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Minato-Ku, Tokoyo, Jp

- Management of 8 Buyers covering NSG's 13 North American production and distribution facilities.- Establish and enforce Procurement protocol, policy and controls.- Lead strategic contract negotiation and execution. - Drive continual progress and results for critical KPI's (cost savings, environmental sustainability, product/service innovation, risk mitigation, safety enhancement, operational efficiency)- Provide expert level market analysis to executive stakeholders- Lead category strategies for Professional Services (IS, HR, Legal & Compliance)- Enforce contractual compliance. Ensuring adherence and seeking cost recovery as warranted.

Lancashire, England, Gb

• Define strategic vision, ensure company-wide progress towards the realization of goals• Drive initiatives to mitigate risk and deliver overall cost savings• Manage Packaging and Material Handling Equipment (MHE) for 12 North American manufacturing locations; (Including Canada and Mexico)• Develop, manage and execute category strategies; primarily for wooden packaging, metal racking & stillage’s, interleaving paper, corrugate, banding and (MHE).• Improve supplier relationships, seek innovation and develop opportunities for alternative and sustainable solutions in packaging• Monitor market trends & analyze indices to ensure competitive pricing models among vendors• Routinely issue RFQ’s for competitive bidding & present results to strategic stakeholders• Control supplier quality incidents and lead efforts in cost recovery when necessary• Draft, negotiate and maintain contract agreements with primary suppliers

Maumee, Oh, Us

Managed 20% of total spend, purchase and maintain inventory via ERP system, aggressively negotiated pricing and contractual agreements, analyzed commodity pricing indexes (primarily resins & corrugate) to ensure cost consistency among vendors, executed competitive bidding to improve value and identify alternative sourcing opportunities, worked closely with operations to streamline material flows and improve production planning, collaborated with sales and marketing to optimize product-life-cycle-management (regularly managed packaging design/specifications for new product launches), maintained UN certification/compliance for hazardous packaging in accordance with regulatory requirements mandated by the Department of Transportation, developed flexible forecasting models for core brands and third party products

Oconomowoc, Wi, Us

Managed all direct purchases via SAP (approximately 20K SKU’s), facilitated healthy supplier relationships via continuous improvement strategies, utilized Six Sigma principles to improve efficiency and reduce costs (Greenbelt Certified), controlled production planning schedules to meet customer lead time requirements, solely controlled international sourcing for all components manufactured in China, and managed the logistics associated for Orbis’ six domestic facilities, executed lean sourcing techniques to reduce overall cost and improve lead time (Safety Stock Analysis, Kanban System Development, Supplier Holding Programs), periodically audited work instructions to improve efficiency and comply w/ ISO 9000 requirements

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Facilitated direct communication and data transfer with multi-million dollar supplier accounts, assisted in the analysis and acquisition of international suppliers, played an active role in cost estimation strategy and implementation, created and presented several Excel spreadsheets for executive purposes, analyzed current market conditions in correlation with products utilized

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Operations Managment & International Business

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Supply Chain Management