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Harrisburg, Pa, Us

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Westport, Connecticut, United States

Westport, Connecticut, United States

- Earned promotion to Director by consistently demonstrating a rapid ability to adapt and excel in new roles.- Increased travel (up to ~40% of the month) to clients and executive meetings in the home office.- Responsible for overseeing all internal and external financial reporting delivered to clients.- Collaborated with Solutions and Client Transition teams to define expectations, establish project timelines, allocate roles and responsibilities, and motivate both client participants and internal LogicSource stakeholders to ensure on-time and on-scope project delivery.

- Effectively managed quantitative Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for multiple clients, overseeing the tracking of savings exceeding $50 million and simultaneously managing over 200 active projects to gauge and ensure client success and delivery of value.- Championed and effectively coordinated program management with client on-site team members and Center of Excellence across multiple concurrent client engagements, ensuring the successful completion of sourcing and supplier cutover activities as per the established project plan, objectives, and timelines.Proficiently identified, monitored, and resolved critical issues essential to ensuring the strategic procurement and operational success of LogicSource and our clients.- Supervised and spearheaded the process for supplier cutover and savings implementation, providing consistent status updates to both internal and external Executive Leadership stakeholders.- Engineered actionable stories through data using presentations and custom client reporting, utilizing advanced data analysis skills.

- Elevated to a Team Lead position, overseeing a team of 3-5 analysts- Conducted in-depth data analysis across multiple accounts while also overseeing reporting and error checking within the team.- New account setup of reporting and internal leadership report ownership.- Responsible for setting up new accounts for reporting and owning internal leadership reporting.- Worked closely with the team to develop standardized dashboard reporting used consistently across all clients.

United States

- Oversaw analytics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for indirect procurement programs, utilizing self-authored slide decks, reports, and dashboards to track and forecast spend, savings, project updates, and more. Effectively communicated team performance to both the team and the client Chief Financial Officer (CFO).- Conducted in-depth analysis of raw indirect spend data, exceeding $2 billion, to identify opportunities and potential risks within significant spending categories. Researched synergies with the new acquisition spend of the client to generate profit and loss (P&L) savings.- Facilitated cross-functional communication among the client procurement team, client business stakeholders, LSI team, and client Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) department to monitor various savings metrics and identify opportunities for reducing financial plans- Designed procurement process flows to streamline the client-LSI relationship. Created detailed reports for category and individual supplier spend analysis utilizing SQL and the client's legacy accounts payable (AP) system.- Developed training programs and best practices for the LSI software suite, assuming the role of a 'superuser' to enhance user proficiency.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

- Managed the procurement of precious metal materials for both internal manufacturing and external supplier payments for all of North America. Utilized leasing programs in collaboration with financial institutions to facilitate the transfer of precious metals to supplier accounts.- Conducted in-depth analysis of commodity markets and leveraged market insights to support standard cost forecasting, reduce price liability through financial hedging, and make predictions about headwinds and tailwinds affecting spend.- Aided in negotiating fabrication and precious metal pricing with external suppliers, leveraging comprehensive knowledge of commodity markets and internal cost-saving opportunities through total acquisition cost analysis.- Oversaw critical vendor key performance indicators (KPIs), including delivery, quality, and core productivity, through ongoing communication via virtual and in-person interactions among corporate procurement, business unit, and vendor representatives.- Utilized data extracted from self-generated reports to develop PowerBI dashboards and visualizations, enabling the identification of strategic savings opportunities and in-depth investigation of key performance indicators (KPIs).

Harrsiburg, Pa

- Managed the procurement of raw metals, plastic, and corrugated packaging materials, as well as subcontracted precious and non-precious plating services for assemblies and finished products across various business units, including appliance, AD&M, automotive, and medical, using purchase orders and requisitions.- Applied analytical skills to identify enhancements in the supply chain, leveraging the SAP ERP system reports and transactions. Extrapolated data to Excel spreadsheets and pivot tables to ensure the sustainability of material requirements.- Designed and implemented a system and method for ordering packaging materials in support of a new distribution center project. Utilized material movements and reorder point planning, resulting in the establishment of a sustainable vendor-managed inventory system.- Collaborated with production management and materials planning to develop a daily expedite list. This list facilitated the scheduling of in-house reeling and plating work centers, ensuring the timely fulfillment of ship-to-request date key performance metrics and enhancing plant turnover efficiency.Identified issues with vendors experiencing substantial raw material scrap, assessed whether purchase orders were within scrap variance, and collaborated with the global procurement team to resolve any losses incurred.

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100 Erie Insurance Pl, Erie, Pa 16530

Worked on operational team of IT using mainframe systems to control automated processes from businesses to Erie Insurance. Gained large scale project experience on a company wide project, learned basic programming, and knowledge in data analytics.