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Addison, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Led development, testing, documentation and implementation of two key Materials Management system modules: • Accounts Payable and expense accruals, integrated with Oracle AP. Project encompassed 280 Ambulatory Surgery Centers and utilized the IOS ENVI Tool. • Electronic Preference Cards (Physician BOM), with automated matching. Encompassed 180 Ambulatory Surgery Centers.Lead Regional and on-site training of Facility Administrators, Material Managers and Accounts Payable• Procure-to-Pay • Electronic Preference Cards• Expense accruals • Case revenue & costing

Purchase, New York, Us

Enabled efficient planning, allocation and utilization of $2.4B Frito-Lay US Annual Selling Expense, encompassing Nation-Wide Retail Direct-to-Store and other Selling systems. Developed and rolled out detailed Annual Operating Plan Funds nationwide, in concert with overall financial algorithm.Guided financial discipline via period financial reporting/analysis, including identifying and communicating key performance drivers to Sr. Management and expense cost center owners nationwide.Led initiatives to close Quarterly profit performance Gaps by aligning spending with corporate financial commitments.Trained Cost Center owners in annual planning and performance management processes.Team delivered $14.5MM Better than Plan performance in 2011 and exceeded productivity targets every year.

Developed and implemented pricing strategies optimizing $1B of trade spend. Partnered nationwide with Sales and Finance teams to develop optimal, quarterly brand-level trade strategies addressing product price points, accounts, timing and market share objectives across national & regional retailers and sales channels.Developed models to forecast sales and profitability impacts of trade strategies at major supermarket accounts and reviewed quarterly with Sr. Management.Provided monthly insights for Sr. Management & CEO, highlighting trade strategy effectiveness in terms of market share, revenue and profitability impacts.Team delivered approx $100MM of incremental net sales efficiency annually.

Purchase, New York, Us

Led cross-division team representing $100MM spend across PepsiCo’s five divisions: Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana, Gatorade, Quaker Foods and Frito-Lay US. Led manufacturing economics modeling and analysis initiative on major spend groups, providing foundation for cost-based sourcing agreements. Attained three-year cost reduction target of 21% in two years.Led 2004-2006 three-year strategy development to capitalize on international (Asia/Latin America) sourcing, supplier consolidation and cost-based sourcing, providing path to additional 20% savings.Achieved 40% savings on additional set of beverage items in three months.Consolidated supplier base to 1/3.

Materials Procurement functional lead on 100 person cross-functional purchasing, finance and ITS team, leading business process design and ensuring the integration of subject matter experts with technical professionals. Replaced the purchasing infrastructure with Oracle, including ordering, receiving, inventory, costing and payables, plus material supplier links.

Led strategy development/implementation for sourcing of polypropylene and polyethylene-based packaging films, energy for 45 manufacturing plants and 12M fleet trucks, corrugated. Led Frito-Lay world-wide packaging film sourcing strategy formulation with Frito-Lay Europe and North American, European, Mexican and Canadian film manufacturers to develop partnerships capitalizing on global film and resin economics. Year-over-year savings rate approx $20MM.

Oversaw sixteen person team managing material supply planning through dedicated packaging supplier facilities and daily distribution to 45 plants nationwide on 950 SKU’s. Implemented disciplined short and medium-term production and capacity planning processes at suppliers. Maintained obsolescence at less than 1% of total volume while reducing working capital.

Relationship management/development of three focused flexible packaging suppliers. Developed detailed cash-flow based process economic models for negotiation and fixed asset utilization optimization.Annualized savings stream of $25MM through fixed asset optimization.Ensured the successful start-up of our first diversity packaging supplier.

Ensured the integrity of the key activity-based financial system which calculates detailed company-wide P&L with cross-sectional views from corporate to sales route level by geography, product type and distribution channel.

Lead 20 person team responsible for the management of 4,000 sales persons' daily account balances. Reduced average balance by 33% within nine months.

Implemented capital expenditure tracking and payment system nationwide to all plants. Lead final coding, testing training and documentation efforts.

Conducted risk-adjusted economic evaluations and reservoir production simulations on prospects across the risk spectrum. Led initiatives to identify high potential company and non-company operated prospects for acquisition.Assembled and sold to other operators packages of marginal company-owned properties.Participated in development of the Division's multi-year financial plan and presentation to senior management.

Mba, Finance

Bs, Petroleum Engineering