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Chicago, Illinois, US

Glenview, IL, US

• Full P&L responsibility for division manufacturing and selling innovative body repair and professional detailing products and solutions including brands like Evercoat® and Auto Magic®. Leading team across North.
• Transformed stagnant division into one yielding consistent above-market profitable organic revenue growth. Achieved significant profitable revenue and operating income growth in 2021-2022.
• Executed new retail growth strategy which enabled new brand to become fastest growing and 2nd largest brand in category.
• Developed new go-to-market strategy, with improvements to distribution channel management, talent, and processes that enabled identification of a number of new sales opportunities and annual cost savings.
• Optimized operational excellence in manufacturing and supply chain to deliver best in-class product quality (99.5%) and on-time delivery to customers (95%).
• Drove continuous improvement- and results-oriented culture that improved productivity, efficiency, and safety, with high employee engagement index (91).

Glenview, IL, US

• Full P&L responsibility for global multi-site division selling tire repair products and solutions including brands like Slime® and FIX-A-FLAT®. Led team across North America, Europe and Asia as well as 7 direct reports.
• Guided retail and OEM business through COVID-19 pandemic, protecting health and well-being of employees while serving customers with excellence. Grew sales 10% and increased operating income 27%.
• Expanded manufacturing capacity and agility to respond to rapidly changing consumer demand.
• Led preparation and presentation of strategic long-term business plan to execute profitable sales growth in the context of accelerated adoption of Electric Vehicles (EV) and secured pipeline of significant new business.
• Led supply chain and sourcing organization for ITW Global Brands business (2020 to 2021, continuing into the Vice President General Manager Body Repair role). Deployed strategies and analysis to provide best-in-class.

Glenview, IL, US

• Oversaw all global finance and accounting functions for the Automotive Aftermarket Platform selling automotive aftermarket products and solutions including brands like RainX®, Slime®, Wynn's®, Evercoat® and Permatex®..
• Elevated finance function by upgrading talent and building strong talent pipeline and revitalized talent acquisition and calibration by improving job descriptions, core competency matrices, and talent calibration.
• Helped deliver consistent above-market profitable sales and operating income growth, bolstering significant improvement in operating margin by leveraging ITW business model through actionable strategic recommendations.
• Facilitated more robust long-range strategic plans, turning around 70% of core business segments by driving increased market understanding, strategic growth levers focus, and organizational planning across divisions.
• Served as key contributor to continuous improvement of operating performance, improving financial metric scorecard from score of 56 to 91, meeting or exceeding all planned enterprise initiative metrics, and yielding.

Cleveland, OH, US

• Served as strategic business partner and finance lead for $1B strategic business unit that sells paints, stains and specialty products to big box home improvement centers and hardware stores. Managed finance team.
• Functioned as key contributor to successful acquisition and integration of aerosol paint company.
• Created and presented financial models to support business transformation and support strategic growth initiatives.
• Implemented sales and profitability analysis tool, identifying opportunities to drive organic growth and margins improvement.
• Prepared and presented financial models of strategic business initiatives to corporate CEO and CFO.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Directed financial planning and analysis and controllership for the $1.7 billion Writing Segment which is the world leader writing instrument company, including brands like Sharpie®, Paper Mate® Uni-ball®, Expo®.
• Oversaw the implementation of Hyperion Planning/HFM in the Segment.
• Led development and implementation of sales and profitability analysis tool, allowing sales, marketing, and finance departments to identify business trends and optimizing sales opportunities and margins.
• Advised product development team rolling out new product platforms, performed financial modeling on sales, income, cash flow and return on investment (ROI) key performance indicators, prepared and presented initial.
• Steered international Enterprise Risk Management program across U.S., Mexico, and India, including cross-functional finance teams, introducing 40+ recommendations to mitigate operational, finance, and IT risks.

Atlanta, GA, US

• North America finance lead for the Everyday and Fine Writing Business Unit that produces and distributes writing instruments under the brands Paper Mate®, Uni-ball®, Parker® and Waterman®.
• Instrumental to strategic planning leading to 13% sales increase in pen business, raising operating margins by 24% through business simplification, pricing, new product launches and productivity initiatives.
• Enhanced inventory turn 25% and reduced surplus inventory 60% over two years by leading cross-functional team to improve inventory management, partnering with supply chain team to improve forecast accuracy, and.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Global finance lead for Rolodex and Rubbermaid branded Office Organization products.
• Enriched operating margins of this global business unit, influencing manufacturing, distribution as well as product, pricing, channel and brand strategy.
• Recruited, motivated and managed a strong, collaborative, results-driven finance team.
• Served as primary finance leader for productivity project, concluded on time and 17% under budget due to controlled spending.

Atlanta, GA, US

Began in $50 million Rubbermaid Commercial business unit, earned $150 million Irwin Tools business unit. Key Accomplishments- Developed financial model to support the creation of the Rubbermaid Commercial EMEA design center, focused geographical expansion and optimization of costs that enabled the business grow sales 8% and expand operating margins 350.

Atlanta, GA, US

Chosen for internal accounting control knowledge and business partnership skills to fix financial operations and drive the strategy with the operations leadership team of this $130 million plant in Luxembourg.Key Accomplishments- Partnered with Operations Director to deliver 20% in net productivity through insightful and focused financial decision.

Atlanta, GA, US

Recruited by Newell Rubbermaid Corporate to be part of new pool of finance talent in EMEA. Led efforts to drive compliance in internal accounting controls and management reporting. Spearheaded effort to resolve balance sheet reconciliation challenge in Europe (France and Netherlands). Resolved all issues in four months.

Massy, France, FR

Handpicked by Private Equity firm and Board Member to lead global finance operations (France, US, Germany and UK).Key Accomplishments- Helped raise $40+ million in private equity investments from French, US and Singapore firms to transform this French IT service company into a global software player.- Led the flip of the original French company into a.

Erasmus Exchange Program - International Finance

Master In Business Engineering, Business Administration And Management, General