Manage team of buyers to support global engineering and manufacturing footprint with an emphasis on strategic sourcing to drive cost improvement and competitiveness. Develop and manage supplier relationships, including escalation to executive levels. Support critical issues as identified by executive team: material shortages, supplier quality, cost claim recovery. Component categories include: passives, discretes, standard semiconductors: regulators, amplifiers, drivers, etc.

Responsible for direct material cost estimates and development of cost models for new business opportunities and strategic business planning. - Responsibility for estimation of costs of purchased components, materials and tooling. - Establish and improve global processes and data collection. - Work with current and potential suppliers on cost improvements.

Manage teams of purchasing specialists covering multiple categories through multi-year rotations, has included PCBs, passive components, displays and touch panels. Manage procurement through full product life-cycle, new product RFQ, award contracts, annual improvement in PPV/MPV, through EOL. Manage global supply base with multi-national engineering organization and customer business units. Managed spend ranging $150-$350 million annually- Developed and implemented supply chain strategy to control sourcing decisions with engineering and supplier quality. - Lead activity to benchmark supply market, assess and develop capability of low-cost supplier resulting in competitive advantage and new business wins.-Achieved corporate targets over 7% in multiple consecutive fiscal years.

Working with a team of procurement consultants to assist our customers in: cost modeling and cost reduction; organizational and supply base optimization; procurement tool and skill-set development.

Managed team in electronics and electro-mechanical component purchasing in support of two manufacturing facilities in North America.Responsible for all commercial activity: new component pricing, annual negotiations, and as an escalation point for quality concerns and extraordinary cost recovery.• Consistently achieved performance to corporate targets on cost reductions with savings exceeding $3 million annually through various methods including: cost modeling, market tests, long-term agreements, productivity improvements, volume increase leverage, etc.• Played a key role in winning new business by negotiating10-30% improvement in pricing leveraging new global program volumes across multiple electronics commodities ( PCB, Microcontrollers, LED’s, Displays. )

Managed internal and external commercial activity including: quote preparation, submission and negotiation, cost estimating, productivity target setting, and engineering change control management with Ford and Mazda on Mazda 6 launch and production.

Various Positions with increasing growth and responsibility including:Sales Supervisor - Broad range of responsibilities in sales of electrical and electronic modules.Senior Buyer - Working in manufacturing envorinment for 2 years leading procurement team including commercial, quality and material control.Buyer - Responsible for injection molding, stamping and toolingManufacturing Coordinator - located in Japanese factories for 1 year.

Electronics, mechanical component and raw material purchasing located in manufacturing plant responsible for supply chain management, commercial negotiations and material requirements. Commodities included electronics components, injection molding, stamping, plating, resin and brass. Lead team for supplier development in quality, cost and delivery performance. • Achieved 10% Cost Reductions in consecutive years through market test and incumbent supplier negotiations and through select component re-sourcing.