• Purchased material from assigned suppliers for springs and machined components by monitoring mrp supply and demand signals. • Resolved invoice and material rejection issues.• Sourced new suppliers by assessing need versus supplier capabilities.• Assigned new business through competitive quotation review and negotiation.

• Partnered with multi discipline project team by creating sourcing plan for new project development of a ventilator platform and multiple cloud based software design projects.• Collaborated with commodity management to engage with preferred suppliers on new projects.• Created competitive market research summary by conducting interviews with product management, summarizing consultant market reports, and executed a focused competitor battery teardown review with cost masters to estimate component cost and technology gaps.• Participated in risk assessment project for ventilator bill of material.• Created product cost roadmap summary for ventilators by compiling multiple data sources including bill of material, current PO price, future planned cost savings, and internal overhead.

• Monitored demand and executed purchase orders in support of electronics, fiber optics, sensor wafers, and hardware in support of the production line.• Processed defective material returns and coordinated subcontracting purchasing process for various suppliers including coatings, wafer dicing, and wire bonding.• Created vendor scorecards for key suppliers including data research for quality, delivery, cost, and communications.• Partnered with engineering on cost reduction activities to move pcba production to international supplier.• Supported pcba production with electronic broker orders via p-card process.

• Led commodity management activities for the battery, power supply, and cable spend categories, including new business awards, new supplier qualification, and performance monitoring activities.• Served as Global Sourcing lead for the Sleep and Diagnostics Business. Led projects for all component types including make vs buy decisions, 3rd party supplied medical devices, plastics, printed circuit assemblies, power supplies, batteries, cables, metal, hardware, printed material, packaging, and labels.• Facilitated early supplier involvement via cross functional team meetings and weekly conference calls to track project progress and assign action items to achieve required launch timing and pricing goals.• Directed and assisted planner buyers to issue pilot run purchase orders, plan material order quantities to support pilot run and new product launch.• Created monthly forum for all Purchasing Engineers, including remotely located associates to allow coordinated training and learning. Created SAP training presentation materials and scheduled internal guest speakers from different disciplines.• Coordinated complex purchased finished good rework, which included pca board update by staging updated product at supplier site, such that no downtime was experienced by customers on newly launched Diagnostics product line.• Acted as assistant project manager for DfX initiative, and worked with outside consultants and coworkers to identify $20 million in costs savings ideas by using techniques such as Value Stream Mapping, Negotiations, Clean Sheeting, Competitive Product Tear Down, and Multi-day Supplier Collaboration Workshop Ideation Session.

• Served as program manager for two key accounts totaling $3.5 million in yearly sales.• Managed and monitored excess and obsolete inventory for customer accounts.• Led two different program teams with members from engineering, purchasing, production, quality, and planning.• Created and coordinated quarterly business reviews with key customer accounts.• Coordinated new project kickoff meetings with internal disciplines, including successful new customer introduction leading to repeat order placement of over $1 million dollars.• Loaded sales orders into MRP system to drive material buys and production schedules.

• Provided quotations and information to customers for custom products and services.• Implemented product line enhancement including creating catalog copy, pricing analysis, quality testing, and bill of material set up.• Served as team leader for trade show journal customization service including quoting, coordinating equipment shipments, and operating equipment on-site.

• Served as a project leader responsible for managing all sourcing, qualification, and validation for product cost reduction activities totaling over $1 million per year.• Led a team investigation to solve incompatible software and hardware interaction as reported by the end customer.• Acted as an advisor to Quality Assurance to assure products in the field complied with FDA regulations.• Created defective material processing guidelines for 9 separate circuit boards resulting in a 25% reduction in production line rejects.

• Managed accounts for all offsite doctor offices.• Performed repair, maintenance, and calibration of medical equipment.