Stephen May Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Se

*Wausau Paper acquired by Essity (Essity was formerly known as SCA)*

Mosinee, Wisconsin, Us

Full ownership of sales demand forecast, raw material and finished goods inventory, and production planning for paper making and converting operations.

Mosinee, Wisconsin, Us

Primary responsibilities include analytical support for Wausau's brands, which encompass a multitude of departments including pricing, customer incentives, customer service and sales. One primary component of this is the monthly forecast which I provide to the team, giving visibility at the customer and product level for all of our customers. • Assumed responsibility for sales volume forecast at the customer/sku level. Forecast is communicated to numerous internal customers, including Finance, Operations planning, Marketing and Revenue. • Created an automated forecast reconciliation which runs each morning. A report summary is generated, which summarizes actual shipments versus forecast. • Generate yearly financial plan for sales volume as well as net sales at the customer/sku level. • Developed and institutionalized the company’s first sales pipeline, which allowed for standardized and efficient entry of sales opportunity data from the sales force. • Instrumental in developing the product and pricing strategy for two new product lines, including the creation of a net pricing model. • Led project to develop and standardize market segmentation criteria, which is currently undergoing integration into our sales IT platform.

Mosinee, Wisconsin, Us

Primary responsibilities included responsibility providing analytics around strategic customers, including pricing and customer incentives. • Created and implemented a standardized monthly sales volume reporting package, which bridges year-over-year performance, as well as performance-to-plan. • Team lead on a project which reduced monthly invoice deductions by over $200,000 annually. Team consisted of ten members across five departments.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Primary responsibilities include full ownership of daily and weekly labor planning, as well as full ownership of variable and fixed cost for the Lexington facility. • Full ownership of variable and fixed costs for the Lexington facility. Involves utilizing a sophisticated model for the development of a $70M annual budget, as well as reporting and bridging actual performance-to-plan. • Full responsibility for month-end close for the Lexington facility. Hold monthly meetings with the sr ops teams to communicate performance-to-plan, as well as to identify areas of risk or opportunities for the future. • Responsible for reporting and bridging on all ops-finance related metrics for the Lexington facility to the Regional Ops Director. • Own the labor planning process for the largest Amazon Facility in the U.S. The Lexington facility headcount triples in a two week period during peak season; therefore, the success of peak hinges on an accurate labor planning strategy. • Analyze weekly performance data and identify and communicate areas of risks and opportunities to the senior ops team. • Manage a team of two financial analysts. Strong focus on developing and leading the team. Have weekly one-on-ones and deliver immediate feedback in an effort to ensure the success of the team. Endeavor to ensure associates are rewarded for their accomplishments; direct report recently received a significant promotion. • Led a team of five in a finance kaizen. Developed and implemented a standardized labor model across the entire North American Amazon network. Project was successfully completed under a tightly condensed timeline. Currently in the process of implementing in all facilities around the world. • Conducted an analysis to aid in the decision for the outbound shipping system of choice for all new Amazon Facilities. Project required pulling and applying massive amounts of data, comparing all current shipping engineering solutions to identify which was most cost efficient.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Position allowed for significant leadership development through constant exposure to the senior operations and finance teams. • Responsible for all aspects of month-end close for multiple Distribution Facilities. Tasks included calculating and booking all accruals as well as reporting any variances from plan. • Responsible for the variable cost forecasting of multiple facilities. • Managed a team of two data analysts. • Assumed full ownership of Labor Planning for multiple facilities. This entailed working with sophisticated models in order to minimize costs by optimizing labor in the facilities. • Created a model which calculated the optimal full time-to-temporary staffing ratios that an Amazon Facility should target. The analysis identified that the historical guidance was not the cost optimized ratio. Model was presented to the Regional Operations Director, as well as the Regional Finance Director, and was rolled out across the entire North American network. Resulted in over $1.5M in annual savings.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Implemented a comprehensive metrics reporting package for the Lexington Distribution Facility. • Responsible for the Daily, Weekly and Monthly financial reporting of five distribution facilities. • Assisted Controller with month-end close. Tasks included pulling the general ledger, calculating accruals, and performing consumables close. • Created Standard Operating Procedures for tasks done in the finance department to allow for ease of information sharing between the finance team.• Involved in pulling and analyzing large amounts of data for yearly variable cost budgets.• Greatly improved the accuracy of variable cost forecasting by analyzing past variances from plan. • Heavily involved in the financial start-up of a new facility, which included developing an initial labor plan, creating necessary financial reports, and developing a training program for the new finance team.s