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Milpitas, California, US

Milpitas, California, US

Milpitas, California, US

Houston, TX, US

• Coached and led a team of 13 members, providing strategic direction on procurement, sourcing, negotiations, and overall value improvement while managing a $465M annual spend for indirect operational supplies
• Built and executed a 3-year roadmap to establish goal timeline achievements and leverage scaling opportunities, leading to a cost savings of $10M+ for indirect expenditures
• Strategically renegotiated various contracts, including a national waste services contract to secure a cost reduction of 26% and a vendor agreement, saving 15% on office supplies
• Revamped a corporate IT agreement and national land care contracts, resulting in an annual cost savings of 12% for equipment and services and an overall reduction in expenditures by 20%
• Developed and implemented the Procurement Academy to effectively train staff in world-class procurement by collaborating with the KPMG consulting company, training 40 supply chain team members

Lake Oswego, Oregon, US

• Managed 5 direct reports and 20 indirect support staff to execute supply chain and materials management systems, including inventory control processes, high-level contract negotiations, and vendor management.
• Scaled the business by installing process automation, selling obsolete inventory, establishing controls systems, and integrating vendor stocking programs, consolidating the Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO) by 46%.
• Produced an S&OP strategy to support the sales process to market through stakeholder collaboration, mitigating forecast errors and bias and increasing accuracy by 87% with a 100% on-time delivery rate, resulting in a.
• Implemented Standardized Operational Procedures (SOPs) for material handling and inventory management to reorganize all the processes, increasing operational effectiveness and minimizing customer delivery issues
• Developed the ERP system by integrating the inventory management module, MPS, MRP, and ATP through an Oracle R12 migration to enhance material flow and inventory storage, resulting in accelerating productivity and.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Led a team of 8 direct reports and 40 indirect support staff to transform the production materials management and supply chain processes across 4 manufacturing locations, supporting a flow line production process with.
• Reconstructed the materials management and the supply chain processes to execute a high volume of MTS field operations, decreasing the Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO) by 74%, leading to a cash flow improvement of $42M
• Integral to implementing the back end operations by integrating WMS and scanning technology, reducing delivery time by 75% and pick times by 20%, consolidating the development of production equipment packages from.
• Assessed and improved the warehouse operations, negotiating with equipment vendors to save 15% on a planned CAPEX, boosting the cycle count accuracy from 62% to 99%, and trimming the carrying costs by 10%

Houston, Texas, US

• Directly oversaw 3 Purchasing Managers, introducing cost reduction initiatives, facilitating contract negotiations, managing supply chain sourcing, and providing service delivery, influencing the 5-year plan for the.
• Exceeded the 3-year 30% spend reduction through cost-effective country sourcing with a service delivery level of 99%+, providing a 10% spend reduction in < 6 months
• Deployed a supplier management program and developed KPIs and metrics to improve collaboration efforts, growing the supplier OTD from 85% to 99% and eliminating productivity and accelerating cost of $3M

Scottsdale, Arizona, US

• Directed a Purchasing Manager and 3 indirect reports, leading the supply chain management processes, securing rebate programs and incentives with domestic steel mills through substantial contract negotiations.
• Optimized the warehouse operations by developing strategic demand-driven plans, producing a distribution center fulfillment of 100%, resulting in a carrying cost abatement by 50% and a 3x inventory turns growth

Bad Soden-Salmünster, Hessen, DE

• Managed a team of 3 direct reports and 6 indirect reports, building the quality and procurement system for North America from the ground up by restructuring the operations and spearheading the supply chain.
• Streamlined the operational processes to improve the cash flow by $2M+, leveling up the customer quality rating from 65% to 100%, resulting in $20M+ in new business
• Achieved strategic forward contracts, substantial material modifications, and long-term agreements, procuring YOY volume rebates and price reductions, diminishing the annual raw material spend by 17%

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Operations And Supply Chain

Professional Certificate, Executive Leadership

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration

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