Eric Seip
Senior Vice President Global Operation and Chief Supply Chain Officer
Ingredion
Eric Seip
Senior Vice President Global Operation and Chief Supply Chain Officer
Ingredion
ABOUT THE WINNER
Throughout his more than 30-year career, and especially since moving into enterprise leadership roles, Eric Seip has been fortunate to work with organizations that want to achieve more and believe the best is always ahead.
From his time in discrete manufacturing to the second half of his career in process industries, he has been driven by one mantra: success starts with the right people, the right people build the right processes, and the right processes drive the desired results.
Eric believes there are no shortcuts: leaders have to grind through the unglamorous work of getting the basics right, while never forgetting that their companies operate in communities that rely on them to be respectful and responsible.
Congratulations, Eric Seip!
Case Study Highlights
At Ingredion, Eric Seip has driven a shift from a decentralized structure toward a center-led organization built around a 70-20-10 model: roughly 70% of activities standardized globally, 20% specialized by business or country, and 10% unique to a given site, a mindset shift he compares to moving plant leaders from solving every problem alone to leveraging solutions already proven at other sites.
His teams have spent years shifting maintenance from reactive to predictive and preventative, partnering on low-cost sensing technology to monitor equipment in real time and prevent millions of dollars in unplanned downtime.
Eric now sees mentoring as central to his role, passing on lessons learned to the next generation of leaders, work he says keeps him energized as much as any operational result.