Marguerite DILLARD

**** ********* *****, *** *****, MI 48105, 248-***-****

ac16l8@r.postjobfree.com ; linkedin.com/in/margueritedillard

Business Analyst sales, operations and finance, forecasting/planning/budgeting.

Manufacturing people and organization.

IT MS Office Excel/Power-point, ERP - fast-paced learner.

International USA, France, Germany, Japan - fluent multi-lingual multi-cultural.

EXPERIENCE

THOMAS LE PRINCE S.A., FOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURER, €12MIO Lyon, France

Sales Manager Export Nov. 2013 – July 2014

Business Development Export: presented export business case to management and to France’s largest export

credit insurer COFAC ;conducted market studies in Germany and Dubai; selected participant of the chamber

of commerce CCI-Haute Savoie export program.

Field Sales Responsibility: 35 retail stores for 3 product lines, including placing orders and merchandising.

FORD MOTOR CO., AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURER, $129B Dearborn, MI

SALES PLANNING - MARKETING, SALES & SERVICES

Sales Training Expert May – Dec. 2011

Supported dealerships on inventory management monitoring, in cooperation with zone managers.

BALANCE 4 EARTH L.L.C, ENERGY (START-UP) Farmington Hills, MI

Sales Back-Office Oct. 2009– Dec. 2010

Coordinated a $40K wood pellets trade channel: managed relationships and information with vendors,

customers, warehouse, transport from order up to receipt of payments including pricing.

YAZAKI N.A. INC., AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER POWER AND DATA NETWORK, $3B Canton, MI

Analyst – Business Case for SAP Implementation Aug. 2008– March 2009

Validated business case assumptions: build NPV (net present value) model.

Presentation to VP Finance.

OSI GROUP L.L.C., FOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURER, $4B Chicago, IL

Analyst – Operations and Finance July 2007- Jan. 2008

Commercialization process: identify drivers of cost variances across product families.

Capital request process: developed a FCF (free cash flow) model.

Consolidated quarterly financial group reports and presented profitability benchmarks.

Global Purchasing Team analyst.

Assignment – Operations and Finance June 2006 – Sept. 2006

Assess export and domestic market potential of meat products, presenting positioning scenarios.

Analysis of alternative scenarios to maximize asset utilization of a plant, as part of the European operations strategy.

Present a balance scorecard after defining key financial metrics to assess the company’s performance.

ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICE COMPANY, €47B Stuttgart, Germany

Commercial Buyer – Automotive Electronics – 50 M € portfolio Oct. 2002 – Aug. 2005

Quality Support : implemented engineering change requests (ECR) cross-functionally within 7 business units,

introduced and phased-out suppliers, monthly reporting to management; results : “0” failure rate over 3 years.

Cohesive supplier strategy: defined supplier ranking, communicated and allocated market shares.

Price negotiations: 15% savings for 2 consecutive years.

Management Rotational Program Jan. 2001 – Sept. 2002

Purchasing World Headquarters: analyzed the supply chain of steel blades.

Diesel Plant (Tokyo, Japan): cost-reduction projects in technical purchasing - business unit rationalization initiative.

Controlling Diesel Division: performed a production cost analysis across 5 diesel products and 7 plants.

Purchasing Diesel Division: implemented a tool to track supplier manufacturing capacity for turned-parts.

EDUCATION

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Chicago, IL

Master of Business Administration 2005-2007

Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

EM LYON, ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT DE LYON Lyon, France

Bachelor of Business Administration 1996-2000

WHU Koblenz (Germany) - Diplom-Kauffrau - double-diploma program

Waseda University Tokyo (Japan) - Japanese Language Certificate - one-year abroad program

Internships: BMW A.G. plant Dingolfing (Germany, 1999), TEPCO Tokyo (Japan, 1997).

ADDITIONAL

NETWORKING Inforum (current); alumni associations.

OTHER volunteer, runner, author, clarinet player, downhill skier, well-traveled. USA E2 Visa, EU French citizen.

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