Edith Pierre Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Provide timely and accurate preparation of all contract reports and deliverables, maintain accurate, complete, and up-to-date contract and business files, Oversee and manage the Purchasing and Contract Administration processes and personnel, submit invoices to the government through the use of the Wide Area Work Flow (WAWF) invoicing system, serve as the liaison between the company and the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) to request information pertaining to or in support of government contracts, Maintain reporting and sales requirements in support of all GSA Schedules, Manage, plan, organize, direct, and coordinate proposal development activities, Write and/or edit Requests for Quote (RFQs), as needed, Write and/or create presentations, case studies, project summaries, white papers, articles, and correspondence to current and prospect clients, Ensure compliance to regulations at each step of the business development and proposal development process, Provide quote/proposal development team with sufficient information pertaining to solicitations and estimated costs to ensure accurate pricing, develop and maintain a library of RFP responses and presentations, create Business Development / Business Diversity Plans, as needed, Create and maintain business forecasting data, Serve as company representative within the Huntsville / Madison County Chamber of Commerce, Attend marketing and networking functions (e.g., Business After Hours, AAAA, User’s Conference, Intl. User’s Conference, etc.) for company marketing and to identify new potential customers.

Responsible for sourcing suppliers for government bids/solicitations as well as direct purchases. Develop and maintain strong vendor relations while identifying areas to cut cost, receiving a merit award for savings last year. Meet and exceed operational standards by contributing purchasing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, cost reductions and customer service standards; resolving problems, identifying purchasing system improvements. Approve invoices by verifying accuracy of packing slips against purchase orders and delivery before forwarding to accounting for payment. Maintain and track purchases, inventory, customers and vendors in Shoptech E2 system. Interface with suppliers, sales representatives, field servicemen and customers. Gather pricing and delivery costs and prepare quote/sales proposals. Write/Edit RFQ’s (Requests for Quotes) as needed. Provide the team with all pertinent information for solicitations and estimated costs to ensure accurate pricing. Maintain trend analysis based on vendor performance and delivery. Create, maintain and close out all quotes, purchase order, customer orders and shipments in Shoptech E2. Responsible for all shipping and receiving in the organization. Assist training department in print request and delivery of training courses and aids. Create and maintain Bill of Materials (BOM) in Shoptech E2 once program has been awarded. Maintain quality surveys and approved supplier manuals.

Responsible for sourcing suppliers for purchased goods with an annual volume of $50million, negotiating contracts, which include blanket agreements, commodity pricing agreements as well as conducting production planning. Possess a thorough knowledge of procurement forms and procedures for both in country and out of country purchases. Reviewed all purchase orders, blank purchase agreements and service agreements as well as developed, reviewed and administered all subcontracts. Located, developed and maintained a supplier base capable of supporting the needs of individual functions and departments. Responsible for maintaining NAFTA updates for products bought outside of the US involving over 300 part numbers. Managed main automotive carpet supplier in excess of $1 million monthly, which included verifying shipment amounts, volume and pricing as well as invoice entry and billing into Trans4M for payment. Managed ten automotive carpet customers in excess of $2 million monthly, which included accounts receivable /payables and tracking payment terms on these accounts. Received and verified customer purchase orders of over 300 part numbers as well as performed contract reviews to ISO standards. Communicated with the OEM buyer to resolve pricing issues and requests for corrected purchase orders, which required a familiarity with the German. Performed tooling reconciliations every month to be presented to management team and was responsible for managing over 100 tooling accounts in Project Expert and tracking recovery of over $5 million in tooling capital. Managed the engineering change levels and expected recovery, cost for the change and involved in presenting costs to customer. Tracked invoicing to negotiated pricing to payments received and resolved all discrepancies. Established weekly meetings with the customer on the status of completed and currently executed processes.

Mba, Business

Bs/Bm, Business Management