Sarah Dutschke

• Financial planning of > $1bn sales business through monthly P&L updates, investment choices and execution of pricing, mix, promotion and customer plans to deliver against profit target • Holistic competitive intelligence analysis and elaboration of strengthening plans for competitive launches (surfacing risk worth 10% of yearly profit) • Leading internal control self-assessment for business unit (Brand and Organization General Controls)

• Qualification of laundry innovation, including “Pods” launch & roll out across brands in Europe; • Guided decisions on business model, and Go-to-market strategy for brand expansion, brand launches, line extensions, vertical portfolio expansions; • Sensitivity analysis evidencing risks & opportunity profile • Evaluation of scalable sampling programs across Europe incl. the biggest sampling program in Europe Fabric Care

• Customer joint business planning including customer visits • Lead of fiscal year end management & ongoing budget control ensuring compliance to accounting rules and on time closure of books • Simplification and redesign of national forecasting process to reduce time investment for organization while improving forecast accuracy • Design and roll-out on budget management tools, forecasting tools

• Development of channel reporting and scorecarding capabilities • „Selling, general and administrative“ expenses budget management

• Implementation of global budget and promotion management system in 3 WE countries • Optimization of its reporting pillar • Regional F&A support for Fiscal Year End of 3 “live market”

• Development of standard budget management tool • Roll out and training of sales organization

• Warehouse process optimization and simplification

• Theoretical and practical education in banking (title “Bankkauffrau”) • Concluded course as 2nd best of the year • Customer service, securities, credits, loans, finance and accounting

Spanish-German link; Finance

Spanish-German link