Jennifer Dehn

About Jennifer Dehn

Skilled food industry professional with commercial experience and technical background. Strong organizational skills and process management combine creating a unique ability to translate business needs into process improvements. Developed and implemented a customized Stage-Gate process with robust and comprehensive business case analysis tools for management of innovation projects. Serves as a mentor for project managers accelerating new products into the marketplace. Leverages cross-organizational relationships to translate strategy into decision making aids and process improvements. Leads collaborative culture change efforts to support a growing organization with a strong drive for results. Specialties: Certified PMP Stage-Gate

Experience

1. Pmo Director

   Corbion

   Nov 2014 — Present · Lenexa, KS, US

   Corbion (CRBN) is the global bio-ingredients company formed by the merger of Caravan Ingredients and Purac. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Corbion specializes in fermentation, chemical processing, and ingredient blending. The majority of Corbion\'s customers are food manufacturers (bakery and meat), however the business also supplies a diverse range of products to the animal feed, medical device, electronics, pharmaceutical, polymer additives, and health and personal care industries.Responsible for the overall project portfolio management function for the global food business unit providing leadership, coordination, and management of processes. Internalizes and applies strategic objectives to help the business prioritize projects within the Food portfolio to maximize productivity and progress. Oversees the global portfolio of projects and supports teams of project managers, coordinators, and facilitators who manage projects for new product development and life cycle management. Responsible for the development and maintenance of project management policies, procedures and metrics in compliance with Corbion standards. Oversees process implementation and ensures information concerning content (e.g. deliverables, risks, and issues) passes to and from stakeholders in a timely manner. Actively committed to improving the consistency, predictability and efficiency of projects. Provides leadership in best practices while maintaining a high customer focus, ensuring that objectives and deliverables are consistent with expectations. Provides input to project resourcing while verifing that projects are well managed, progress is monitored and changes are addressed in a timely manner.

Education

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  M.S., Sensory Science and Consumer Studies

  2000 — 2001

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  B.S., Food Science and Human Nutrition

  1996 — 2000