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Managed procurement efforts for the 95-mile, 345 kV transmission line project, ensuring alignment with project scope, schedule, and budget

-Developed and implemented commodity specific sourcing strategies to ensure business targets are met for quality, on-time delivery, and cost reduction. - Sourced and negotiated purchase orders for electrical material and equipment.- Managed over 50+ existing vendors by continuously negotiating pricing, shipment and payment terms, and communicating material questions with cross-functional teams to avoid and resolve order problems.- Strategically evaluated new vendors to ensure they met the company policies and material requirements. - Determined the best shipment method, expedited orders, and resolved delivery issues by coordinating between brokers, customs, vendors, and our internal teams. - Supported in new product development by obtaining quotes for components at prototype and production levels, and working with the suppliers to ensure smooth production and delivery. - Other job tasks that I performed included negotiating quotes, creating purchase orders, maintaining material records, verifying vendor's drawings, resolving blocked invoices, analyzing material prices by commodity, and managing several procurement projects.

I was responsible for supervising a coupling product line to ensure all operators met the safety, quality, delivery, cost, and production goals to satisfy costumer needs. This plant is part of ABB's Mechanical Power Transmission Business (MOPT).

A two year rotational program that focuses on the future of operations within ABB. I participated in three rotations where I gained valuable skills in procurement and logistics, project management and manufacturing supervision.

I managed the development of a new Microdrive product to expand ABB’s Microdrive portfolio and market share. I was responsible for communicating with a global team while maintaining the projects scope, schedule, budget, KPIs, and documentation. This plant is part of ABB's Motion (MODR) business.

In this role I supported and enhanced plant operations by managing plant inventory, purchase orders, deliveries, and vendor relationships. I led several production improvement projects to increase steel outsourcing by 25%, reduce the amount of expedites by establishing an in-house cutting operation, improve cycle count operations, implement a material recycling program for the transformer mandrels, and create standard documentation for reporting. This plant was part of ABB's Power Grids Transformer (PGTR) business.