Carlo Romo Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

North America Grooming Care Packaging & External Supply SolutionsResponsibilities include improving supply chain resiliency, delivering against cost savings and cash acceleration objectives, connecting consumer needs to industry package options, collaborating with multi-functional internal teams to deliver initiatives on time and at gross margin targets, and managing a team. Packaging materials in scope include metal aerosol cans, valves, actuators, overcaps, tubes, closures and bottles that are used in exfoliants, cleansers, shave foams, shave gels, serums, aftershave, and many more.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Carlo accepted the Fusion Operations Technical Department Leader role in the South Boston manufacturing center to build his operational expertise in another category - Global Shave Care. Carlo manages a team consisting of process engineers and technicians with varying levels of technical expertise and diverse backgrounds. Carlo’s team has a broad level of responsibilities such as new initiative startup and chronic loss elimination that span across several technologies that include injection molding, extrusion, and various component assembly processes. Other responsibilities include line technician capability building (Equipment Owner Coaching, quality/safety/work process audits), capital work process (equipment obsolescence forecasting, capital funding requests, FADO & FATO) and day-to-day manufacturing support.Carlo led the rollout of a new production line event data system resulting in improved data integrity and compliance to the global standard. In the past year, Carlo has helped onboard 8 new managers and technicians to their roles.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Carlo transferred to the St. Louis manufacturing plant and joined the MPD (materials, process, and delivery) Packaging Group where he spent three years building his technical and leadership skills. Carlo worked as the Surface Care Expert & Supplier Capability Expert for a year, and was then promoted to the Liquids (Surface/Dish/Air Care) Leader & Supplier Capability Leader where he spent two years completing his assignment. Carlo directly managed a team that he grew to five experts & managers.Carlo exceeded expectations - savings, supply assurance, and quality improvement - across all three years. Due to category growth primarily driven by the COVID-19 Pandemic, demand grew by >100% in less than a year and sustained this growth. This dramatic change created many supply constraints and spanned all packaging materials. Carlo and his team led technical validations to support qualified alternatives while still meeting quality & supply criteria. Carlo directly led a project to validate an alternative supply chain for a capacity constrained business which was successful and enabled >$20M annual sales. He also directly led a technical intervention with a strategic supplier for >1 year, improving the supplier’s output across all lines by >15% & reducing quality issues (stops/downtime on P&G production lines) by >65%. He and his team expanded supplier quality scorecard reviews by >400% and established action plans to drive out top losses. Carlo implemented a new material release process (driving >50% reduction in non-released materials) and material complaint process. Other responsibilities included initiative delivery, material release, material complaints, supplier evaluation, supplier quality audits, packaging standards & standard operating procedures, group budget, and team staffing, onboarding, coaching, and performance assessment. Carlo led daily direction setting, contributed to various Product Supply lead teams, and communicated site inputs to sourcing decisions.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Carlo started his career with P&G in Global Home Care packaging purchases where he spent three years. He worked as a manager for two years in the North America Blow Molding & Resins Group, followed by a year in the Global Rigid Packaging Group. During this time his spend grew to $200M/year, which consisted of blow molding, injection molding, delivery systems (triggers & sprayers), corrugated, labels, and resins and additives.Carlo exceeded expectations - savings, cash, and supply assurance - all three years, which was very challenging considering major supply and macro-economic disruptions (Hurricane Harvey, US-China trade war, and supplier transition delays, and commodity headwinds). Carlo led the largest-ever RFQ/bid for his spend, ultimately resulting in >$5M/year savings, dramatic supplier consolidation, and lead time improvements. Another challenge Carlo faced was preparation for the shutdown of the Kansas City manufacturing plant (consolidation with new Tabler Station manufacturing plant) in which he successfully negotiated contract extensions to ensure supply through the shutdown (100% compliance) and even improved cost structure. In his last major allocation, Carlo led the bid, negotiation, recommendation, and contract award for a significantly capacity constrained business in record time - a 50% reduction in total time from initial bid to contract award - which he then validated in his next assignment in the St. Louis manufacturing plant.Other noteworthy accomplishments during his tenure include global negotiations and contract implementations to enable launch of disruptive innovation program resulting in >$300M in annual sales, leading >40 projects with global and regional teams to drive cost, cash, and service improvements, and negotiating with suppliers up to chief executive levels, awarding >$350MM in contracts.

Austin, Tx, Us

After passing classes such as chemistry, calculus, and physics with an A/A+, Carlo became a tutor for the Equal Opportunity in Engineering Program and briefly also tutored for Engineering Student Services. He tutored in both 1:1 settings and group settings. He tutored aspiring engineering students who came from challenged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Plano, Tx, Us

Upon graduating high school and until his final semester in college, Carlo worked as a pizza delivery driver in his hometown of San Antonio to help pay his student loans. His core responsibilities included confirming order accuracy, prompt delivery, and excellent customer service. He was recognized multiple times by different managers for customer satisfaction (orders delivered right & on-time) and safest driving. In between orders, he learned a variety of roles to help out including pizza preparation, cutting/boxing orders, dish washing, and payment handling.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Carlo began his professional work experience with an internship at Valerus (later acquired by SNC-Lavalin) in their Houston HQ working in the Latin America business development group. His intern project was to develop $15M of scope of a $50M natural gas plant proposal/bid. He worked with engineering to complete key deliverables including responsibility matrix, plot plan, electrical load list, construction schedules, specifications, P&IDs, and flow diagrams.

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical Engineering

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