Gary Porter

About Gary Porter

Senior executive driving technology-enabled transformation to achieve step change increases in enterprise growth and profitability. Domain expert across broad array of functions including supply chain, procurement, operations, and finance. Deep understanding of end-to-end value creation process including roadmap development, program execution, and change management.As a Vice President with Waste Management, a Fortune 200 environmental service provider, built Business Solutions department of 166 employees reengineering, piloting, and rolling out transformed business processes and enabling technology solutions:* Pioneered multi-year enterprise software roadmap to prioritize and sequentially address capabilities grounded in footprint of 100+ legacy applications with patchwork integration.* Led $100M+ implementation of several core ERP systems including order-to-cash (SAP and Oracle), salesforce automation (Salesforce.com), mobile workforce management (SAP affiliate solution), customer service (Oracle) and procure-to-pay (Oracle) with annual benefits exceeding $200M+.* Drove extensive stakeholder alignment from C-Suite, Board, IT, Finance, and other corporate functional departments to local market management teams and subject matter experts.* Established value engineering business cases including target KPI metrics to capture.* Deployed major lean operations initiative to optimize labor efficiency and asset capacity utilization and instituted shared service consolidation across several functions.* Created formal program management office to ensure seamless execution, as well as change management team to assess impacts, communicate, and foster learning and development.As a management consultant with P&C Global, McKinsey and other firms, have designed and implemented transformation programs for wide range of professional services, manufacturing, logistics, and consumer goods clients:* Instituted lean operations, improved asset utilization, and rationalized procurement expenses for North American, European, and Asian pulp and paper manufacturers.* Developed third party logistics strategy for global shipping and ports operator.* Led $4.5B lean cost reduction program for major North American logistics organization.* Reduced supply chain expenses for Asian factories of global consumer goods brand.* Created omnichannel growth strategy for North American consumer goods wholesaler and retailer informed by hyperlocal consumer segmentation and competitive brand positioning.

Experience

1. Senior Principal Consultant

   P&c Global

   Mar 2019 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Engagement Leader and member of Corporate Performance Practice, driving organizational transformation through integrated portfolios of strategic initiatives and technology implementations.* For a mid-market professional services firms, conduct comprehensive strategic review resulting in significant restructuring of practice mix and other resource allocations* Reengineer business processes and installed enabling solutions including document management, invoice and expense management, eDiscovery, and document management to realize step-change efficiency improvements

Education

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General

  1989 — 1993

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering

  1989 — 1993

• Harvard Law School

  Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law

  1993 — 1996

Skills

• Business Transformation
• Customer Retention
• Master Data
• Business Process Automation
• Business Process Improvement
• Siebel
• Program Management
• Mobile Technology
• Pricing Analysis
• Procurement
• Financial Modeling
• IT Solutions
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Procure-to-Pay
• Strategic Planning
• Predictive Modeling
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Operational Excellence
• Lean Operations
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Engineering
• Tax Law
• Waste Management
• Sap Implementation
• Experimentation
• Customer Experience
• Maintenance Strategy Development
• Business Process Mapping
• Analytics
• Predictive Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Lean Transformation
• Recycling
• Finance
• Waste
• Corporate Law
• Lean Manufacturing
• Pricing
• Sales Force Alignment
• Sas