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Essen , North Rhine-Westphalia , De

Essen , North Rhine-Westphalia , De

Elected Official Position representing the citizens of Ely, Iowa. Gained experience in project management, employee services, budgets, public bonds and relationship building.

Buyer of Chemicals for the Food Processing Industry. Working towards expanding and increasing our chemical purchasing foot print within the food industry by doing the following:Interviewing, evaluating, and qualifying new sources of supply to fill voids in current product offerings.Analyzing supply chain arrangements with current vendors to minimize pricing impact and maximizing profit to the business.Work closely with Quality and Suppliers to resolve quality issues.Make recommendations to ingredient marketing regarding opportunities with suppliers and/or positions of supply.Monitor supplier performance and coach suppliers through corrections.Notify sales of supply chain issues or pricing changes in a timely fashion to ensure limited impact to margin.Recommend sources of supply relative to geographic locations / pricing opportunity to leverage success with sales.Board President - Cross functional Engagement Team to evaluate employee surveys and make recommendations for management activity to address gaps.Project Manager - Lead Cross functional team to create process for RFI, quotation,and quality evaluation for new items.Project Manager - Lead procurement team project to incorporate acquired businesses items into JM Swank supply chain.Project Manager - lead procurement team in information gathering for population of purchasing database to support the department.

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

o Direct Supply Team Lead for two major commoditieso Manage supplier contractso Buyer for five Whirlpool locations and 15 specific commoditieso Managed savings projects resulting in $500,000

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

o Leverage supply base to support New Product Development and fill technology gaps where identified.o Procurement project manager on Customer 2 Customer product development team.o Procurement lead in 10X cost/quality improvement activity.

Co-ordinate development and communicate requirements of materials specifications with vendors.Managed material conversion projects for cost savingsEvaluated competitive products in tear downs to identify cost savings opportunities..Managed Color Control System for the Amana FacilityCoordinated Materials Lab Activities.Developed Analytic Methods in Materials Lab

- Worked on prodjects to qualify ingredients for use in phamaceutical products. - Purchased equipment necessary to complete new test proceedures. - Worked with management in creating new proceedures for Chemical Control.

Mba, Mba

B.A., Biology - Environmental Emphasis