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Providing operational and strategic services to Consumer Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical organizations in the areas of operations, improvements and transformations of manufacturing and supply chain. Partner directly with healthcare organizations, service providers and private equity/investment firms to drive short-term and long-term impact in the areas of crisis management, sourcing, business resiliency, technology transfer, cost/productivity improvement, due diligence, contractor management, contracting, project/program management, new product commercialization, geographic expansion and network strategy across the end-to-end supply chain.

Provide operations, sourcing and supply chain expert and advisory services to Life Sciences, Private Equity, and Investment Firms to support due diligence of acquisition/investment opportunities; productivity improvements; risk management; procurement and sourcing strategy; and change management.

Weybridge, Gb

Lead cross-functional operations accountable for supply of ~$2.5b of revenue with annual cost base of $600m+ across 45+ contract manufacturing organizations. Directly responsible for operations, procurement & project delivery with direct team of 30 colleagues and indirect team of 60+ colleagues.•Optimized network for complexity, cost, capability, and service through exit of 10% of suppliers and cost improvement projects to deliver average of 2% cost savings annually.•Rapidly activated new supply sources to support increased demand and constrained supply delivering more than $200m in incremental revenue in 2021 and 2022 amid COVID supply chain challenges. •Partnered with Innovation teams to source and commercialize new products with existing and new suppliers providing differentiated consumer benefits driving ~70% of growth from new products.•Led integration of L-GSK and L-PFE CMO teams to establish common practices in providing risk-based oversight models and managing supply against planned requirements with no business interruptions and synergy delivery.

New York, New York, Us

Led global development and delivery of strategies, operational excellence, and program management to drive improvement to service, cost, quality, and agility measures more consistent with consumer goods industry.•Delivered Site Network Study to drive optimization of site network capacity resulting in decision for one site exit with on-going annual operational savings of $10m.•Led Pfizer Supply Chain Integration Planning with GSK in advance of Joint Venture (JV). Key deliveries included JV Synergy Planning and JV Supply Chain organizational design.•Analyzed PCH Manufacturing Network performance across 7 sites against benchmarks in terms of cost and productivity to develop Transformation Program that identified savings of ~10% of $300m in conversion costs.•Reviewed E2E supply chain to optimize distribution network vs. customer lead time, FTL/LTL & inventory optimization.•Drove enterprise program to deliver 1% annual gross margin improvement thru value engineering & complexity reduction.

New York, New York, Us

Global leader for all Supply Chain integration programs across all Pfizer Business Units.•Led Supply Chain integration of bolt-on acquisitions for anti-infectives brands from AstraZeneca and Basilea.•Led Global Supply in preparation, marketing and due diligence activities related to sale of PCH.

New York, New York, Us

Led global technical functions across manufacturing sciences and technology; packaging; and engineering driving global technology and product strategies, product maintenance, crisis management and innovation.•Partnered closely with R&D to drive efficiency, collaboration, quality, and speed in the delivery of new products and established “One Technical Community” to align objectives and responsibilities.•Coordinated harmonization of best practices in manufacturing and packaging for global products and drove efficiency in implementation of cost savings and product maintenance with Network approach. Examples include: -Enhancement of alternate material qualification program for cost savings and de-risking to deliver annual savings of ~$2m (4x improvement) through global coordination of projects and leverage of network data. -Implementation of in-line process analytical technology to improve process control and efficiency.

New York, New York, Us

Accountable for leading Global Supply business development due diligence and integrations, as well as supply interface with commercial and R&D for innovation delivery.•Enabled inorganic business growth through due diligence of external business development opportunities by quantifying risks, risk mitigation strategies, identification of synergies, and where applicable integration plans.•Led cross-functional manufacturing teams to integrate all aspects of acquired manufacturing operations within established timelines and achieve cost and revenue synergies of Thermacare (P&G); Ferrosan Consumer Health (Altor), Emergen-C (Alacer) and Nexium OTC (AstraZeneca).•Partnered with Commercial and R&D teams to commercialize new product strategies and projects to deliver against top-line revenue targets by identifying sourcing, optimizing costs, and facilitating commercial scale-up.

New York, New York, Us

Operational head of new focused factory within the manufacturing site. Responsible for technology transfer, $80m site construction project, and commercialization of new pharmaceutical product with $200m+ in annual revenue.•Led construction and start-up of new facilities including design, engineering, construction, selection and procurement of equipment, qualification and staffing of new manufacturing operations for new product.•Delivered improved operational costs and minimized cycle times as part of site start-up through significant efforts with site personnel to develop new organizational structures, production/quality systems and culture.•Led site transformation projects to develop/improve business processes including Planning and Investigations.

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for oversight of Technical Services in Asia-Pacific region and Technical Transfer Lead for multiple Phase II and III products for supply operations.•Provided Project Leadership for new facility projects in Ireland, Singapore, India, and China inclusive of facility and operational design, organizational design and staffing, and facility construction / validation and start-up.•Led cross-functional R&D and Manufacturing teams to co-develop new products within established timelines starting from Phase III through commercial process validation.

New York, New York, Us

Supported investigations, tech transfers, and product validation at high-volume, sterile manufacturing facility.