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Jacksonville, FL, US

Carrollton, Texas, US

Jacksonville, Florida, US

Manage a team of 4 US based and 16 El Salvador based professionals. The team is responsible for managing and verifying over $500M in EDI transactions, consolidating, entering, and correcting Billing & Payment Settlement transactions to support invoicing and settlement daily of Land Transportation Commercial business based on contract requirements and.

Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, FR

• Responsible for the financial and commercial evaluation of proposed, large (multi-million dollar) customer transactions, customer contract terms and conditions and capital expenditures for the Contract Logistics group..
• Manage the Investment and New Contract Approval Process ("ICAP") in collaboration with Finance and Legal to obtain the approval from the Global Head Office ("GHO") in Europe for approximately 125 contracts annually.
• Administer contract renewals program to gain full situational awareness of all pending renewals. Develop communication and tracking tools to provide timely and accurate renewal statuses to senior management and renewal.
• Developed a contract auditing process to compare the accuracy of invoicing as compared to the commercial contract. Completed audits of 62 contracts which had revenue of approximately $623 million. Discovered $123k in.
• Assumed leadership of an underperforming Freight, Bill, Audit and Pay department. Implemented process improvement and managerial oversight tools to drive customer invoice due date to coincide with carrier payment due.
• Perform post investment reviews of large new contracts.

Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, FR

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Reported to the CEO, responsible for managing and executing high level strategic projects, including the integration of Interline Brands acquisition of AmSan, a $250M janitorial supply company.
• Led a comprehensive process with all functional departments within Interline and AmSan to realize $5.8M of synergy savings expectations. The team outperformed expectations and the final savings were in excess of $9M.
• Managed integration team of 10 people responsible for Information System gap analysis, data conversion, training, and integration day management. The team completed on time the integration of 4 computer platforms over.
• Directed project to consolidate 2 corporate office locations in Mt Laurel, NJ into a new 35,000 sq ft location. Activities included new location analysis and lease negotiations, coordination of space build out and.
• Developed and implemented a project using new phone technology that allows computer controlled call routing for our customer service centers. The advantages of the new technology allowed for the consolidation of 8.

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Directed all aspects of operations and finance for a newly created division of the Barnett Brand. Responsible for all financial reporting for the Pro Center division. Activities included budgeting, results reporting.
• Opened 30 contractor pick up locations and 22 vendor managed inventory locations throughout the United States over a 3 year period. Activities included lease negotiations, warehouse set up, inventory buildup and.
• Developed and implemented a vendor managed supply chain solution designed to help our customers increase sales and productivity while reducing cost. The supply chain solution established an employee managed store.
• Held accountable for all budgeted and operational reporting for the division. This included Sales and Expenses for all locations, 60 person outside sales team and management overhead.
• Requested by management to serve as the operational leader of a disaster response team that opened a new location in Gulf Port, Mississippi in response to and relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Liaison between Operations Department, Corporate Accounting and the Executive Team for financial planning and reporting.
• Developed a process to manage, communicate and track distribution center labor performance. Reported to the executive team the achievement of over $1.0M of planned labor savings.
• Managed $50M multi location distribution Center operating budget and internal financial reporting for 2003 and 2004
• Developed and presented proposed distribution center consolidation project pro forma analysis, identifying potential real-estate, labor, freight and operational savings and presenting payback information on proposed.

• Standardized accounting practices over multiple international locations including extensive travel.