Sam Taylor Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, OH, US

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Owned and delivered $450MM plant cost forecast within 2% accuracy (excl. commodity pricing), partnering with multifunctional leadership to focus the organization on process efficiency and reinforce a culture of cost.
• Led multifunctional loss analysis that identified $35MM of materials and energy savings via simplification and process reliability improvements, which informed Plant Leadership’s Fiscal Year 22/23 priorities.
• Managed Plant Finance and Accounting Local Analyst, ensuring her work plan drove exceptional business results and developed key leadership skills, resulting in her promotion to Mehoopany’s highest Technician level in.
• Led Mehoopany’s 2023 United Way Campaign that raised $708K, breaking previous record by $114K. Implemented key changes to campaign communication and incentives to increase engagement from ~1800 plant employees by 10%.
• Oversaw Mehoopany’s multifunctional forecasting team of 7, ensuring forecast vs. actuals reconciliation accuracy and building finance capacity outside the Finance and Accounting function at the plant.
• Created and deployed new people cost forecasting model, reducing forecasting team effort by 20%.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Expanded Strategy and CI role to cover organizational needs on the Charmin Finance and Accounting team.
• Owned two Charmin sub-brands – Charmin Ultra Gentle ($63MM revenue) and Charmin Flushable Wipes ($18MM revenue) – working with the brand manager to set and execute sub-brand strategy within Charmin portfolio.
• Owned financial analysis of new, off-initiative timing SKU proposals for Charmin Ultra Soft/Strong and Essentials Soft/Strong, supporting dynamic customer requests and meeting Charmin’s fiscal year financial targets.
• Owned biannual publication of the Family Care by-SKU profit & loss model that informs analyses across P&G Family Care Brands (Charmin, Bounty, Puffs).

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Delivered quarterly competitive updates to Family Care President, including analyses on public retail brand manufacturers and their COVID / post-COVID strategies.
• Created competitive scenario model that allowed for 5 years of by-retailer, by-manufacturer inputs to model post-COVID competitive landscape. Leveraged model to develop key insights for Family Care President’s strategy.
• Created competitive BT margin estimator, leveraging in-market data and multifunctional insights to validate historical assumptions and inform P&G understanding of “where-to-play, how-to-win” priorities of competition.
• Owned quarterly competitive reports shared with multifunctional partners to build broader organizational understanding of competitive landscape during volatile COVID years.
• Joined Finance and Accounting Intern Team as a member of the Experience Pillar where we developed an engaging virtual summer internship experience, resulting in an 80% acceptance rate on full-time offers extended to.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Finance & Accounting Intern, Family Care May 13, 2018 – Aug. 3, 2019
• Created detailed competitive landscape assessment for Bath and Towel categories used to estimate a multimillion-dollar investment risk and analyze risk-minimization options
• Identified key factors driving pallet efficiency by partnering with Package Development and Product Supply teams and recommended strategies to continue providing impactful cost savings
• Utilized KNIME modeling to update Private Label Towel price tiering, improving overall accuracy to 93% from 51%
• Recommended 8 trainings to further develop Family Care employees’ data analysis capabilities, focusing on the integration of KNIME workflows with existing systems

• Facilitate the distribution and circulation of books, manuscripts, etc. throughout the Duke University library system
• Aid students in research by locating sources and by contacting professionals/experts for interviews
• Collect materials requested by patrons from Duke and a wide range of other institutions of higher learning