Daniel Gamboa Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Cross-functional leader with oversight of sourcing, product development, planning, production, supply chain, logistics, and customs compliance.• Manage all in origin and in transit logistics including issue resolution for delivery and/or production and shipping issues.• Build strong relationships with suppliers and factories in Asia; Negotiate key suppliers agreements and contracts to decrease long term issues in supply chain• Develop the sourcing plan ensuring considerations for aesthetic intent, factory capability, capacity, and costing.• Place orders for finished goods. Ensures all orders meet company specified inventory levels and shipping cost efficiency goals.• Works with 3rd party providers (i.e. freight forwarders, labs) to ensure accurate data for customs and compliance clearance.• Negotiate all development costs, production plan, terms, and shipping costs.• Anticipate and identify challenges in the Supply Chain process and effectively resolved issues through appropriate actions and communication.• Achieved on-time production, shipping, and receiving of goods expected to cover Q4 2021 and exceeded Q1 2022 inventory levels during the peak of a volatile supply chain environment.• Partner with vendors and management to develop and execute strategic initiatives to grow top-line performance, reduce costs, optimize and improve manufacturing productivity.

Orlando, Florida, Estados Unidos

Responsible for leading the organization’s sourcing and development solutions; Focused on building comprehensive development & negotiation plans to establish sustainable and strategic supplier/vendor relationships, and on overseeing in all aspects the different stages of development including contract and terms negotiation ensuring the best pricing and service that supports strategic planning initiatives and achieves the best interest of the company.Key Contributions• Diversified product sources of more than 200sku and improved 3-7% profit margin by designing and implementing an aggressive production resource strategy to reduce the company’s source dependence.• Leveraged global sourcing expertise in eco-friendly components and rapidly designed an assortment enhance and expansion plan, resulting in the 4 redesigned to 100% Eco-Friendly with an average +5% margin improvement and creation of 3 product lines (+100skus) on target.• Achieved a cost consistency plan by negotiating a 0% cost variation for +3 years on any orders, directly enhancing sales and customer satisfaction along with improving projected profit results.• Increased average profit margin by 4% in 3 main product lines by redesigning and resourcing them to automated factories that improved materials and labor efficiency.• Created solid relations with 7 new factories (China, Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia) by sourcing and negotiating materials, final cost, production, quality standards, and terms, minimizing existent supply chain risks. • Developed an eco-friendly composition formula for new fabrics and filling materials from 100% post-consumer PET bottles, that provided a novelty low cost - high-quality component applied to a 72 SKUs new product line nominated for IAAPA Brass Ring Award as Best of the year 2019.

Led the product development, in-house manufacturing, and global sourcing teams focused on product engineering, innovation, processes optimization, cost reduction initiatives, and automation technologies, establishing strong processes that ensured licensed and proprietary brands' requirements of quality, safety, design, cost, and on-time delivery are met according to guidelines.• Enhanced existent line’s markup by 0.5 to 1% and accomplished a 2% improvement after 2 years by assessing and redesigning existent manufacturing processes, re-organizing operators flow, and implementing automated techniques.• Created a framework for planned demand growth by designing and implementing a production-vendor matrix strategy that while delivering cost savings also offered the flexibility of sources to development/planning processes involved.• Designed a new manufacturing costs and resources worksheet that reduced new product reaction time from 7 days to 3 days, improved visibility of material and labor costs, enhanced cost management, and accelerated the pricing processing.• Created the company’s development & production calendar ensuring all milestones are met and adhered to among all cross-functional partners to provide clear vision and expectations to the manufacturing, sourcing, development, and engineering teams.• Directed the global sourcing and development team by researching new automated manufacturing technologies and suppliers who can meet capacity, quality, delivery, and cost requirements that meet our standards and grow them according to their strength to maximize costing leverage while offsetting on-time market trends.• Designed and implemented a monthly KPI plan and monitored day-to-day performance at team, individual, and production process levels to identify deviations, areas to improve, coaching needs, and took corrective action.

• Managed sample tracking, providing charts, metrics, and costs on a regular basis to ensure adherence to budgets and agreed upon sample counts; achieving target margins of 70-80%• Improved by 3% the private label business profitability by managing and coordinating the engineering and manufacturing teams to create 4 new lines that maximized our installed capacity and technology while meeting quality and cost targets. • Designed and maintained a monthly raw material chart to follow the cost of materials to secure raw sources during optimal pricing windows and secure the best cost of goods from development.• Executed a new product development plan ensuring considerations for aesthetic intent, factory capability, capacity, and costing creating 3 new categories for the company including plastic molded items, and electro fused plastic items, meeting engineering, manufacturing, and quality parameters as required by the company’s target goal. • Enhanced 3 existing lines that expanded the business by 10% and improved profit margin by 7% by designing creative solutions to value-engineered products by analyzing quality, construction, and machinery and created new production lines by re-purposing in house available technology that minimized costs and impulse local workflow.• Managed the approvals for all production materials and goods regarding quality, color, finish, and testing validating all aspects established during development and guaranteeing to meet standards required by our global brand licensors and private brands. • Coordinated and measured at the engineering, design, and development processes level the implementation of a quality management system resulting on the NVF-ISO 9001: 2008 and maintained evidence of maintenance and improvement of quality management for the next 4 years.

• Procurement and order negotiation with suppliers.• Executed quarterly purchases analysis and costing impact review.• Contract and bidding analysis for final recommendation.• Cash flow quarterly and yearly projections per project.• Payment terms negotiation and scheduling.• Accounting support and costs adjustments.• Petty Cash management, project basis.• Presentation of Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly review of AP closings to the International Service Center (Argentina-Colombia-Mexico-USA).

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing/Marketing Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, International Business/Trade/Commerce

Certificate, Esol - (English As Second Language)

Graduate and Certified in English as Second Language, 14 levels focused on vocabulary, idiomatic expressions and structures for oral.