Bill Harper Email & Phone Number

Bill has primary responsibility for operational oversight, general plant direction, strategic and tactical planning, labor relations, organizational development, and supply chain management. With over 30 years experience running energy, utility, and aerospace and defense operations, he recently served as a Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer and Chief Procurement Officer with PG&E. His considerable accomplishments include successfully delivering end-to-end supply chain planning, logistics and management of $3.5B in annual spending and centralizing a substantial engineering procurement organization, reducing costs, improving on-time deliveries and increasing customer satisfaction. With a MBA from UC Irvine and Bachelor degree in Psychology, he brings proven expertise developing culturally strong, highly diverse organizations and cross-functional expertise in operations, shared services and personnel resources.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Led diversity and inclusion, performance succession management, recruiting, employee development and workforce pipeline. - Oversaw the talent management organization, assessed readiness for change, aligned leadership and determined organizational impact. - Developed diversity and inclusion strategies, provided: Change vision and strategy, organizational design, training strategies, curricula, course development, cultural transformational plans, stakeholder management and communications to obtain awareness, understanding, buy-in and support. - Set strategic direction and provided oversight for all HR functions including: Recruiting, diversity and inclusion, training, performance management, succession planning, employee relations, compliance, policies and procedures HRIS and organizational development. - Coached Executive team and managers on performance management, employee development and other personnel related issues. - Advised businesses on succession planning, forecasting and various human capital needs. - Counseled managers on organizational policy matters, procedures and programs. - Developed and recommended necessary policy changes. - Developed, implemented and/or improved HR processes and systems that enabled the company to support the requirements for the business unit; measured the performance of the HR function and supported business growth in an efficient and cost-effective manner. -Promoted affinity groups to “Employee Resource Groups” (ERGs) with company aligned goals and objectives increasing ERG population by 80%.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Oversaw supply chain, sourcing, material operations with 3 distribution centers and 125+ remote material locations, supplier diversity, transportation services, corporate real estate, environmental services, safety, health, claims, technical and land services. - Planned, managed and oversaw corporate supply chain and material operations which included $3.5B in spend. - Responsible for ensuring a safe work environment and team building. - Created and managed strategic initiatives and annual operating plans to support division and corporate goals. - Drove strategic sourcing and quality initiatives to ensure continuous improvement and profitable growth. - Managed the process for improvement of cost, quality and delivery to improve customer satisfaction while reducing the total cost and minimizing the investment in operations.

Toronto/Ontario, Canada

- Led strategic sourcing, procurement, fleet services, administrative materials and asset management. - Oversaw $3B in sourcing, production and supply chain management in a global production context, implementation of Oracle ERP system and integrated category management. - Managed existing sourcing relationships and expanded cost effective and quality focused sourcing and supply chain network, maximized existing relationships and developed innovative and productive new sources. - Enhanced reporting metrics and spend analytics that increased annual savings by 15%. - Established organizational alignment to needs of corporate strategic goals.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

- Led shared services and procurement organization. - Oversaw all procurement, administrative and corporate services including procurement, control management, logistics, inventory control, major capital expenditures, shipping, receiving, printing, graphics and mail processing. - Developed vendor metrics, interviewed, negotiated and made hiring decisions. - Led “eProcurement” initiative, designed and managed centralized procurement system and standardized tracking and compliance processes that led to a 20% cost reduction.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

- Oversaw corporate supply chain management, supplier diversity and $800M in annual spend across three separate locations. - Aligned supply chain with corporate goals, streamlined business processes, reduced costs and maximized resources. - Set strategies, negotiated with global supply chain, directed processes of tracking internal performance measures for spend categories, made hiring decisions and communicated with direct reports.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology