Christopher Coolman Email & Phone Number

Palm Beach County, Florida, United States

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Greater Chicago Area

Royal Oak, Mi

Oak Brook, Il

Responsible for creating and driving channel strategy for a $30MM growing global business unitManaged a cross functional team tasked with executing $2MM in profit enhancement initiativesRebalanced domestic manufacturing footprint, reducing production lead times & increasing Gross Profit by $1.4MMManaged a $1MM sales and marketing budget for a growing channel with three regional sales managersResponsible for creating the business unit’s five year strategy road map, ensuring proper resource allocationsDepartment head for a five person bid team, leading process improvements to drive significant increases in price yield

Oak Brook, Il

Responsible for new product development, launching a new $1MM product vertical Created an ecommerce roadmap ensuring revenue growth consistent with global strategic plan Responsible for Product, Pricing, Promotions & Channels of DistributionLed integration of a strategic acquisition of an international manufacturing & distribution facilityManaged marketing budget for a growing channel with three regional sales managers

Oakbrook

Created driver based material forecasting models enabling commodity scenario planning Responsible for NPV modeling of all supply chain capital expenditures, ensuring annual capital guideline adherenceFinancial support for corporate divestiture; including standard inventory costs and forecasted tax implicationsProject manager for corporate wide freight restructuring - Reducing freight spend by 9% while maintaining service levelsManaged $3.2 million in annual supply chain cost savings initiatives Prepared period analysis of P&L OPEX results, bridging variances between actual, budget and forecast performance

Broadview, Il

Created long term make versus buy strategy on $35 MM in annual material spend Managed 18 domestic manufacturing facilities process improvements, including onsite Six Sigma experiments Created cascading manufacturing metrics, ensuring alignment to the corporate long term road-mapResponsible for the implementation of our quality control module, during a corporate wide ERP implementationDesigned and implemented an OLAP database; providing detailed analytics on customer and product performance

Oakbrook, Il

Modeled business development opportunities using discounted cash flow analysis (DCF)Implemented an award winning corporate wide Balanced Scorecard strategy framework Created pro forma financial statements for scenario planning of an ailing business unitIntroduced a standard initiative prioritization framework for capital expenditure budgeting Assembled annual strategic capital analysis for the board of directors

Oak Brook, Il

Helped create yearly budget & quarterly forecasts for the board of directorsConsolidated weekly & monthly sales reports from foreign & U.S. entities to the corporate controller Designed standard reports providing analytics on compressible departmental operating expensesImplemented new budgeting software with custom access roles, improving budgeting efficiency

Auburn Hills, Mi

Head of procurement for direct and indirect materialsResponsible for product management, including new product sourcingResponsible for day to day operations, including sales and logisticsCreated a direct marketing campaign targeting a new customer segmentImplemented an integrated P.O.S system & networked parent company with both satellite locations

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance And Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Team Lead: 2013 National Investment Banking Competition, Co-Chair - The Golf Society, Private Equity and Venture.

Bba, Finance