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Purchasing / Procurement:

Years of Experience: 15

Scope of Experience:

  • Served in various procurement roles including: buyer, materials manager, director supply chain, and vice president supply chain, and procurement council member (for $1.2B firm)

  • Managed annual procurement spends exceeding $300MM

  • Managed annual traffic spends exceeding $80MM

  • Managed the following functional procurement areas:

    • Strategic procurement

    • Tactical procurement

    • Direct and indirect product components, and commodities

    • MRO

    • Indirect procurement (ie. Telecom, IT, utilities, fleet)

    • Sourcing (domestic and international) and negotiations

    • Also, managed Freight Carrier Sourcing, and

    • Procurement/Material Planning

    • Contract Management

    • Vendor Management (as well as reporting and scorecards)

Accomplishments (selected):

  • Established short, medium, and long term agreements with suppliers as well as establish vendor partnerships

  • Improved organizational sourcing, negotiating, and contracting methods

  • Completely re-sourced material portfolios multiple times, held vendor conferences, involved engineering and other users

  • Implemented supplier performance measurements

  • Implemented procurement and procurement planning performance metric systems

  • Consistently drove procurement savings equal to 1.5-2% of revenue (Sonitrol)

  • Product Margins (proprietary products) improved by 31%

  • Examples of cost reductions in various products:

    • Large truck fleet cost reduced 30%

    • Forklift fleet cost reduced 70%

    • Various commodities at a foundry reduced 15 - 70%

    • Batteries 61%

    • Monitors 37%

    • Natural Gas 33%

    • Telecommunications services $600k annually

    • Service van fleet (identified and suggested - left before implementation) cost reduction $2.6MM annually

    • Credit card processing $235K annually

  • Established integrated supplier relationships

  • Responsible for leases at 60+ facilities across North America

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