Managed and facilitated the inbound and outbound operations for five wall board manufacturing facilities within the U.S. The correlated annualized freight spend and load count for these facilities was over $97MM and over 80,000 loads respectively. Supported the business analysis needs of both customer support and logistics departments. Worked directly with upper management to understand data needs and to provide useful information to maximize service levels while monitoring costs. Utilized resources to create and maintain reports. Reviewed and monitored carrier rates as well as developed and maintained carrier performance metrics, carrier utilization, and carrier payment.

Managed procurement needs and carrier sourcing for Exel Transportation Managed Transportation (MT) group. Included working with Exel business units and operations group in understanding customer business requirements and expectations, as well as coordination of procurement needs for various modes of transport.Coordinated pricing activities for MT pursuit opportunities across Exel Transportation product lines including TL, IM, Bulk, and Drayage.Developed TL pricing for MT pursuits through engagement of Exel Core Carrier Base as well as targeted carriers based on carrier profile dataDeveloped and manage procurement project plan activities for e-procurement bid eventsAdministered e-procurement TL/IM bid events for MT perspective and existent clientsAssisted in RFI/RFP response documentation activities for MT perspective and existent clientsProvided analytical support in development of customer rates and proposal developmentWorked with mode product line owners and carrier management team to identify carrier and mode alternatives for MT clientsDeveloped market pricing and benchmarking inputs for MT perspective and existent clientsMaintained Solutions and Procurement process documentation for MT opportunitiesCreated SOP’s for RFP bid executionTrained TL analysts on all processes and procedures encompassing the TL analyst positionEstablished as a super user for truck load pricing tools, revised TL pricing process, and incorporated pricing models that are utilized for different pricing scenariosCreated, implemented, and executed internal tools and programs to capture capacity increase service levels and improve pricing for our stakeholders.Assisted TL group in increasing revenue by 15 % by targeting specific niche carriers for our customers specific transportations needs on a lane by lane basis.

•Established myself as super user for short term and long term truck load pricing tools-Revised TL pricing process, incorporating pricing models that are utilized for different pricing scenarios.•Manage execution of TL Combined bid with carrier community, including awarding lanes to carriers•Train TL Analysts’ on all processes and procedures encompassing the TL Analyst position•Created SOP’s for RFP Bid Execution

•Single point of contact for procurement and carrier sourcing for our agency office network as well as our company managed operation.•Created, implemented, and executed internal tools and programs to capture capacity increase service levels an improve pricing for our stakeholders.•Assisted TL group in increasing revenue by 15 % by targeting specific niche carriers for our customers specific transportations needs on a lane by lane basis.•Responsible for managing up to 5 bid opportunities at any given time. This included pricing lanes based on our historical data, obtaining rates from carriers, analysis, and submitting final rates to our requestor to present to the potential customer.

Buyer Specialist / Data Products 2002-2003•Responsible for all aspects of purchasing data equipment and E911 systems equipment for customers within Verizon.•Responsible for the largest quantity of material in regards to line count and dollar value within Verizon Data Purchasing Dept.•Supervised two Material Control Associates whose responsibilities include creating purchase orders, handling returns, invoicing errors, and expediting material to meet the customers need date.•COEI Project/ MMP 2002•Assisted Group Manager with a project in East Orange, NJ. Created and implemented requisition process that the transactional purchasing reps used to make their operation more efficient. Increased the group productivity, job function and saved their positions with the new function.•Trained on Verizon purchasing application MSOLV, then in turn trained 12 transactional purchasing reps on the application throughout the initial beta testing phase of the project.Transportation Supplier Compliance 2001-2002•Managed premium freight and reporting. Managed Super Vendor Program, in which vendors shipped multiple shipments to the same destination on a certain day of the week, resulting in reducing the cost of multiple shipping charges.•Streamlined and automated many manual reports used in measuring supplier compliance in regards to shipping charges.•Increased overall awareness to unnecessary freight charges when material was expedited on an unneeded basis. This in turn reduced the number of overnight and air overnight shipments and reduced shipping costs.•Developed a database to run assorted queries to track top offending vendorsBuyer Specialist/ Copper Cable 2001•Purchased all copper cable and maintained optimum levels of inventory. Supervised a Material Control Associate.•Managed $1M of inventory at 98.4% line item availability and maintained days of supply YTU of 37.7