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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

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 and.