Adam Buys
Shippensburg
Summary
Strategic Supervisor with expertise prioritizing projects, planning workflow and managing employees to achieve operational goals. Resourceful individual with 12 years of active experience managing efforts within deadline-driven environments. Diplomatic individual with strong leadership and decision-making skills.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Site Leader
- Increased productivity by driving down pack time from 5.21 minutes to 2.98 minutes
- Did this through multiple methods of reorganizing the warehouse, improving the culture, and coaching weak performers
- Improved the ODH (Orders/Labor hours) of our Pittsburgh site from 7.89 to 12.32
- Responsible for day to day operations of a 24/7 operating MFC in a fast paced start-up environment with always changing processes and dynamics
- Responsible for the onboarding and training of new Shift Leads, Operations Associates, and Temp workers
- Improve, oversee, and manage all daily operations processes/receiving/inventory management, deliveries, budget, and systems
- Responsible for maintaining inventory integrity for the warehouse with daily cycle counts and meeting the standards of our inventory KPI’s
- Shift Lead
- Ran the overnight shift for the busiest site in the company
- Tasked with overseeing the majority of receive/put away for the site
- Tasked with onboarding new OAs working evening and overnight shifts
- Part of the continuous improvement Kaizen team which improved the receive/put away, running, binning, and packing processes.
Warehouse Manager
- Supervised up to 30 Union employees in a pick/pack truck loading/unloading environment
- Developed and performed auditing techniques which saved the company up to $1,200 weekly in found/corrected inventory errors/false reports from customers
- Reported directly to the director of operations
Operations Manager
Target
08.2022 - Current
- Supervised an operations staff of up to 120 direct reports and kept employees compliant with company policies and procedures.
- Developed systems and procedures to improve operational quality and team efficiency.
- Managed inventory and supply chain operations to achieve timely and accurate delivery of goods and services.
- Led onboarding and training of new hires to fulfill business requirements.
- Led continuous improvement and kaizen projects
Live Monitoring Specialist L5 - Project Manager
GoPuff, GoBrands Inc
03.2020 - 07.2022
- Experienced and accomplished professional with a wide-ranging background in operations and management
- Have managed and maintained the inventory levels of up to 15 remote warehouses using well polished communication skills and attention to detail
- I am always eager to learn new skills and tackle new obstacles
- My passion for team and culture building is what gives me the ability to take on any challenge
- Although it may look from my resume that I am blasé in trying to build a career with a company I am passionately looking for a company that I can grow with long-term
- Part of a team that provided 24 x 7 support for Gopuff operations and protects associates, partners, the customer experience and Gopuff brand
- In a 3 month span personally took and closed 269 tickets
- Manage flow settings for multiple process paths to align operational processing capacity to meet order volume
- Facilitate communication and issue resolution between field teams and support functions
- Provide real-time operational insights to key stakeholders
- Interpret information from different sources to determine the best course of action to drive operational success
- Solve for planned and unplanned events (traffic, weather, sporting, and community) that disrupt operational flow and manage field escalations including, but not limited to safety/life events, people events, base building outages, and connectivity
- Complete intra-window reports using standard tools/process
- Manage large groups of data focused people to support the NA network 24/7/365
- Develop scalable strategies and organizational structure to support regional central operations
General Manager
UFC GYM
09.2019 - 03.2020
- Run day-to-day operations of the gym including scheduling classes, hiring instructors and trainers, hiring front desk staff, and hiring/managing the sales team
- Improve membership from 102 members when I first arrived to 234 before the pandemic shut the gym down through focusing on the customer experience and culture of the gym
- Developed inclusivity practices which was the driving factor in the above membership improvement
- Ran the P&L for the gym
Demand planner/Freight Forwarder
Balford Farms
05.2012 - 12.2015
- Maintain inventory levels and integrity for the 15 warehouses in the Rita's network
- Procure inventory from the production facility 4-6 months in advance based on sales trends and forecasting
- Using year-to-year sales trends and self-made forecasting tools manage the inventory from procurement through final mile delivery to the warehouses while keeping in mind warehouse space and shelf life
- This included securing private LTL and FTL shipments of these products personally.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Labor And Employment Relations
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PASkills
- Microsoft office suite (Excel, Word, powerpoint)
- Google suite (sheets, Word, Slides)
- Data analytics
- E-commerce
- Training
- Continuous improvement
- P&L
- Lean
- Safety Awareness
- Site Visits
Timeline
Operations Manager
Target
08.2022 - Current
Live Monitoring Specialist L5 - Project Manager
GoPuff, GoBrands Inc
03.2020 - 07.2022
General Manager
UFC GYM
09.2019 - 03.2020
Demand planner/Freight Forwarder
Balford Farms
05.2012 - 12.2015
Site Leader
Warehouse Manager
Bachelor of Arts - Labor And Employment Relations
Pennsylvania State University
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