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Cleveland, Oh, Us

New Britain, Ct, Us

Valley City, Ohio, Us

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Direct all Anchor sourcing and purchasing activities for both direct and indirect material. Approximate spend value is $30 million to $40 million. Commodity sourcing of all raw material metal includes various alloys of carbon, stainless steel, and aluminum. Transformed the Anchor’s purchasing organization through the adoption of repeatable and sustainable business processes, which includes but not limited to the following: Supplier qualification and monitoring, cost management processes (direct and indirect), commodity tracking and communication. Created and implemented a quoting pricing model that can be applied across future sourcing events.

Elyria, Ohio, Us

Direct all sourcing activities for finished medical devices, electrical and electronic commodities valued at approx. $110 million. Manage a team of 11 people, which include commodity buyers and factory buyers. Lead Invacare’s indirect material sourcing. Additionally, manage sourcing for Invacare’s service business. •Manage the China sourcing group, and a staff in the US. Develop and monitor goals and objectives utilizing policy deployment tools.•Led moving the supply chain from China to multiple locations globally. Coordinated activities with global supply chain groups to ensure successful execution. The direct material value was approx. $27 million over 120 suppliers.•Established an online supplier portal, which is a document repository to co-manage critical documents and communicate automatically. Reporting was created to improve supplier information and a contract management system.•Executed exit agreement valued over $1 million in finished goods inventory at 3 locations across the US all working at the same time. Mitigated legal risk of over $2 million.•Implemented a global conflict minerals compliance process. Managed the execution of 5 SBU's across 4 global regions.•Led a global cross functional project involving Invacare factories and suppliers located in Asia. Created and executed a remediation strategy that addressed Invacare’s highest quality nonconforming supplier. This strategy was successfully presented to the FDA. •Executed a strategic sourcing allocation. Utilized TCO calculations for allocation. Resulted in over $500K in annualized reductions.•Steered a sourcing project where the incumbent supplier is an active SBU of Invacare. The project resulted in over $1.2 million in P&L improvement.•Formulated and implemented a commodity/category strategy for the largest spend supplier within Invacare worldwide.

Valley City, Ohio, Us

Engines are a strategic element to lawn and garden equipment industry. I manage all aspects of the small block engine category, including procurement, supply chain management, pricing of finished goods, marketing of engine and finished goods. This category is managed through various facets:• Expert in market information for the above mentioned engine applications from all engine manufacturers.• Manage the supply relationship with a highly integrated supply chain partner located in China. • Manage a currency hedging program to reduce the risk of currency fluctuations between the USD and RMB. Negotiated consolidated payments to allow for more impactful hedging contracts to protect against uncertainty. Most recent hedge program resulted in zero currency exchange loss during a market where the RMB appreciated against the USD by over 4%.• Created and monitor product mix variety and assortment through development of a roadmap for MTD engines. Roadmap developed based on product line vulnerabilities compared to competitive engine alternatives. Roadmap includes engine specifications, features, aesthetics, and pricing targets. This roadmap covers all global markets that MTD currently participates or plans to enter• Developed an engine brochure to be used as training tool for MTD sales organization globally. Also, it is used as a selling tool for retail customers to reference when reviewing the MTD engine product line.• Develop pricing programs for selling teams to adhere. Program factors include commodity and currency fluctuations, sales support dollars, transition money, and margin protection. Responsible for creating and communicating an engine P&L, while advising best engine placement on finished goods to sales and marketing during the finished goof P&L review process.• Created competitive product analysis in the US market for portable generators and robotic lawn mowers.

Ba, Purchasing And Production

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management