Vetted Operations Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

Rebekka Taubman

Screened

Senior Procurement & Facilities Manager specializing in P2P and art logistics

Inglewood, CA20y exp

“Procurement/sourcing professional with hands-on experience across facilities build-outs, custom print/envelope supply, and complex logistics. Demonstrated ability to reduce costs (20% savings on custom envelopes) while maintaining delivery performance, and to mitigate trade/tariff exposure through alternative routing strategies. Uses Critical Path Method to manage multi-step production and packaging dependencies and has improved supplier performance in multi-site service delivery environments (Iron Mountain/Office Depot).”

“Merchandising/brand partnerships professional with hands-on experience sourcing and executing end-to-end fashion deals (e.g., Lemaire), including line reviews, budget and terms alignment, and coordinating launches with marketing/social teams. Uses detailed performance data (OTB, SKU productivity, margin, sell-through, and attribute-level insights like color/material) to build assortments—especially in complex categories like footwear—and applies structured post-launch reviews plus remediation tactics (markdowns, RTV/swaps) when launches underperform.”

“Entrepreneurial film producer with 30+ years creating award-winning media who has raised capital for multiple feature-length projects and navigated film-finance realities (escrow funding timelines, investor commitment risk). Applies a business lens to ventures (market sizing, scalability, differentiation) and builds cost-effective GTM using Meta/Facebook ads backed by strong creative storytelling and a broad creative network.”

“Beauty merchandising/category professional with hands-on ownership of brand launches, assortment strategy, subscription participation, and eCommerce growth across 40+ brand partners. Stands out for combining strong vendor relationship management with retail math and negotiation discipline—driving outcomes like 3% of sales from subscription shortly after launch, double-digit YoY growth on a renegotiated top brand, and triple-digit YoY growth after expanding a body care assortment.”

“Transportation procurement/sourcing professional with experience leading carrier RFP evaluations and onboarding decisions against cost-per-load targets. Leverages freight market indicators (notably the Cass Freight Index) and spreadsheet-based analysis to forecast demand and shape contracting/volume strategy, and has contributed to route-optimization process improvements that increased delivery efficiency and receiving-yard satisfaction.”

“Operations/project management professional with hands-on experience leading a company-wide office consolidation (3 floors to 2), coordinating across IT, HR, marketing, facilities management, and movers while maintaining executive alignment. Strengths include building clear communication systems (templates, trackers, EA cadences) that improve executive decision-making and managing sensitive initiatives such as layoff logistics with strict confidentiality.”

Michael Gregorio

Screened

Mid-level Quality Analyst specializing in supplier audits, inspections, and product compliance

Gardena, CA4y exp

“Sourcing and supply chain professional specializing in rug manufacturing (high-pile synthetic and tufted medium-pile), owning vendor selection, cost negotiation, and production/QC through delivery. Proactively mitigated tariff risk by driving a China-to-Vietnam production shift and improved a struggling supplier’s OTD and defect rates through FMEA-based QC, SOPs, CAP, and factory process/equipment interventions.”

“Merchandising/brand partnerships professional with Hot Topic experience sourcing and scaling licensed collaborations (e.g., Monster High with Mattel) by using social/customer demand signals and post-launch sell-through/ratings analysis. Strong in vendor/licensing negotiations to improve wholesale costs and margins, and in data-driven assortment planning with weekly performance reviews and seasonality-based inventory strategies.”

“CRM/lifecycle marketer with healthcare/practice-operations domain fluency who built highly targeted campaigns for a premium insurance-claims product, using customer data signals to find best-fit accounts and generating roughly $800K in incremental revenue. Experienced as a central hub coordinating sales, product, legal, design, pricing/billing, and leadership to deliver consistent messaging without overwhelming customers.”

“Lifecycle and CRM operations professional who grew from hands-on Shopify e-commerce management into owning cross-channel campaign QA, deployment, and process building at Fashion Nova. Brings high-volume execution experience across email, app push, web push, and on-site messaging, including support for major promotional periods like Black Friday/Cyber Monday and retention programs such as abandoned cart recovery.”