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Manage campaign programs ensuring timely sourcing and quality of parts for field actions, Vehicle Off Road (VOR) part supply, and dealer backorders. Maintain supplier relationships and collaborate with cross-functional teams to secure replacement parts promptly. • Lead purchasing program management activities and sourcing functions to support 100+ active safety campaigns annually.• Initiate project execution, including managing vehicle scope, allocating resources, and maintaining schedules to ensure timely parts delivery.• Negotiate and challenge supply plans resolving constraints/bottlenecks, decreasing lead time by 20%.• Proactively engage suppliers and internal teams on sourcing parts to guarantee critical part availability before campaign launches.• Establish supply plans for the campaign program's launch and throughout its life cycle.• Mitigate launch risk for 100+ campaigns annually, impacting 700K+ vehicles by implementing problem-solving techniques. • Develop strategic plans to reduce VORs by 50% annually/cost saving of $30K, by setting clear objectives and milestones. • Reduce dealer backorders by 40% annually/cost savings of $20K by prioritizing inventory, establishing contingency plans, and anticipating demand/forecasting. • Facilitate collaboration between purchasing and cross-functional teams such as Vehicle Safety & Regulatory Compliance, Engineering, Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Manufacturing, and suppliers to ensure the procurement of essential parts.• Provide regular updates to corporate governance committee at key milestones of the campaign development cycle.• Collaborate with supply chain management to gain insights into current inventory levels, ensuring EDI releases are sent in a timely manner, and initiate spot buys as needed.

Operational manager accountable for all supplier quality activities during the development phase to the stakeholders (platform, engineering, quality, plant), for a car line to drive successful project launches. • Supervised program managers for new and mid-cycle vehicles at the development phase through tool kick off. • Improved program efficiency by developing a robust process to streamline various reports using MS Excel and Qlik tools. Timesaving of 20 hours weekly. • Achieved 98% on-time project sourcing by engaging cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.• Ensure the Program/Project milestone deliverables are met.• Remove roadblocks (e.g. quality convergence, timing, capacity) and escalated at the proper level of the Supplier organization and recurrent follow-up action plans are fixed.• Present top critical suppliers and risk mitigations plans to executive level managers and directors.• Serve as a liaison and facilitator between engineering, purchasing, and supplier operations engineers to assist in addressing technical reviews.• Accountable to support project sourcing strategy and sourcing activities ensuring the best qualified suppliers are sourced and lessons learned.

Accountable for warranty cost recovery, supplier quality activities, (including non-conformance tracking (NCT), 3rd party containment and resolution (3CPR), and global issue resolution (GIM)). • Directed a team of Supplier Relations Experts, Warranty Recovery Specialists, NCT Specialist, 3CPR Specialist, and GIM Specialist. • Recouped over $700M annually in supplier responsible warranty costs. • Built strong cross-functional relationships with Purchasing for negotiations, Finance for financial monitoring, and Legal for contract adherence and litigation support.• Led process improvements to ensure correct assignment of GIMs increasing assignment from 68% to 96%.

Promoted to manage and administer the Supplier Associated Warranty Reduction Program (SAWRP). Developed strategies to maintain productive supplier relationships while incentivizing reduction of warranty costs to align with corporate objectives. • Supervised a team of warranty engineers successfully recovered over $500M annually in supplier responsible warranty costs. • Developed yearly warranty targets, key performance indicators, and policies and procedures.• Maintained supplier relationships while gaining concurrence to debit during escalation. • Investigate and resolve warranty systems issues and provide first level support and troubleshooting. • Analyze data and identify data integrity issues with existing and proposed systems and implement solutions. • Serve as a liaison and facilitator between all business units to assist in addressing and resolving warranty system or policy issues. • Provide internal and external training on supplier warranty management and SAWRP.

Managed warranty cost recovery for recalls and quality issues. Engage with internal teams to assess responsibility and present cases to suppliers for cost agreement. • Individually recovered over $40M/yearly supplier responsible costs related to field actions and campaigns. • Managed over 20+ warranty recovery cases simultaneously, assisted in the development of new policies and procedures to streamline the recovery process.• Interface with various internal departments to develop cases and present to suppliers gaining concurrence of responsible costs.

Audited change items, records and procedures to guarantee clear, concise and valid information within Product Lifecycle Management database. • Provide the specialization and expertise to manage and modify the engineering change control processes. • Led change management meetings for program team including creating agendas and meeting minutes. • Mentor engineers on document creation, processes, and implementation procedures. Provided global support for database user community. • Acted as liaison between customers, suppliers, engineers, program managers and other team members.

Responsible for tracking and reporting the status of all material cost reduction and quality improvement ideas for RWD Wiring programs. • Assist in removing roadblocks that are delaying the implementation of ideas by coordinating activities and communication between the various material cost reduction and quality improvement process owners to positively impact financial targets and quality goals. • Extract warranty data from Warranty Information System (WIS) and Warranty Decision Support System (WDSS) for wiring claims. • Identify and create warranty reports, investigate abnormalities, spikes, high cost areas, and any dealer warranty activities.

Responsible for ensuring that warranty claims from Volkswagen dealerships are processed correctly and in a timely manner. • Identify various claim types, payment processes and the logic behind the claim type based on warranty policies and procedures.• Use technical expertise to determine the validity of labor operations and diagnosis time claimed, identify errors in labor operation, part number, and vendor codes.