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We collaborate with client leadership teams and business owners to define, shape and address their most important, complex and challenging (gnarly) problems. We find practical, actionable and profitable ways to improve under-performing businesses, manage through digital disruption, and set functional strategies that build competitive advantage, improve.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Focused on Big 4 Services Firm and leading food, ingredient and trading company, understanding client strategies, identifying and shaping unique IBM Digital solutions, supporting and accelerating client’s goals in.
• Identified $1B in potential client value that IBM could deliver over 5 years in support of client’s strategic vision, completed a due diligence Proof-of-value with $1.5MM follow-on, with transfer pricing, fraud and HR.
• Opened new account with Predictive C-Suite Dashboard Proof-of-Value for $2MM planned implementation, delivered double digit forecast accuracy, improving visibility into future revenue and profit performance.

Teaneck, New Jersey, US

• Global leader of an 80-member global consumer products consulting team, posting 28% CAGER over 4 years
• Led Promotion, CRM and R&D solution selection projects for global food & beverage company Developed consumer insights and data strategy, operating model and roadmap for global fragrance firm.
• Improved marketing ROI 14% by developing a single view of customer across Asian markets through process and technology harmonization strategy project for 4 business units of global fragrance and beauty care major

New York, NY, US

• Strategic partner, consulted with US Commercial organization, identifying opportunities to leverage information and technology, creating competitive advantage. Managed $3MM in projects per year.
• Accessed $34MM in incremental sales by developing a commercial data Warehouse, integrating market, distributor and internal data, supporting best practice distributor management and new market analytics tools.
• Participated in a Revenue Realization pilot, leading to $1MM process reengineering technology project.
• Led Campaign Management/TPM project enabling visibility to and control of $300MM marketing spend
• Initiated Web Site Governance initiative, rationalizing 537 sites into 31 core and 46 secondary sites, reengineered web governance processes and controls, identified $2MM infrastructure consolidation value

New York, NY, US

• Identify, shape, structure and deliver strategic and operational improvements across the consumer goods value chain
• Identified $3 billion in supply chain benefits from implementing global best practices for beverage company
• Merged global food manufacturer’s Sales and Supply Chain into a Shared Service to preserve retail scale, lower cost
• Reengineered a drinks distributor’s ‘route-to-market’, increasing selling time 150% while reducing cost
• Improved retailer margin by 36% by developing an Assortment Optimization model for a regional grocer

General Manager of the Master Data Management division with 35 staff and full P&L responsibility. Also managing consulting and RFID initiatives.

CPG industry solution providing data syncronization and e-collaboration services to 200 manufacturers and their retail partners in 21 countries reaching 40% of the world's consumer goods sales. Led the data sync division, managed European sales.

GB

Provided strategic and process improvement consulting to leading consumer goods, industrial and manufacturing clients. Projects spanned the supply chain, from demand creation, trade promotion, through supply chain management.

Global, US

Operations consultancy, division of CSC

Global, US

Experience helping clients manage complex demand chain and supply chain issues, with a focus on the manufacturer/retailer interface in CPG companies.