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Lake Zurich, Illinois, United States

Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States

Butter & Biscuit Co. sells fresh daily baked biscuits, sandwiches, and homemade compound butters that not only go great with our biscuits, but are great with all baked goods, vegetables, meats, fish, seafood and much more.

Greater Chicago Area

Manage financial project through full cycle. Provides intake, scope, impact/timeline, budget and delivers multiple large and small scale projects at a given time. Work with finance and IT partners to provide best solution using AGILE methodology.

Lake Forest

Greater Chicago Area

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Businesses across the consumer products and life sciences industries partner with Clarkston Consulting to enhance strategic decision-making, improve operational efficiencies, implement new technologies, and promote business growth and market diversification. Leveraging deep functional and industry expertise, our people discover, design, and deliver solutions that fit your business, your goals, and your future. At Clarkston, your purpose is our purpose.Consultant - Life Science (2014 to Present)Knowledgeable and driven consultant specializing in the Life Science industry. Experience with pre and post implementation for both SAP SD and Vistex with emphasis on pricing, contracts, rebates and EDI. Experienced project manager working on CMO serialization Implementation as well as trading partners and 3PLs for past two years on a global level. Extensive work with documentation.

Northbrook, Il

Oversee multiple global projects across all phases of development in pharmaceutical industry.• Maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization. • Create/monitor program scope, workflow, timeline, budget and documentation as needed• Collaborate with development and technical team to plan project sprints. • Develop status reports, cost estimates, resource plans, and project management tools. • Manage internal and external resources on a global level• Work as liasion between Vendors, CMOs, trading partners, Supply Chain, QA, Validation, Artwork and Labeling, FDA, Product Managers, IT, and Legal to gather requirements and manage expectations• Build training material and train resources for each stage of project as well as implementation of new SOPs and business processes. • Meet all deadline and milestones to ensure delivery of all projects are in a timely manner and in budget.

Northbrook, Il

Worked with both business and technical team to upgrade EDI system. Complete knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle including Development, Design, Business Implementations, Procedures and Guidelines. Analyzed, Developed, and Tested SAP IDOC implementation.*Open Text*SAP*Model N

Vernon Hills, Il

Cultivate and maintain relationships with distributors, resolving pricing and rebate discrepancies on behalf of this industry leader in specialized medical products. • Process all chargebacks/claims (approx. 10 mil lines annually) and maintain a relationship with sales and all distributors/wholesalers to ensure pricing models are effective while reducing chargeback errors by 70% • Collaborated with 200+ distributor customers to align end customer GPO, local and government pricing and contracts across companies• Cross-reference distributor data with sales records for accuracy of pricing and contract compliance• Identify and assess pricing discrepancies, determine eligibility for rebates and implement appropriate contract adjustments to ensure accurate billing/compensation for all invested parties• Maintain and communicate the Distributor IntoStock pricing portfolio of 15K plus materials codes• Expedited the migration process from SAP to Vistex, working with programmers/IT in the post-transition stages to tailor the new system to the needs of each department. • Pricing and contract lead for multiple projects regarding implementations and new acquisitions developing contract and pricing channel strategy • Propose and implement initiatives to increase department wide efficiency • Serve as Test Script / Regression Testing Manager for a software development initiative focusing on improvements to SAP and Vistex; delegate tasks to five personnel while identifying issues within each system and collaborating with the IT team to troubleshoot solutions

Mcgraw Park, Il

Responsible for leading and communicating business pricing and contract practices for the Distributor Management and Channel Management teams to a wide range of customers including, dritributors, TPWs, sales teams, marketing, finance and senior management executive staff. • Handle resubmissions, reverse chargebacks and audits efficiently• Consistently update strategies for validating membership and overseeing terms of contracts while loading new contracts• Provide accurate monthly chargeback information for accounting and timely payment of rebates within contractual agreements• Managed pricing and contract processes and serve as a liaison across the Distributor Management team, marketing, sales, operations, and finance business units.• Accountable for the development and the analysis of acquisition, GPO, Government, Distributor, and the Alaris product lines pricing and contracts.• Assisted the management team with monthly department reporting which tracks distributor sales, rebates, operational variances that are reported into the Director of Operations.• Communicate all pricing changed and other contract updates across organization• Facilitated the development of new contract policies and procedures while updating current contracts• Supported development of Vistex system and implemented: Created test scripts, liasion between IT and business, trained 30 team members• Addition or removal of products to contracts as well as new product launch initial setup activities • Monitor activities of sales representatives, verifying accuracy and profitability of all quotes with respect to product baselines

Managed relationships with distributors, TPW, Sales and marketing. Responsible for analyzing finacial data and performance, preparing reports and projections, and contract/rebate management in SAP ECC.• Analyzed and reconciled 25+ distributors’ accounts receivables with net range from $1K to $27MM• Communicated an average of 40 Alaris/Infusion pricing contracts per month• Researched and resolved approximately 55 rebate pricing discrepancies between CareFusion and its distributors per day• Created detailed monthly financial reports for submittal to upper management• Managed the relationship between CareFusion and its customers• Developed and adapted new standard operating procedures to streamline workflow processes among various teams• Functioned as primary contact in regards to loading distributor agreements into SAP• Completed intensive training in SAP 6.0 & BW; provided instruction to all new employees. • Supported a team in efforts to integrate processes of a newly-acquired company; created contracts and assisted with material item pricing for new distributors.

Bachelors Of Science, Marketing 2008

STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM - Attended programs sponsored by organizations such as Lloyd's of London and the Metal Exchange Company. Attended.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Marketing