Debbie Schaefer Email & Phone Number

Rockford, Il, Us

Rockford, Il, Us

Rockford, Il

• Responsible for pricing one billion dollars of spare parts for Hamilton Sundstrand business units and maximizing growth and profitability through pricing strategy.• Determine pricing for daily RFQs for both external and internal customers including airlines, MROs, Service Bulletins, and Tech Publications.• Pricing, analysis, and preparation of the annual Commercial Aircraft Spare Parts Catalog.• Ensure proper and timely execution of spares pricing for more than sixty Product Support Agreements for customers including Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, Embraer, and others.• Establish initial spare part pricing for new aircraft platforms entering into service.• Provide analysis and recommendations for pricing strategy and margin analysis to support Sales Operations, Customer Service, and HS business units.

Rockford, Illinois Area

• Provided financial leadership for several brands and departments including analyzing manufacturing variations, developing standard costs, coordinating the financial planning process, and advising on financial matters.• Developed weekly and monthly operations performance reporting package that tracks manufacturing variations, downtime, efficiencies, changeovers, production volumes, and customer usage.• Provided analysis of cost improvement projects, Lean Six Sigma, staffing/work schedules, capacity, facilities spending, and material flow spending to support plant goals and decision making.• Supported business development with cost estimates for new product, processing, and packaging innovation and provided startup costs.

• Responsible for analysis of financial data for several key areas of manufacturing operations including analyzing monthly manufacturing results for domestic and offshore plants and supporting operations regarding inventory, discards, and freight management.• Coordinated strategic plan, annual operating plan, and quarterly forecasts for standard cost change, manufacturing variations, and inventory and communicated areas of concern to management.• Provided analysis of cost, sourcing, capacity, carrying cost, inventory levels, and business development programs to support division decision making.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Accounting And Business/Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Finance And Management