Develop and implement ongoing sales and marketing strategies to achieve goals, including growing sales from $17 million to $35 million.Met objective to reduce major sources of supply costs by 15-20%. Responsible for establishing a website presence to meet overall sales goals by focusing on SEO performance and electronic marketing programs. Expanded the scope of the sales team to include Customer Service and Estimating, aligning these functions with customer and industry expectations.

Responsible for executive leadership and financial responsibility for all manufacturing, distribution, forecasting, planning, purchasing, sourcing, and administrative services supporting the production and distribution of multiple ACCO brands.Directed sourcing and purchasing activities throughout the North Americas, China, and Europe to ensure sustainable competitive advantage and strong brand presence.Instituted a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process that effectively matched demand with production, while reducing production costs and shortening production time to market.Responsible for Lean Six Sigma process improvement initiatives that affected all departments throughout the organization. Initiated ACCO’s Corporate Lean Manufacturing plan. Oversaw the rollout of Lean Manufacturing at two of ACCO’s U.S. production facilities. Achieved:o Production cost reduction of 20% over a two-year period.o Average annual cost savings of 5-7% consistently year over year. o 97% on-time performance and product quality delivery programs for all purchased goods.

Direct all sourcing and purchasing activities throughout the North Americas, China, and Europe to ensure a sustainable competitive advantage and strong brand. Drive ongoing process improvement that goes beyond the traditional low price negotiations, and instead incorporates a holistic manufacturing, technology, materials, and financial view to be an extremely efficient low cost producer of qualiy products.