brian bleck

* K-C CFO Award: Delivered visibility to 100% of KC external spend for global and regional procurement teams through robust analytics capability (SAP Global Spend Analytics) * Led cash generation project to reduce global procurement spend at K-C utilizing SAP’s Master Data Management and Business Intelligence capabilities * Designed enterprise process for common material creation and maintenance across 4 regional SAP landscapes (LAO, A/P, NA and EMEA) to provide clean master data and enable business’s global spend analysis efforts

* Collaborated with supply chain management organization to deliver industry leading retail on-shelf availability solution for K-C products across all North American Wal-Mart stores * Drove business growth through a 200% sales lift for targeted products * Project success resulted in commitment by major retailer to a first-of-a-kind RFID-based retail out-of-stock (OOS) reduction project * Co-developed intellectual property with a strategic vendor by integrating retailer and manufacturer data to provide new insights to customer demand. New capabilities expected to deliver significant annual revenue increase * Collaborated with business and IT teams to establish priority of multiple projects in light of limited technical and functional resources

* Led SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) work stream and implementation to all North American facilities * Successful SRM 2.0 & SRM 4.0 implementations * Integrated the SRM processes with the overall Requisition to Check business process * Managed project resources including permanent and contract/consulting personnel

* Delivered small enhancement projects and provided support * Managed project to implement and test procurement system at new plant acquisition * Achieved savings on price contracts through development of automated system tools adopted by purchasing agents

I have a CIO scope of accountability for K-C's North American customer field sales leadership group and their teams, including IT operations, business capability, digital business transformation and achieving business unit results (Net Sales). - I work directly with sales and marketing to cut through the noise that is stopping those teams from selling more by automating business processes, surfacing digital insights, leveraging intelligent analytics, and improving communications internally & with retail partners. - I partner directly with retail customers where growth opportunity insights match our capability to deliver on unmet needs of the customer. As one example, I partnered with a top 5 US retailer to build a revolutionary subscription automation capability in the diaper category and test it in the market.

* Built strategic growth portfolios, drove investment choices and managed the IT P&L impact to help make the best trade-off decisions to achieve business growth and operate more profitably. * Match IT strategies to business objectives across Kimberly-Clark International, * Build and manage the annual K-C International IT budget and business unit P&L impact * Establish the Strategic Business Plan with stakeholders among the regional IT and business teams (Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Latin America).

* In parallel with K-C International role, joined IT Security leadership team to implement NIST-based program at K-C: As original lead of K-C's Protect K-C & Me program won the distinguished 2017 CSO50 award for the security awareness program: https://investor.kimberly-clark.com/news-releases/news-release-details/kimberly-clark-recognized-cso50-excellence-cybersecurity?releaseid=1024880 * Led and architected K-C's global 'Protect K-C & Me' security awareness/behavior program * Built sustainable and measured security awareness program within 6 month time frame * Improved the human 'firewall' through social engineering simulations (email phishing, USB/media, phone, physical) across full geographic scope * Applied behavioral science approach to achieve compliance to IT Security policies & standards * Mobile Security Risk Management – Assess risk and make decisions on mobile app solutions