Ryan P. Collins

Background

About Ryan P. Collins

Accomplished Senior Managing Director in Supply Chain Operations with a passion for general management and reputation for creating focus to drive key metrics and develop talent. Expertise in coaching, mentoring and the development of high performance teams. I'm known for driving commercial and technical collaboration resulting in innovation and value creation for the company. Value stream mapping, organization design and cost/cash optimization via 80/20 principles are core approaches to improving operating income and supply chain efficiency. Extensive experience across multiple industries and supply chain disciplines, including Purchasing, R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Product Development and Supply Network. Specialties and Achievements- Plant Operations management - have led large manufacturing teams to sustain >85% Process Reliability owning the P&L in a 24x7 production environment - PULL model planning in SAP and inventory/working capital reduction >$50M/year savings delivered - Deep consumer products experience, high pace of change across 500+ sku's - Warehouse and Transportation system optimization,$30M/savings delivered per year via Logistics Consolidation - Experience with Union bargaining and negotiation, within and outside the US - Mergers and Acquisition - Organization Engineering of Duracell divestiture from P&G to Berkshire Certifications:* Certified in Total Productive Maintenance * Certified Situational Leadership, Decision Making and Change Management Facilitator * Certified in use of the Birkman Method to leverage Individual and Team diversity * Certified in Continuous Improvement/Lean Six Sigma