Gene Eckart Email & Phone Number

Bucyrus, KS, US

• Led high-performing marketing reporting team, focusing on campaign, promotion, product launch, funnel, and outcomes reporting
• Responsible for complex marketing attribution model, including logic strategy, enhancements and Power BI visualizations used to evaluate marketing effectiveness
• Partnered with data source owners, data engineers and data governance team to improve data availability, reliability, and consistency

• Supported brand commercial marketing teams by managing P&L’s for three of Teva’s top Specialty brands (~$2B of annual sales); developed annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, long range plans, and quarterly results
• Developed wholesaler order models, improving revenue analysis and order prediction
• Led special SAP conversion project, improving performance and financial reporting

• Developed expense budgets, forecasts, and analysis (~$140M annually) for Patient Services program and Market Access group
• Supported both in-line and launch brand planning, driving investment prioritization based upon products’ life cycle
• Drove expense control enhancements, resulting in a 50% forecast variance reduction
• Assisted in divestiture analysis of call center and specialty pharmacy

• Created and managed finance team to support launch of a 1,400-location store-within-a-store distribution partnership
• Participated in initial strategic alliance analysis and contract negotiation
• Led cross-functional team to quickly stand-up reporting and analysis for sales performance, business case attainment, cost discipline, and staffing compliance

• Managed team supporting distribution relationships with ~ten retail partners
• Developed and negotiated complex distribution contracts with internal and external customers; analyzed partner profitability and contract compliance
• Developed driver-based sales demand and expense budgets ($1B annually)
• Routinely drove discussions with senior leaders, including C-level executives

• Led budgeting, forecasting, and reporting team supporting all Consumer channels
• Responsible for $3B annual expense budget development and forecasting

• Analyzed national wireless pricing proposals, identified and evaluated profitability impacts, and made recommendations to Finance and Marketing leadership
• Developed business cases models, with up to $2B of net five-year EBITDA impact

• Supervised team that balanced protecting company profitability and promoting sales by negotiating B2B pricing proposals and contract terms with external customers
• Drove sales process efficiencies by identifying and facilitating tool enhancements

• Assisted clients with account management with attention to detail and accuracy
• Responsible for complying with all tax and small business regulations