Corporate Strategy & Operations Manager Cengage Group
-Led the process and governance functions for the global Transformation Management Office (TMO) tasked with company-wide cost takeout of $185M by FY 2025 working in conjunction with investors, Executive Leadership Team (ELT), and key leaders across strategy and operations functions
-Recommended M&A expansion plays benefitting growth business units using the hypothesis-driven approach to determine total addressable market (TAM) and serviceable addressable market (SAM) of the $93.24B continuing education market
-Designed strategy for milestone-based billing capabilities in Billing and Invoicing processes and developed target operating model (TOM) to execute strategy across business and technology functions, improving collections success by 25%, or collections value of $1.1M
-Recommended $12M cost and profit optimization recommendations by synthesizing global view of disparate supply chain operations across North America, Asia, LATAM and EMEA regions and presented findings to Executive Team and senior Supply Chain leaders
-Developed decision matrix from both qualitative and quantitative data inputs to determine market expansion plays in continuing education market and revenue impact for growth business unit that estimated 5-7% revenue growth potential, or market capture of $8.2M
-Developed target operating model (TOM) recommendations for modernizing Billing and Invoicing processes that reduced internal manual billing tasks by 50%
-Regular interface and Steering Committee report development with Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Executive sponsors of project work