Eric Mathis

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ABOUT ERIC MATHIS

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS• Twenty plus years of experience managing agricultural raw materials, personal care chemicals, packaging components, capital equipment, indirect categories including natural gas, and contract manufacturing agreements with a proven track record of success and achievement with spending responsibilities up to $2 Billion annually.• Broad organizational management experience in Food & Beverage, Person Care Consumer Packaged Goods, and QSR Restaurant industries hiring, training, and developing Procurement and Supply Chain professionals.• Extensive hands on experience utilizing futures and options contracts to manage risk in key commodity categories.• Supply Chain P&L management experience including responsibility for Procurement, Warehouse & Logistics, Production and Capacity Planning, and Customer Service groups.• Global sourcing and manufacturing support experience in areas such as Asia, Southeastern Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Africa.• Proven track record in leading productivity and total cost reduction programs, providing market and budget forecasts, generating financial analysis and reports, strategic planning, administrative budgeting, new product development support, implementation of hedging tools, and ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle.ACHIEVEMENTS AND RESULTS• Creation of a Global Procurement team and long range strategic plan to optimize key global direct and indirect categories while gaining alignment with corporate and regional stakeholders in a global multi-plant manufacturing environment to drive overall lower cost of ownership.• Led and trained team members that managed sustainable total cost improvement initiatives.• Implemented hedging tools as a means to reduce the risk of dramatic price movements that are inherent in agriculture commodities, natural gas, and packaging categories which directly impact finished goods profitability.Specialties:* Integration of decentralized procurement groups to achieve synergistic value.* Utilization of futures and options contracts to hedge key commodity price risk.* Optimization of category spend pools to generate sustainable cost improvements.* Ability to target key cost drivers of components to manage the impacts the underlying market dynamics have on total cost of ownership.