Mike Breitbart
Mike has spent over 15 years honing his finance, statistics, and analytics skills to solve business needs with technology that generates insights and opportunities across the Procter & Gamble enterprise. His experience spans every business unit and region as well as their sales, shared services, and corporate functions organizations. Mike believes that data and analytics are the keys to the future and his leadership has influenced licensing agreements, cost forecasting, cash generation, direct and indirect savings, internal controls automation, and sourcing, sales, inventory, and siting strategies.
- Savings Champion: Developed models to show clear choices and opportunity areas to drive out costs and reduce complexity throughout the supply chain including material and staffing utilization savings. Delivered $100M in annual savings and identified additional $800M in supply chain loss.
- Future-proofing Organization: Led digital fluency upskilling across NA Finance, creating and running training for 40% of the organization – a model currently being reapplied globally.
- Data-Based Decision Making: Leveraged “big data” to drive smart decisions. Use statistical analysis as foundation to automate forecast process, influence contract negotiations with suppliers accounting for $1B in spend, and reduce effort spent on internal controls testing without compromising assurance. Synthesized and packaged data into key visualizations to empower sales organization to target promotions for maximum efficacy.
- Mike specializes in advanced Power BI, Excel, KNIME, Databricks, SQL and other analytics and visualization platforms.