nation’s enemies with a deployable maritime force.
Environmental Intelligence Officer
European Union Naval Force Operation (ATALANTA)
01.2010 - 01.2011
- Advised International Maritime Organization (IMO) on how to minimize piracy attacks on merchant vessels. This led to a 20% reduction in attacks and saved $100M USD annually; used knowledge of regional weather conditions to identify safer shipping routes reduced piracy attacks on Merchant shipping.
- Liaised and negotiated with professional network to produce short instructional video onboard military and civilian vessels. Educated civilian merchant crews on piracy using video, which later gained notoriety and was adopted as best practice by IMO, NATO, EU and the Italian Navy.
- Won prestigious website innovation award (2010) having co-designed website for EU mission, which contained piracy prevention video and weather data and information.
Education
Fellow -
Chartered Management Institute
01.2011
Post Graduate Diploma (PG Dip) -
Strategic Leadership & Management
01.2011
Royal Navy Command and Staff Course -
Joint Command and Staff College
01.2011
Post Graduate Diploma (PG Dip) -
Applied Meteorology and Oceanography
01.2005
Skills
- Logistics and Supply Chain
- Consensus Building
- Continuous Quality Improvement
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Inclusive Leadership & Management
- Internal Control & Corporate Governance
- Change Management
- Performance & Productivity Improvement
- Information Security and Intelligence
- Risk Management & Cost Control
- Strategic Vision & Planning
- Organization Design & Development
- Strategic advisory
- Client relationship management
- Business development
- Project management
- Process improvement
- Operations management
- Data analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Supply chain optimization
- Stakeholder engagement
- Team leadership
- Critical thinking
- Change management
- Influencing others
- Adaptive communication
- Innovation management
- Organizational development
- Strategic leadership
- Product management
- Discipline management
- Performance standards and analysis
Certification
- Global Information System Operator and Advanced Operators Course, Royal School of Military Survey, 2006
- NATO Staff Officers Course, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) School, 2005
- Maritime Warfare School of Hydrography and Meteorology Training, Her Majesty’s Naval Base Plymouth, 2004-2005
- Bridge Warfare Qualification, 2003
- Navigational Watch Certificate, 2001
Community Contributions
- Mentor, ACP, Veterati, Candorful, Amazon, 2018-present
- Vice President, Warriors @Amazon, 2018-2022
- Chairman, Soldiers, Sailors and Airman's Families Association (SSAFA), 2011-2016
Timeline
Senior Principal
Slalom Consulting
01.2023 - Current
Senior Manager
Amazon Transportation Services
01.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Program Manager
AMAZON NASC ACES Operations & Sustainability
01.2019 - 01.2021
Lead, Sortation Center Continuous Improvement Team
AMAZON TOM, Logistics
01.2018 - 01.2019
Executive Officer Center Development Team
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)
01.2011 - 01.2017
Environmental Intelligence Officer
European Union Naval Force Operation (ATALANTA)
01.2010 - 01.2011
Surface Warfare Officer
ROYAL NAVY
01.1999 - 01.2017
Fellow -
Chartered Management Institute
Post Graduate Diploma (PG Dip) -
Strategic Leadership & Management
Royal Navy Command and Staff Course -
Joint Command and Staff College
Post Graduate Diploma (PG Dip) -
Applied Meteorology and Oceanography