Darrin Dyches Email & Phone Number

Sandy, Utah, United States

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Issued requests for quotation/bid/proposal & analyzed supplier quotes to determine best source in terms of cost, conformance and business need for companywide software needs.
• PM for Outsource Testing Program, aligning Vendors and Internal Groups for essential finished goods testing.
• Reviewed and approved Statements of Work (SOW) per contractual needs.
• Wrote & negotiated vendor contracts to establish long- and short-term pricing agreements.
• Created & reviewed Contracts and User License Agreements according to best risk management practices

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Evaluated and scored vendor performance, made recommendations to Senior Officers regarding departmental direction in relation to procurement standards, commodity supply sources and general procurement activities.
• Managed pre/post-award Bidding process including creation of Sealed/Open Bid documentation.
• Solicited and awarded RFQ’s and for consultants, contractors, capital equipment, and various materials.
• Contracting Officer for Agency creating and executing contracts within corresponding specifications.
• Introduced major cost cutting initiative linking HASLC with other agencies to take advantage of bulk pricing.

Lehi, Utah

• Sourcing, negotiating, purchasing and managing depreciation of category capital equipment.
• Executing vendor scorecards & quarterly business reviews, encompassing equipment manufacturing availability, continuous improvement projects, supplier quality and equipment delivery status.
• Creating and managing Equipment Manufacturing Specification documents and Statements of Work for Equipment Purchases, Evaluations and Service Level Agreements and general contracts.
• In coordination with Engineering and Planning teams, worked to ensure Capital Equipment availability met required manufacturing production output levels.
• Negotiated Global and plant-wide Service Contracts which encompassed researching and demonstrating their ROI justifications to Intel and Micron Board Members.
• Account Manager and escalation point for all applicable tier 1 & tier 2 vendors, which encompassed finding solutions relating to disruptions in production due to equipment failures, vendor qualification and training.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Over-saw the purchasing activities of 12 business units in the United States and Canada as well as managed the Purchasing Agents for the North American division of Rio Tinto.
• Created, updated and analyzed lean reports to measure key performance indicators including Purchase Orderturn-around times, accuracy (pricing & lead times), year over year cost variances and automation levels.
• Conducted employee evaluations, orchestrated new and recurrent training, developed/edited and implementedBuyer training manuals for North American and Contracted (India based) Purchasing Agents.Commodity Manager for.
• Implementation and monitoring of pricing agreements with special focus on contract leakage mitigation.Organized and executed bid packages; analyzed and awarded winning bids to vendors.