Manage, lead, and mentor buyers. Lead contract negotiations.

*Strategic sourcing - work closely with Internal stakeholders to negotiate terms, implement contracts, agreements, and new processes.*Interface between multiple functional areas within management-Product Engineering, Finance, Plant Operations, Quality, etc.*Work with Global Category Managers and end users to ensure local acceptance and implementation of the sourcing strategy.*Initiate, develop and recognize strategic opportunities to maximize value of the assigned commodity.*ABC Analysis*Reduce maverick spending.*Create savings tracker*Consolidate supply base while creating preferred supply base*JDE, Lotus Notes, Windchill,

* Purchases of over 10 million dollars annually of bearings, cylinders, engines, gauges, hydraulic components, limit switches, motors, pumps, remotes, sprockets, tracks, tires, tools, valves, warehouse supplies, wire, etc. * Develop/manage strategic suppliers utilizing RFI/RFQ and negotiate contract agreements to reduce the number of vendors, which resulted in administrative cost reduction and quantity price breaks * Reviews, updates, and maintains purchase orders * Ensures orders adhere to supplier agreements and contracts. * Identifies opportunities and implements actions to achieve efficiencies.* Contributes to consolidation, reduction, and rationalization of the local supplier base.* Responsible for managing cleaning companies, vending suppliers, and negotiating contracts* Assists in managing five million in inventory utilizing MRP system-MAPICS/AS400/XA* Inventory consist of 40,000 SKU's* Accountable for purchases of MRO, expedite logs and pricing updates* Ensures orders adhere to supplier agreements and contracts* Utilize Microsoft Suite * Find alternative sources-secondary suppliers/back up-raw material purchases* Assist accounting with quantity and pricing discrepancies, assist shipping and receiving with product identification, assist inside/outside sales, production department, and QC department with product issues.* Work with engineering on design changes from supplier as well as internal changes * Created part numbers to streamline warehouse ordering process (belts, boxes, fuel, gases, gloves, grinding discs, welding supplies, etc.)* Responsible for handling all aspects of returned goods

* Responsible for buying and inventory control of electronic components, monitors, cameras, wire, time lapsed VHS recorders, mounts, etc.* Managed shipping and receiving* Implemented computerized shipping* Accountable for product staging and job scheduling* Responsible for generating and updating the work in process report* Responsible for keeping inventory for job scheduling as well as for service