Kimberle Dean Email & Phone Number

Papillion, Ne, Us

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Led procurement contracting and purchasing across the business ingredient portfolio.

Omaha, Nebraska

🔹 Direct all aspects of supply chain procurement for raw ingredients and meats, including managing supplier relationships and monthly review meetings. Collaborate with suppliers/buyers to identify opportunities for improvement and cost savings.• Control $400M in annual spend for proteins category, including turkey, chicken, and casings.• Manage $170M in spend for ingredients such as tomatoes, tomato paste, legumes, peanuts, and food chemicals.• Partner with core team on sizing project savings and work with other procurement teams to document single source and financial risk mitigation plans for the company.• Collaborated cross-functionally to develop a sign-off form and update procurement policies.• Developed and implemented a financial credit rating dashboard and a supplier sign-off tracking code of conduct.• Contributed to seven project plans, driving efforts to identify between $5M and $20M of opportunity.• Created new project tracking for all savings initiatives and delivered more than $3.5M in cost reductions.• Analyzed a significant Distributor contract and developed a strategy to extend the agreement.• Made significant contributions to restarting the supplier diversity program.

🔹 Managed financials, including planning, forecasting, and reporting of actuals, for more than $550M in annual spend.• Partnered with Energy Procurement to align for transportation miles, enabling hedging for planning and forecasting.• Teamed with Transportation Procurement for customer lane miles and logistic costs from annual bid.• Developed transportation STRAT plan and calculated ZBA transportation losses by categories.

🔹 Managed five staff while partnering with operations managers, senior directors, and the VP of Contract Manufacturing to control financials and support 130+ consumer/private brand contract manufacturing sites.• Administered a $750M contract manufacturing annual plan, 11% of consumer spend.• Developed and directed consistent processes to drive compliance with SOX guidelines and internal SOPs.• Planned, tracked, and monitored contract manufacturing SG&A budget and managed internal audits.• Led a confidential COGS analysis project to achieve baseline cost at various None-SAP plants.• Tracked savings and reported monthly financial metrics to SLT.• Analyzed projects for repatriation opportunities, price changes, yields, ad hoc reporting, and more while identifying and addressing financial risk suppliers (existing and/or new).• Assisted with physical inventories at contract manufacturer location and earned numerous awards for special projects.• Participated in project plans to acquire PF Chang, Bertolli, Odom Tennessee Pride, Pie business, and more.• Contributed to the interview process for the CoMan operations organization.

Omaha, Nebraska

🔹 Directed nine team members, set annual goals, and managed project timelines while working to control $50M P&L for the Foodservice Pricing and Consumer Broker Commissions departments.• Directed business strategies to reduce line order errors and cut error rates 22% for customer expected price.• Facilitated the validation of 100% of SAP data pricing and contract agreements.• Improved invoicing accuracy from 78% to 93% for specific key accounts.• Reduced pricing error 46% for specific key account (meat and dairy price sheets).• Implemented process improvements and worked on special project to Consolidate Broker Commission Reporting and Payment process that received a CFO award.• Developed an SAP commission table sequence for broker commission contract requirements.• Created and managed training for commission calculation / contractual agreements for brokers and pricing structure for the Foodservice Division and Customer Service Center.

🔹 Led up to 12 team members in building and leading validation processes and procedures for broker commissions.• Enhanced SAP R3 version of the broker commission calculation to fulfill the needs for Foodservice.• Reconciled financial balance sheet and P&L reports in the Business Warehouse tool for upgrade to SAP.• Transitioned fixed asset reporting and processes from Indianapolis to Omaha.

🔹 Advanced through positions of increasing scope and accountability while working with other departments to improve business and financial processes. Worked on special projects, including developing appropriate financial models as needed. • Managed daily validations performed by employees and provided feedback to enhance employee growth/performance. • Controlled new product costing and monthly cost changes to ensure accurate product costing.• Audited the year-end inventory count at distribution centers and stores, evaluated variances, and reported findings.• Researched root cause and developed solutions for cost errors and communicated findings to other organizations.• Developed a process to evaluate product pricing, cost, margin analysis, and bills of material structure.• Calculated business sales commissions for sales representatives, Directors, and Vice Presidents.

Bs, Business Administration/Accounting

Aas, Accounting