John Will, Cscp, Mba Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, AZ, US

Newark, Delaware, US

• FP&A team member developing and communicating supply chain product costing and financial analytics for internally and third-party manufactured medical products that contribute to over $250 million of annual worldwide.
• Identifies internal process and vendor management improvement opportunities amounting to over $3.0 million in savings (2022 -2023)
• Navigates highly matrixed organization remotely, building a worldwide network of colleagues in finance, accounting, manufacturing, supply chain, sales support and logistics
• Establishes material, labor, overhead and allocation rate standards to create product cost standards
• Contributes financial and operational expertise of product yield improvements and financial metrics for a divisional cost of quality/operational excellence initiative
• Performs divisional business systems support by setting standard costs, company transfer pricing, automatic accounting GL transactions and overall financial ERP support utilizing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software

• Advise on operational and financial processes including product development, sales and operations planning, financial planning and analysis, supplier and materials management, procurement, manufacturing and global.
• Built financial models and pro forma profit-and-loss statements for a due diligence assessment of an international joint venture for natural spherical graphite production
• Assessed financial investment opportunity into direct lithium extraction technologies
• Created financial models and assessed profitability for a concept feasibility study of a high-purity lithium metal plant
• Performed financial analysis of the feasibility of building a lithium-ion battery plant in Indonesia

Tucson, Arizona, US

• Led and grew the supply chain group managing inbound materials into manufacturing combined with outbound global logistics to customers and business partners.
• Simplified supply chain by reducing vendor managed inventory and implementing MRP demand planning
• Lowered inventory value 15% by establishing and tracking cost improvement goals
• Implemented on-time delivery metrics by building and communicating lead time standards
• Streamlined material management, logistics, sales and operations planning, and instrument manufacturing processes

Tucson, AZ, US

• Built the infrastructure to manage financials, product development and manufacturing activity to commercialize concentrated photo voltaic technology for a solar start-up business
• Created a financial management framework to analyze, plan, report and forecast revenue, expenses and cash flow
• Implemented a business ERP system to manage product development, product cost, materials management and all other indirect business expenses
• Managed business development, sales activity and ongoing project management for revenue producing projects

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Built and grew the manufacturing and plant operations infrastructure for custom build-to-order and engineer-to-order material testing capital equipment
• Tripled output capacity and expanded the operation from a small shop environment to an efficient manufacturing facility scaling in sync with revenue growth
• Performed sales and operations planning, budgeting and margin analysis to reduce cost and increase profitability
• Led and developed a team with expertise in supply chain, planning, manufacturing, quality, warehousing and global logistics
• Skilled in large systems implementation by integrating SAP financial, manufacturing, supply chain and global trade modules
• Introduced, modeled and created a lean enterprise continuous improvement culture

San Jose, CA, US

• Member of business operations team in customer support that developed and commercialized new products and services for direct distribution and through channel partners.
• Led service development teams; increased service revenue through new hardware and software maintenance offerings
• Served in a tactical marketing role creating product and service positioning, defining target audiences, developing marketing materials - brochures, presentations, web collateral
• Developed and managed support alliances with strategic vendors/partners, OEM's and resellers
• Produced and reported call center and technical support business analytics

Bloomington, Minnesota, US

• Performed project management, production and manufacturing engineering for machining, metal fabrication and assembly operations at six different plants located in the U.S, Puerto Rico, Denmark & Ireland.
• Led multiple large scale capital equipment implementation projects from concept to installation
• Selected for a 1 year expatriate assignment at European headquarters - Galway, Ireland
• Managed product changes impacting materials, planning and production activities

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration, Management And Operations