David Howard Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, PA, US

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

Zamudio, Vizcaya, ES

Reporting directly to ON CPO. Oversee all Procurement and Supplier Quality related tasks within the America's Hub (Brazil, LatAm, and North America). Responsible for approximately €1.5 Billion of spend.

Zamudio, Vizcaya, ES

• Reported directly to the NE&ME CEO and ON CPO. Oversaw all Procurement, Supply Management, and Supplier Quality activity within the region in relation to direct material and project procurement. Responsible for.
• Structured a regional procurement team after the merge of our two companies.
• Incorporated a ONE company, ONE team attitude and mindset
• Led wind turbine cost improvements regionally by ~6% year over year (YOY)
• Significantly improved working capital and supported our cash position by contributing global improvements
• Successfully supported the commercial team in securing projects in two major localized markets (Russia and Turkey) with a 65% localization requirement given by the respected ministries

• Reported directly to VP of Operations. Oversee all Purchasing, Planning, Procurement, Costing, Supplier Quality, and Manufacturing Operations in NA. Responsible for approximately 300M$ of spend per year. Managed 21.
• Led turbine cost improvements by an average of 5% YOY on main components and project scopes
• Improved Working Capital to support the best possible cash position
• Recovered +90% of NCR’s related to supplier non conformity
• Created a methodology to maintain, track and present KPI’s

• Reported directly to VP of Operations. Oversaw all logistics and customs compliance operations in all warehouses, trans load sites, wind farms and ports in US and Canada. Managed 14 members including nine direct reports.
• Led a team that implemented new processes to improve communication, efficiency, and accountability
• Created all the financial costing and expected spend for all related projects while maintaining realistic targets to help achieve sales initiatives
• 99% Right First Time Damage Rate
• 95% On Time Delivery
• Improved transit times by 22.6% YOY average across all projects

• Reported directly to Director of Purchasing and functionally to the Director of Logistics and Construction. Annual Logistics spend on average is around 80M$.
• Directly responsible for all logistics negotiations from final sourcing to wind farms
• Negotiated the first wind related contract using EXIM Bank financing with a vessel owner under budget. Worked with our customs compliance department to make sure the documents were in good order to release the cargo.
• Managed a 10% decrease in logistics spend vs. budget
• Led renegotiations of quarterly spend on containerized cargo coming in from Europe and Asia.
• Led negotiations and provided an opportunity to save 30% on shipments of raw material by implementing use of rail

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Report directly to VP Purchasing. Annual material purchase of 300M$; 60M$ being foreign materials and 240M$ being US labor contracts, domestic steel and supplies. Personally responsible for 70M$ per year in materials.
• Renegotiated a 10% decrease in domestic port costs
• Reduced cost of domestic brokerage by 22%
• Maintain a 98% on time ratio with material deliveries from overseas vendors
• Reduced domestic trucking cost by 50%
• Reduced inventory of floor stock material by consolidating and organizing facility

Outside sales in the beer industry.