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Hicksville, New York, United States

• Oversee all vendor communications, including RFP/RFI, pricing terms negotiations, and contracting. Directly responsible for monitoring purchase requisitions from facility, warehouses, and corporate office on ERP system.
• Manage supplier communications, including sourcing, issue resolution, pricing terms negotiations, contracting, and reverse logistics for 35 suppliers and amongst 18 different laboratory categories/verticals
• Oversee the purchase order process, including monitoring end user requests and ordering habits, guiding vendor selection process, creating orders in Quartzy and monitoring vendor performance
• Receive, analyze, and resolve supplier inquiries, disputes, and payment discrepancies
• Perform one-off exception purchases, negotiate final pricing terms, and select suppliers based on singular demand
• Perform data analytics, forecast demand, and identify baselines for purchasing that meet prioritized business requirements

Melville, New York, United States

Working closely alongside Information Technology and General Affairs teams to source and negotiate thepurchase of IT hardware, software and services in various spend categories. Create sourcing strategies andidentify cost saving opportunities, as well as initiate and drive the opportunities to realize cost savings withoutjeopardizing quality and level of.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Managed the Comme De Garcon (CDG) Brands warehousing – Organize and monitor inventory levels to maximize efficiency and Logistics - Manage all incoming and outgoing shipments to ensure timely delivery to direct stores.
• Oversaw company-wide and non-inventory items housed at our offsite warehouse.
• Coordinate with Paris and Tokyo team on all future collections and shipments to plan accordingly with rest of the CDG team and both warehouses Oversee all imports and work with warehouse to ensure timely customs.
• Oversee seasonal allocation for wholesale vendors through 3PL warehouse. Spearheading weekly meetings with warehouse management, wholesale team and executive management to recap previous weeks warehouse strengths and.
• Investigate and reconcile inventory discrepancies
• Provide delivery report to VP and CFO for CDG CORE products on a weekly basis

Greater New York City Area

• Executes on the Order to Delivery process and order management for Oakley Key Accounts such as Amazon, Scheels, The Buckle, Nordstrom, Von Maur and Backcountry.
• Ensure prompt order allocations, removal of delivery blocks, creation of deliveries and Issue return authorizations
• Manages external communication with clients and internal communications with internal parties namely Customer Service, Logistics, Planning, Credit, IT, Marketing and Product
• Supports the 4 Account Managers in the achievement of annual invoiced sales goals
• Monitors the status of order portfolio, ensuring orders are meeting customer fill-rate and shipping requirements. Acts as liaison with Credit/Pricing department to address all credit-related customer issues
• Tracks past and future orders, updating all the Account Managers, Customers and Business Planners.

Greater New York City Area

• Allocate initial and replenishment of more than $300 million worth of merchandise to stores such as Sears, Macys, Bonton, Walmart, Kohl’s, Meijer and their respective e-commerce sites for a women’s apparel/denim line..
• Process all purchase orders and key bulk orders into SAP
• Drop pick tickets to warehouse team to initiate packing process of orders
• Analyze orders and inventory validation for 2 distribution centers, cross-docking opportunities, and inbound deliveries to develop allocation strategies that meet clients’ delivery demands, reduce logistics costs, and.
• Manage the inventory for brands such as L.E.I, Nine West, Vintage America Blues, Bandolino, Macys’ and Wal-Mart Private Label brands in children’s, juniors, petite and plus sizes
• Collaborate with sales to make decisions on and maintain orders to accommodate for oversold styles

Bachelor'S Degree, Administrative Studies

Activities and Societies: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc

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