Faustino Santucci, Mba Email & Phone Number

La Farge, Wi, Us

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

P&L owner providing business strategy and oversight to daily activities and key decisions.• Achieved 29% Aseptic volume growth & 39% Sales growth by winning bids, launching new products, expanding distribution, and providing excellent service, all while executing multiple price increases.• Executed RFP to deliver $5MM in savings while qualifying multiple suppliers for surety of supply.• Developed category-specific strategic vision for executive leadership review.• Influenced and directed supply chain, procurement, sales, and operations in a highly matrixed organization.• Improved overall margins by over 600 basis points.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Focused on product simplification & SKU reduction, optimized our customer base, database consolidation & business insights across multiple ERP systems, as well as led obsolete inventory reduction efforts across the organization.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Focused on growing margin by improving operational efficiencies. Reduced the number of SKUs sold to my customers by 26%, but still grew margins by 4%.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

• Finance Lead for the Walmart & Sam’s Club team – includes budgeting, forecasting & reporting• Critical team member in key strategic & opportunistic decisions with multi-year implications• Developed & led quantitative & qualitative analysis for numerous opportunities & new itemsKey Results:• Financial lead on multiple bids won with annual sales of over $100MM• Developed a process and tool for the entire Sales organization to use to build a bottom's up budget and now used to report initiative progress to Senior Management

Chicago, Il, Us

• Hand-selected for this newly created role.• Integral team member to drive 3 price increases within 12 months across all customers in every market to cover significant increases in commodity and labor costs.• Developed base and promoted Price Architecture for top products by market by utilizing syndicated data.• Built, communicated, and modeled proper use of various pricing tools so the Customer Management team could develop the most profitable trade program for their specific accounts.• Final approver of all Central Region, Kroger, Dollar Channel, Drug, & Mass trade promotions.• Developed Pricing Bandwidth Manager tool that will track and monitor account and market pricing to ensure organization adherence to architecture.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Lead key retail pricing decisions which resulted in increased price, volume, and profits vs. prior year• Worked cross-functionally with sales, operations, and finance to develop pricing strategies by market

Chicago, Il, Us

• Led the development and deployment of the trade strategy vision with the organization• Developed trade programming that leveraged consumer and marketing programming• Coordinated, developed templates, standardized and lead the quarterly trade planning meetings• Worked collaboratively with the Customer Management team, Operations, and Marketing on several strategic pricing decisions

Chicago, Il, Us

• Responsible for supporting Team Directors to deliver sales, trade, and gross margin objectives• Reviewed new and existing agreements and provided recommendations to further increase sales and profitability• Maintained SOX compliance on long-term customer agreements as well as promotional activity• Analyzed and reported customer variances compared to budget and prior year as well as highlight key drivers of customer results • Facilitated and aligned AOP targets by customer account and zone• Lead and developed a team of six senior financial analysts

Mba, Finance & Marketing

Bs, Accounting