Gabriele Peterschmidt, MPH, MBA

Experience

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  County of Los Angeles

  Dec 1986 - Dec 1988

  Occupational Environmentalist

  Developed and conducted training programs such as the hearing conservation program. Communicated technical information in a non-technical manner. Maintained communication with all levels of management and labor. Performed industrial hygiene duties for the county's 75,000 employees. Analyzed operations to evaluate work site health and safety hazards. Developed and implemented policy addressing various health and safety hazards. Kept abreast of legislative changes in the field.

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  HP

  Aug 1990 - Apr 2023

  As Energy Efficiency Compliance Lead for the Americas Region, work to influence proposed regulations on both state and national levels in NA and LAR and provide implementation guidance to affected businesses. Served as Program Manager to coordinate complex advocacy and implementation efforts for the Chile Energy Efficiency and Safety regulation. Led multi-national team including Legal, Worldwide Tech Regs, Regional and Business Unit Operations and Chile Country Management. Achieved schedule relief, revised testing protocol and regulatory clarifications. Businesses met all legal requirements on schedule. Worked to complete CA Battery Charger Working Assumptions. Supported business units in implementation and then worked with lobbyist and Government Relations to influence CA legislature to simplify the onerous certification process. Created a working model to understand compliance costs. Model was shared with other regions and BU’s in an effort to establish a common approach to capture costs. As an Environmental Program Manager supporting the LaserJet Supplies Business, worked to understand and resolve the environmental compliance risk associated with a recent acquisition. Developed a sampling strategy; created an MSDS compliance program, worked with legal to ensure vendor compliance with HP environmental expectations through a letter agreement; communicated and worked with management to execute to a more environmentally compliant vendor base. Created and managed all environmental activities to a budget; Business unit environmental lead for in region audits and NPI programs. Show less Responsibilities included leading and driving projects that improve operational performance for Media Supplies and Solutions (MSS). Led a team that outsourced current product planning to India. Completed analysis and gained management approval of Canadian SKU MOQ optimization. This project resulted in inventory savings of $250K. Business lead for Drake: a project that replaced the current non-supported process with an IT supported and scalable solution. This put the creation of purchase requisitions through the formation of purchase orders on SAP’s APO. Using forecasted revenue and estimated gross margins by SKU, managed the MSS portfolio management process. This enabled business teams to make decisions regarding SKU elimination, supplier consolidation, and cost reduction opportunities and overall improve business margins. Led MSS efforts to meet IPG’s SKU reduction goals. Technologies Utilized: SAP, ICON, Microsoft Office Suite for XP Show less Developed and drove logistics strategy for Media Supplies and Solutions (MSS). Led development of the Logistics Plan of Record (POR). Managed MSS logistics functions to support cost, compliance and delivery goals. Responsible for developing and managing international inbound logistics processes including service provider selection, rate and service level negotiations, performance tracking and benchmarking. Member of new product introduction (NPI) teams providing logistics expense estimates and supply chain inputs to minimize these expenses. Set up logistics infrastructure support from new suppliers in regions (AP, Europe). Worked with regional distribution, corporate logistics, supply chain and marketing organizations to reduce and streamline logistics costs. Led supply chain project and completed analysis to identify and develop strategies to reduce $2M in air freight expenses. Promoted in 2007. Managed regulatory and trade compliance programs including establishing a processes for determining Country of Origin (CofO), classifying product lines’ 800+ SKU’s. As a member of Worldwide CofO project team for Supplies, tasked with designing and implementing a CofO barcode solution for products with multiple CofO’s. Led NAFTA certification program resulting in a $700K savings to HP.As team lead for MSS’ non-trade group, streamlined current processes to improve costs and responsiveness. Led reengineering of the Standard Cost Process that established processes and a database to manage and report current product costs and standard costs for over 800 SKU’s. Led a team in developing an intrinsic cost model for both large format and small format media. Show less Provided financial support to the Home Imaging Division’s R&D organization on new product teams by analyzing product NPV's, profitability, financial sensitivity, investments and product costs. Forecasted and reported divisional product development expenses and worldwide cost of sales including manufacturing overhead, trading expense, product cost and headcount. Developed manufacturing forecasts and published monthly manufacturing metrics. Provided financial support for first multifunction printer lab project and created original value chain analysis. Show less Managed supplier base of 39 metals vendors valued at $22 million. Developed sheet metal strategy with engineering counterpart to determine sourcing decisions for new product teams. Formulated joint divisional metals sourcing strategy with Barcelona Peripheral Organization for the large format product line transfer to Barcelona. Improved efficiency by reducing fabricated sheet metal supply base from +20 to approximately 8 key strategic suppliers over a three-year period. Managed multiple new product sourcing needs while supporting production. Conducted supplier reviews using industry benchmarks as a motivating tool. Negotiated pricing using zero based pricing principals and obtained cost reductions. Updated supplier review criteria to reflect changing site needs and current industry benchmarks in metals. Benchmarked world-class suppliers. Evaluated costs using landed cost models. Promoted to this position 9/92. Previous position: Commodity Buyer. Show less

  • Engineering Program Manager II

    Oct 2011 - Apr 2023

  • Business Planning Manager III

    Mar 2008 - Sept 2011

  • Logistics Manager

    Aug 1999 - Feb 2008

  • Senior Financial Analyst

    Jan 1993 - Aug 1999

  • Procurement Specialist

    Aug 1990 - Dec 1992