Wes Hammitt

Experience

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  Mercury Marine

  Jan 2001 - Aug 2001

  Reliability Engineer - Co-Op

  Learned and utilized statistical methods to calculate marine outboard engine useful life and field reliability performance.Led product testing efforts to validate failure modes and determine root cause of top field warranty issues on 2-stroke and 4-stroke marine engines.

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  ABB Inc.

  May 2002 - Jun 2005

  Account Manager / International Marketing / Sales Engineer / Distributor Channel Management

  Learned technical sales and marketing leadership skills through completion of a 2-year rotational development program, which included roles in technical marketing, sales engineering, and distributor channel management.Promoted to role as strategic accounts manager, with power products sales responsibility on over >$10M of annual business to assigned public utility accounts.

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  Polaris Industries

  Jun 2005 - Oct 2012

  Promoted to utilize sales, product development, and global business skills to lead product management and planning for motorcycles, snowmobiles, and off-road vehicle product lines in support of EMEA market growth. Utilized (VOC) voice of customer research to ideate and define new product offerings. Opened new markets through product planning derived compliance and development. Team leader responsible for the supplier quality performance of the powertrain global supply chain across all categories of engine components including sourced engines. Targeted supply chain performance metrics included defects per million (DPM), PPAP compliance, APQP execution, CAPA effectiveness, and new product launch effectiveness. Managed sales channel and marketing execution through a network of powersports dealers across Kansas and Nebraska. Expanded market share, enhanced dealer footprint, and retail execution to deliver double digit market share and boost sales revenue by 50%.

  • Product Manager - Europe, Mid-East, & Africa

    Nov 2011 - Oct 2012

  • Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer & Supervisor - Powertrain

    Aug 2007 - Dec 2011

  • District Sales Manager

    Jun 2005 - Aug 2007
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  ABB

  Sept 2012 - Nov 2014

  Key Accounts Executive - Power Technology

  Led account management sales team in the large Investor-Owned Utility and Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) customer segments. Sales responsibility spanned ABB's technology products, services, software solutions across power generation, renewables, transmission, and distribution. Doubled sales revenue during tenure through maintaining key distribution products business while executing growth in gas-insulated switchgear, DC transmission, and power generation offerings.

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  Polaris Inc.

  Nov 2014 - May 2023

  Direct business process excellence, category operations, and supply chainoperations for an omni-channel consumer products business serving the Powersports andRecreational Outdoor Market segments.Report to the VP of Operations and drive end to end value stream improvement. Leading transformation initiatives to improve total gross profit performance and drive distinct competitive advantages through future state supply chain model.Lead an annual strategic vision process for the business to distill long range planning into budget yearexecutional deliverables. Show less Promoted to lead and create a global strategic sourcing function to drive industry leading sourcing and supply chain execution for new product development across off-highway, on-road, and military business units. In addition, led the EMEA regional category sourcing team responsible for direct material sourcing and local supply chain performance for plant operations in Europe. Led the organizational strategy and development of standard works, tools, and integrated process that yielded best-ever performance in material cost (COGS), quality (PAPP), and on-time delivery (MRL) execution across >100 annual new product investments. Additionally, drove double digit improvements to new product investments costs through tooling cost optimization and prototype material cost reductions. Utilized global supply sourcing strategy and partnership to deliver wins in competitive strategic value such as market exclusivity, intellectual property control, and sourced innovation for future products. Operated as key executional and thought leader for our product electrification strategy Rev'd Up. Inclusive of working to develop and execute development of electric powertrain supply chain to support future products. Show less Recruited back to Polaris to lead effort to create a global supplier development team of engineers to pro-actively improve total supply chain performance (cost, quality, delivery) and enhance new supplier qualification and on-boarding to support >$1.3B supply chain with double digit spend growth YOY. Led creation of new capabilities to manage assessing new supplier risk, built a team of category focused supplier development engineers that led improvement projects (cost-quality-delivery), and developed supplier training model to improve initial success of new and existing suppliers. Executed effort that successfully resolved major supply chain capacity and quality disruption to on-road business that resulted in outsourced capacity to support growth, reduced re-work, and improved quality metrics, and >$1M in annualized savings. Show less

  • Director, Business Solutions - Parts, Accessories, Apparel

    Nov 2021 - May 2023

  • Director, Global Strategic Sourcing, New Product Development & EMEA Regional Sourcing

    Feb 2017 - Oct 2021

  • Manager, Global Supplier Development

    Nov 2014 - Feb 2017
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  White River Marine Group

  May 2023 - now

  VP, Supply Chain Management