Ben Shanker

About Ben Shanker

Academically and professionally experienced with global supply chain, logistics, and inventory management. Assumed progressively more responsibility in the retail and consumer packaged goods industries. Have a unique combination of analytical, operational, and vendor management experience that can be applied to other industries, as well. Able to create KPIs, conduct data analysis, determine the actionable insights and activities that matter most, and to operationally execute them. Effective liaison between internal functions and vendors. Quickly gains working knowledge of applications and technology. Assumed responsibility to facilitate new technology adoption across an organization. Have trained, mentored, and coached staff members and have implemented vendor training programs. Have strong communication skills.

Experience

1. Deployment Manager

   Unilever

   Jan 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Responsible for the movement of all finished goods between the North American warehouse network and the outbound deployment of 38 food and home care factories / third-party manufactures (3PM).• Lead team of four deployment specialists and all daily activities including:o Create stock transfer orders (STO) to satisfy customer footprints in North American networko Manage KPI and improvement methodso Enforce cross-functional processes and procedures with planning and logistics counterparts• Create and implement new processes to achieve annual cost savings, KPIs, and service improvementso Created new STO methodology for exception requests from planning teamso Improved total STO on-time metric by 5%o Reduced expedite spend by 5% and transship spend by 4%o Identified and effected over $400k in savings by changing hub and spoke strategy to direct shipping• Co-lead multiple automation and strategic initiatives to improve operational deficiencies o Implemented new deployment methods to eliminate manual workflows during daily taskso Created deployment process for new factory based on production ramp-up and category footprint changes

Education

• Rider University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Global Supply Chain Management

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Microstrategy Reporting
• Inventory Management
• Analysis
• Time Management
• Manugistics
• Access
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Office
• Project Management
• Unix
• Event Planning
• Management
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Visual Basic
• Supply Chain Management
• Customer Service
• Jda Scpo Fulfillment
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Teamwork
• Supply Chain