Mark Hersh

About Mark Hersh

I am a results driven global supply chain leader with proven success in transforming organizational performance through visioning, operationalizing external trends and insights into measurable value, delivering significant cost improvement, and developing industry leading supply chain talent at all levels. I have been a major contributor to the organization\'s supply chain vision, strategy, objectives, and journey map. I am a recognized expert in complex program management, value chain segmentation, talent development, maximizing internal and external networks across the supply chain ecosystem, collaboration, performance management, and executive level education content development and delivery. My Key Competencies: Use an end-to-end supply chain mindset for creating an organization’s supply chain vision, strategy, objectives, journey map and near-term actions. Convert business unit strategies and objectives into supply chains with the right capabilities and designs in order to deliver business unit performance and financial targets. Lead, architect and guide complex enterprise-level programs and major initiatives. Very good at adding “structure to chaos”, performance management, keeping stakeholders engaged, and delivering commitments on schedule. Create and deploy effective and robust performance management rhythms, routines, and dashboards for use by stakeholders. Educate and develop leaders across all levels of an organization through the creation and delivery of learning programs and content tailored to the needs of the audience. Identify and operationalize leading industry trends and practices into transformative cost savings, margin improvement and value for an organization. Create, grow and sustain internal and external networks and relationships. Use these partnerships to share, collaborate and deliver innovative win-win transformative solutions. Manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously and deliver them with excellence. Keep stakeholders engaged, committed and informed throughout the process. Employ an outstanding work ethic, strong personal drive and results orientation.

Experience

1. Leadership Partner, Supply Chain at Gartner

   Gartner

   Jul 2021 — Present · CA, US

   Delivering actionable, objective insight to Consumer Products and Retail executives and their teams. Providing expert guidance and tools enabling faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance for their organization\'s most critical priorities. Helping clients build their organizational capability, assisting them in creating plans for delivering their key supply chain initiatives, and enabling delivery of their goals faster and more cost effectively with a higher assurance of success. Delivering targeted written research and personalized analyst inquiry to executives. Facilitating peer-to-peer and company-to-company networking within the membership community.

Education

• Denison University

  Bachelor's degree