Jeff Velander
Director, Commercialization & Product Life Cycle @Tandem Foods
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WORK HISTORY
Director, Commercialization & Product Life Cycle @Tandem Foods
Lead large scale, complex and resource intense projects across the organization. Develop, implement and maintain project management tools and strategies to align with the customer project needs. Promote and provide project development training opportunities for team members to enhance their skills and capabilities. Develop and implement project management and commercialization best practices to deliver on sales growth initiatives. Provide mentorship and leadership to cross functional departments to foster a culture of excellence, accountability, and innovation. Lead the stage gate process.
EDUCATION
UMN Carlson School of Management
Executive MBA
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Bachelor of Science, Packaging R&D
SKILLS
ABOUT JEFF VELANDER
Proven experience in leading projects from concept to commercialization within a cross functional team that has resulted in over 300 commercialized products. Demonstrated success in developing new products that have provided incremental sales growth across multiple businesses, including including food, medical, personal care and home fragrance. Self-directed and assertive team builder with exceptional problem-solving and deep technical packaging expertise. Proven experience in managing high performing teams with large project workloads in a cross functional environment. Accomplished Supply Chain optimization leader with experience in cost saving strategy, pipeline development and large scale project execution.
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