Responsible for leading an organization of 20 people (4 Material Managers 16 Buyers) focused on sourcing and right sizing inventory of Motors, Electronics, Plastics, Rollers, and Metal Fabrication for the Warehouse Automation industry.• Formulate inventory long-term vision, growth strategy, and goals for multiple regions• Accountable for Inventory financial performance of the business (P&L owner)• Reports results of established KPIs to Operations and Procurement leadership• Leads quarterly supplier business reviews focusing on operational performance

Built, led, and developed a team of three direct reports from the ground up focused upon sourcing materials for research and development projects by creating onboarding documentation and managing SAP tools and access for direct reports. Directed procurement across diverse categories within the eye care industry, including software, laboratory services, chemicals, equipment, and packaging.• Within two years of operations, team generated $3.1M in cost savings.• Allocated dedicated resources to follow up on purchase order deliveries on a biweekly cadence to ensure alignment with established deadlines and resolved supplier delays, resulting in improving forecast accuracy from 68% to 92%.• Generated contracts for research and development business unit while maintaining confidentiality to protect intellectual property across non-disclosure agreements, master service agreements, and statements of work. • Developed, monitored, and reported supplier performance against key performance indicators and reviewed benchmarks of other competitors within the vertical.• Worked in close partnership with suppliers to forecast volumes supporting upcoming projects in the pipeline.

Accelerated sales and operations planning processes for the intraocular lens franchise to balance supply and demand management and optimize cost reductions throughout a hypergrowth period. Liaised between commercial and manufacturing leadership to facilitate adoption of supply and demand planning across the comprehensive process, ensuring clients’ requirements and financial plans were adhered to. Supported Return to Growth strategy, resulting in growing revenue from under $1B to $1.4B+ throughout tenure. Coordinated monthly cross-functional meetings across marketing, plant management, and standard operating procedure leadership globally across North and South America, APAC, and EMEA regions. Optimized procurement activities to ensure availability of materials while minimizing inventory costs.• Evaluated market forecast and converted data to align with monthly manufacturing plans and costs across 2400+ products and 40 unique brands within portfolio.• Reestablished foothold within marketplace to position Alcon as a global leader in the intraocular lens category by contributing to cross-functional initiatives in partnership with research and development, yielding $300M in new revenue streams. • Improved global service availability rates from 81% to 90% by collaborating with manufacturing sites to communicate back-order requirements and accelerate fulfillment of orders across product portfolio.• Developed and implemented key performance indicators related to spend, resulting in significant expense reduction throughout a three-year timeframe.• Defined and conveyed franchise’s unique requirements, created informational decks and reporting to clearly assess plans, and highlighted supporting data, analysis and new developments related to supply upsides and constraints.

• Part of a core team that led Kaizen events throughout KDP network to reduce working capital through collaborative effort of various functional areas creating breakthrough process changes with a realized reduction of $15MM• Key member of cross functional Supply Chain Planning & Initiatives team responsible for seamlessly executing new product introductions and ongoing logistics support for marketing and sales initiatives. (ie. Tea Will be Loved, Snapple Half and Half, Snapple Restage, America’s Got Talent product launch, MMT Mixer Restage, Costco MVM’s, etc.)• Maintained vendor relationships with key suppliers across commodities: chemicals, vitamins, fruit base, flavors, etc• Developed rolling 12 month forecast sent to KDP top tier ingredient and packaging suppliers• Manage Rough Cut Capacity Plan (RCCP) for mid & long term production planning as a part of KDP’s monthly Integrated Planning Process to set production targets and evaluate sales opportunity for the business.• Monitored network wide inventories and ordering patterns and suggested changes to protocols, safety stock, and processes to drive overall network improvement in efficiency and working capital• Worked with Procurement and Vendors to expedite and resolve short term supply disruptions that provided options to the business for the least possible risk

• Demonstrated ability in supplier management to include review/flow down of customer requirements, RFQ development, proposal review, fact finding/cost analysis, negotiation, award, and post award supplier management• Acted as liaison between several groups to allocate all requirements affecting the acquisition of goods and services including Public Laws, FAR/DFAR, ITAR, TINA, acquisition regulations, ISO standards, quality and legal clauses, Mil Specs are being met for contractual obligations.• Supported supply chain strategic initiatives within a program level, as well as the California/Texas Supply Chain Management Organization• Ensured all programs meet their material budgets and schedule requirements to positively impact SAS Profit and Working Capital Objectives• Prepared team metrics that review Forward Looking Dollar Spend by supplier, Dollar Spend delinquency, PO Count, PO Spend Non-Supportive of MRP.

• Led an IPT Integrated Product Team composed of Engineering, Operations, and Program Management to establish a material program plan which includes the development of requirements and identifies risk and mitigation strategies during the execution phases of the program and updating the plan as the contract matures to ensure the supply chain supports the program's cost, technical, and schedule objectives• Performed Earned Value modeling which implements a method of program management that integrates cost with technical and schedule objectives of a project to be ANSI/EIA for the Sarbanes Oxley compliance• Developed and executed manageable workload for CTF and FAL group, based on current business forecasts• Provided solid leadership with cost reduction strategies using the network effectively• Provided Program with Material EAC’s (Estimates at Completion) Reports, including CPI (Cost Performance Indicator), SPI (Schedule Performance Indicator) and Labor Rate Variance Analysis.• Assisted with several IOT’s (Inter-Organizational Transfers) for McKinney CCA (Circuit Card Assembly)

• Worked obsolescence issues on an a weekly basis• Developed individuals and the team to solve routine operational issues• Assured material and receiving compliance with company policies and procedures• Participate in the cleansing of data to support network modeling and for SAP Go-Live• Provide the business knowledge to support effective utilization, modeling and implementation of optimization strategies• Act as a change agent in support of developing and rolling out an integrated more efficient production network• Experienced with multi-stage testing of software and business processes including Functional, System, and User Acceptance Testing• Designed and developed numerous processes streamlining daily business workflow by over 23% including an overall reduction in system errors and shipping “unrouteables” by 50%• Conducted daily status calls emails as well as managed issue tracking document and meetings• Assisted with QA and Regression testing of Hardware/ Software which includes several interfaces linking many business systems

Generated Supplier subcontracts for servicesEstablished an automated online system for recordsEnsured all vital records were maintained and preserved