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Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Global role with accountability to lead commercial partnership developments and drive value added portfolio developments.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Directed experimentation with value chain partnerships to discover unmet market needs and evaluate opportunities to generate new customer demand.
• Championed design thinking concepts to enhance accountability and elevate economic thinking, prioritizing desirability and identifying unmet market needs.
• Pioneered a new process to enhance project origination, prioritize ideas, and formulate clear problem statements, fostering R&D ideation.
• Assessed a multi-year initiative through collaboration with consultants and focus groups, ultimately proposing project termination.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Led customer requirements discovery for new nylon polymer products and developed strategy for disruptive end-use applications in transportation, oil and gas, and telecom.
• Advised commercial leaders on airbag market trends and fiber pricing by developing tools and evaluating new business opportunities.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

• Managed financial forecast and advised leadership on business performance.
• Created airbag fiber competitive cost and price setting models to support customer negotiations. Recommended value-based price strategies for executed agreements.
• Led development of Power BI visualization tools which provided insights to sales team for customer negotiations and reduced time for internal teams to evaluate new opportunities.

Wichita, Kansas Area

• Led demand planning and acted as SAP-APO global demand superuser.
• Executed ABC segmentation strategy to focus on profitable customers/products, resulting in improved product availability, SKU reductions and a new distributor strategy.
• Trained demand/sales planners during SAP launch, reducing working capital

Wichita, Kansas Area

• Tasked to find new customers and develop price strategy.
• Led cross-functional teams to support new product commercialization. Evaluated customer needs, negotiated supplier contracts, led new engineering developments and created a service structure supporting new customer.
• Conducted market research, made cold calls for new customers, and was top sales performer in revenues generated and future commitments.
• Evaluated installation products within budget and negotiated supplier agreements.

Wichita, Kansas Area

• Conducted benchmark studies that spearheaded a packaging initiative across six plants, effectively reducing costs and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Greater Detroit Area

• Managed the annual financial forecasting and reporting of $2B for global plans.
• Assisted the US labor negotiation team by conducting comprehensive analyses.

Greater Detroit Area

• Led monthly cost forecast, evaluated expenses and supported operations to manage and reduce costs while supporting SEC reporting requirements.

Greater Detroit Area

• Developed manufacturing plant cost tracking metrics for US, Canada, and Mexico.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Manufacturing Engineering