Brandon Scroggins

About Brandon Scroggins

Brandon Scroggins is now the Program Manager for the new LED Headlamps division while continuing his OEM Global Account Manager role for the top truck OEMs in North America. With soon-to-launch contracted business, Brandon has grown his accounts by and won the single largest business contract in company history - almost 2x bigger than the previous record. All of this was accomplished in under five years. Brandon is currently located in Madison, IN, overseeing the company’s largest-ever operations expansion project and bringing to launch multiple LED headlamp products. He also recently completed his MBA. In his current role, Brandon manages a core team of the company’s best and brightest leaders in engineering, manufacturing, quality, finance, project management, and supply chain. Every week, he works with a team of executives to scale the headlamp business successfully by identifying and solving critical risks and issues. In his first year in Sales (2017), he won the first LED headlamp program in the company’s history, kickstarting an entirely new division. This first series of headlamps was later launched for Daimler Truck under the Western Star Trucks brand. The company\'s first custom LED headlamp was manufactured in late 2020. According to The Predictive Index, Brandon is a Guardian, which means he is unselfish and approachable and prefers detailed, skill-based work. For behaviors most strongly expressed, the assessment notes he is driven to protect the company against risk by thoroughly leveraging their background and strictly following “the book.” He is detail-oriented and accommodating. He is most comfortable working in a well-defined team that produces high-quality output and decisions. Attributes that describe him are team-oriented and cooperative, stable and dependable, unselfish and motivated by a strong sense of duty, concern for others, outgoing and friendly, and considerate of feelings and attitudes of others. According to an Extended DISC Sales Assessment report, Brandon is good at tasks involving human contact and likes to meet and deal with people. His unit will be successful, so there will be no need for big, difficult changes. He believes in people and wants to give them a second chance. Brandon is a very nice and positive person. People who do not know him find him easy to approach. He succeeds in tasks that need contact with new people. In positive situations, he can give spontaneous ideas.

Experience

1. Headlamp Program Manager - Expansion of New Division

   Grote Industries

   May 2021 — Present · Madison, IN, US

   1) Strategic Planning & Execution: Overseeing the company’s largest-ever operations expansion project for growth into a new market. 2) Project Management: Launching multiple LED headlamp products with innovative features into the OEM heavy-duty truck market.3) Team Leadership: Leading a core team of the company’s best and brightest leaders in engineering, manufacturing, quality, finance, project management, and supply chain.4) Executive Action & Decision-Making: Driving executive action to successfully scale the headlamp business by identifying and solving critical risks and issues while regularly interfacing with top executives.5) Continuous Improvement: Implementing new processes into standard work from continuous improvement activities and lessons learned6) Coaching: Coaching others to develop skills to interface with customers and adopting customer-focused mindsets7) Supply Chain Management: Leading new strategies to optimize the supply chain during product development, including processes for PFEP, tracking of supplier agreements, negotiation, disaster planning, and cost reduction. 8) Quality: Zero defect vision is implemented to align with the best customer experience of always delivering the highest quality parts.

Education

• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  2010 — 2014

• The University of Arizona Global Campus

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2024 — 2025