-Built Supply Chain Org from scratch, recruited highly talented professionals, established written processes, KPI's, influenced company culture to adopt manufacturing supply chain practices.-Logistics - Contracted 3PL to help manage complex inventory and logistics - Implemented best practices in outbound, escorted, oversized load deliveries; Created processes for qualifying and tracking parcel, LTL and truckload cost and OTD performance-Purchasing - Built Purchasing department, implemented best-known practices and KPI's. Improved material availabity from <35% to over 95%. 95% is impressive given <80% BOM accuracy.-Strategic Sourcing - Built Strategic Sourcing team. Implemented 7 Step Sourcing process. Improved spend under contract from 0 to 60%. Trained construction suppliers to deliver in a structured, manufacturing manner. Consistently beat the market in an inflationary cost environment. Sustained material supply while lead times grew from 2 weeks to 10 months on critical materials.

As part of a turnaround leadership team, responsible for Purchasing, Materials and Customer Service.-Created data analytics platform and process to allow tracking of Supply Chain performance metrics.-Design warehouse layout to improve inventory accuracy and efficiency-Reduced on-hand inventory of largest category by 30%

-Designed Purchasing and Sourcing org to align buyers by category-Created Strategic Sourcing function-Developed category stratification to allow category management and data analytics-Lead global sourcing team to support New Product Introductions at development sites in 7 countries

Responsible for all purchasing activities in the NAFTA region.