Andy Martz Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

Manage the Marketing Finance department. The group is responsible for financial modeling and tracking of new product introductions; preparing break-even analysis for promotions as well as tracking the effectiveness of promotions; booking, bridging, budgeting and forecasting all the marketing and SG&A related expenses, preparing monthly brand P&L’s, customer P&L’s, and communicating the results to the Executive / Marketing Group.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Manage the Marketing Finance department and the Product Pricing department. The Marketing Finance group is responsible for financial modeling and tracking of new product introductions; preparing break-even analysis for promotions as well as tracking the effectiveness of promotions; booking, bridging, budgeting and forecasting all the marketing and SG&A related expenses, preparing monthly brand P&L’s, customer P&L’s, and communicating the results to the Executive / Marketing Group. The Product Pricing group is responsible for setting the pricing logic for retail customers across 3 brands and 8 product lines, maintaining the pricing structure in Oracle, and adjusting international pricing related to exchange rate fluctuations.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Developed monthly analysis book for the KraftMaid brand, designed to give an overall review of the brand for the month. This included trend analysis for each channel and product line, selling price bridges, analysis of various product upgrades, top ten customer P&L trends, top ten door style trends, new product sales tracking, mix analysis, and our market share trend analysis.Prepared monthly brand P&L's and communicated the results to leadership.Modeled new product launch business cases, working with a cross functional business team. Presented findings to Executive Team.Prepared break-even analysis for customer promotions ans well as analyzed promotion effectiveness.Budgeted/forecasted and tracked retail store display expenses, capital and amortization by project.

Jackson, Michigan Area

Responsible for pricing decision modeling for the food service and retail channels, Trend analysis for product lines and major customers and mix analysis. Prepared Revenue and Cost of Sales budget for Dawn Manufacturing.Created a budget and forecast scenario model in MS AccessDeveloped a model to project future pricing needs and margin impact of commodity market changes. Qlikview developer and trainer.

Jackson, Michigan Area

Responsible for pricing decision modeling for the food service and retail channels, Trend analysis for product lines and major customers and mix analysis.

Jackson, Michigan Area

Prepared monthly P&L and communicated to plant managers and distribution leadership.Managed distribution budgets for Florida, Georgia, Denver and 2 Michigan distribution centers.Performed distribution location annual inventories.Provided product sales trend reports.

St. Joseph, Michigan Area

Managed Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid and Jenn-Air brand promotions budget and providing break-even analysis on national consumer promotions.Measured effectiveness of various promotions providing insight on consumer redemption rates.

St. Joseph, Michigan Area

Initially supported the Refrigeration Category Marketing team and later supported both the Refrigeration and Dish Category Marketing team.Prepared monthly P&L's and communicated the results to leadership.Managed $100 million Whirlpool Brand marketing budget, worked with product managers to appropriately budget new product launch spend and worked with advertising team to budget major television and print advertising campaigns.

St. Joseph, Michigan Area

Prepared monthly P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and other required financial schedules and submitted to Idex Corporation parent office.Maintained fixed asset records, prepared depreciation schedules and prepared tax schedules related to assets.Performed internal Sarbanes-Oxley audits related to financial reporting, payroll, accounts payable and fixed assets. Documented processes and controls and made changes to bring processes and controls into compliance.Completed multiple state Sales & Use tax schedules and payroll tax schedules.Reconciled bank statements, general ledger accounts for payables and payroll.Maintained bill of material records in the system.

Reed City, Michigan

Prepared metrics for the distribution center and logistics costs.Investigated product shrink and reduced shrink loss by $75,000 per year.Managed annual inventory count of the distribution center and reviewed procedures and controls of 3rd party logistics management company.

Reed City, Mi

Prepared various commodity usage reports detailing variance of usage versus standard.Created an MS Access database to track quality measurements on the production floor, replacing handwritten log books.Created an MS Access database to schedule employees based on union employee seniority and daily absence and vacation tracking of hourly employees. Also tracked union absence point system to aid human resources in disciplinary measures.

Big Rapids, Michigan