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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Develop and lead a fully integrated supply chain including strategic planning, external manufacturing, materials management, 3PL operations, logistics and order fulfillment for a complex, EPA regulated product line requiring cold chain handling.

Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Promoted to establish supply and capacity planning process discipline in a fast paced environment for all pandemic response products within the Rapid Diagnostics Infectious Disease and Developed Markets business unit.- Supported supply chain expansions for revenue growth driven by the COVID rapid testing product lines, including BinaxNOW and IDNOW products.- Managed and mentored staff of 39 direct and indirect reporting teams including planning and distribution managers, planning analysts and warehouse operations.- Accountable for the Nordics region commercial distribution operation for all BU’s within the Rapid Diagnostics division including the logistics and inventory management and warehouse efficiencies of the Oslo, Norway distribution center and staff.

Abbott Park, Il

Managed the global facilities category supporting over 100 manufacturing facilities and more than 500 office, warehouse and lab facilities.- Managed division, corporate and site operations leaders to streamline and standardize services.- Built strategic supplier partnerships, improved transparency, cost efficiencies and reduced risk.- Dedicated in-role project assignment as Senior Supply Chain Project Manager and delivered a highly successful project in the Rapid Diagnostic business on the supply chain workstream on the COVID pandemic response team.- Within project assignment, developed and maintained a network capacity model, tracked and forecasted finished test releases and supported continuity of raw material supply and contingency planning for limited supply items.

Casa Grande, Az

Promoted to lead the retort and aseptic liquid manufacturing operations and maintain the site’s materials management function with a direct staff of operations, planning and warehouse managers.- Responsible for 24/7 operations for three FDA regulated manufacturing lines with annual production of over 385M units and an extended staff of 120+ employees.- Continued oversight over site's S&OP and loading plans and material control operation.- Led start up of and recognized by TetraPak for Best in North America Operations for milk based production.

Casa Grande, Arizona

Received a promotion to lead site’s Materials Management organization with a direct staff of warehouse managers and inventory and production planning managers with an extended staff of 25 employees.- Responsible for the S&OP and loading plans for FDA regulated adult nutrition and infant formula production facility.- Led development and management of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to meet production demand, maintained responsible Days On Hand (DOH) inventory, and oversaw 24/7 material control activities.- Effectively quantified and presented the site complexity profile to division leaders to help drive fact-based capacity and loading decisions and New Product Introduction (NPI) evaluations.

Casa Grande, Arizona

Responsible for site’s master production schedule and inventory planning team for an adult nutrition and infant formula site with 6 production work centers.- Reduced average inventory value by 20%, best in division days on hand (DOH) inventory management.- Recognized with a Keystone Award; premier global recognition for top tier achievement within the division.

Casa Grande, Arizona

Led a night shift crew of operators on an FDA regulated infant formula powder operations line.- Maintained a philosophy of audit readiness and right first time by consistently delivering the message of “why our work matters”.- Modeled and presented decisions that managed product costs, profitability, margin and material utilization for the shift; led the team to a 25% OEE improvement.

Lake Forest, Il

Promoted to deliver market intelligence and purchase price variance (PPV) forecasting of agricultural commodities for Abbott Nutrition business.- Created market assessments for the procurement team to construct financial budgets, presented market assumptions and financial impacts to the division supply chain VP during plan and standard financial cycles.- Developed and delivered risk management strategies for US soybean oil and maltodextrin spends and effectively managed P&L exposure related to commodity market volatility.

Lake Forest, Il

Delivered market analysis and supported negotiations for the for Nutritional category purchasing team.- Maintained the PPV tracking tool and developed a consistent, rigid process for ongoing updates.- Built and implemented the SharePoint site and improved information management productivity.

Northfield, Il

Hired by Kraft Foods, Inc. as a contractor to deliver data modeling and analysis to support the Ingredient category.- Identified productivity opportunities and methods to execute sourcing strategies. - Introduced a reverse bid strategy by learning Ariba procurement and supply chain software.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Finance, Economics

Activities and Societies: Investment Society, Society for Economics

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