Joseph Simon Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Multi-year Business Forecasting and Planning: Responsible for developing and maintaining multi-year growth plans to effectively manage and expand Google Clouds global data center footprint. My role involves conducting thorough analysis and forecasting to ensure our data centers are optimally positioned to meet customer demands and drive the success of.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Manage $1.5B spend across 8 categories and 9 buyers, delivering results through data-driven analysis and accurate forecast
• Create monthly estimate of annual budget variances by analyzing actual results and forecasting year-to-go spend
• Determine both market and non-market drivers of budget variances, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure sourcing data and insights are translated into actions
• Created new process & controls for dairy buying and hedging, resulting in incremental $1M annual hedge gain

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led financial system (SAP) set up and testing for new international plant that resulted in a seamless transition of sourcing location for 700,000 cases of product shipped across the world
• Managed US export pricing for portfolio of 3,000 unique products in over 90 international markets
• Project manager for global initiative that reduced turnaround time by 50% for new international product launches
• Identified opportunity for global savings through SKU reduction and presented results to supply chain leadership team. Work led to global push for both direct and indirect savings through SKU reduction initiatives

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Finance lead for General Mills’ expansion and commercialization into an entirely new market
• Identified and communicated actions to make platform profitable. Resulted in ~$3M margin increase and solidified leaderships confidence in platform
• Responsible for costing and setting pricing for all new products in portfolio
• Interviewed consumers and retailers to develop a strategic story around the viability of our products in this new space
• Team won “7-eleven Vendor of the Year in Hot Food Service” award in 2018/2019

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Responsible for channel profitability, volume, net sales and risk and opportunity estimates to leadership
• Lead direction and advancement of channel financial strategies through both long and short-term planning
• Coordinated cross-functional effort to implement strategic revenue management practices. Resulted in ~$2.5M of estimated incremental sales/margin favorability due to optimization of product price
• Team won “Walmart Supplier of the Year for Innovation in Bakery” award in 2018/2019

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed marketing budgets and estimate processes for the Cereal and C&F operating units.
• Streamlined the consumer estimate process for entire domestic business by redesigning the way we present our work to leadership and enhancing the process used for creating our reports
• Identified inefficient consumer spending on Cheerios and presented findings to leadership. Resulted in cut in support for the brand and a shift in the overall makeup of the cereal portfolio marketing spend
• Delivered indices, impression, dollar spend and flex reporting for North American business
• Analyzed media spending trends to locate inefficient tendencies the company has adapted over time

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Analyzed dynamics between the products that make up a $342,000,000 product portfolio to determine the impact of product swapping on revenue growth and net sales improvement
• Offered full time employment following graduation as a result of my performance throughout internship

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Implemented new logistical ideas to help the company succeed during the highest sales summer in the company’s historyDeveloped a leadership role and delegated tasks to other employees in order to optimize efficiencyAssigned a mentor-ship role, by management, to train new employees

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance, General

Business

High School