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Upper Darby, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Lead procurement center of excellence team to implement best practices and governance across various processes. Manage daily operations, including end-to-end processes, policies, data, and solutions in sourcing, contracting, supplier management, and risk mitigation for direct and indirect goods/services. Facilitated new employee procurement system training and provided ongoing support for inquiries and demonstrations. Oversee maintenance of Ariba (SAP) Contract Workspaces, addressing any discrepancies with contract workspace owners.• Developed comprehensive onboarding materials for new employees, consolidating existing resources and creating new content to familiarize with procurement practices, policies, and procedures.• Ensured compliance with legal-owned procurement policy and purchasing practices by supporting finance-driven quarter-end contract workspace audits.• Minimized impact on category management and sourcing teams by innovating new processes with updated policies.

Ridley Park, Pa

Managed Requests for Quotations (RFQs) of both low and high dollar value to ensure compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) standards. Organized documentation from various sources, such as drawings and specifications by enabling distribution to buyers and suppliers to define contractual requirements. Engaged with cross-functional teams to assess procurement cycle processes and performance. Acted as liaison between multiple departments, coordinating action items to balance individual and team goals. Supervised weekly, monthly, and yearly trends in procurement systems with extended scope to all national sites.• Accelerated new employees' understanding of system interrelationships and enhanced system performance by delivering comprehensive training on various Boeing network systems.• Achieved long-range goals by formulating strategic courses of action by leveraging logical assumptions, available resources, and organizational values.• Streamlined processes by sharing insights with leadership through Excel-based metric tracker.

Radnor, Pa

Directed day-to-day oversight of outbound and inbound railcar operations to company and customer facilities across the U.S. and Canada. Maintained comprehensive lists of repair needs for both private fleet and customer-supplied cars. Assisted in billing processes for loaded railcars and provided electronic data interchange pattern support. Facilitated waybill documentation and railcar movements during month-end and quarterly audits. Supplied inbound projection forecasts to each plant and central planning team. Supervised railcar fleet, tracking lost, returned, and coded cars in company fleet.• Saved significant expenses by rectifying issues at North Platte rail terminal through audit of Nebraska railcar weigh stations in response to surge in overloaded railcar fines.• Informed strategic decision-making by generating weekly and monthly reports highlighting shipment metrics, transit delays, average transit times, and railcar repair accruals.• Prevented future delays by conducting thorough analyses and collaborating with Class 1 and short-line rail carriers.

• Day to day management of Hormel/Skippy, Pilot Chemical, Emerald Performance Materials, Unilever, Ashland, Valvoline, Peroxychem, Claraint and Solenis Chemical railcar fleets including ordering, diverting, monitoring (track and trace) and billing.• Responsible for data maintenance related to correcting/improving CLM entries in GE software program.• Report incorrect CLM data to GE support to receive correct data for customers’ review, report creation & overall clean record keeping.• Create fleet reports for customers’ review to ensure proper routing and current status of cars.• Contact Class 1 rail carriers and Shortline carriers relating to damaged car resolutions, railcar locations and scheduled movement times. • Ensure proper waybill documents are attached to each rail car via GE software; Obtain missing waybills from rail carriers and/or supply customers with explanations of missing documents (i.e. cars in storage/hold/shop/out of route).

Bachelor'S Degree, International Business Management

Associate'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.36 Gpa (Overall)

Electrical/Electronics Equipment Installation And Repair, General, A

High School, General Studies