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Grand Prairie, Tx, Us

Grand Prairie, Texas, United States

• Sourcing 3 million in spend for services, direct and indirect goods for supply chain • Drive results in all areas of the supplier relationship to ensure best possible outcomes (contractual agreement, parts cost negotiations/compliance, freight terms, payment terms, MOQs, lead times, volume discounts, etc.) • Work with light duty and heavy-duty Buying Groups to maximize financial incentives within the programs and ensure supplier compliance to the program agreements.• Monitor and communicate the performance of suppliers via scorecard metrics.• Maintain and control all ERP parameters to ensure an efficient purchasing plan (i.e. – lead time, order frequency, safety stock, supplier master data, etc.) • Analyze data to identify and act on factors such as negative PPV (price increase), slow moving inventory, demand forecast accuracy, and total cost of ownership.• Oversee the purchase order processing and order management for the Texas, Mexico and outside processing operations.• Lead the sourcing strategy for new and existing products within our seat manufacturing/distribution operation.• Meet regularly with Operations to ensure capacity and labor is sufficient for immediate and longer-term demand.• Communicate and address purchased material constraints in a timely manner and adjust plans as necessary.• Communicate with and manage suppliers open orders to ensure materials arrive on time and meet inventory turns goals.• Assist in the creation/modification of BOMS

Mansfield, Texas, United States

• Managed a revolving inventory of Cisco products for demonstration purposes.• Managed the budgeting and order forecasts based on customer collaboration, sales forecast, inventory targets, and logistics data.• Managed Bill of Material (BOMs) and Equipment Change Orders (ECO).• Managed an internal collaboration process with Sales Operations, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Marketing to ensure the alignment of order forecast with sales forecast and demand plan.• Analyzed backlogged configurations and make recommendations to account managers for resolution.• Collaborated with Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales Teams for availability of new products in the demo loan inventory and manage upgrades and adjustments through the life cycle of the product.• Identify and work on supply gap resolution between order forecast and actual orders.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Networking within select groups to increase client base and generate sales• Manage day-to-day business operations and make strategic decisions• Generated new ideas with limited direction and varied internal client needs• Designed user interface, tools, and web pages to meet branding guidelines and web best practices• Developed marketing and sales strategies to maximize business success• Coordinate deliveries with multiple vendors, including trim, print and fabric vendor

Irving, Texas, United States

• Sourcing 1 million in indirect goods and services for Operational spend including IT, Advertising, Consulting, and Benefits spend.• Mapped current processes and offered recommendations for improvements.• Established, implemented and ran compliance programs for indirect spend.• Developed and implemented AMEX and Expensify corporate card spend programs.• Handled research, reconciliation and negotiations of account issues and contracts.• Supported spend sourcing for company• Managed AMEX, Expensify, and other programs to ensure spend compliance.• Fully automated, controlled and controlled spend.

Overview: Sales and account management in a high volume environment with an extensive background in pharmaceuticalsKey Responsibilities & Ongoing Contributions:• Increase client base and generate sales• Handled inbound calls to assist customers in ordering correct products and services • Educated customers with account management

Irving, Tx

Senior BuyerSourcing >$55 million in indirect goods and services for Operational spend including Fleet, Travel, IT, Advertising, Consulting, Benefits spendMapped current processes and offered recommendations for improvementEstablished and ran compliance programs for Indirect Procurement and Enterprise SourcingHandled research, reconciliation and negotiations of account issues and contractsSupported spend sourcing for all business unitsVendor SetupsServed as Corporate point person; provided high level analytic support to all business units across the organizationExtract data from SAP, QLIK, Salesforce, Ariba, generate reports, manipulate and analyze data on assignments to provide guidance to other Business UnitsCreate executive level presentations and reports, update metrics and forecast dataAnalyze operational costs and prepare monthly reports comparing standard to actual costsDeveloped a set of metrics derived from raw company data to track improvements in organizational efficiencyDocumented business processes and analyzed procedures to see that they would meet changing business needsSuggest, investigate, implement and interface with global sites cost saving and value optimizing initiativesExecuted design concept and build requirements for vehicles to align with job requirementsLead Fleet asset reviews with a cross functional team to improve asset utilization on all vehicles in serviceProactively identified and solved complex problems that impacted management and business directionStreamlined operations to increase productivity and oversaw employees to maximize outcomesIncreased regulatory compliance by monitoring vehicles to verify adherence to operational, state and federal requirementsReduced expenditures by overseeing equipment acquisition to ensure best value and price negotiationManage, educate and train employeesSupport Sales Strategy to achieve savings goals through the Request for Proposal Process ( RFP )