Whitny Haley

Experience

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  Sam's Club

  Jan 2001 - Jun 2001

  Merchandising Assistant

  Jumpstarted career following completion of undergraduate studies with Sam’s Club, maintaining supplier agreements, monitoring DC and store inventories, negotiating pricing markdowns with suppliers, setting up new items, and creating store layouts. Utilized Retail Link for reporting purposes. Quickly earned promotions for performance. Reported directly to the buyer.

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  Simmons Foods

  Jun 2001 - now

  Schedule and manage animal welfare audits twice per year, as well as oversee all internal monitoring processes. Negotiate prices on third-party audits. Assign accounting codes to invoices and pay appropriately. Work alongside managers and employees on ways to better handle poultry. Train 600+ personnel twice/year on animal welfare. Report directly to the staff veterinarian.• Created white-board animated training videos using Vyond animated video creations for use at Simmons Foods. Videos are in Spanish / English and easily accessible for managers to train new hires or personnel needing re-trained. Built interactive trainings using Rise 360 mobile training for use in ADP human resource management software as a means to consistently train salary employees yearly.• Present PowerPoint presentations to Customers: Travel to customers in order to maintain working relationships and answer questions regarding customer concerns. Work to educate customers on issues regarding sustainability and other customer-driven concerns. Promote and verify our process.• Submit audit scores and reviews to customers. Additionally provide statements regarding animal welfare issues, concerns over added antibiotic/hormone use, and meat quality. Show less Lead quality assurance program, directing the efforts of 6-person team to ensure internal live production animal welfare compliance, quality of feed, water, and hatchery conditions. Coordinate and manage contract negotiations. Monitor international export requirements and FDA regulations. Report directly to the staff veterinarian. • Fashioned critical reports, graphs, and databases for company use. Managed data analysis for multiple areas of live production. Identified trends in performance. Utilized Excel & Oracle database. Monitor Agri-Stats to identify efficiency opportunities on a farm, flock, or plant level using comparative data. Set-up new vendor accounts. Additionally, appointed to deliver presentations at grower meetings.• Generated economic models: utilized real-time numbers based on bird performance to help project cost and returns. Margins per bird, pound, and year were evaluated and utilized to choose specific breeds of birds that would improve margins.• Championed development of company’s live production animal welfare program: researched third-party audit processes, attended trainings, and worked with industry leaders to author manual. Since 2006 rollout, passed every audit with 98%+ score; train 400+ personnel annually on animal welfare. Recently created a training program using ADP human resource management software as a means to consistently train salary employees yearly.• Instituted quality assurance program for two feed mills: trained techs on the usage of near-infrared (NIR) instruments for quality testing. Able to calibrate and bias NIR machines based on wet chemistry. Show less

  • Director of Animal Welfare

    Jan 2018 - now

  • Quality Assurance Manager

    Jun 2001 - Jan 2018