Patrick Downey Email & Phone Number

Irving, Tx, Us

Leading execution of annual cross-functional business processes, ensuring high-quality deliverables meet critical timelines for effective customer planning to drive growth.- Led the Annual Operating Plan process across multiple business units, delivering quality Go to Market plans to customer sales teams, enabling strategic growth planning- Designed engaging communications to build clear connections between business strategies and results, via Town Halls across N. American Personal Care- Facilitated market assessment, strategy creation, and coordinated completion of deliverables in annual Strategic Business Planning process with a multi-year view- Built personal capability with a special assignment in Digital Commerce, driving org design strategy, strengthening team processes, and improved digital content accuracy- Pressure-tested brand strategies and innovation plans against potential competitive scenarios by designing and facilitating wargame sessions, resulting in stronger tactical execution plans and investment shift decisions

Irving, Tx, Us

Leading and driving key innovation decision-making processes within the Baby & Child Care sector, guiding projects from idea to execution, balancing near- and long-term strategic objectives against business constraints and cross-functional goals.- Led the Innovation Mgmt Framework process, delivering annual targets of $120-$180MM growth from our portfolio by driving informed leadership investment decisions- Drove improvement in Innovation Mgmt, coaching project teams and removing roadblocks, simplifying process steps, and enabling a positive decision-making culture- Managed the BCC Portfolio process, creating synergy between brand claim visions, innovation planning and resource prioritization- Implemented digital visual mgmt. in the R&E organization, then deployed throughout KC North America and globally, enabling efficient and effective collaboration and event facilitation across multiple locations and teams via design and capability building

Irving, Tx, Us

Leading evolution of business processes and changing the mindsets of employees toward a continuous improvement culture, building capability in Lean thinking and tools.- Built capability across leadership team in fundamental and advanced Lean thinking, including a self-designed Lean Leadership Series to dive deeper than corporate training- Designed and led Design to Value processes, resulting in hundreds of cost savings ideas, including over $40MM in end-to-end business evaluation, serving as the process standard- Developed and delivered Lean Training to the R&E organization, setting progressive yearly individual objectives and building new teachers and facilitators throughout- Implemented rigorous cadence for strategy deployment development and management processes, resulting in year-on-year improvements on organizational objectives- Led various cross-functional kaizens with scopes including product innovation, quality improvements, business process transformation, 3P cost innovation, customer service

Irving, Tx, Us

Led improvement and sustaining activities in the diaper quality platform, delivering knowledge and decisions needed by plants, project teams, and business teams in order to deliver quality products to consumers.- Supervised day-to-day BCC quality team operations including other product platforms- Built team visual management and cadence to screen work requests and reduce errors- Supervised change management process for Huggies Diapers product specifications- System owner for quality data analysis reporting tools used by plant and staff teams- Implemented product inspection standards and support systems across three plants - Managed customer and consumer complaint process for Huggies Diapers- Developed planned response strategy for potential CPSC Public Database incident reports

Irving, Tx, Us

Managed the quality system and set strategy for improvement in a plant known as a quality leader for the sector. Supervised day-to-day quality team operations and quality improvement initiatives covering both Huggies and Pull-Ups product lines.- Ensured plant conformance to quality system standards (based on ISO 13485) - Reduced overall plant consumer complaint levels 22% over the first year of leadership- Applied new quality controls on projects, reducing startup consumer complaints 50%- Transitioned plant to more stringent quality metrics, reaching end of curve in 2 months- Implemented inspection system bypass reporting, resulting in 100% bypass elimination- Initiated and managed consumer complaint investigations and corrective actions- Assessed and determined disposition of non-conforming product

Irving, Tx, Us

- Built new team of on-shift safety-lean specialists, developing the position parameters, training program, implementation, and ongoing team leadership- Participated in leadership Lean training, strategy deployment, and A3 development- Taught quality team Lean principles and created time to implement problem solving- Created visual display of quality defects to raise awareness and drive problem solving- Adapted quality procedures to support improvements to material flow process- Developed and practiced leader standard work and created team member standard work- Built new KPI dashboards for the operations floor including consumer product feedback- Expanded project across the plant, managing ~2000 settings per machine- Participated in setting yearly objectives and directional vision across the corporation- Created and managed standardized naming system for 30+ global asset settings- Managed two transformational projects in two different product forms simultaneously- Coordinated on-shift activities resulting in successful project startups- Planned and managed material conversions

Irving, Tx, Us

- Reduced two diaper absorbency complaint categories to sustained record lows- Led multi-site, cross-functional team setting strategy and executing projects- Served on experimental runs management team, filtering and balancing project requests- Developed standards for experimental runs management after SAP implementation- Created sustainable, biodegradable component options for future product development- Optimized pilot-scale film and fiber extrusion processes with experimental materials- Contributed to development of elastomeric film composites with unique properties

Master Of Science (M.S.), Project Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering