James Easter Email & Phone Number

Cary, Nc, Us

Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

• Build sales pipeline while managing and generating opportunities throughout Southeast Territory.• Maintain a working knowledge of all relevant customer issues, pricing and billing procedures, and operational issues as well as various brand value programs, image requirements and brand standards. Help with the investigation and resolution of customer concerns.• Build and update account plans for key growth customers by ensuring customers are meeting contract requirements. • Optimize the Company’s return on Capital investments. • Branded and Unbranded Supply Contract generation, negotiation and completion. • Identify opportunities through prospecting, customer relationship management, and other external websites and resources. Develop business plan and sales proposals, present proposals to potential, new and existing customers.• Execute customer site visits frequently to ensure Return On Investment

Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Oversee the strategic sourcing of key equipment, services, and in-store supplies across 1,100+ locations.• Established and implemented strategic procurement activities across multiple categories of spending. • Negotiate current and future supplier contracts that generated an increase in GP$. • Within 7 months generated $660K in FY17 hard savings and an additional projection of 1.2 MIL in in FY18, 350K in FY19, 300K in FY20• Created a Procurement Dashboard defining standardization services and equipment specifications that were accessible for all stakeholders within the company. • Implementing an e-Procurement platform featuring procure-to-pay, catalogue, punch out, sourcing and contract management tools.• Created reduction in product cost and inventory cost, procurement cost, rebate incentives and time value of money.• Strengthen and build strong supplier relationships and identify new suppliers who can meet company needs more efficiently.• Implement, monitor and measure KPIs associated with purchasing strategies, vendor services and equipment quality.• Evaluate operational requirements to ensure optimal sourcing outcomes can and are being delivered. • Established New Vendor Guidelines• Provide store support by completing hundreds of Procurement Work Orders. • Procurement Invoice reconciliation

Moncure, North Carolina, United States

• Led and monitored all aspects of environmental compliance at $200MIL coal ash structural fill projects.• Develop site specific compliance programs for projects that operate under state and federal permits, including Structural Fill, Mine Operations, NPDES and 401/ 404 Wetlands Permits.• Meet routinely with regulatory officials from NCDEQ Land Quality, Water Quality, Air Quality, Waste Management Storm Water Divisions and USACE.• Develop and execute EPA mandated Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) and implement Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP).• Facilitate dewatering of mine pits ensuring local tributaries are not impacted. • Negotiate 3rd party service contracts ensuring that environmental compliance and operational objectives associated with the structural fill projects are met within approved scheduling deadlines.• Conduct corporate environmental compliance annual and on-board training.

Cary, Nc

• Developed UST environmental compliance programs for 1560 convenience store locations across 13 operating states.• Designed key performance indicators and analysis that measured compliance performance against industry standard. • Oversaw 250+ Petroleum Construction project activities relative to UST System compliance and generated equipment standard and operational expense reports. • Drafted and submitted state and federal environmental compliance reports.• Planned fixed and variable operating budgets in excess of $4MIL for Gas Environmental and performed monthly audits for the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).• Reconciled fuel compliance variances and tracked environmental impacts at all locations. • Provided audit commentary reports to ELT on all locations and led presentations that facilitated UST/ Fuel System component upgrades to increase GP$ of Fuel and reduce environmental risk.• Design and direct compliance audits, inspections, and risk assessment studies• Met and consulted with state and local regulatory agencies daily regarding compliance and impact prevention. Negotiated corrective actions. • Conducted presentations at monthly NCDEQ Permitting and Inspections Branch.• Provided special project oversight and reporting for UNST System installation, repairs and upgrades across all operating states. • Managed compliance activities of (1) Environmental Manager and (3) Environmental Analyst

Program Manager - Independently oversaw and directed the development, implementation and services of the Environmental Regulatory Programs at Glaxo Smith Kline RTP, NC and Novartis Pharmaceutical Holly Springs, NC. Executed Hazardous Waste Management Program and Disposal. Presented program efficiency reports. Generated standard operating procedures for employees regarding handling of all waste streams and responding to incidents.Air Quality and Water Quality on-site samplingEmergency Preparedness Plan development for all potential lab incidents including chemical spills, waste handling & waste storage.Consulted with environmental regulatory agencies regarding compliance and program initiatives.

Raleigh, Nc

Operations -Managed daily Environmental Service activities and developed procedures for providing services to clients. Responsible for communicating service expectations, SOPs, training, mentoring and delegating of task and responsibilities to services teams. Monitored project budgets & schedules for all division projects; Construction, Industrial, Remediation and Emergency Response.EHS - Managed Environmental Health & Safety policies, HAZCOM, Right to Know, OSHA 300, 301 and 301A Logs, Job Hazard Analysis, Risk Assessments, Service Facility Health and Safety Plan, DOT CDL Driver audits, safety supply inventory and operational safety budgets.Operation Development- Oversaw the development and launch of company's Transportation Storage Disposal Facility (TSDF).

Education record

(Aa) Business Administration And Management, General