Manager Project

DONALD J. HORN

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908-***-**** (Cell)

Bernardsville, NJ 07924-2304

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SUMMARY Broadly experienced financial executive with

Pharmaceutical, Food, Consumer Products and Chemical

industries background. Core management team member, business

and operations strategy partner. Build rapport comfortably

with all functional areas and organizational levels including

Senior Executive. Highly collaborative.

Background Highlights

Manufacturing Standard Costing Bid & Quote

Product Costing

Company Acquisition & Merger Capital Planning DCF/ROI

Major Plant Shutdown Analysis Purchasing & Materials

Mgt

SAP Software Implementation Sales & Marketing

Support

EXPERIENCE KRAFT FOODS $37 Billion Food Co.

2007 to 2009

Senior Manager - Nabisco Manufacturing Finance

Drove manufacturing productivity and cost reduction programs

for 9 manufacturing locations. Division coordinator for SAP

system implementation.

Division Lead for a cross functional productivity initiative that organized

over 130 manufacturing and headquarters support personnel into product

based networks. Replaced narrow department based productivity planning

with a comprehensive Business Unit approach to cost reduction. Achieved

$24 million Division target.

Created a manufacturing Semi-fixed cost efficiency model that clarified

true cost reduction from volume driven spending. Provided an effective

planning tool to maximize semi-fixed labor and expense efficiency.

Replaced a subjective cost reduction goal setting process with a

quantitative approach that captured a plant's capacity for further cost

reduction.

BARR LABORATORIES $3.5 Billion Healthcare Co.

2006 to 2007

Associate Finance Director - Barr Generics Division.

(Formerly Pliva, Inc. Acquired by Barr)

Hired by Pliva to create and staff an Operations Accounting

function. Support the transition from local tablet

production to a global import and domestic package business

model.

Devised an analytical tool as part of a Six Sigma project that provides 18

months advanced notice of finished products likely to become short dated.

Cut distressed inventory losses to $250 thousand from $2.9 Million in the

prior year.

ABBOTT LABORATORIES $14 Billion Healthcare Co.

2000 to 2006

Plant Controller - Abbott Pharmaceutical Products

Division

(Formerly Knoll Pharmaceuticals. Wholly owned subsidiary

of BASF Corp)

Directed accounting operations for a $700 Million

pharmaceutical, sterile biologics, and generics

manufacturing business in an SAP R/3 environment. Managed

the Purchasing and Materials Management departments.

Operational responsibility for SAP support.

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Implemented a daily inventory cycle count program. Decreased inventory

write offs by $283K and reduced stock out related production downtime to

zero.

Advocated an alternative plant shutdown study that was directly responsible

for the plant being open post acquisition. Influenced senior management to

keep the Knoll product portfolio in place as the most profitable

alternative.

Centralized the purchasing function. Achieved purchasing efficiencies by

consolidating vendors and enforcing contracts. Introduced economic order

quantities saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Overhauled the production planning process. Cut an average of 25 days from

product cycle time. Paved the way for shift consolidation saving $700K per

year.

Earned an achievement award after meeting all integration plan milestones

following Abbott's acquisition of Knoll Pharmaceuticals.

BASF CORPORATION $6 Billion Chemical

Company 1983 to 2000

Team Leader 1995 to 2000

SAP - Enterprise software installation

Directed design and implementation of SAP accounts payable process.

Extensively re-engineered the purchasing and materials

management business processes. Assisted with design and

implementation of cost accounting and profitability analysis

modules.

Reorganized the accounts payable effort after joining the project team.

Team recovered all lost time and moved ahead of the project time line.

Division Project Manager 1995

Boots Pharmaceuticals and Knoll

Pharmaceutical Merger Team

Managed the project time line and coordinated the integration

of Boots and Knoll companies into the BASF corporate business

systems. Tracked merger synergy and integration costs.

Identified resource constraints and solved timeline bottlenecks.

Acquisition exceeded milestone commitments.

Manager, Planning & Economic Analysis 1993 to 1995

Directed a financial staff with forecasting, operational and

capital planning responsibility for a $300 million consumer

products and specialty chemicals group.

Directed analysis and designed case studies highlighting business direction

alternatives. Efforts resulted in divestiture of the Zerex antifreeze

business and exit from the consumer products segment. Profits increased by

$25 million.

Manager, Group Accounting 1989 to 1993

Supervised a professional accounting staff with balance

sheet and income statement responsibility. Controller for

two chemical plants and a joint venture. Supported a sales

and marketing strategic business unit.

Manager - Corporate Cost Accounting Systems, Financial

Analyst 1983 to 1989

EDUCATION MBA Finance Temple University,

Philadelphia, PA.

BS Management Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg,

PA.

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