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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Novir is biotech company committed to providing solutions to infectious diseases with reliable simple, rapid and cost-efficient products addressing significant healthcare and community challenges.Novir-usa.com

Greater Milwaukee Area

Guided a team of data and technology driven people supporting an evolving Global Supply Chain team. - Managed development, release, training, documentation and maintenance of Supply Chain tools; supplier relationship manager (SRM) with SAP integration, supplier scorecard, tool tracking, and spend analytics used by more than 200 Supply Chain professionals globally. - Key member for the Source to Pay (STP) technology advisory panel which budgeted and aligned resources and projects to address vital business needs.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Collaborated with leaders and customers across the organization to identify, develop, and implement business solutions that propel Supply Chain systems, processes, and data to the highest level. - Point person for company-wide ERP upgrade (Infor / Lawson CloudSuite); responsible for process identification, creation of documentation, master data management, system testing, training, and user adoption for a 140+ person Supply Chain organization. - Managed project to replace single use surgical equipment with sustainable solution; reprocessed implements will cut costs by more than $500K annually and eliminate thousands of pounds of waste currently sent to landfills.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Reported to Vice President of Supply Chain and Vice President of Quality and Fulfillment; provided key technical, operational, and analytical direction as member of Supply Chain Senior Leadership Group, Operational Sciences Organization, and Integrations Center of Excellence TeamsWore many hats – including: Quality Analyst, EDI Manager, Systems Administrator, Conduit to Engineering and Reporting teams, and Technical Support Resource to 75 people across Supply Chain and Customer Service - Revolutionized the way Customer Service Requests were taken and cause-coded via outside the box thinking; this new process yielded consistent, objective, value-added data which highlighted areas for improvement - Identified opportunities and managed key projects which drove over $1.5M in Net Loss savings in under two years - Scoped, designed, and implemented RFP software solution utilizing in-house software enabling contract termination of 3rd party solution which saved $100K annually while increasing internal user satisfaction and response rates from potential service providers - Earned special recognition from CEO for work done with cross-functional team to increase speed and accuracy of customer quotes and invoicing - Led cross-functional team to create a multi-year technology roadmap for the Supply Chain organization; the first of its kind for the department - Implemented process to automatically record delivery information across parcel and LTL shipments making it actionable for entire fleet of Sales and Customer Service representatives and replacing thousands of hours of manual shipment tracking annually - Led / mentored interns and new hires

Greater Milwaukee Area

- Led design, implementation, and administration of new third party software suites; including company’s first Supply Chain software, SRM, contract database, and online expense management tools transitioning teams from paper to cloud-based systems - Improved accuracy of product lead times and carrier transit times by 30% by running several initiatives focused on data integrity and optimizing systems algorithms - Teamed with Sourcing Managers to shorten suppliers’ actual lead times on over 15% of products resulting in over $700K in supplier cost concessions and late shipment penalties - Earned 2013 Q3 Supply Chain Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) Award for successful implementation of lead time projects - Worked directly with VP of Finance to analyze and validate the company’s sales backlog, providing critical reports to breakdown where each dollar of booked sales resides during the sales cycle

Greater Milwaukee Area

- Mastered inner workings of company integrations and became EDI/FTP manager in charge of onboarding new trading partners and troubleshooting issues; ultimately becoming the sole EDI manager for the company’s largest division, which processed hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions annually - Led a cross-functional project involving Supply Chain, Customer Service, Database, and dozens of suppliers to reduce invoice exceptions from over 5% to an average of 1.5% monthly

Greater Milwaukee Area

- Forged relationships with managers and engineering leads company-wide by running rent-an-engineer programs and managing the small project channel; bringing much needed process improvement and technological enhancements to existing processes and tools

Greater Milwaukee Area

- Designed and coordinated with engineering and marketing teams to build and launch company’s first e-commerce (B to B) sales website and first online supplier order management portal which remains in use