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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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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..

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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