John Reed Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Essen, Nrw, De

Leader of Evonik's Technical Applications business team, focusing on upstream Oil & Gas, Mining and General Industrial end markets.

Essen, Nrw, De

In my current role, I support 3 Product Lines of the Business Line Care Solutions in Evonik. My team and I partner with all parts of the organization globally - operations, sales, marketing, customer service, accounting and others - to ensure that we are challenging ourselves to improve performance, achieve our financial targets and deliver value to our customers.

Essen, Nrw, De

- Lead Business Analysis team for 5 Business Lines in North America with annual sales in excess of $500 million per year.- Partner with Business Lines, Operations, and Service Unit teams to drive change and create strategies which increase productivity, enable profitable growth, and manage financial risk.- Enhance the transparency and understanding of business performance and financial data to improve business profitability.- Provide analysis on critical business issues for the Nutrition & Care Segment in North America and present results to upper management. Provide analysis for investment projects for new business, capacity expansion and other key projects.

Essen, Nrw, De

- Provide sound financial analysis and advice to multiple Business Lines- Enhance the transparency and understanding of business performance and financial data to improve business profitability.- Provide analysis on critical business issues for the Nutrition & Care Segment in North America and present results to upper management. Provide analysis for investment projects for new business, capacity expansion and other key projects.- Prepare business projections throughout the year and create a financial budget that reflects the strategies of each Business Line- Interface with Business Lines and all support departments to optimize processes and streamline the flow of financial information for faster and better decision making.

Richmond, Va, Us

- Develop and implement working capital solutions for MWV's global supply chain organization- Monitor and mitigate financial risks through the supply chain by developing strategies for managing exposures to volatile commodity costs and financially-distressed vendors- Manage team responsible for travel card, purchasing card, and expense reporting programs- Coordinate forecasts and budgeting for raw materials, energy and logistics costs to our business leaders- Responsible for planning and managing financial budgets for global supply chain organization

Richmond, Va, Us

- Responsible for delivering cost savings & avoidance, cash cycle improvement and the development of robust sourcing strategies for several critical raw material categories- Integration, development and optimization of global supply chains to strengthen profitable, emerging market growth for the organization- Coordinate and engage with R&D, suppliers, operations & business leaders to support the development of innovative packaging solutions

Richmond, Va, Us

- Optimized raw material forecasting process for operating business units- Provided leadership in supply chain risk assessment and strategy development, resulting in the implementation of multiple risk mitigation projects for critical raw material categories- Led research and analytical effort to improve the execution of financial hedging opportunities for key publicly-traded commodities

Essen, Nrw, De

- Generated & presented custom market research insights to leading CPG organizations- Managed business line pricing strategies for NAFTA region, including the creation and execution of price increase campaigns, leading to significantly-improved margins- Developed production cost models and sales forecast models in order to create detailed business plans, aligning individual account & category objectives to overall corporate strategies

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

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

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