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Financial leader for McCain Foods North America Appetizer; partner and advisor to President, North America Appetizers to drive strategic, profitable growth. Accountable for managing the product cost development and budgets at 6 manufacturing locations throughout US and Canada. Responsible for providing commercial controls, processes, oversight and approval for all NA Appetizer Pricing, Trade Deals, Commercial Bids and other related Pricing activities

Financial leader of the Canadian business responsible for driving business performance by partnering with the Canadian Leadership Team to drive strategy and results

Provided financial leadership for Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and Taiwan region to drive growth, profit and cash flow initiatives.

Develop and execute pricing strategy for Retail and Foodservice business units.~Provide financial analysis and pricing guidance for contract negotiations with top 3 national QSR chains (McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Burger King) and Retail grocery chains.~Create commodity positioning direction for Sales to maximize product profitability.

Brand Finance Business Partner responsible for financial leadership of $1 Billion Hillshire Farm Business Unit.~Collaborated with cross functional team to identify and capture cost reductions worth $9MM annually~Led multiple training sessions for marketing partners to increase their financial acumen and focus their efforts to improve low margin product lines; Improved low margin business from -6% to +4%

Managed Sales Finance Team responsible for supporting $250MM Convenience Sales channel~Supported the sales teams with pricing strategies, contract drafting and negotiating, and dispute resolution, which realized $1.2MM in operating profit improvement.~Implemented a standard Beverage contract process across Foodservice Division, which closed an open internal audit point.

Customer Finance Business Partner primarily responsible for supporting National Restaurant customers with annual sales of $150MM.~Revamped S&OP process by developing and implementing a "bottoms-up" forecasting tool & reporting bridges

Multi-functional strategic leadership role primarily responsible for driving focus and execution of financial commitments and objectives with Industry Sales and Service Delivery Organizations.~Determined pricing for outsourcing proposals worth up to $20MM.~Consistently achieved 98% financial forecast accuracy for contract revenue and gross profit

Finance leader responsible for developing annual and strategic budgets with staff of 5.~Developed cost accounting procedures which complied with Mexican and US customs regulations for start-up Kellogg facility in Mexico