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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

We help find solutions for our customers challenges with a commitment to continuous improvement and service in the plastic industry. Our product line card provides our customers the highest quality of products from industry leading suppliers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Develop commodity sourcing strategies to effectively leverage Eaton’s Hydraulics spend and work with commodity managers in other Eaton businesses to identify synergies to deliver cost benefits. While ensuring commodity strategies are aligned with latest internal and external environmental, market and economic factors. Build and maintain organizational consensus and alignment to the commodity strategies. Build global strategic supply base that meets the business growth, capacity and performance needs. Manage the supply base to achieve goals working with regional and plant level supply chain and operations functions. Initiate, plan, monitor and execute global direct material cost down projects, and build and maintain project pipeline, within a portfolio program management tool. Lead critical, strategic cost out projects to ensure key cost reduction targets are met and process is maximized to deliver expected results. Negotiate and manage key strategic supplier contracts, Long Term Agreements, cost negotiations and relationships.

Plymouth, Mn

Develop and execute companywide commodity/category strategy that supports the company’s growing business needs and opportunities. Manage and maintain strong, objective supplier relationships. Participate in on/off-site supplier audits and evaluations. Recommend supplier performance and retention. Negotiate and lead major contract negotiations, as well as monitor contract compliance and optimize contractual obligations.Lead initiatives in cost reduction, quality improvement and cycle time reduction. Problem solve to improve procedures and communications with internal/external customers and suppliers. Develop and implement supply base optimization efforts. Develop sourcing strategies to leverage company spend and optimize supply base. Drive sustainable cost reduction. Develop a longer term, leading practice approach to manage key commodities through definition of global supply landscape; managing strategic supplier relationships and performance; understanding key cost drivers and developing mitigating strategies; and driving category knowledge management and information sharing. Collaborate with respect to specifications, substitutions, delivery dates, and supply sources. Coordinate and collaborate with divisional Supply Leaders and stakeholders in executing global category strategy. Participate in product enhancement and new product development. Work closely to develop and sustain a full project pipeline of total cost opportunities and incorporate value engineering events/lean/lead time and inventory reduction activities as part of this process. Coordinate strategies and activities global and regional operations.

Minneapolis, Mn

Developed strong relationships with Store personnel as point of contact and service, and develop a deep understanding of the customer’s business. Maintaining and expanding customer relationships, while implementing the company’s sales, marketing strategies and service activities, delivering on desired sales and profit expectations, working directly with accounts within an assigned Ag Retail Businesses.Led store relationships on Animal Nutrition, in-store sales/marketing execution and customer service standards, supported in-store customer training events, grand openings, trade shows and other customer related events. Responsible for providing input on marketing strategy working closely with the Regional Accounts Manager, BDM and or Sales Leader – utilizing broad thinking about opportunities and sharing best practices. Provided competitive market evaluation, developing an understanding of competitor’s offers, products and services, as well as identifying risks and opportunities for Cargill to grow the retail segment.

Wayzata, Mn

Work collaboratively across all DSO and GOSCNA sites to develop long term strategy and vision for inventory control for DSO/GOSCNA maintaining alignment with SAP goals, Accounting, Plant Operations, Strategic Sourcing and the Reliability Excellence process. Develop succession plan for Materials Management portion of CMMS on current unsupported, obsolete system (Maximo 4.1) to new SAP system.Lead efforts in regionalizing warehousing efforts across the DSO/GOSCNA, finding the correct fit within the business units.Leading site Inventory management team. Establishing policies and procedures for directing and administering indirect and capital inventory control, shipping and receiving, and materials/stores management. Responsible for developing, deploying and maintaining a central repository for appropriate policies and procedures that support inventory management practices.Lead Warehouse/Storeroom reorganization and 5S events. Tracking and monitor progress at site locations after initial event. Site follow ups and audits of Materials Management process are completed after the events.

Wayzata, Mn

Led the strategic sourcing process (with support of BU Procurement Manager - Capital) for intermediate sized capital projects up to $3MM budgeted spend supporting two Business Units (GOSCNA and DSO). Developed and execute sourcing strategies to ensure cost, quality, risk management, and commercial performance objectives are met as part of the overall capital deployment process. Participated in the capital planning and budgeting process. Represent Procurement on cross-functional teams as part of the PDP process. Collaborated across the Procurement function (cross BUs, regional, global and Corporate) and Operations/Engineering to identify and execute opportunities to drive improved value, explore low cost country sourcing options, develop and retain suppliers including opportunities to meet supplier diversity objectives.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Aa, Business Admin.