Coosemans - Director Of Procurement
CurrentCoosemans - Director of Procurement• Perform as the import and export specialist leading a team of upwards of 12 in global procurement, and supply management for 3 Coosemans locations, including Tampa, Cleveland, and Miami• Responsible for $58.786M in buying power combined across all the companies under management along with the other teams• Responsible for maintaining all business aspects within procurement department budget to meet warehouse needs and delivery driver functions, ensuring logistic alignment of delivery with customer contracts for over 800 different items• Facilitate high-level negotiations with vendors and suppliers, ensuring the best contract prices for the best products• Collaborate with sales and warehouse managers, ensuring understanding of all operational requirements and expectations to support top organizational performance• Continually communicate with the accounting and finance departments, establishing working relationships to obtain speedy payment approval• Leveraged expertise to identify hard-to-obtain products from South America, Canada, Mexico, and Europe, securing large quantities at lower costs and selling at increased prices, generating multi-million-dollar revenue increases• Work directly with the source while also having multiple suppliers to obtain additional coverage with scarcity and demands exceeds supply, maintaining the highest level of products at reduced costs• Utilize relationships with various vendors to overcome challenges brought about during the COVID-19 pandemic, sustaining a 99% success rate for obtaining needed products• Analyzed the cost associated with freight movement, developing and implementing a plan to control costs across all forms of shipping