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Hooksett, New Hampshire, United States

Responsible for maintaining and growing a suite of product lines among 26 vendors. Duties in part include: • Work with General Managers to position products• coordinate with Sales for product launch, training, and promotions• Contract reviews and negotiations• Contain vendor issues and investigate root cause and solutions• Grow vendor relations to best serve the overall goal of Woodgrain• Evaluate reporting for material use, buying trends, and cost benefit analysis for product rationalization• Manage inventory quotas and limiting stock outs through forecasting• Review and manage E&O stocks• Work with Finance on unpaid receipts

Concord, New Hampshire

Maintain and oversee all inventory and purchasing. Support and assist staff with training and documentation.

Londonderry, Nh

Responsible for a variety of purchasing activities including price negotiations, competitive bidding, vendor evaluations and support of the procurement process from beginning to end including but not limited to:• Contract negotiations• Develop and maintain vendor accounts to best serve the company goals.• Provide and improve all products and services by building supplier capability and long term strategic relationships.• Establish pricing through negotiating and/or competitive bidding.• Define and implement process improvements for streamlining purchases as well as automating manual processes.• Evaluate and provide reporting for material use, buying trends, and cost benefit analysis.• Provide vendor evaluations on an ongoing basis to determine if they are meeting corporate standards with respect to being on time, competitive pricing, quality, and invoicing accuracy.• Manage inventory by avoiding material shortage issues by reporting and tracking order and inventory status.• Lead cost saving projects by ensuring better specifications so that we are buying the right type of goods and services.• Work with Finance on confirmation of open purchase orders and unpaid receipts.

Greater Boston Area

Worked to develop and implement a Special Order Creation and order entry process to streamline and reduce errors with Vendors and Customers. Created extensive material uploads of wholesale products in order to have a more complete and balanced catalog of materials. Maintained wholesale inventory system and reorganized material group structure in order to facilitate ease of use and speed of searches for wholesale division. Developed relationships with vendors to facilitate understanding of product lines and to determine a best fit for our company. Created and maintained Variant Configuration order methods to reduce errors and ensure accuracy with both the supplying vendor and customer base. Cross trained co-workers in the development and design of Variant Configuration. Continued work on production methods, cost structure and analysis of production shop processes.

Greater Boston Area

Managed the wholesale purchasing agents and provided SAP training and support to staff. Worked with the purchasing department to oversee GXS EDI management systems implementation including training and review of requirements needed. Managed commodity vendors (e.g. copper and plywood) for the company to determine peak purchasing points as well as managing buys for standard vendors. Participated in yearly evaluation of purchasing agents with Purchasing Manager. Continued to maintain and monitor the production shop and worked with quoting and marketing departments to develop sales strategies and determine acceptable margins.

Nashua, Nh

Transitioned from Inventory coordinator to Production Control of the Nashua Millwork Division. Worked to design and develop new product offerings, implement new processes while running the office for production orders and Andersen Windows business development and fulfillment. Worked to implement the SAP ERP platform company wide as one of three wholesale team members and developed a Millwork and Andersen Windows solution for SAP, including the development of SAP functionality for SAP varient configurations.

Salem, Nh

As Inside Sales I was responsible for working in a fast paced and demanding environment serving the customer base. I managed and oversaw all related marketing materials and worked with the vendors to secure needed resources. Worked with customers to increase repeat sales and draw in new customers as well as collaborate with vendor representatives to develop relationships and troubleshoot product issues and warranties. While Inventory Controller I oversaw all receiving and worked with vendors to resolve problems with stock and customer complaints. While maintaining the inventory for one of the top wholesale branches worked with management to prepare for fiscal year inventory and worked with auditors from Price Waterhouse.

Swansea, Ma

Managed and maintained accounts throughout the Western United States covering Colleges and Universities such as Stanford University, Point Loma Nazarene, and the Colorado School of Mines while growing enrollement and signing exclusivity contracts for services.