Caleb Baker Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Marcy-l'Étoile, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FR

Integrated largest bioMerieux site into Americas reporting structure and lead 6 Americas Manufacturing Sites as finance business partner on strategic decisions, cost accounting, budgeting, reporting, and capital expenditures. Sites represent >$2.5bn in revenue and >3100 employees.

Marcy-l'Étoile, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FR

Lead 4 Americas Manufacturing Sites as finance business partner on strategic decisions, cost accounting, budgeting, reporting, and capital expenditures.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

Lead team of 5 analysts in performing month-end close for GSK's largest commercial market.

• Finance business partner for manufacturing and product strategy with a $1.8bn remit – 17 manufacturing sites and 27 products. Recommend opportunities and work with the business to evaluate strategies and value options..
• Tasked by CFO to lead Strategic Resource Allocation project on $1.8bn cost base. Analyzed costs through four views of site, manufacturing activity, product, and indirect activities. Led a series of workshops with SVPs.
• Drove $30m NPV container standardization in global manufacturing network through raw material savings
• Identified, drove container switch on limited supply vaccine that reduced container overfill, leading to $12m increase in annual sales

• Country Finance Director – responsible for all things Finance and Procurement, including commercial P&L, monthly and annual tax, audits, closing, product supply, and compliance for recently incorporated organization.
• In 2015 prior to my arrival, the company paid over $25k in late filing tax penalties AND had overpaid VAT obligations by $118k. I fixed the processes and during my tenor there were no late filings, received credit for.
• Coached one of my direct reports to win the company’s annual “Work Across Boundaries” for exceptional team work
• Implemented 5 major SOPs for the new and growing legal entity. Headcount increased from 40 to 95 during my tenor

• Finance business partner for global consumer manufacturing and supply chain. Supported 2 of the 4 largest Product Categories responsible for 2-5 year strategic plans.
• Modeled financials and developed business cases for 8 capex projects totaling >$21m, including major Rx to over-the-counter (OTC) switch of major US allergy product Flonase

New Brunswick, NJ, US

Created strategic map for Janssen Pharmaceutical to increase Clinical Trial Contracting productivity and drug speed to market by aligning contracting model with internal legal practices and external sources of innovation

Idaho Falls, ID, US

• Identified and implemented cost cutting solutions in Idaho’s 10th largest company and world’s leading manufacturer and parcel distributer of concentrated health and wellness products. Reported to VP of Operations.
• Saved $4.1 M annually and decreased parcel delivery times ~5% by adding drop ship locations and carriers
• Realized $470K savings by initiating negotiations with carriers, shipping supplies bid, and export RFPs
• Mitigated exposure to carrier and supplier price fluctuations by strategically diversifying partner base
• Trimmed $289K from inventory transfer costs through purchase of 2 semi trucks based on financial analysis
• Reduced 48% of labor used to audit outbound orders by programming a scale to intelligently weigh packages

Provo, UT, US

• Taught groups of 12 students nine-week Samoan language immersion courses and sales skills at BYU’s flagship language training center in preparation for overseas assignments.
• Improved teacher communication and classroom productivity by creating lesson-plan sharing tool
• Mentored nearly 100 representatives on language, culture, teaching, and relationship principles

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Lived and worked as a native Samoan. Simultaneously studied and learned the Samoan and Niuen languages to native fluency while leading goal setting and strategy execution of 10 - 12 volunteers.
• Selected from 140 representatives to lead operations on distant country of Niue; learned Niuen language
• Led rapid growth of startup operations on Samoan island after 20 year closure through recruiting and training

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance / Supply Chain Strategy

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, International Relations: Political Economy

International Business

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), General Studies