Scott Costello Email & Phone Number

Loveland, Oh, Us

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Greater Detroit Area

• Directly responsible for commercial management for driveline and driveshaft products for two OE customers totaling $300M in annual revenue. Costing and quoting of engineering changes and quoting of new programs/opportunities. • Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Driveshafts in the Sales organization.

Greater Detroit Area

• Responsible to lead timing, validation, launch and financial performance for a go fast $.5B driveshaft program. Launched in Mexico. Coordinated M.E., P.E., Quality, Materials, Sales, and 120 salary and hourly production associates. • Mastered the product and process, aligned the team, streamlined communication and installed and certified 30 assembly and component machines on time and under program budget.• Hired, trained and placed manpower on 3 shifts (120 associates), passed customer run-at-rates and received production approval (PPAP) on time to customer milestones.

Greater Detroit Area

2010-2018: Aftermarket Operations• P&L responsible for warehouse operations, product sourcing, ordering, inventory, kitting, and distribution of aftermarket products to 150 customers / 400 ship to locations. Responsible for 14 hourly associates and 4 salary management/administration associates.• Consolidated two warehouse operations to one, improving overall inventory turns.• Created and implemented a Sales & Operations Planning process and executed inventory min-max strategies across all product categories that resulted in improved on-time delivery performance from 60% to +90% to aftermarket customers.• Launched multiple new product lines supporting growth objectives while beating inventory targets, maintaining inventory control within .5% and increasing gross margin by 3 points from 2015 through 2017. 2015-2018: Global Service Sales• Directed all service team commercial negotiations and relations with GMCCA, Mopar, and Nissan for North American operations including annual metal market adjustments.• Established a new and repeatable process for analyzing service part profitability and managing lifecycles.• Negotiated favorable pricing and increased profitability in 2016 and 2017 for late lifecycle service parts.2013-2014: Global Prototype Purchasing• Category Managed all driveline components with nearly 100 suppliers for 35 advanced engineering driveline projects. • Re-aligned purchased material costs to beat budget targets and eliminated all purchasing related timing issues by creating and implementing a new Sales and Operations Planning process that aligned purchasing activities with operations priorities.• Responsible for 4 salary purchasing professional direct reports.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

• Category Management for over $2 Billion APV, 325 suppliers, strategic and global sourcing, savings, localization projects, and supplier consolidation for all driveline components. Sub-assemblies, castings, forgings, machining, tubing, stampings, seals, bearings, fasteners, oil, other. • Responsible for 11 salary purchasing professional direct reports. • Exceeded 2006 through 2009 budgeted savings targets.• Sourced over $100M in future programs’ components on-time and overall, under approved business case cost targets.• Managed 2008/2009 recession related supplier bankruptcies, consolidation, and supply chain relations with no interruptions to supply.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Created global commodity strategies for castings, forgings, outside machining, heat-treat, and powdered metal components. Created and implemented a commodity team process for castings focused on product engineering and supplier coordination resulting in 40% reductions in future program purchased part costs.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Led timing, validation, launch and financial performance of major product programs representing more than $50M in capital investment. Lead cross-functional teams in U.S., Mexico, and Brazil using four-square and master timing schedules, reporting program status and performance to senior management. Launched front axles in Mexico and new hypoid gear machining operations in Brazil on time and under budget.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Led and trained 55 production hourly direct reports in machining, assembly, maintenance, and materials management producing and shipping front axle assemblies. Direct production leadership experience in FMC tight tolerance machining, heat treat, transfer line machining, cold forming, and high-volume synchronous assembly in $140M and $400M operations.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Coordinated costing and quoting for new opportunities and engineering changes for Worldwide Programs Sales group. Analyzed global vehicle segments and translated vehicle market data into driveline market data. Provided baseline data for all annual budgets, plant load decisions and capacity planning. Created the first company-wide capacity planning process. Managed analysis and ranked acquisition targets. Created and implemented a companywide tracking process for accurate and fast analysis of over 4,000 productivity initiatives totaling $120M in savings.

Masters, International Business, Human Resources Management

Bachelors, Finance