Global responsibility for company's procurement function, including NPI. Manage dispersed team in 3 different locations. Implemented Supplier Relationship Management program, to include supplier categorization, on-boarding, scorecards and annual audit. Achieved $250k + in savings each year with the company.

Managed and provided leadership to all aspects of strategic sourcing and supplier management, including quality, on-time delivery, contract negotiations, and supplier performance for goods and services.

Managed German localization projects for Nike and Intel; website and software testing

Owned the project plan and successfully implemented a new and standardized product development process across the company. Rolled out the training plans and coached global Marketing associates. Led awareness campaign and change management for all departments. Responsible for gathering continuous feedback and implementing process improvement. Regular generation and publication of metrics and reports distributed to the highest levels of the organization.

Worked closely with US Marketing and Manufacturing to develop and communicate global demand forecast for several product families. Implemented and conducted monthly S&OP process and acted as planning liaison for new product launches both in the US and globally. I also assisted with launch execution domestically and in international markets and supported international deployments. Responsible for inventory management activities, allocation strategies, and metric attainment.Chosen as the company representative to a J&J Medical Device and Diagnostics Group European Supply Chain team tasked to consolidate all existing European warehouses into one. I owned the operating company's part of the project and managed all aspects of the plan, acting as the liaison between the project team and my company.

Provided leadership to global customer service team with emphasis on the management of the order-to-delivery cycle worldwide. Collaborated with Demand Planning around allocation strategies and communicated those to global partners. Project management on various projects within the department and/or across the organization. Strategic sourcing and vendor management for transportation providers to help ensure maximum service levels worldwide. Vendor Management, strategic sourcing and RFQ process management of logistics providers. Represented affiliate company needs back to the Operations Division, Marketing, and other departments and provided a global perspective to the US business. Assisted in the global allocation process and responsible for product-related communications to appropriate international personnel. Supported opening new international markets and all related launch activities. Helped coordinate the move of the company’s distribution center and all its systems from one city to another. This included managing the RFQ and vendor selection process and revamping processes (resulting in shorter lead-times)and all related activities.Acted as Communication hub for international issues.Responsible for training, coaching and mentoring of customer service associates.

Led the full cycle of the localization process, including all sourcing and vendor management of localization providers. Responsible for managing the entire localization process for all packaging materials, building and maintaining cross-functional relationships within and outside of the company, coordinating and assessing all translation reviews, establishing and reporting metrics, maintaining glossaries and translation memories. I also owned continuous process improvement including vendor selection, vendor management (contract negotiations and audits). Project Management on localization projects of varying sizes and managing the global teams working on them. Close collaboration with Regulatory Affairs in the US and abroad to support international market requirements and product launch activities. Strategic sourcing of localization services, vendor selection, contract negotiations.