Proposal Manager, Sales & Project Support

Providing strategic daily management of multiple steel pole utility projects. Effective leadership from order conception through full project life cycle while exceeding client expectations. Successfully manage customer orders to stay on budget, hit deadlines, OTD and scope project changes in manufacturing environment.• Develop interactive and fluid project planning with Sales, Purchasing, Estimation, Engineering, Drafting, Production, Shipping, and Accounting.• Strong cross-functional internal, external, vendor customer service, field support, and relationship building• Ability to identify, define and resolve problems while providing new solutions and prioritizing• Negotiate and manage client orders, contracts, expectations, and complex requests• Prepare forecast, invoice, and weekly status reports identifying project issues, risks, OTD, and milestones for clients, management, and stakeholders• Facilitate project meetings internally/externally to discuss milestones, successes, and challenges.• Knowledge of basic engineering calculations and drafting drawings necessities, redlines to/from customers.

Provided superior interactive customer service, purchase order management and creative problem solving for resolution. I successfully and easily collaborated professionally and cross-functionally internally / externally in the fast and ever changing medical industry.

Managed multiple spend categories, from vendor identification to agreement termination and transition in ERP system. Negotiated contracts, developed service levels, performance metrics, benchmark indices, and score cards to ensure contract compliance. Drove and reported efficiencies, total cost savings, and risk reduction.• Managed and executed contracts, terms/conditions, redlines, law verification, certificates of insurance and risk assessment; $5M total• Executed and analyzed bid/quotes to purchase essential multiple project materials and services across the company by deadline• Negotiated, collaborated material (50+ types) and bundled logistics resulting in $400k+ cost savings 2019• Created requisitions and purchase orders, resolved invoices, maintained agreements and change orders in Oracle daily• Lead 2-4 Supply Chain and inter-company initiatives, wellness projects and REACH goals per year• Initiated and collaborated in various cross-functional teams daily; Facilities, Legal, Accounting, Engineering, PM• Provided professional customer service, expectations, training and managed internal/external relationships; mentoring • Offered effective problem-solving solutions and delivered constructive feedback for process improvements