William J Mcbride, Jr Email & Phone Number

New Berlin, New York, Us

Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, Us

Avantor, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries. Our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities in the industries we serve.• Global finance business partner to the SVP of Global manufacturing and tier leadership team; oversight to 15 manufacturing sites globally • Drive, manage & present critical financial deliverables for the Global Operations organization which will include the Long-Term Strategic plan, the Internal Operating plant, Interim forecasting cycles & monthly actuals reporting• Maintain and develop key performance measures and tracking systems for each site to measure P&L results, capital, inventory and cost savings projects• Advise senior management team regarding strategic initiatives and related risks and returns• Drive the Finance FP&A transformation roadmap through a continuous improvement mindset

Camden, Nj, Us

Managed 40-person finance group; drove strategic vision and financial results across North American Thermal manufacturing network comprising +$2B in costs, +$1B in fixed assets and $500MM in inventory across 7 internal plants and multiple co-manufacturers. Led strategy planning, direction, and forecasting by soliciting input from key stakeholders on needs and objectives while working with EVP and VPs to prepare plan/results and review discussions with CFO and CLT. Led reviews and linked connections between financial performance and operational activities for KPI monitoring in accordance with strategic goals. Financial responsibility for Campbell’s global capital budget of +$400MM. Responsibilities included strategy development; capital allocations decisions; developing and revamping approval authorization process and approval limits; preparing materials for leadership and BOD reviews included annual updates, authorizations that require finance committee or full board approval as well as preparing post audit reviews for review with BOD.Select Key Accomplishments:• Delivered estimated $300MM in savings by developing roadmap for Supply Chain transformation with focus on manufacturing rationalization, warehousing and freight optimization, global enterprise procurement and operational excellence programs. • Reduced and optimized working capital by focusing on raw materials and finished goods; minimized days on hand inventory by $10MM and .8 days on hand. • Generated +$100MM in cash via extension in payable days and change in weekly payment timing.• Drove reduction in capital spend $30MM by developing solution to drop capital spend as % of net sales to peer set average of 3.6% from 4.6%.

Camden, Nj, Us

Selected to lead the design and development of the new operating model for FP&A for Campbell Soup. Provided change management via leadership and influence to align FP&A operating model amongst 3 divisions and corporate. Aligned and strengthened global financial processes around core financial activity across divisions. Headed the creation of global financial planning framework in conjunction with rollout of SAP planning module. Select Key Accomplishments:• Spearheaded organizational transformation (Integrated Global Services within FP&A group), decreasing layers and spans, (FTEs 35% reduction) while maintaining service levels and improving analytical decision making. • Streamlined marketing activities within Center of Excellence, resulting in process improvements within reporting and analytics. • Reduced financial reports 25% by implementing Center of Excellence in reporting covering sales and marketing that allowed reduced workforce to focus on higher-level analytics.

Camden, Nj, Us

Financial oversight and leadership relating to US Grocery Sales comprised of key customers such as Kroger, Safeway, Publix and Meijer. Partnered with VP of sales and Regional VPs to provide financial leadership and fiduciary control for a business of $2.5B in top-line sales with over $500MM in trade spend. Led and directed the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process for US Grocery. Created, developed the scorecards for monthly KPIs relating to net sales, trade expense, gross margin and customer profit. Develop annual operating plans ensuring linkages to overall brand strategies and corporate strategies relating to strategic promotional and selling objectives.Select Key Accomplishments:• Increased and improved grocery trade ROIs by developing and rolling out new strategic trade tool that drove efficiency and effectiveness by linkage trade to customer performance.• Identified and corrected key control breakdown in trade spend at customer. Provided solutions to offset overspend.

Camden, Nj, Us

Financial oversight and leadership relating to the key US Soup Business for Campbell. Responsible for strategic management, planning and operational execution as well as full P&L ownership and decision-making responsibility. Partnered with GM to lead portfolio of $1.7B net sales, $.8MM in EBIT and multi-million marketing budgets. Responsible for recommending resource allocations and priority tradeoffs relating to diverse portfolio comprised of key American Soup Icons such as Chunky & Condensed Soups.Select Key Accomplishments:• Received Dorrance award for delivering ‘Trifecta’ (growth in Net Sales, EBIT and Share).• Rebuilt the business units innovation pipeline via launch of key Homestyle platform, launch of ethnic Condensed brands drawing on changing US demographics & key pub inspired Chunky platform targeting key attributes of core consumer. • Relaunched and restaged the microwave convenience platform via packaging improvements in order to stem trajectory of net sales declines.

