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Naperville, Il, Us

Naperville, Il, Us

Kilkenny, Ireland, Us

Responsible for all Manufacturing, Engineering, Procurement and New Business Development

Sayreville, Nj, Us

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

Responsible for all Customer Service, Logistics, Transportation, Warehousing and Manufacturing operations ( 7 locations) in North America.

Toronto, On, Ca

Lead strategic improvements and oversight of 10 manufacturing sites (US and Canada) producing 800+ SKUs of frozen food products, representing ~$3.1B Net Outside Sales (NOS) to food service, QSR, and retail categories in North America, Latin America, South America, and Asia. Oversee distribution through 5 warehouses, NA Engineering organization and a technical services organization supporting all NA factories with a staff of 3900.Accomplishments include: - Optimized North American sourcing and distribution operations via cost savings and synergies through the consolidation of the Canadian and US manufacturing organizations. - Managed SAP conversion for all NA manufacturing in one cutover of the entire region with no significant customer service interruption. - Initiated safety improvement program that reduced TIR from 2.7 (2010) to 0.8 (2013).

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Manage all inbound and outbound transportation, demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, warehousing, customer case fill rate, total system inventory management, and capacity management for the NA Family Care Business, representing more than $5.0B NOS. Led a team of 40 direct and 170 indirect reports.Accomplishments: - Captured $32M cost savings by restructuring a 6-warehouse (7MSF) and 230,000-truckload transportation network during a period of increasing diesel pricing. - Slashed inventory by $45M, achieving lowest days-on-hand results while maintaining best-in-class performance in customer case fill rate. - Brought capacity utilization to world-class standard of 1.03, down from 1.12.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Led Procter & Gamble's 4th-largest (consumer paper products) manufacturing site through a major expansion and transition. The plant's asset base exceeds $1.3B (80 acres under roof) with 1200 employees, annual output of >43 million cases, and more than $1B in NOS contribution.Accomplishments: - Grew volume 42% without adding employees by boosting productivity (units per employee) 80%. - Soared from 4th to 1st place in cost structure among peer plants by reducing manufacturing expense during a period of escalating energy and commodity prices. - Bettered employee safety from 1.4 to .3 TIR during period of extensive expansion and transition. - Reduced quality defects (PPM) by 80%.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Directed the organization that provided centralized support for 5-site network of manufacturing facilities. Accountable for all business-wide quality systems, Lean initiatives, manufacturing reliability improvement program, manufacturing materials logistics/quality, and new product initiative delivery and launch.Also led NA Family Care Quality Organization.Accomplishments: - Slashed quality defects 68% across the network. - Delivered $10M annual savings through loss analysis and utilizing Lean tools to improve reliability that added equivalent of 10M units of new capacity. - Spearheaded material savings projects that produced $18M yearly in cost reductions.