Senior Vp, Business Transformation
Implemented company’s new global growth strategy initially in Europe and eventually worldwide. Moved countries from current distributor-based model to more consumer-centric model to free sales force from logistics and administration tasks to focus on sales management. Created and implemented change management and project management framework to manage overall program and track milestones, deliverables, and results.• Set up, staffed and built transformation department.• Devised implementation plan to complete Europe in three years, designed and documented every aspect of new model, and destocked one third of distributors in Europe. Designed to achieve annual savings of $50 million.• Took over overall responsibility for development of model IT company for the new model and supervised implementation.