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Frankfurt Area, Germany

• Manage the Star Alliance Fuel Department which is focused on delivering financial savings and other benefits to the 28+ Star Alliance member carriers.• Develop and implement purchasing and contract management strategies, policies and procedures.• Manage the entire procurement process, from initial tender to negotiation and final award.• Effectively interface with key business associates across a wide variety of backgrounds and levels. • Obtain active support for procurement goals and objectives via local stakeholder engagement.• Ensure compliance with established strategies, contracts, policies, and procedures. • Manage relationships with key suppliers so as to meet business challenges and identify improvement opportunities.• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the factors impacting the supply market and how best to respond; and a clear view of the ways in which we can most beneficially shape the market. • Develop and present sound business cases to senior leadership in support of planned strategies.

Chicago, Illinois

• Negotiate Jet Fuel Supply Contracts for United’s worldwide operational requirements and United’s trading company, UAFC with combined requirements estimated at $3.5 billion annually.• Negotiate the purchase and manage the importation of 2-3 jet fuel cargoes per month into the US West Coast from Asia, Mexico and South America.• Develop and implement Jet Fuel Strategies.• Coordinate United’s Jet Fuel activity with the Star Alliance.• Represented United at IATA fuel related missions worldwide.• Selected by IATA to the position of Foreign Airline Representative to the Hong Kong Fuel Management Association.• Achieved significant annual negotiated savings and increased annual purchases from qualified minority Jet Fuel suppliers.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for the sale and purchase of United’s Ground Handling Services in Europe and the Pacific (est. $100 million annually).• Negotiates sales and purchase proposals with prospective customers and vendors• Develops and analyzes financial data and recommends sales and purchase prices• Responsible for monitoring profitability and costs and implementing actions necessary to ensure financial objectives are achieved and maintained.

Chica

• Managed Jet Fuel Supply and Distribution operations for United’s Jet Fuel Trading subsidiary, United Aviation Fuels Corporation (UAFC)• Maintained jet fuel supply to 35 airline customers at over 60 locations, developing forecast of fuel requirements, scheduling all pipeline, marine and surfaced shipments, monitoring system fuel inventories, resolving operational fuel supply problems, approving payments/invoicing for bulk purchases, administering fuel specification and quality assurance, implementing purchase/sale/exchange agreements with major refiners, the New York Merc and other trading concerns.• Coordinated the importation of over 20 offshore jet cargoes, valued in excess of $200 million

Greater Chicago Area

• Negotiated jet fuel contracts valued over $400 million annually and assisted in the negotiations of jet fuel and service contracts valued at over $1.2 billion annually.• Participated in the development and implementing purchasing strategies for jet fuel.• Responsible for the department operating budget.• Computerized the jet fuel contract administration function from the initial Request for Proposal phase through final contract execution.

Greater Chicago Area

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Economics

Graduate Studies