Jack MyersDirector

Jack leads multiple teams through projects that touch on strategy and operations to bring bottom line savings to the clients. This involves working with an extremely intelligent and motivated team of professionals in a collaborative environment and continually looking for opportunities to innovate the process and firm offerings

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced analytics & big data
  • Supply chain consulting
  • Inventory modeling, positioning, & management
  • Logistics & network optimization
  • Global strategic sourcing, negotiations, cost reduction & elimination
  • ERP data cleansing and reporting
  • Training & development
  • Retail pricing and margin analysis

 

Key highlights

  • Jack has lead numerous global sourcing engagements across both direct and indirect categories that has resulted in over $600M in client savings
  • Trained hundreds of clients in Methodology, Communication, and Negotiations. He has also authored courses in beginning and advanced data skills and communicating with data.
  • Modeled a manufacturing client’s operations by deconstructing over 1,600 BOMs into a set of base materials and parts. Incorporating these inputs into an optimization model resulted in a 17% reduction in overhead costs and a 10% reduction in logistics costs
  • Worked with a multinational team to develop a methodology to go beyond simply classifying data by identifying equal and equivalent items using unsupervised machine learning and team review tools leading to over £112M of identified opportunity with £25M of immediate savings across multiple categories
Professional background

Before coming to Gibson, Jack was a principal at PRGX Global, a Senior Manager at Alaris Consulting, Director at The Princeton Review, and Market Analysis Manager at Mark III industries

Education
  • BA History, University of Florida
  • Minors in English Literature, Philosophy
  • MS Decision & Information Science, University of Florida
Favorite Quote

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Hobbies

Sailing and Travel

Favorite thing about working at Gibson

“The opportunity to find innovative solutions with a motivated team.”

James KellerPatrick F. Callahan