Sara Raudenbush

Professional Background

13 years of professional management consulting experience
Strategy and Transformation Consultant for: Corporations, Private Equity firms and Consulting Companies
Double BBS Operations Management and Marketing. Masters of Science in Strategic Intelligence.
Driving Corporate Performance Executive Education Certificate Harvard Business School 2020
Six Sigma Green Belt

M&A Skills & Expertise

End to end Supply Chain Consulting with Operations Management Subject Matter expertise.
Strategic Design experience includes; Corporate Strategy, Goal cascading, KPI alignment and Organizational Design and Rightsizing for global and national organizations.
Industry experience; Food and beverage, FMCG, personal care, retail (soft and hard lines), insurance, petfood, agriculture, oil and gas. Heavy industry experience includes; Mining, transportation, chemicals, energy, aerospace, and Industrial Manufacturing.
Department experience: Production, Operations, Maintenance, HSE, Logistics, Warehouse, HR, Procurement, Planning & Scheduling, Sales.
Implementation experience in the U.S, South Africa, Botswana, Canada, and China

Project Highlights

Logistics: Crowley Logistics: protected position as one of the industry leaders in global freight carriage and reversed logistics business unit’s standing $25M loss.
FMCG: (food) Delivered Colony Brands’ optimized manufacturing operations and supply chain org assessment; deployed Lean aligned with ISO 31000, installed MOS, and shaped org design and S&OP strategy.
Aerospace & Defense: Eagle-Picher: following acquisition of Vectra Eagle-Picher by Apollo Global Management (PE firm), positioned business for potential sale and laid foundation for separation from Vectra; drove manufacturing optimization and HC reduction of 30%
Agriculture: Bayer: Increased capacity in Row Crop division as part of post acquisition of Monsanto aimed at movement of production volume to various plants to boost revenue;
Pharma: Executed stand up for Noramco a controlled substance intermediary manufacturer as a Johnson and Johnson divestiture via SK Capital.