Esteban Bowles

With over 10 years of industry and consulting experience, Esteban Bowles has served a variety of corporate clients in consumer packaged goods and retail. He specializes in managing large-scale strategic and cost transformations. Areas of expertise include real estate and construction, supply chain, store operations, and procurement.

Examples of direct client experience include:

• For a fashion retailer, led a broad corporate restructuring program including real estate portfolio optimization, workforce reduction, store labor and process improvement, and an indirect sourcing program

• For a specialty retailer, led a focused effort to transform its supply chain operations; enhanced factory-to-store processes and product flows, optimized the transportation network, streamlined DC operations, and redesigned the supporting infrastructure and organization
• For a leading CPG company, led a productivity improvement program to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of its procurement function; created a roadmap to double savings contribution while streamlining the function, shifting resources towards value-added activities
• Led the identification and realization of operational synergies (supply chain, procurement, real estate, etc) from a merger that created the world’s largest consumer products company
• For a specialty apparel retailer, led an operational transformation effort that included re-designing its inbound and outbound distribution network, revamping its real estate and store construction process, refocusing and optimizing marketing investment, and transforming the procurement function through centralization and better use of technology
• For a global beverage company, developed a pilot program for unprecedented collaboration between the company and its network of independent bottlers for maximum purchasing leverage with key suppliers

Before joining A.T. Kearney, Esteban worked for Procter & Gamble in South America, where he led a number of capital and process improvement projects.

Esteban has an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University and a B.S. degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California.