Peter Rackoff

Experience

1. Vice President, Operations and Strategic Partners

   ANDRITZ

   Apr 2021 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Responsibilities• Manage processes, resources and systems to ensure that business operations are effective and efficient• Develop team to meet or exceed customer expectations by building consensus and promoting a culture of collaboration• Evaluate, recruit, hire, train and develop team members• Define sales strategy and pricing policy to drive attainment of gross margin goals• Lead complex integration projects including acquisitions and divestitures • Perform strategic sourcing and create and maintain strategic international partnerships • Introduce new products to the market • Identify, evaluate and implement capital projects • Supervise estimating, quoting, order fulfillment, procurement, legal and compliance processes Key Accomplishments• Achieved or exceeded gross margin targets annually; consistently increased the valuation of the business• Produced profitable results each year including in 2009 (financial recession) and 2020 (COVID pandemic)• Recruited, trained, and developed inside sales and customer service team • Identified strategic acquisition of competitor and led integration • Designed and implemented shared service center for inside sales, customer service, pricing, purchasing, quality, IT, and HR to reduce costs • Managed the development and marketing of a new technology to process Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) • Led global migration from legacy Syteline ERP system to ANDRITZ SAP ERP system on-time and under budget

Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Systems Engineering

  1997 — 2001