Camden, Nj, Us

Provided financial oversight and leadership for North American Thermal Supply Chain FP&A resources. Led coordination and preparation of supply chain results focusing on plant financial and operational metrics, summarizing results versus plan while providing insights and areas of opportunities and risk to leadership. Provided key insights and input into managing the monthly Integrated Business Planning process by ensuring real-time SC data was accurately communicated and summarized and solutions provided when performance deviation occurred. Enhanced monthly Integrated Business Planning Process and accuracy by incorporating supply chain analytics and fostering communication among cross-functional partners by creating, linking and monitoring KPIs with strategic objectives.Select Key Accomplishments:• Drove targeted reductions in working capital requirements that led to reducing inventory conversion days from 73.4 to 68.8.• Utilized leadership and influence to gain alignment to close small manufacturing site in Marshall, MI.• Developed suite of analytical reports and tools unlocking SAP data that improved supply chain knowledge of the cross-functional partners that linked operational metrics to the P&L results.

Chicago, Il, Us

Directed and managed the finance, accounting and compliance operations of mega-plant. Operation was comprised of 117 salary staff and over 1300 hourly union employees across three unions, 19 manufacturing lines producing 380MM lbs. with a $160MM controllable conversion budget. Responsible for assessing and continuously improving and strengthening internal controls while ensuring compliance with GAAP, SOX and corporate control and accounting guidelines. Developed and led staff of 10 ensuring development and skill building.Select Key Accomplishments:• Led and developed salary reorganization plan which increased hourly span of control from 1/9 to 1/11 while delivering $2.5MM in productivity.• Generated $16.7MM productivity pipeline focusing on non-capital improvements that stressed process and method improvements through increased uses of analytics and operational excellence.

Chicago, Il, Us

Financial lead and development of game-changing accelerators of top and bottom-line growth via disruptive innovation and breakthrough innovation across the Nabisco Biscuit Network. Provided finance solutions and recommendations to senior leaders.Select Key Accomplishments:• Drove top-line club channel business via acceleration of SKU development and launch into stores. Key enabler of acceleration was development and launch of new union wage class to allow for repack operation onsite thereby improving margin profile.• Partnership creation with key service provider to outsource key manufacturing activities. Resulted in reduced cost and increased efficiency within the operation.

Chicago, Il, Us

Financial oversight and leadership conducting network analysis across the North American Biscuit Network supporting strategic goals of transforming the portfolio, leveraging assets/reducing costs and building superior brands through disruptive and sustaining innovation. Provided leadership and operational insight to the stage gate commercialization teams as it related to new product development costing. Developed and launched monthly KPIs and benchmarking data relating to plant operational costs across 8 plants.Select Key Accomplishments:• Developed key management operational monthly reporting scorecard to benchmark manufacturing facilities across operational and financial metrics. Scorecard was used to provide real-time direction setting and targeted cost performance improvements.• Prepared financial analysis and recommendations, financial modeling, executive presentations relating to major commercialization across key global Icon brand effort relating to trans-free conversion across Oreo network.

Chicago, Il, Us

Prepared and executed the financial analysis relating to the acquisition of the Nabisco Manufacturing Network. Analyses focused on plant rationalizations, plant optimizations, distribution network restructuring and business line divestitures. Conducted DCF modeling resulting in delivering recommendations and solutions to executive management. Prepared executive and board management materials for approval alignment. Prepared accounting entries, plans/budgets and variance analysis to track approved projects.Select Key Accomplishments:• Developed multiple plant rationalization analyses which resulted in the elimination of excess manufacturing assets as well as delivering significant manufacturing productivity via the consolidation of production volumes. Plants closed – Biscuit (Buena Park, CA; Niles, IL; Niagara Falls, ON), Confections (Holland, MI), and Cheese (Canton, NY).• Developed cost optimization plans across multiple manufacturing sites in lieu of closures. Provided cost recommendation ideas generating sustainable continuous productivity.• Provided analysis on location of new Lunchable automation line which resulted in significant network savings driven from logistics and labor efficiencies gained.• Performed comprehensive benchmarking analysis comparing Biscuit division costing to key branded and private label competitors.• Developed plant department closure and optimization that netted $1.7MM in annual savings.

Senior Auditor providing full range of accounting, auditing, tax and management consulting services.

Bs, Accounting

Mba - Magna Cum Laude, Finance

High School Diploma