-Direct a supply chain team located in facilities within North America and the Pacific Rim.-Source-out suppliers for catalog, direct sales and e-commerce business operations in North America.-Travel to supplier locations and evaluate their production facilities, capacity planning, quality assurance programs/controls, Best Practices, and logistics capabilities.-Establish performance metrics and use ongoing data collection/analysis to increase vendor accountability and ownership for results.-Use analytics to take a proactive versus reactive response to problems and opportunities, and as a baseline for continuous quality improvement.-Work in collaboration and in partnership with internal business units to assess their supply needs.-Link supply chain requirements to business unit forecasts and production schedule (S&OP).-Facilitate cross-functional teams with internal stakeholders to build consensus and support for positive change and shared goals.-Streamline and re-engineer processes to achieve lean and efficient operations.-Facilitate ongoing communications with multiple teams including supply chain, sales, customer service, logistics, accounts payable, product management, finance, distribution, manufacturing, and global sourcing.-Focused efforts on cost reductions, process improvements, improved service levels, and reduced total costs of goods sold.-Used lean systems to drive inventory reductions for key raw materials and to mitigate stock outages.-Improved plant same day fill rate from 35% to 90%.-Recipient of President's Value Award for global cost savings.-Developed inventory replenishment strategies for more than 150,000 purchased/finished goods/SKUs.-Improved customer on-time delivery rate from 81% to 92.7%, and reduced PO line touches by 13,000 per year.-Maintained responsibility for strategic buying along with supply chain.

-Managed an $18 million annual budget for four different catalog brands to support North American operations.-Collaborated with branding business units world-wide to source from low cost countries, while improving product quality.-Negotiated a vendor contract with built-in performance metrics, resulting in an annual cost savings of $500K.-Utilized SAP software and data mining to collect and capitalize information leading to cost savings.-Consolidated label suppliers from 10 to 3, resulting in a cost savings of $100K.-Partnered with product development team to support new innovations in order to drive revenues.-Worked cross-functionally to serve as a change catalyst.-Changed the paradigm of strategic buying from a cost center to a valued-added group by linking our efforts to the needs of business units.

Senior Loan Officer

-Managed supply chain functions for the company's most profitable product line, totaling 500,000 units, $55 million in cost of goods sold. -Linked buying strategies to emerging trends and consumer demand in order to maximize results.-Worked in partnership with sales team to ensure availability of high demand items at competitive pricing.-Sourced-out vendors, negotiated pricing, improved logistics/distribution, and improved overall margins.-Reduced SKU count by 75% to drive purchasing efficiencies.-Promoted from Assistant Buyer to Senior Buyer.