Jeff Clark
Find Operational Gaps so your Business can Thrive
Consulting Services for Consumer Products
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Confidence, agility, and Integrity
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University of Life
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
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1666 Pendrell Street, Vancouver, BC
About
A management professional with 3 decades of global experience working with fortune 500 and specialty brands specializing in product, supply chain management, procurement, sourcing, lean manufacturing, and operations.
Proven proactive leadership, vision, creativity, and successful strategic business skills to drive revenue and profit growth in highly competitive domestic and global markets. A strong relationship builder functions effectively as an integral member of a cohesive senior executive team. Proven ability to source, identify and capitalize on emerging trends and niche market opportunities.
Specialties:
- Brand/Strategy Planning
- Product Development
- Demand Planning & Management (Forecasting, Buying, Inventory, and Replenishment)
- Global Sourcing and Negotiations
- Supplier Partnering and Development
- Total Quality Management (TQM)
- Organizational Change Management
- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Customs Compliance / CTPAT
- eCommerce / Multi-channel
- Project Management
- Manufacturing & Operations
- P & L Management
- ERP Development & Management
- LEAN Manufacturing and LEAN Office
- Hoshin, Kaizen and Six Sigma Business Practices
- Industrial Engineering (designing, implementing, and managing Systems/Procedures/Processes)
I am a proactive leader with a breadth, depth of experience and cross-functional expertise with a strong understanding of lean concepts, principles, tools and Kaizen initiatives. I lead by example, I am accountable for business results, I drive change from strategy through collaboration and implementation. Coaching and leading change effectively across a wide range of cultures, religions, well engaging with internal and external functional management and staffing teams.
I have successfully worked in apparel manufacturing for 30 years, 25+ years in Asia and to be closer to the heart of manufacturing I lived in China for 7 years which allowed me to be closer to the culture, the language, the people, and the product.
Experience
Director
MondettaOct 2011 - November 2013Shanghai
Responsible for the Asia apparel supply chain of MPG and Mondetta Clothing (Branded and Private Label), active, cycle, sportswear and outdoor which is sold to fortune 500 and specialty retailers in North America and the United Kingdom.
Set up Shanghai office to compete with their established 13-year-old Hong Kong office, competing on programs, pricing, and keeping the product supply chain honest and transparent.
Grew and managed new office from zero to $100 million (retail) within two years.
Established lean manufacturing, staff and factory level training, coaching, and mentoring which improved overall costing, margins, quality and meet deliveries.
Overhauled the infrastructure, process optimization, and manufacturing excellence, by establishing lean and Kaizen systems, procedures, overall costing (TCO), quality, and deliveries.
Industrial Engineering - Created, implemented and managed lean initiatives/activities/systems, procedures, and policies to ensure quality management.
Improved operational efficiencies, deliveries, and ROI. Played an important role in global performance management, to ensure data accuracy and integrity to proactively monitor the business health.
Extensive travel to suppliers, factories throughout Asia and strategy meetings in North America.
Direct business ownership for over fifty suppliers, a hundred factories throughout China and Vietnam with production from thousands to hundreds of thousands of units managing hundreds of SKUs.
Hands-on expertise providing solutions to supply chain optimization, processes, people, product, production, quality and delivery issues.
Quick resolution, management, and corrective action, to ensure product quality, on-time delivery, budget, planning, and lean manufacturing issues.
An integral part of the team that contributed to revenue growth of 250% in two years, focusing on product integrity, customer satisfaction, so that repeat customers increased their future orders up to 500%.
Head Of Operations
Planet X ClothingAug 2018 – PresentHong Kong
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Production, Private Label
Aritzia Inc. 1998 - 2000Vancouver
Recruited by CEO to play a key role in improving top and bottom-line performance of the company’s private label divisions (Talula Babaton, Talula, and TNA).
Responsible for and directed, motivated a strong product development and design team (10 people); added in-house pattern making/sample development staff.
Lead and collaborate with the team on current and projected product and line releases with up to 10 turns a year.
Responsible for all sourcing, purchasing, design, development, production, costing, and ensuring enough product inventory (demand planning) for the selling season for over 200 silhouettes.
Liaison between global sourcing, design, production, marketing, product allocation, and management. The private label increased from 25% to 55% of total sales.
Established retail pricing strategies that exceeded the gross margin pricing targets (70% private label).
