Mario Freire, Mba Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, US

Atlanta, GA, US

Interim Vice President of Global Commercial Finance at LifeScan, a Platinum Equity backed medical device portfolio company acquired from Johnson & Johnson.

Elmwood Park, NJ, US

An OPKO Health company, BioReference Laboratories is the 3rd largest and fastest growing clinical laboratory over the last 35 years, providing diagnostic testing to physician offices, hospitals and clinics.

Teaneck, NJ, US

Bridgewater, NJ, US

• Head of North American Finance on the Consumer Health and Vision Care BUs. Responsible for full P&Ls with consumer manufactured/marketed products in various franchises as well as medical devices in a fast-paced matrix.
• Led and developed a strong finance team to efficiently support and drive the business, maximizing profits through smart spend, tighter accruals and improving operating processes and cash flow (Cut obsolescence in half.
• Monitored performance, tested assumptions, challenged results, and made recommendations driving improved forecast accuracy to within +2% (Goal + or - 3%) 4 years in a row, built great Budgets, Forecasts, 10-year Strat.
• Increased Net Sales by improving Gross to Net ratio, by creating work streams to analyze GTNs like returns & rebates (Improved margins & reserves making P&Ls consistent and in line with GAAP)
• Refined PO process and vendor utilization to drive down OPEX by reviewing SOWs, SLAs and contracts, competitive bidding, using scale, and zero-basing budgets (Saved millions the first year implemented)
• Built course correcting trackers to help analyze product launches, significant media investments, inventory, royalty, PV mix, sales force commission, and SKU rationalization (Data-driven insights for Sr. leadership)

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Strategic Partner to Division Leadership (CMO, Head of Global R&D, and Regional Leadership). Proactively identified and communicated key business issues, driving value creation through post launch evaluations and.
• Provided guidance with analytics on business cases for innovations projects, helping to build and deliver on 5-year strategic plan objectives ($2Bn) and ensuring the innovation pipeline was filled
• Focused on costing and pricing to improve GM, while aligning to integrated business plans on supply
• Developed budget for global Marketing and R&D functions, including structure and project costs
• Advised on and created project scoring methods with strategic and financial weightings to rank projects
• Created templates to capture prioritization scores, helping to drive focus on product sustainment

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Financial advisor to the Cough and Cold category Sr. Marketing Director. Proactively identified and communicated key business issues, driving resource allocation decisions to deliver on commitments.
• Controlled Annual Budget process and 5 year Strategic Plan, partnering with Leadership Team
• Provided P&L monthly forecasting and month end close for area supported. Delivering value added analysis to marketing team to improve business results
• Improved quarterly forecast accuracy partnering with marketing organization. Delivered within 5% error objective each year
• Drove cost savings efforts to free resources and reinvest in the business, improving marketing ROI

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Owned total functional costs, driving spend down vs. prior years and targets. (Saved over $8Mn through 1st half of 2009), enforcing requisition policies, internal controls, and GAAP. Supported all department heads.
• Prepared targets, LEs, monthly calls, and tracked and reported on Better & Cheaper initiatives
• Developed process and reporting improvements, reducing employee costs
• Standardized reports, created forward looking KPI’s, increased granularity of large spend pools, eliminated duplication, and maintained continual alignment on employee costs (Focused on SAP/BW/BI reports with Excel.
• Mentored and developed skills of direct reports, changed environment from reactive to proactive
• Monitored and uncovered risks and opportunities, driving accountability for 10 functional areas

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Subject matter expert (SME) and liaison between Finance and IT, training finance team in technology solutions like SAP, BW, and BI (Maintained General Ledger, Chart of Accounts, Global Structures, Profit and Cost.
• Helped control and monitor IT infrastructure projects (Establishing cost allocation rules)
• Maintained hierarchy and structure for all cost and profit centers (query developer, power user), created all assessment cycles in SAP, Plan version control, locking/unlocking system, and copy jobs (1st line of defense.
• Supported and coordinated SAP and BW upgrades, built business critical reports in SAP and BW for analysis of sales, cogs, and P&L by categories (reducing manual efforts)
• Wrote functional specs for development of BI queries for front end migration from BW
• Supported finance in planning process, reconciliations, uploads, plugs

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance

Bs, Accounting