Sawyer Williamson/ Williamson Brothers BAR-B-Q
- Finance & Accounting
- Instituted annual planning system to provide financial budgets and improve performance
- Annual plan was built from customer sales plans, product recipes, labor models, and departmental spending
- Sales & Marketing
- Reduced costs and increased competitiveness
- Demonstrated exceptional interpersonal skills in fostering strategic relationships with national grocery retailers, including Walmart, Publix, Sam’s Club, Kroger, Winn-Dixie, and Whole Foods
- Increased manufacturing division revenue from $.85MM in 2008 to $1.7MM in 2016
- Operations
- Interviewed, hired, trained, disciplined, and terminated various labor pools. Most directly 20 direct reports, and 200 overall employees
- Managed production performance, product development, product packaging, customer audits and customer quality requirements, and development of product pricing
- Strategic
- Partnered with Co-Presidents to develop strategic business plans, facilities plan, and contingency plans.
- Developed all board of director’s presentations and participated as a board member
Chris Hanks / KSU EC
(Co-Host)
Ted Jenkin/Oxygen Financial
(Co-Host)
Lee R. Heisman /Savant Comprehensive Technologies
(Co-Host)
Sawyer Williamson/ Williamson Brothers BAR-B-Q
(Guest)
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