Kevin Cahill
About
Kevin Cahill is from Greater Chicago Area. Kevin works in the following industries: "Food & Beverages", "Financial Services", and "Food Production". Kevin is currently Former Director of Operations at World's Finest® Chocolate, located in Greater Chicago Area. In Kevin's previous role as a Director Of Operations at World's Finest Chocolate, Kevin worked in until Feb 2020. Prior to joining World's Finest Chocolate, Kevin was a Manager - Planning/Value Stream Operations at World's Finest Chocolate and held the position of Manager - Planning/Value Stream Operations at Chicago. Prior to that, Kevin was a Manager - Commodities/Contract Manufacturing at World's Finest Chocolate, based in Chicago from Jan 2002 to Dec 2005. Kevin started working as Accounting/Budgeting at World's Finest Chocolate in Nov 1994. From Jan 1988 to Jan 1993, Kevin was Senior Accountant at KPMG.
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Kevin Cahill's current jobs
Operations leader who helps companies become more collaborative and efficient looking for a new opportunity.
Kevin Cahill's past jobs
• Identified pricing increase opportunity with elasticity analysis leading to a margin improvement of $2.5M in 2019. • Co-led the Request for Proposal (RFP) process to reduce raw and packaging material costs while developing and managing a $15MM raw and packaging material expense budget. • Developed and managed a $2.8 million labor expense budget. • Identified and executed continuous improvement opportunities to achieve $500k in labor and material savings over a 5-year period. • Championed a new S&OP process to facilitate collaboration between Planning, Sales, and Manufacturing departments. • Collaborated with a cross functional teams to develop and manage three new product launches through the New Product Development process (French Vanilla, Black Cherry-Cherry Cola and Blueberry cordials).
• Team member for reviewing the due diligence in the Acquisition of the Queen Anne Brand which included reviewing Contract Manufacturing agreements, standard product costing and revenue projections from key accounts as well as assumptions around elimination of redundancies. • Managed the Contract Manufacturing relationships which included working with internal and external teams on forecasting information, timing of production runs, inventory management, logistics and billing. • Responsible for material and finished goods production planning working closely with forecasting group and contract manufacturers to ensure correct product was made in a timely manner. • Provided margin analysis for decision to exit Contract Manufacturing relationships in order to focus on core products and profitability of Retail Business.
• Managed relationships with Hershey Chocolate Co., Mars Chocolate Co., and Blommer Chocolate Co. for production outsourced to WFC. Direct accountability for communicating with Team members regarding Pricing, Production, Quality Assurance, Inbound Logistics and Purchasing requirements. • Team participant in evaluating under-utilized capacity and chocolate producing assets for contract manufacturing opportunities. • Partnered with Blommer Chocolate commodity team on opportune timing to enter into commodity contracts for chocolate production.
• Managed myriad financial budgets for allocations into financial and operational models for P&L rollup and approval by CFO and President. • Provided support for financial statement audits as well as monthly analysis for accounting. • SAP implementation team member and FI/CO modules Lead for ERP system implementation