Jim Evans

630-596-6620
Naperville, Il 60540

JimEvansSCM@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/jim-evans18

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Transportation/Supply Chain Leader
Senior Commercial Transport Professional with proven track record in streamlining operational
and commercial areas of organizations while maintaining focus on safety, service and
professional development of staff. Outstanding leadership record in implementing successful
programs and infrastructures that have improved productivity, increased efficiency, enhanced
quality and strengthened financial results. Strong negotiation and relationship management
experience with third party vendors, clients, and company partners. Able to interface effectively
with all levels of an organization: clients, staff, and executive management.

Core Competencies:
Contract Negotiations
Safety Management
Loading Operations

3PL Strategic Sourcing

Performance Management
Inventory Management

Supplier Development
Procurement
Process Improvement

Professional Experience
BP, Naperville IL

September 1998- July 2016

Manager, Petrochemicals Truck & Rail Transloads

November 2004- July 2016
Managed Truck contracts for $10M portfolio and supervised daily operations for
25 carriers and 12 loading plants, solving problems to ensure safe and on-time
loading and delivery.
Managed Rail Transload contracts for $3M portfolio and daily operations for 5
third party rail transload sites. Creating solutions for challenges with the railroads,
sites or carriers to ensure safe and on-time loading performance.
Negotiated yearly cost savings by identifying opportunities for process change or
third party efficencies including:
o $350k in savings delivered in 2015 outside of contract negotiations.
o Creating competition for existing Gulf Coast carriers, resulting in reduced
rates delivering $100k cost savings.
Managed Third Party performance through quarterly scorecards to measure
service and review challenges as required. Ex: Created a performance
improvement plan for a rail transload provider. Coached management team to
correct multiple issues aligning their performance to standards.
Managed Third Party Safety management setting safety expectations for contract
service providers and measured performance quarterly. Created a proactive
Safety Program in 2011, in response to accidents, which influenced driver
behavior preventing severe vehicle accidents since 2012 through July 2016.
Supervised in-house Third Party Broker Director of Operations. Coached
employee through key areas of focus to align with BP third party expectations.
Petrochemicals Commercial Transport Supervisor
April 2003- October 2004
Managed a team of 10 transport professionals providing multi-modal transport
support for twelve North American Petrochemical business units. Led
commercial negotiations and performance management including operational
logistics support.
Managed strategic positioning of commercial team providing contractual
negotiation and performance management with major truck, rail and marine
carriers for $300M business portfolio.

Negotiated major market interventions to mitigate freight cost. Initiatives

completed in marine and rail delivered over $10M annual cost savings.
Collaborated between BP divisions to share transport industry best practices,
strategy and system opportunities leveraging our complete group volume to
capture savings with carriers on entire corporate business portfolio.

Petrochemicals Commercial Distribution Supervisor

February 2000-March 2003
Managed a team of 5 professionals providing inventory control support for
extensive third party distribution network of 40 sites. Yearly efforts to optimize
inventory control activities resulted in a 32M pound reduction in 2002, which
delivered a working capital reduction of $8M.
Marketed and commercially supported the Vendor Inventory Management
program for Petrochemicals in North America. The first year of the program
enabled sales to enter into long-term supply contracts with major customers
increasing revenue by over 10%.
Developed and released a web communication platform for the North American
Distribution Network. The web-based application delivered a one-time cost
savings of $1.4M in working capital reductions and reduced the Days Sales
Outstanding cycle time. The application also streamlined communication with
each third party site improving ERP data integrity for over 16k orders, 37k
transactions covering $250M sales.
Petrochemicals Logistics Coordinator
September 1998- January 2000
Managed commercial relationship with third party warehouse and terminal
distribution network in support of North American Petrochemical inventory
storage requirements. Commercial contract/negotiations portfolio of $6.5M.
Developed and implemented inventory control process for warehouse and
terminal network delivering working capital savings of $2M.
Project Manager for manufacturing labor outsourcing project, bidding process
replaced incumbant provider at a cost savings of $1.8M annualy.
Nalco Chemical Company
Naperville, IL

July 1990-September 1998

Career positions/responsibilities listed below:

Project Manager for Vendor Managed Inventory program provided both system
and operatonal support to North American customer base with a heavy focus on
steel and paper manufacturing aplications.
Private Fleet Trucking Manager responsibile for bulk liquid and package delivery
scheduling and asset utilization. Supervised two dispatchers and 32 full time
salaried drivers servicing deliveries from the Chicago Plant.
Commercial Warehouse Manager of North American Warehouse/Terminal
Network, managed $12M spend from procurement of services to performance
measurement and assessment.
Inventory Control Analyst for North American Warehouse Terminal network.
Provided inventory replenishment planning for 35 facility distribution network for
both liquid and dry commodities via ground transportation.

Education

Saint Xavier University

Chicago, IL

Degree:

Bachelor Of Arts

Major: Marketing