Joe Berish Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Mi, Us

Northville, Michigan, Us

Specializing in corporate performance management and co-active benchmarking.

New York, Ny, Us

> CHIEF OF STAFF: Recruited by partners to return to one of the world’s most prestigious consulting firms for a tailored role to help scale a rapidly growing practice.> M&A ADVISORY: Advise private equity firms, investment banks, and other investors with middle-market buy and sell side due diligence and growth strategies for industrial goods markets.> BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Developed relationships with PE firms and investment banks that helped drive practice growth during a period when the market was down by ~20%.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Director-level role for the ninth largest health insurer in the country, serving over 5 million people.> PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: Delivered a monthly performance dashboard (e.g., cost, profitability, growth, industry intelligence, etc.) to the office of the CEO.> STRATEGY AND M&A: Assessed the contribution of BCBSM’s and competitors’ business units to overall performance and modelled what types of businesses could improve future positioning.> STRATEGIC INITIATIVES: Worked with multiple stakeholders to establish a new legal entity to enable new business models.

New York, Ny, Us

Multiple titles starting as an Analyst with Harbour Consulting (which was acquired by Oliver Wyman in 2007) and ending as an Associate Director.> DIGITAL PRODUCT OWNER: Managed nearly all aspects of a $5M per year digital consulting product, called Harbour Report® including strategy, delivery, and prioritization> IT STRATEGY: Product owner for platform re-engineering; responsibilities included setting the vision, gathering requirements, and developing business logic for QA and complex querying> MODEL SOLUTIONS LEAD: Led a four-person team to design and implement statistical model and dashboard solutions using Power BI, Python, Git, and Atlassian> SUPPLIER NEGOTIATIONS: Helped deliver $45M in annualized savings for an iconic automobile brand by identifying opportunities and building a case for part supplier re-negotiations> OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT: Managed operational improvement project for a metal forming company involving competitive benchmarking and lean maturity assessments> CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Established a project management office (PMO) for an automotive factory to hand over the distribution process to a 3PL provider> ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: Led a “spans & layers” project to identify cost-savings and efficiency opportunities for a $6B consumer durables company that had recently been spun-off> SUPPLY CHAIN COST REDUCTION: Managed one-month cost reduction project uncovering $20M in annualized savings for a manufacturing plant in Spain> OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT: Led a project to reduce absenteeism at an industrial plant by identifying $3M in annual savings for quick wins and another $7M long-term> LEAN ASSESSMENTS: Assessed the maturity of lean principles at more than 75 manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia> LEAN MANAGEMENT: Built a value stream map of 800+ elements for the Harbour Report® project delivery

Dearborn Financial Publishing is a leading provider of innovative education, training, and compliance solutions to the financial services industry.> FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING: Supported month-end accounting and built a commission model.

Miami, Fl, Us

Developed roles and responsibilities for the newly created position that served and administered freight bill audit and payment system of Pratt & Whitney. Monitored Pratt & Whitney accounts payable and receivable, freight reporting, cost savings, problem resolution and client relations.> SUPPLY CHAIN COST REDUCTION: Assisted team that implemented $11M in savings for manufacturing conglomerate. > SUPPLY CHAIN COST REDUCTION: Substantially reduced cost through non-conformity in billing and contract application for various clients with more than $20M in freight under management.

Bachelor, General Studies (Economics, Statistics And Political Science)

Master’S Degree, Finance

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)