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Bayport, Minnesota, Us

Coordinating and leading sourcing project activities for New Product Development for the Storm Door Division.

Clive, Iowa, Us

- Responsible for procuring various commodities of raw material to ensure continuous flow of required materials while minimizing supply chain risk and disruption. - Prepared and implement RFQ’s to increase improved competitiveness within the supply base. - Analyzed pricing proposals, market trends and other data and information to determine best possible pricing for sourcing needs.- Balanced both tactical executions with strategic initiatives necessary todrive cost reduction projects. - Proactively mitigated potential delivery problems to ensure consistent on-time delivery of components.- Monitored current inventory levels while ensuring all commodities have at least six inventory turns per year.

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

- Supervised and led a team of five direct reports across five separate non-asset 3PL accounts.- Established strong working relations among co-workers, direct reports and other Ruan operational teams in order to leverage capacity improve service and maximize profitability. - Developed and maintained professional customer relations via frequent communication to help facilitate a trusted and long term partnership. - Instituted 3rd party relations with carriers in support of customer requirements and expectations.- Created and analyzed customer focused KPI metrics in order to better understand operation efficiencies, cost savings and continuous improvement.

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

- Managed and monitored over fifty outbound truckloads per week for Lennox International. - Uploaded a file of weekly purchase orders into Oracle TMS while securing these purchase orders into shipments on dedicated and selected carriers. - Using pricing and contracted benchmarks, negotiated a rate for each truckload while trying to maximize the most cost efficiency possible. - Acted as the center of communication between customer and carrier, while ensuring all scheduled shipments deliver on time as planned.- Ensured all invoices are accurate before issuing payment to the carrier.Performed monthly key performance metrics for customer using Excel.

Moline, Il, Us

- Successfully implemented production planning to new factory in Paton, IA - Strongly managed 2,600 raw and finished materials of numerous commodities to factories located throughout the United States.- Regularly monitored the status of purchase orders and confirmed shipment &delivery to the factories in SAP.- Developed and coordinated the tactical transportation plans for multiple vendorsand manufacturing facilities. - Forecasted future requirements and coordinated with vendors to ensure demand ismet.- Provided timely communication and customer service functions in multi-clientenvironment.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science