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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Oak Brook

Rosemont, IL

Northfield, IL

- $1B Planters business, report directly to VP of Finance- Lead finance support on cross functional pricing team to ensure a balanced PNOC profile. - With nut costs approximately 80% of total product cost it is imperative that team uses pricing as a tool to recover commodity costs or to remain competitive in the nut aisle to drive the pnl.- Support new.

Northfield

- Managed pnl to ensure a flat to favorable PNOC profile across commodity driven categories like Meat, Dairy, Beverages, and Snacks. - Executed the exit of large national account bacon and hot dog businesses that were driving negative margins which resulted in a positive margin businesses post execution.- Worked cross functionally with sales and marketing.

Northfield, IL

- Led planning and analytics across the plant buffer/mixing centers and freight costs for all business units. - Managed $2B in costs across multiple locations, and over the entire Kraft portfolio of skus.- Managed, and developed one direct report

Rochelle, IL

- Oversaw all plant related financials from raw, pack, and conversion costs to standard setting.- Socialized plant profitability by shift to all employees of the plant, both union and management.- Supported union negotiations and sitting in on union requests.- Managed, and developed two direct reports

Glenview, IL

- Learned the basics of the general ledger, and the monthly close process while working with plant finance.- Supported the Granite City, and Naperville plants from a month end close, and any ad-hoc projects to help drive efficiencies at their locations.

Glenview, IL

- Learned the basics of the general ledger, and the monthly close process while working with the area sales teams.- Helped support the accounting team in various audit requests (ex. business gifts, and product recalls)

Chicago, IL

- Led various general accounting processes for the cell phone startup company.