Bob Jefferies

Background

About Bob Jefferies

Sophisticated operations executive with more than 30 years of success as a leader with Fortune 200 companies with a unique blend of technical expertise and management acumen. Skilled in manufacturing, procurement, industrial engineering and business process reengineering with a proven record of reducing costs and achieving significant savings. History of reversing downward performance trends. Effective at team building and change management in multiple industries. • Director, Parts Procurement for First Group America creating new central purchasing department and sourcing over $250MM. Savings of $26MM in first 6 months on parts. Cleaned parts master of 151K parts • Director, Procurement Operations supporting Chrysler, Detroit Diesel and GEMA for US and Canada supplying $600MM in MRO; improved OTD from 85% to 98% in 6 months • Director, leading outsourced MRO procurement and inventory management operations for 34 PolyOne sites • Through distribution network modeling, identified $27 M in distribution savings for Shell Lubricants • Resourced North American Parcel Freight for Electronic Arts and achieved $3M savings on a spend of $13.8M • Moved Chevron Oronite from 5% to 12% ROCE in 10 months • Controlled escalating costs for 7-Eleven that produced 197% ROI and NPV of $25.5M • Led team to developed 10-year improvement plan for San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Specialties: Procurement Maintenance Logistics Supply Chain Inventory Management