AB-Mauri (an Associated British Food company)
- Finance Director
2014 - maintenantSet-up and lead the Finance function of AB-Mauri ($1.5B Sales) Beverage business, in designing and executing global end use market strategy with responsibility over:
- Financial planning and analysis for 6 regions and 7 end use markets
- Market finance strategy resulting in 50%+ EBIT growth over 18 months
- Strategic Enablement ways of working
- Pricing management
- Customers, broker and distributor terms & conditions
- Incentive program alignment and management, with financial report and target
Kerry Group
- Finance Director
2009 - 2014Develop and lead the Market Finance organization of 4 global markets (400M Sales), including responsibility for:
-Finance, IT and Legal
-Acquisition and strategic alliance from target identification to completion
-Budget preparation and control, business forecasting and financial projections, capital expenditure
-Market strategy from design to implementation including, organization set-up, route to market, product/solution portfolio, Business Plan, pricing and costing
-Back-office management and operation of the Enablement Shared Service Center
-Ownership of the CRM (SFDC) platform
Kerry Group
- Chief Process Officer / Director of Continuous Improvement
2004 - 2009Set-up and manage the Process function of a €500M Sales, fast growing division, which ensures alignment between the business process activities objectives and the company strategy:
-Process framework enablement to deliver of best in class process design and implementation
-Continuous Benchmark performance to uncover and adapt best practices that lead to superior performance
-Processes organization and automation to generate quantifiable benefit to all functional areas
-Recruitment, on-boarding and training of an international consulting team
-Developed a formalized project methodology
-Liaise with Kerry HQ to share and deploy best practice process and technology
REL Consultancy / The Hackett Group
- Project Director
1995 - 2003-Manage multi-million dollar total working capital project budget and delivery
-Responsible for a product line representing 60% of domestic revenue (quality, methodology, training and staffing)
-Lead revenue and cost planning process to achieve profitability targets
-Initiate RFP development and deal review through sales process based on value proposition
-Actively contribute in on-sale opportunities resulting in $5M of revenues in 2001/2002.
-Participate as "Situational Expert" during prospect stage resulting in 2 new clients closed in 2002
-Partner with CFO Magazine US and Europe to publish the “Worldwide Total Working Capital Benchmark”
