David Dee Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, MO, US

United States

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Provide effective leadership and direction to a team of 24 employees, ensuring seamless operations and high-performance outcomes.
• Spearhead and coordinate the efforts of 6 global resources located in India and Costa Rica, fostering collaboration and achieving organizational goals.
• Manage a team of Procurement Associate Buyers, consisting of 2 supervisors, 6 Global employees, and 13 US-based employees, to provide crucial support across diverse areas of the Global Order Operations Organization.
• Successfully transitioned the team from a Regionally aligned Procurement model to a Vendor aligned model, optimizing efficiency and alignment with organizational objectives.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Leading experiential marketing, insights, and market research within commercial team.
• Ownership of key agency negotiations and contracts.
• Review of all incoming agency RFP/RFQ documents and pitch meetings.
• Accountable for developing and managing key relationships with commercial vendors.
• Work with leadership and brand teams to implement strategic initiatives to execute on time and on budget.
• Partner with global procurement for best practices.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Strategic Sourcing for indirect categories, including category budget ownership and development of long/short term strategy
• Reviewed thousands of incoming RFP/RFQ documents per procurement process and final award.
• Central point of contact for any and all interfaces with internal stakeholders (supply, global, marketing, logistics and innovation teams.)
• Results of 28% real dollar savings ZBB during 2019 and 36% 2020.
• Yearly bottoms up budget build for all craft entities.
• Integration of new acquisitions including all onboarding.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Lead strategic sourcing for all crafts entity capex projects for North America resulting in average yearly savings of 11% with budget of $144m.
• Successful projects overcoming obstacles such as: budget cuts, union strikes, permitting issues and other major legal challenges.
• Analyze and negotiate rates for all Capex contract employees.
• Re- designed bidding process for Capex projects.
• Assisted with contract process for Mexico and Canada including traveling to train and onboard employees.
• Negotiate contract terms and conditions and pricing for all craft entities.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Provided sourcing strategy and project management for US, Canada and Mexico procurement.
• Led $14m savings initiative with Logistics, Planning and Procurement.
• Led NA Zone auction strategy by developing strategies to ensure global targets are met.
• Responsible for delivering payment/invoice solution for Canada Procurement group to leverage weighted average payment terms negotiations.
• Training and support of India auction execution team and Mexico tactical purchasing team.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Sole Strategic Maintenance Services Agent for North American Zone, servicing all Anheuser Busch facilities
• Responsible for $65 mio in annual spend, delivering $452K of savings in 2014 and $960k 2015.
• Executing all annual maintenance contracts for various crafts.
• Solicit quotations, analyze alternatives, negotiate terms and pricing, prepare bid documents and execute orders.
• Streamlined process by automating 40% of the Pipefitting and Electrical service orders.
• Investigate and evaluate alternative solutions in materials, services & technologies by working closely with engineers to define qualification process.

• Defined, designed, planned and deployed internal/external projects and contracts with the F-15, F-18, and C-17 aircrafts.
• Individually contributed $500K in cost savings from negotiations/competition efforts, 300% better than target.
• Extracted, analyzed and prepared reports to measure key supplier and internal performance-to-plan.
• Executed long term agreement contracts, TINA agreements, following strict federal guidelines complying with Federal Acquisition Regulations.
• Led efforts to mitigate risk with multiple key Boeing suppliers and resolve issues to high risk programs.
• Led self-assessment and audit teams to identify and implement corrective action.

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Marketing/Marketing Management, General