Jun 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Manage trade spend investment of $100MM+ of ~$500MM sales business, running pre and post promotional analysis, and optimizing promotional opportunities throughout the year
• Worked with sales team during four Collaborative Category Optimization (CCO) negotiations leading to incremental distribution, and securing weeks of promotion
• Created tool for CCO negotiations to scenario plan gives to and asks from retailer which lead to six incremental SKUs in our Family Care business
• Filled in as both Adult & Feminine Care and Baby & Child Care Sales Leads conducting face to face meeting with buyers to sell in incremental promotions worth over $700M of net sales, completing promotion contracts, and leading future year planning / customer engagement meetings with headquarters

Mar 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Working cross functionally between brand marketing, marketing research, commercial program managers, and brand finance to improve returns on advertising and promotional spending.
• Accomplishments include:
• Designed and implemented a management system to improve A&CP forecast accuracy with cross functional team which was nominated for CFO award
• Designed and implemented many new reporting and analysis tools leveraging multiple data sources for faster, more transparent decision-making ability
• Trained subject matter experts how to build in Anaplan and worked with them to create new modules for A&CP, Distribution, Sales Mix Model, and SG&A to improve reporting, increase efficiencies, and increase Anaplan model building capability

Feb 2014 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Management Reporting Consultant for Kimberly-Clark (KC) North America Family Care (FC) brands
• Report out on monthly results, add commentary to Analysis of Change, and understand monthly key drivers of results/variances to forecasts
• Consolidate forecasted inputs to create forecast P&L for sector
• Create quarterly newsletters for sector to be reported out to KC headquarters
• Key customers include FC sector president, FC sector marketing VPs, director of finance, business analysis team leaders
• Responsible for shifting forecasting, financial reporting, and analysis of change from Excel based models to Anaplan cloud based platform by designing and programming modules in Anaplan

Mar 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs

• Team leader for financial analysts supporting our facial mills:
• Provided coaching and feedback to analysts through 1:1 meetings and informal meetings
• Responsible for connecting with analysts' customers to ensure proper support is being provided
• Worked on bigger projects that encompassed entire team ranging from structure, to ensuring continuous improvement/LEAN training was accomplished, and other reporting capabilities for the team
• As an individual contributor:
• Provide financial guidance to a manufacturing mill leadership team.
• Responsible for cost of manufacturing, tracking expenses, forecasting, analyzing spending, leveraging financial knowledge with a centralized finance team, and giving financial guidance to the mill team. Help find and value savings opportunities.
• LEAN coordinator for department, focusing on continuous improvement training, and facilitating on LEAN activities.
• Heavily involved with the planning and creation of a new reporting package to track $700M of annual spending across seven mill locations.
• Provide monthly executive summaries of cost information for mill leadership, and director level leadership teams across the seven Family Care mills in North America.

Jan 2011 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Rochester, Minnesota Area

• Responsible for SG&A Expenses for four brands within IBM Business Analytics
• Prepare monthly and quarterly expense forecasts for approximately $32M of expense per quarter
• Investigate ledger charges, ensuring accounting accuracy
• Integrating acquisitions into IBM's internal financial processes and systems
• Enter journal entries to ledger
• Transfer expenses between countries

May 2007 – Dec 2011 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Personal sales totaling over $250,000
• Integrated listening, communication, and teamwork to facilitate customer service
• Exploited years of experience to provide supplementary support to managers in the training and development of over 20 Great Dane employees

May 2005 – May 2014 · 9 yrs · Greater Milwaukee Area

• Heavy equipment operation to facilitate base maintenance
• Unit leadership position during training, in charge of 125 airmen
• Two-time nominee for Airman of the Quarter from a pool of 130 airmen
• Creating master training plans, ensuring training is completed, and maintaining training records for fellow airman
• Deployment in Support of OIF/OEF
• Main point of contact for 185 combat ready Airmen
• Base security, responsible for over 500 personnel
• Protection of sensitive military equipment worth over $500,000 in support of Operation Noble Eagle