Connell Spain, mba

AREAS OF STRENGTH & EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Connell Spain works as a Business Liaison within the continental United States and Puerto Rico. His practice focus is structuring re-capitalization buy-outs between Private Equity Firms and Privately Held Businesses (often family owned). 

These services are most often done as part of preparing a business for sale but can be done on a for-fee-basis or in support of other Agent’s deals and for Early Stage & Start-up firms.

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  Directly hiring, managing, motivating and developing the operations workforce to ensure planned goals for production.
  
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  Partner with region RSFT points to perform site accelerations and interventions to address outages and increase South East region service performance
  
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   Performing daily performance reviews to optimize performance and solve day-to-day operational issues to win each day.
  
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  Partnering with the local Sales team to achieve volume and service level goals to ensure cost to serve targets
  
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   Executing initiatives to ensure OSHA workplace safety and regulatory compliance are met at the highest quality
  
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   Lead the Distribution Center food defense and safety AIB program with an average rating of "Excellent"
  
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  Provide overall leadership, P+L responsibilities and direction to warehouse team members across multiple locations and Bins
  
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  Managed and resolved building issues for capital projects to upgrade processing and packaging to produce annual savings
  

Responsible for the logistics, customer delivery operations and account payable/receivables. In charge of making sure that each stage of the distribution process is progressing on time, on budget and to the right quality standards. Visiting key clients to build relationships and identify their key needs. Involved in strategic development and strategy making in new business development and sales.

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  Lead and motivated the entire transport team and responsible for looking after 25+ vehicles with a 24 hour operation.
  
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  Successfully kept a regular track of preventive maintenance of fleet vehicles to stay in compliance with DOT regulations.
  
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  Managed all associated transportation costs as per the given budget and consistently stayed within budget annually.
  
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  Assisted in negotiating contracts and rates with independent owner operators and Carriers for pickup and delivery of goods.
  
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  Increased gross profits from 3 million to 4 million by establishing new 10 business segments and capital improvements.
  

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  Assigned responsibility for coordinating logistical and procurement support for the 2009 & 2010 Atlanta Braves, the 2010 Marathon and numerous yearly events. Successfully streamlined processes by improving the bidding and change order
  

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  Effectively managed 4 new business developments with vendors and existing business efforts, ensuring the efficient planning, organization and execution of a wide variety of events. Partnered with emergency personnel and facility maintenance to ensure the facility was audit ready at all times.
  

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  Instrumental in facilitating, negotiating and monitoring the Valet program with a third party vendor. As a team,
  
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  achieved $10,000 savings on budgeted labor cost for the program that currently generates monthly revenues of $20,000 with projected earnings of $30,000 per month.
  
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  Assisted with all levels of management within the company to drive the financial performance and capital improvements in multiple departments such as food/beverage, merchandising, and facilities services for guest of the facility.
  

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  Effectively led facilities through audits by the Social Security Administration; each resulting in the highest possible rating.
  
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  Instrumental in substantially increasing productivity by re-engineering work flow while reducing labor by 20%.
  
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  Successfully monitored contract for compliance through proposal lifecycle for completion of task orders and on time submission, performance, scope of work related specifications and prepared monthly reports for Contracting Officer(SSA).
  
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  Successfully delivered over 175,000 line items per year while consistently maintaining a goal of 95% on-time delivery.
  

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