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Oklahoma City, Ok, Us

Categories include HR services, Learning & Development, Travel, Meetings & Events, Relocation and Commercial Cards. Effective category management of over $50 Million in General and Professional services categoriessuch as HR services, Benefits & Compensation, Learning & Development, Travel, Meetings & Events,Relocation, Consulting, Temp Labor, HR Services, and Commercial Cards.• Responsibilities include Sourcing and Supplier Management, Vendor Evaluation and Selection, Con-tract Management, Cost Management, Data Analysis, Monitor KPIs and SLAs, as well as ContinuousImprovement.• Successful in fostering meaningful relationship with challenging stakeholders with proactive engage-ment, maintaining open lines of communication and showing passion for the category by bringing for-ward meaningful category insights.• Improved rebate for commercial card program while maintainingkey contractual deliverables and improved bps during a period of high interest rates and spikes in themarket.• Accountable for multiple projects at once while demonstrating integrity throughout the process.Learning from new sets of challenges due to market changes, company transformations as well asminimizing business disruption.• Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in procurement.Continuously seek opportunities to improve procurement processes, systems, and policies to drive ef-ficiency and effectiveness.• Cost Management: Analyze and compare supplier pricing, terms, and discounts to achieve cost sav-ings. Implement strategies to optimize procurement processes and reduce expenses without com- promising quality or service.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

- Procure raw materials & parts to support operations. Interface with supplier in respect to specifications and pricing.- Collaboration with Engineering, Sales, Branch Operations, and Manufacturing regarding procurement planning.- Manage International logistics and schedule air & ocean freight to meet demand while maintaining a healthy safety stock. -Resolve delivery, payment and quality issues. - Oversee & build supplier relations for direct and indirect procurement.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Houston, Texas Area

- Strategic sourcing manager for Indirect Business Services (Human Resource services, Employee Compensation and Benefits, Tax, Facilities, Travel & Living, Financial Services and Training spend) within Americas region. - HR services includes but not limited to Temporary Labor, Direct Hire Recruiting, Consulting and Professional Services. - Maintain steady relationships with internal stakeholders or requester, suppliers and work closely with legal. - Collaborate with stakeholders and build detailed and thorough Statement of Works and RFP, RFI, and RFQ for competitive bidding. - Contract management, master service agreements, statement of works and rate card development with alignment from suppliers, internal stakeholders and legal counsel.- Quarterly, bi-annual and annual business reviews with strategic suppliers to discuss expectations, performance guarantee adherence and ways of improvement for company as well as supplier. - Effective category management to drive total cost out, improved quality, reduced cost and standardized supply across the region. - Invoice reconciliation as needed with AP.

Evansville, Indiana Area

Inventory & Warehouse Management: -Initiated solutions for MRO warehouse to identify obsolete materials for up to $800,000. -Involved in SAP projects to identify over 20,000 row/bin locations. Supplier Relations & Performance Management: -Highly engaged in the controls and movements of $50 Million in raw material inventory for two major chemical operations on site. Monitor the process from order time to confirmation and then to delivery. -Avoid delays and mitigate risks for incoming inventory. Maintain safety stock levels and work with long lead times. Work alongside with operations, planners and suppliers to develop a strong supply chain for the plant. Consolidate demand planning based on S&OP and customer demands. Ensure surely of supply to meet campaigns of finished goods. -Initiate Raw Material Introductions to qualify dual sources. Work with carriers and introduce preventive maintenance for tankers. Proactive in scheduling ramp up and ramp down plans for plant shutdown. -Strong relationship skills with 100+ suppliers for the 130+ part codes held responsible for. Frequent supplier visits to discuss current performance, develop long term forecasts and identify opportunities for improvement. Contracting & Negotiation: -Build RFI, RFQ and RFP to optimize cost effectiveness. Construct Scope of Work with requestor to include specifications, production technicalities and other details involving the purchase and fit of the equipment. -Identify potential vendors based on total cost out, technical and commercial qualification and cash impact analysis.

Plano, Tx

- Gained SAP experience- Demand and Inventory Management- Inventory reconcilation between physical inventory and data warehouse. - Projects included developing process flow charts and role mapping for the new user profiles within SAP.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration: Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: ||Sigma Alpha Lambda: Historian: October 2012- May 2013; Treasurer: June 2013- May 2014|| Thrive InterVarsity.

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

Completed Masters of Business Administration (MBA) through an accelerated program at Texas A&M Univeristy, Corpus Christi. Graduation.