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Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Bridgewater, New Jersey

• Led both Supply Chain and Customer Account teams (20 employees across Procurement, Warehouse / Distribution, Customer Service, Trade, and National Accounts) for all branded and generic products covering 90+ NDCs across.
• Led product portfolio development and life cycle management by partnering cross functionally to access product; external / internal business development opportunities and associated project management, launch strategy.
• Strategically positioned products with partner customers to minimize product churn and competitive disruption while maximizing profitability, efficiencies, and channel placement impacts.
• Negotiated major customer and supplier agreements across all products, including international externally manufactured products, for US market branded and generic product sales and distribution.
• Partnered with Quality, Regulatory, and Warehouse teams to find the most efficient and productive path forward regarding matters concerning the FDA and DEA, including; facility audits, product development and stability.

Livonia, MI

• Led both Sourcing and cross functional team responsibilities for all branded, generic, OTC, veterinary and medical products covering over 5,000 unique products into various retail focused sales channels totaling $350MM.
• Led strategic product portfolio management to; optimize generic drug spend, minimize product disruptions, consolidate supplier base, determine inventory reinvestment strategy, and renegotiate supplier agreements.
• Partnered with functional leads of Sales, Pricing, Finance, and Supply Chain to elevate top line revenue by 25% in 2015 by delivering several key business strategies, including; market speculation purchases, pricing.
• Leveraged myriad of external market intelligence to champion a corporate supplier segmentation tool and deliver multiple value streams in an extremely volatile and commodity driven market place.
• Reinvented near expiry product end-to-end strategy to raise both monthly net sales and profitability over 100% compared to historical levels at $1.9MM and $1.2MM respectfully.

Chambéry Area, France

• Led all functional responsibilities for European glass composites business, including; a team of 30 Sourcing and Continuous Improvement professionals, across 12 facilities, in 7 different countries, and 275MM € in.
• Partnered with functional leaders on regional asset restructuring plan in support of economic concerns which included; shutting down 3 manufacturing facilities, complete manufacturing overhauls at 3 others, liability.
• Leveraged the economic crisis of the region to develop 5MM € of incremental economic benefit in 2012; partnering with our suppliers and manufacturing resources to deliver the ideas and drive execution.
• Led functional restructuring efforts to increase the amount of strategic sourcing output while leveraging resources across multiple countries and reducing the amount of transactional inefficiencies.
• Partnered with regional and global functional leaders on short and long-term strategy planning and budget development.

Toledo, Ohio Area

• Led Sourcing team of 12 (including outsourced procurement provider), responsible for $350MM in annual spend supporting; Human Resources, Marketing, Legal, Travel, Financial services, as well as MRO products and.
• Cut travel expenses 10% with overhaul of corporate travel program. New contracts negotiated for all travel related activities. Created new travel policies and procedures, motivating greater employee compliance.
• Partnered with functional leaders on short and long-term strategy planning and budget development. Provided strategic direction for European and Asian teams for an additional $70MM in annual spend.
• Enhanced national agreements and provide strategic MRO commodity direction for 60 NA facilities.
• Led process excellence for the Global Sourcing organization to drive category strategy development and improve purchasing transactional efficiencies through global sourcing standards, including deployment of new SAP.
• Designed and executed Global Sourcing’s supplier management system to effectively cultivate supplier partnerships and manage global performance. Created company's inaugural supplier recognition event.

Toledo, Ohio Area

• Led Sourcing team of 10 employees responsible for $460MM in annual spend for the NA Insulation, Roofing and Masonry Products businesses and for non-precious metal alloys. Led Global Minerals commodity team. Grew and.
• Renegotiated several key commodity agreements with international companies in order to create long-term value and risk mitigation as well as to leverage the launch of new Insulation product development.
• Partnered with Human Resources to institutionalize talent development and performance management.
• Execution arm for Global Sourcing’s operating model organizational development and deployment.

Toledo, Ohio Area

• Led all Sourcing activities for the global business unit, including the support of 7 facilities and 11 employees. Build a talent-rich Sourcing organization, delivered 20% overall productivity improvement ($30MM) and.
• Renegotiated every key commodity agreement in support of product line redesign. This was necessary in order to cut costs dramatically and reduce single source risks.
• Partnered with business unit leadership to drive strategy development, implementation and execution.
• Led SOX controls required for Procure to Pay cycle policies and procedures for the entire organization.

Toledo, Ohio Area

• Engaged and empowered sourcing of 5 team to deliver and exceed on team goals; including achieving 5% productivity improvement ($7.5MM), appropriate inventory levels and waste elimination related activities.
• Developed team talent, leading to four team members being promoted within the broader organization.
• Drove use of e-sourcing tools, low cost country supply, supplier management and other Sourcing best practices in relentless pursuit of raising the bar on team performance.
• Supported strategic planning process for Insulation business segments short and long term goals. Calibrated those goals with the Global Packaging commodity team and led commodity strategy development and implementation.
• Supported strategic planning process for Insulation business segments short and long term goals.

Washington, MI

• Managed source selection, supplier year-over-year productivity and on-going Purchasing responsibilities. Drove global commodity strategy development and implementation between participating regions, including; low cost.
• Initiated and led 20% cost reduction ($10MM) measures for in-house leather assembly manufacturing.
• Guided negotiations between tiered suppliers in order to achieve breakthrough benchmark pricing.

Pontiac, MI

• Discovered cost reduction opportunities based on product cost analysis and communization techniques totaling $21.3MM (or 7.6% of annual purchase value) in 2002 and $18.6MM going into 2003.
• Partnered in negotiations for current and future vehicle programs with global supply base. Leveraged worldwide commodity teams, global benchmarking and e-auctions tools.
• Managed engineering changes to products by meeting capacity, timing and validation requirements.

• Monitor and facilitate vehicle line quality approval attainment for supplier materials
• Present status of supplier quality approval and Purchasing throughput to program teams
• Support vehicle launches at various assembly plants by ensuring 100% part availability