Jay Martin
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting Expert
Dallas, TX, United States
Toptal member since November 3, 2022
Jay is a management consultant who has worked with 100+ companies in 8 countries and has 30+ years of experience in consulting and operating roles in manufacturing and service companies. His background includes all areas of the supply chain and strategic planning. His most recent role was launching and leading COVAX with the United Nations for Moderna during the global pandemic. Working freelance allows Jay to address some of the most interesting challenges worldwide.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Case Studies
Supply Chain Assessment and Strategy
Private Equity Investment Due Diligence
Product Development Process Redesign
New Operations Planning and Design
Supply Chain and Demand Planning
Expertise
- Manufacturing
- Operations
- Planning
- Process Design
- Procurement
- Strategy
- Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Work Experience
Management Consultant
Chief Innovation
- Focused on strategy, innovation, operations, and supply chain engagements at many of the world's top companies.
- Drove engagements in all supply chain areas and strategic planning.
- Led or participated in 100+ projects in over a dozen industries.
- Resolved unique client issues with successful examples from unrelated industries, including retail, counter-terrorism, steel, automotive, personal computers, vaccines, financial crises, and even doll houses and toys.
Senior Managing Consultant
IBM
- Consulted on supply chain management and operational issues, primarily for leading consumer products and retail companies.
- Focused on supply chain, including procurement or sourcing, sales and operations planning, logistics or transportation, product lifecycle management, and inventory.
- Built supply chain benefits and execution details for one of the world's largest steel companies in conjunction with a major system application and product engagement to support consolidating over 100 acquisitions.
- Developed the top-level framework for one of the world's largest retailers' global sourcing.
- Identified business intelligence and reporting needs in Western Europe for the world's largest beer company.
- Led the technology strategy development for a $70 billion grocery's private-label food manufacturing.
Section Manager, R&D Pilot Plant
PepsiCo
- Led a team of around 50 salaried associates, including five managers, for a 3-shift facility, with six production areas and four support functions: quality, laboratory and analytics, safety, and sanitation or food safety.
- Supported new product tests, test markets, intermediate-scale production, and equipment development.
- Reduced overall facility downtime by 20% and achieved the aggressive production downtime goal.
Management Consultant
Thomas Group
- Led the design and implementation of operations improvements.
- Redesigned the bomb detection equipment sourcing process for Category III airports with ARGUS.
- Restructured an industrial products division's operations for a $5 billion conglomerate.
Management Consultant
Arthur D Little
- Led or participated in at least 25 engagements in business process redesign, productivity, research and product development, and strategic planning in the US, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.
- Co-led the strategic management of technology for a $5 billion Korean oil company.
- Assisted a major integrated steel producer in closing its mill's purchasing function and reopening it at headquarters, identifying immediate cost reductions and saving an estimated $15 million per year from improvements.
- Drove the redesign of the engineering change order process for a major tier-one auto supplier.
- Completed a feasibility study for a startup manufacturing facility in the Amazon Free Trade Zone.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Operations and Marketing
University of Texas at Austin - Austin, Texas, United States
Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering
San Diego State University - San Diego, California, United States
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering
Lehigh University - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
Skills
Output Software
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word
Finance
Due Diligence
Data & Analysis Software
Tableau
Other
Strategy, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Planning, Innovation, Consulting, Production & Quality, Case Studies, Dashboard Design, New Products, Process Design, Labor Efficiency Analysis, New Product Business Cases, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Procurement, Life Science, Total Quality Management (TQM), Logistics & Warehousing, R&D, Engineering
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