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Direct 5 team members over 2 business units, 3 sites, responsible for 2000+ raw materials, 300+ vendors, and $25M+ in spend.

Manage US Purchasing team across 5 facilities for raw materials, packaging, transportation, and servicesNegotiate pricing, terms, lead times, and other details for all raw materials totaling $50 MM spend.Create and manage vendor management tools to evaluate suppliers base.Monitor markets and keep executive management team informed of all major changes. Include major markets like Vanilla, Natural/Synthetic Chemicals, Commodity Chemicals, Citrus, Essential Oils, and others.Create and manage inventory levels across the US.Manage all local and international transportation for inbound shipments.

North America Synthetic Chemical Portfolio Manage vendor relationships - negotiate contracts, securing supply chain, ensuring optimal quality at most economical cost; mediate and quickly resolve any payables or specification issues; evaluate vendor performance, issuing scorecards and collaborating on performance improvement plans.Responsible for sourcing materials, qualifying new suppliers, implementing global contracts at the local level, reporting on Procurement metrics, and maintaining systems data.Working with a wide array of internal teams across the globe including Category Mangers, Regulatory, Operations, Planning, Accounts Payable, Quality, and QMI.

Manages the daily production schedule to ensure customer orders are manufactured in a timely fashion. Responsible for maintaining high schedule efficiency and optimization taking into account labor availability and product parametersResponsible for supply/demand coordination including floor and safety stock implementation and management. Evaluate finished good inventory levels, identifying and reworking excessive or expired stock.

Analyze, plan and issue purchase orders to meet forecasted demand plans within a third party, subcontract supplier environment using using an SAP based MRP systemEnsure product inventory is balanced across multiple DC environments to meet customer demandWork with foreign & domestic suppliers to ensure orders are confirmed and on schedule Manage and understand supplier capacity and constraints to ensure delivery requirements are met

Responsible for Wal-Mart forecast in collaboration with Wal-Mart Replenishment and maintaining sufficient in-stock levels with out having too much surplus inventory and helping to create policies that protect inventory levels during promotional events, Tabs, and Seasonal demand Demand Planning across Margarine and Frozen Categories by working in partnership with several internal departments including Sales, Distribution, Supply Chain Planning, and Deployment to maintain an accurate demand signal to achieve customer service KPI's while protecting annual working capital targetsMonitored customer adherence to Terms of Sale policyUsed problem solving and interpersonal skills to effectively identify, plan, communicate and implement solutions with internal and external customersResponsible for weekly communication and tracking of promotional events, as part of a Joint Business Plan with Wal-Mart, to improve forecast accuracy and in-stock percentage.

Responsible for promotional business while delivering case-fill and on-time metrics of 100%Managed Wal-Mart orders by working in partnership with several internal departments including Sales, Distribution, Supply Chain Planning, Deployment, and CPFRMonitored customer adherence to Terms of Sale policyUsed problem solving and interpersonal skills to effectively identify, plan, communicate and implement solutions with internal and external customersResponsible for weekly communication and tracking of promotional events, as part of a Joint Business Plan with Wal-Mart, to improve forecast accuracy and in-stock percentageWorked on projects: Remedy, Dry Foods, Cuts management, Weight and Volume constraints, HPC and Dry shipping consolidation, Daily Pickup, Supply Chain Reliability, Data SyncBrands: Lipton, Wishbone, Hellmann's, Skippy, Knorr, SlimFast

Performed internship in Cincinnati Manufacturing facility.Performed time study on Merchandisers to identify and improve inefficiencies.Developed multiple presentations to display work & progress to company executives.Developed and executed plan to improve inefficiencies for an improvement of over ½ millions dollars.Displayed leadership and communication skills through daily interaction with Management Team.Developed understanding of the consumer packaged goods business.

-Worked on long and short projects to improve efficiency of the department.-Assisted in everyday work including checking shareholder statements multiple times a month to insure perfection.-Assisted in following up on files to keep everything current and up to date.-Worked in an office of roughly 1000 employees allowing myself to further improve my networking and communication skills.-Throughout the summer I was able to sit in majority of the departments to further my knowledge of the company and industry.

-Co-Op to become more familiar with the world of business and banking.-Did basic teller transaction quick and efficiently throughout the day while working on other small projects.-Worked full-full time during the summer of 2006.-Worked to resolve problems for customers in any way possible.