Viking Electric Announces Organizational Realignment

MINNEAPOLIS — Electrical distributor and services provider, Viking Electric, announced organizational structure changes that will allow the company to better align around its supply chain mindset and the need for proactive sales, inventory, and operations planning (SIOP).

As part of the SIOP realignment, the company announced that Jay Paradies will assume the new role of VP Supply Chain. With this change, the company will improve its approach to supply chain and inventory management by more closely aligning with its operational capabilities, across the entire organization. Paradies has 33 years of experience at Viking Electric and, for the past six years, he served as VP Operations.

In addition, Steve Sass will be promoted to the new role of VP Sales Enablement. In his new role, Sass will oversee sales operations (including enhanced sales growth strategies), product management, pricing, marketing, and digital solutions across the organization. Sass began his career at Viking Electric more than 17 years ago and has held a variety of roles in the sales side of the organization, most recently as the company’s Director of Sales Operations.

“We’ve identified an opportunity to realign our organization around the broader mindset of supply chain management and the need for proactive sales, inventory and operations planning – often referred to as SIOP,” Viking Electric President Stacy Stanslaski said. “We’ve created the new VP Supply Chain and VP Sales Enablement positions to realign our organization to be more nimble, efficient, and effective at serving our customers.”