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Detroit, Mi, Us

London, Gb

Leading the development of a brand-new supply chain for high-performance engines, including the developing and implementing a comprehensive procurement strategy that ensures the acquisition of high-quality materials and components at optimal costs. This role involves establishing supplier relationships, negotiating contracts, implementing quality control measures, and optimizing inventory management to support the production of high-performance engines while balancing cost-effectiveness, reliability, and performance requirements.

Esslingen, De

• Demonstrated leadership in establishing multi-commodity wide sourcing strategies, tailored to align with the company’s requirements and leveraging key strengths of suppliers in the current market landscape.• Led comprehensive negotiations, re-negotiations, and contract administration with a wide array of suppliers, vendors, and other partners, underscoring my capacity to oversee and control crucial interactions.• Guided the development of commodity managers and buyers, instilling core purchasing skills and emphasizing the importance of cost-effectiveness, quality, and efficient delivery.• Pioneered the development of a cost modeling and analytical support team, which greatly enhanced the competency of buyers and heightened their awareness of cost drivers within their assigned commodities.

Esslingen, De

• Manage commodity leads and direct high-level strategies for the blanks, stainless steel, raw tubes, manipulated tubes and weld wire commodities.• Created, developed, and executed an out of the box sourcing strategy - resourcing the majority of the company spend during a historically tight market.

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

• Crafted and implemented North America purchasing strategies for raw materials and energy commodities, ensuring alignment with business goals.• Collaboratively engaged with the manufacturing leadership team to determine demand and guarantee the availability of raw materials, thus enabling smooth and uninterrupted production processes.

Northville, Michigan, Us

• Created and executed North America Steel Sourcing Strategy, paving the way for a diversified supply base. Successfully onboarded suppliers with capabilities that perfectly aligned with internal manufacturing needs and ensured partnerships with regional and global frontrunners in their respective industries.• Commanded all aspects of purchasing in conjunction with the flow of raw materials, showcasing strong oversight abilities.• Devised an exhaustive curriculum for steel validation and sourcing management, empowering the organization to meet its sourcing agility goals.

Troy, Mi, Us

• Develop, implement, and manage market research and commercial diligence projects to enhance or improve existing services and to identify trends and opportunities which support clients' initiatives.• Led and mentored a team of researcher/s and analyst/s, responsible for the development and completion of project deliverables utilizing Ducker’s best practices and the team’s and my own industry knowledge and professional network

Southfield, Mi, Us

• Created a cost model for corrugate, plastic molded packaging, and retail packaging, which exposed significant 'should cost' discrepancies. Developed and managed a supplier consignment/Kanban program to facilitate larger orders, leading to an annual cost reduction of 10%.• Exemplified leadership qualities in creating cost models for complex rerolled steel supply. Identified cost gaps, built competitive tension, and reduced supplier count through competitive meet comps. Ensured ongoing competitive tension by diversifying current expenditure with additional industry-leading suppliers.

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

• Lead the negotiation for tier 2 steel contracts for stamping suppliers, resulting in creating leaner value chain and material cost reduction.• Drove a dual sourcing initiative for single-sourced applications, resulting in reducing single sourced applications by 25% for North America.• Monitored raw material index movements and managed and negotiated contractual agreements for raw material movement.

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

• Created and drove a refined cost correlation process with process partners to clearly identify new part's cost drivers, manufacturing assumptions, and potential risks and opportunities, identified key process partners (engineering, procurement, etc.) to attend the correlation and resulted in fasted cost savings projects and mitigation of identified risk. • Monitored raw mater index and negotiated raw material movement base don index movement, identified opportunities and risk related to forecasted index movements for raw materials including; rubber, resin, steel, PVC, PET, and corrugate.

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

• Drove a Small Appliance marketing initiative (color specific carton labels) avoiding a $400K bad guy and created $100K benefit through duel sourcing, cost negotiation, and pricing alignment. Introduced competitive tension, reducing new quotes by 7-15% from current and new suppliers.• Identified supplier costs were based on past raw material spot buys and Whirlpool was not getting credit for total annual buy, resulted in negotiating cost base do the annual volume of steel and reducing cost by 5%

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

• Lead analysis efforts for specific commodity supplier relationships to assure sourcing selection activities are supported with the best total-cost supply chain elements netting over $4M in net savings and $2M in cost avoidance.• Lead Steal tube strategy and managed dual sourcing project netting $700K in savings. • Created and presented training of buyers and analyst for landed cost analysis

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

• Maintained top rating through quality control systems, through use of soft skills and effective communication. • Identified several costly trends pertaining to returns of defective and damaged products was appointed to lead project analyzing high volume appliances returned for damages and defective parts. I implemented a means of collecting and analyzing data and translating what data means to logistics team.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Managed daily Operations and drove Sales and estimating for potential customers.

Alexandria, Va, Us

• Assessed and created processes to follow Sarbanes Oxley standards, aligning to requirements to receive State funding • Decreased the center's debt by more than 25% through new revenue streams and multiple expense deductions of non-value-add services • Improved budgeting process through analyzing an additional year of past results, giving leadership a clearer vision of financial patterns.• Reduced payroll expenses by 20% through reduction of financial analyst position and personnel cuts, including reducing sick and personal leave cost through policy revisions and employee training. • Lead and drove restructuring of management and programming to reduce several non-mission statement focused programs resulting in debt reduction and greater utilization of donations.

Jackson, Michigan, Us

• Lead the design and construction and implementation of gas and electrical construction distribution projects, managed total oversight of all design aspects, from billing, engineering, and permits and scheduling.