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Hilliard, Ohio, Us

■ Leads the Enterprise Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Team■ Drives the pursuit of strategic, accretive, and transformational business initiatives■ Serves as a strategic business partner providing analytical support across the enterprise■ Leads the broader financial planning function focused on forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans■ Supports M&A efforts, including leading integration efforts (PMO: Program Management Office) ensuring investment thesis and multi-year synergy targets are achieved■ Develops analytical insights and business cases in broad support of key growth initiatives■ Conducts market intelligence assessments and translates into actionable recommendations

Marysville, Ohio, Us

■ Collaborated with senior executives to design, develop, and implement both corporate and business unit strategic plans, successfully navigating a $3 billion enterprise to achieve financial and operational growth targets■ Developed an industry analysis that supported entering an adjacent business category currently projected to deliver $500M+ in incremental revenue growth over the next 3-5 years■ Drove the annual, corporate strategic planning process to support achieving aggressive, long-range business objectives delivered through both organic growth and broader M&A efforts■ Integrated a new framework centered on Creating Shared Value (CSV): an approach that redefined the importance of the connections that exist between economic growth and broader social responsibility efforts■ Redesigned an expansive operating network as part of a new joint venture with a national live-goods grower, effectively establishing a roadmap to realize significant cost savings and greatly improve replenishment and in-store execution■ Worked with pre-deal M&A due-diligence, development of investment thesis, and post-deal integration, including PMO (program management office) responsibilities

Marysville, Ohio, Us

■ Led the successful design, development, and launch of a cloud-based, mobile Sales Force Automation tool aimed at improving in-store execution and transforming store-level insights into actionable opportunities■ Delivered improvements along several KPI’s including in-store compliance (+4%), season resets (completed earlier), and reduced product returns (-$3.8M, -22% Y/Y favorability)■ Established operating plans for the National Field Sales Team, which consisted of 400 full-time and 2,400 seasonal associates who supported ~7,800 unique retail locations, improving labor utilization rates by +5% and achieving closer alignment between store-level POS sales and in-store execution

Marysville, Ohio, Us

■ Implemented a comprehensive re-design of the pricing and trade strategy, projected to save ~$60M annually■ Delivered a pricing framework based on transparency and predicated on various levels of retailer support, share-of-shelf gains, y/y growth, and broader supply chain ‘cost to serve’ considerations

Marysville, Ohio, Us

■ Established a new regional office in Houston, TX which was part of a broader strategic effort aimed at achieving regional share gains and capturing growth in specific geographies■ Responsibilities included: P&L management, driving profitable growth, strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, marketing investment planning, ROI evaluation, resource optimization, and business performance tracking through information-rich KPI dashboards■ Instrumental in shaping the strategy, financials, and operating plans for a $440M division of the business and delivering growth rates that exceeded the performance rates achieved by the total company

Marysville, Ohio, Us

■ Delivered impactful business recommendations to company executives based on techniques related to financial and operational planning, quantitative analysis, reporting, and advanced modeling techniques

Marysville, Ohio, Us

■ Established a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team for the consumer services division, effectively implementing a full suite of planning tools, executive dashboards, and business scorecards that track business performance across multiple facets■ Oversaw annual budgets and operating plans for 85 individual branch locations that had combined annual division revenue of $235M■ Developed analytical models to ensure field operations were in synchronization with annual strategic plans

Columbus, Oh, Us

■ Designed, developed and successfully implemented a capacity planning & demand forecasting model that supported mission-critical air operations. Demand forecasting error rates were reduced by 22% resulting in annual savings of $25M■ Facilitated a Long Range Planning Committee designed to develop, analyze, and communicate strategic planning initiatives to company executives■ Selected as a featured speaker at an Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF) conference to deliver a presentation on event-based forecasting techniques to a group of 500+ attendees

Dublin 2, Ie

Manager■ Engaged in projects spanning several different industries including industrial equipment manufacturing, retail, banking, insurance, and several government agencies helping implement technology solutions and streamline portions of the operating model■ Managed a team that redefined all supporting processes for an outsourcing initiative for a top-tier international bank. Project included consolidating 38 HR applications from 11 countries in 6 months by leveraging 3 international teams■ Delivered supporting functional design requirements for an internal procurement portal for a Fortune 500 industrial equipment manufacturer. Successfully rolled out the deliverable to 1,900 end-users who leveraged the solution to increase maintenance revenue by 28%, adding +$34M in incremental net income in year oneConsultant■ Successfully led a Program Management Office during a large-scale M&A project between two insurance companies. Responsibilities included managing merger-related issues, milestone progression, and metrics reporting■ Closely collaborated with client leadership to successfully develop and manage a multitude of complex projects and work plans■ Created quantitative models to assess project-based metrics to provide executives with quarterly ‘dashboard’ views of critical project informationAnalyst■ Supported project leadership by analyzing business challenges, gathering requirements, mapping processes and assisting in the development of proposals

Executive Education, High Potential Leadership Program

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science Degree (B.S.), Business Administration, Major: Finance | Minor: Economics