Jeff Eggert Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Barrington, IL

Area Developer responsible for building the 18|8 Brand in Barrington and Lake County, IL. Site selection, build out, staff development, operations, administration and marketing to assure delivery of the 18|8 brand promise and 100% client satisfaction.When combined, 18% chromium and 8% nickel "transformed" steel becomes a more enhanced and better performing.

Lake Forest, Illinois

• Appointed to key integration role to facilitate and drive post-merger integration of Pactiv and Reynolds businesses. Served in a strategic capacity to accelerate and manage combination of cultures rationalizing people.
• Generated synergies of over $325 million successfully implemented within 24 months of acquisition dates.
• Combination of Pactiv and Reynolds businesses achieved three to six months ahead of plan.
• Provided critical cash flow and financial analysis to support and manage business with $17 billion debt portfolio.

Lake Forest, Illionois

• Selected to move the business forward during a time of industry consolidation. Charged with driving shareholder value by creating financial support and accountability for competitive strategy and operating plans..
• Implementation of Policy Deployment as senior management leadership process led to increase in profit by $52 million and earned supplier of the year with two of top five customers in first year.
• Transformation of the enterprise financial planning and forecasting process resulted in 30% reduction in forecasting and budgeting effort, increased data accuracy and improved analysis capabilities.

Kenosha, Wisconsin

• Appointed to new position to align and lead the strategic planning, lean management, and financial processes during the merger of the company’s two largest business units. Served in a strategic capacity to drive.
• Improved order fill rates from 79% to 87%, decreased working capital by $28 million and increased operating earnings by 21% through coordinated strategy deployment process.
• Generated cost savings of $2.1 million and redeployed 51 employees to direct support of dealer sales and business management.
• Simplified dealer termination process, reduced loss from bad debts, decreased cycle time from 75 to 30 days, and projected to deliver cost savings of $4 million.

Kenosha, Wisconsin

• Promoted to identify and implement transformative cost structure, innovation and service level improvements required for future growth in sales and profits. A long history of small incremental improvements had resulted.
• Initiated Lean transformation created 35 systemic value stream maps, Lean promotion office, and business systems guiding continuous improvement actions.
• Eliminated 378,000 sq. ft. of production space, reduced manufacturing costs by $7.4 million and maintained production capacity to support sales volume.
• Initiated redesign of product realization cycle using process mapping, Voice of Customer analysis and Kaizen activities reducing time to market from 18 months to 9 months.
• Increased staff productivity levels by 15%, implemented cross-functional assignments, and delivered cost savings of $4.7 million.

Kenosha, Wisconsin

• Chosen by Division General Manager to help drive profitable growth in maturing market and to institute financial discipline following ERP system (BaaN) implementation. Trusted to lead the strategy development process.
• Generated sales increase of 51% with participating franchised dealers through program to facilitate dealers adding sales vans in their territories.
• Increased profits by $2.6 million through restructuring of product line and sales organization.
• Improved information flow, decision making ability, financial analysis skills, and data integrity to realize full potential of $50 million ERP system.

Kenosha, Wisconsin

Additional positions held during time with Snap-on Tools:Corporate Tax ManagerSenior Corporate Tax Planning SpecialistSenior Tax AnalystTax Accountant

Mba

Master Of Science (Ms), Taxation

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Accounting And Business/Management

Mergers And Acquisitions