Mario Baez
Business & Projects Development
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Summary
Entrepreneurial and creative Founder passionate about turning innovative ideas into tangible results. Experienced and highly dedicated professional formulating and executing strategic plans, creating new products and services, and developing fresh business opportunities for the produce industry. Track record of multiple successful business ventures and leading teams of professionals to maximize profits and deliver success, showing great adaptability for any new circumstances and challenges. Always looking forward to take advantage of new opportunities presented in the business arena, as in, personal and professional development.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Founder
HYFELD COMPANY
Miami, Florida
01.2018 - Current
- Created organization's mission and vision statements in the Produce and Agriculture business for use by employees.
- Created and monitored promotional approaches to increase sales and profit levels followed by the sales forecast submitting new growers and suppliers.
- Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
- Developed farming and growing asparagus project in new regions in Mexico making operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
- Identified business development challenges in opened new regions, studies for good weather and soil conditions, meet all best farming practices, and agroindustrial suppliers concerns for proactive resolution.
- Developed strong partnerships with other businesses to allow for collaboration and more significant opportunities for growth. Clients, financial institutions, suppliers, other growers and agronomist advisors.
- Established, optimized and enforced business policies to maintain consistency across industry operations as a legal contracts with growers, seasonal growing programs for asparagus, berries and tropical fruits programs.
- Secured sufficient funds to cover business obligations by tracking expenses and growers advances, accurately working with financial institutions as Producepay and Silo Financial.
- Directed growing expansions in Mexico for Asparagus farming to propel business forward, meeting all necessary documentation and process for export duties, Mexican customs, and regulations.
- Defined company roles and responsibilities to establish and enhance processes from farming practices, farming costs and expenses, harvest, post harvest, production, packing, export, import and distribution to US markets.
- Oversaw business-wide changes to modernize procedures and organization for all farming process.
- Initiated strategy to drive company growth and increase market share and profitability making a good relations with distributors and sales and procurement managers for US based companies as Macadu Fresh, Dandrea Produce, North Bay Produce, Crystal Valley and others customers.
- Communicated business performance, forecasts and strategies to investors and shareholders for developing a test project of 50 hectares of farming asparagus in Durango, Mexico for the season of June thru August. Second test project in Coahuila, Mexico of 25 hectares for the season of September thru November. Adding a 375 hectares to company’s portfolio for the expansion of 200 asparagus production for the incoming 2025 season.
- Maintained P&L and shouldered corporate fiscal responsibility.
- Managed financial, operational and human resources to optimize business performance.
- Analyzed industry trends and tracked competitor activities to inform decision making in the avocado industry being competitive on market prices and negotiating best prices with growers and better returns.
- Shaped solutions and approaches by leveraging trends in customer marketplaces and industries.
- Established and maintained strong relationships with customers, vendors and strategic partners developing programs, structuring based work plans for export, helping growers to be more profitable, giving business and farming advisory for Asparagus, berries and avocados growers.
- Collaborated with legal, accounting and other professional teams to review and maintain compliance with regulations for export process in Mexico, contracts with suppliers and growers.
Logistics Specialist
Elite Flower Group
Miami, Florida
01.2016 - 02.2018
- Management of operations personnel responsible for procurement, production warehouse, repack, distribution and daily orders to mass market in the flower industry.
- Develop and maintain positive yet accountable relationships with our logistics and supply chain partners. Managing the onboarding of supply-chain 3PL providers and chain accounts.
- Drive improvement projects both internally and within the supply chain.
- Identified improvement opportunities that helped to improve efficiency and decrease risk resolving issues as they arise in the supply-chain.
- Handled high-volume purchase orders and documentation collaborated with administrators to resolve invoicing and shipping problems.
- Minimized process discrepancies by spearheading budget, supervising staff and controlling inventory and supply management.
- Researched issues and assessed inefficiencies within supply chain using company’s software to devise solutions and improve performance.
- Tracked supply, equipment and product inventory quantities to maintain necessary levels.
Logistics Manager
Vega Produce, LLC
Miami, Florida
06.2014 - 06.2015
- Directed shipping and receiving of wide range of fresh produce products daily from Central, Latin America and Caribe.
- Coordinated dispatching of POs and schedule appointments to drivers to accomplish daily delivery requirements.
- Kept corporate departments and customers updated on critical shipments.
- Planned and supervised shipments from production to end-customers retails and wholesalers and scheduled daily and weekly routes nationwide.
- Responsible for the management of inventory best practices to include receiving and shipping orders, inventory and stock availability for open and retail market, storage best practices organized with quality control team.
- Ensure all fresh produce products movements executed by team to ensure quality product on-line side to be shipped and avoid delays on shipping and arrivals to final customers.
- Successfully grower relation used external skills to bring new business and projects to export out of central, south America and Caribe prioritizing, negotiating with ocean and air freights, international customs and managing and applying for all import permits, USDA, and FDA regulations.
Operations Manager
Colour Republic, LLC
Miami, Florida
03.2010 - 01.2014
- Implemented process improvement to shape organizational operation, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help company evolve and grow.
- Set, enforced, and optimized internal policies to maintain responsiveness to demands.
- Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe, or ineffective practices.
- Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time.
- Devised processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels.
- Supervised operations staff and kept employees compliant with company policies and procedures.
- Managed inventory and supply chain operations to achieve timely and accurate delivery of goods and services.
- Analyzed and reported on key performance metrics to senior management.
- Led hiring, onboarding and training of new hires to fulfill business requirements.
- Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures, and performance strategies.
- Scheduled employees for shifts, taking into account customer traffic and employee strengths.
- Reported issues to higher management with great detail.
- Reduced operational risks while organizing data to forecast performance trends.
Warehouse Manager
Color Republic LLC
Miami, Florida
12.2008 - 02.2010
- Redesigned warehouse layout to accommodate new equipment, maximize space utilization, and optimize processes.
- Offered expertise in inventory management and current stock levels to internal teams and customers to facilitate accuracy and product availability.
- Built motivated warehouse team to consistently accomplish operations goals and exceed performance targets.
- Improved delivery plans with strong scheduling knowledge, organizational skills, and route development expertise.
- Evaluated supplies and product inventory to check for quality and quantity issues and returned unacceptable materials to vendors.
- Kept documentation and records accurate and up-to-date with latest data to prevent errors in processing or delivery.
- Completed timely and accurate daily logs to keep internal reporting accurate and track materials movements.
- Developed and implemented policy and procedure updates to improve workflow and productivity.
- Tracked production and quality control systems to proactively identify deficiencies.
- Coordinated driver dispatch to accomplish daily delivery requirements.
- Maintained established levels of goods based on sales forecasts and demand to fulfill orders on time.
- Divided and categorized cargo received and redirected shipments in response to customer requests.
Education
Bachelor Of International Business Economics - International Business
Millennial Atlantic University
Miami, Florida 06.2009 - 07.2014
Skills
Operations management
Timeline
Founder
HYFELD COMPANY
01.2018 - Current
Logistics Specialist
Elite Flower Group
01.2016 - 02.2018
Logistics Manager
Vega Produce, LLC
06.2014 - 06.2015
Operations Manager
Colour Republic, LLC
03.2010 - 01.2014
Bachelor Of International Business Economics - International Business
Millennial Atlantic University
06.2009 - 07.2014
Warehouse Manager
Color Republic LLC
12.2008 - 02.2010
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