Colm Geraghty Email & Phone Number

Lynn, Massachusetts, US

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

Lakeville, MN, US

Led Weetabix integration work following acquisition by Post Holdings in 2017. Efforts resulted in site consolidation, business and systems transfers and total company integration. Handled plant closure communications and union negotiations.

Marlborough, MA, US

• Served as an end to end supply chain leader for a $150m cereal and snacks business, focused on business turnaround to improve EBITDA. Accountable for procurement, manufacturing, distribution, R&D, quality, S&OP and.
• Led Weetabix integration work following acquisition by Post Holdings in 2017. Efforts resulted in site consolidation, business and systems transfers and total company integration. Handled plant closure communications.
• Partnered with sales to enable strategic growth in organic cereals, gaining an 90% share of the private label organic cereal business in the U.S.
• Hired and trained a strategic procurement team and implemented a formal process to drive $10M out of direct and indirect costs over four years.
• Transformed the warehousing and co-packer network to remove $3M from the supply chain in eighteen months, which significantly reduced warehousing and freight complexity.
• Managed the capital investment strategy and productivity programs for the entire business, which was the primary source of earnings growth over a three-year period. Expanded programs into SG&A and trade to ensure a.

Waltham, MA, US

• Promoted into a global role with responsibility for five locations generating $125M annually in sales revenue, with 2 in Europe, 1 in China and 2 in the U.S. Accountable for operations, sourcing and logistics functions.
• Led efforts to integrate production planning and engineering globally to improve quality, yield and throughput following a significant performance decline.
• Identified and drove recruiting efforts to upgrade talent in multiple locations.

Waltham, MA, US

• Held sole site and P&L accountability for a $100M microscope slides business in the U.S.
• Recruited and upgraded talent in key leadership roles in response to poor prior year performance, including engineering, manufacturing and sourcing.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Promoted into Assistant Plant Manager role for General Mills’ flagship multi-business manufacturing complex, accounting for 10%, $1.4B of General Mills’ worldwide sales. Retained sole plant manager responsibility for.
• Enabled breakthrough new product development and productivity by closely partnering plant resources with corporate operations and R&D organizations.
• Executed projects to deliver 5.5% business unit COGS productivity. Successfully restructured staffing model to deliver $1.5M in productivity improvements. Developed and promoted several high potential people within the.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Transferred to the headquarters to serve as the business team operations representative for Foodservice and Convenience store teams, driving new product introduction, capital strategy and productivity in over 20 plant.
• Led process to identify, justify and resource capital projects to drive new product introductions over $10M in productivity, requiring aligned commitments from sales, marketing, engineering and cross divisional supply.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Served as the Operations Manager for a frozen dough plant, leading the plant to a higher level of performance.
• Delivered on 15 points of system performance improvement over two years, by systematically incorporating continuous improvement methodology.

• Led a cross functional supply chain organization to drive business wide six sigma initiatives to drive waste out of business and manufacturing processes.

• Promoted to manage technical and operations organizations for the core business segment.
• Drove variable cost productivity of $8MM, at 30%, over two years through automation, yield improvement and workforce restructuring. Worked cross-functionally to integrate 15 new product lines into manufacturing.

• Provided daily leadership and communication for a 60 person operation, driving against daily production goals, and incorporating six sigma methodologies.

Boston, MA, US

Process Engineer, Worthington, OH, 1998-1999, Project Engineer, Dublin, Ireland, 1997-1998

Mba, Business

Bs Eng, Chemical Engineering