Developing and supporting our Supplier Performance Management program, policies and procedures while leveraging best practices. Leading our Supplier Risk Program to support supplier performance improvements through action plans, and identification of future potential for risk.Managing our Supplier Scorecard program to identify gaps and areas for improvement in supplier performance and provide recommendations to key internal stakeholders.Collaborating on Continuous Improvement projects across multiple departments.Measure and analyze the efficiency of the monitoring programs and ensure that it is continuously improved.

Develop sourcing strategies and execute supplier negotiation strategies.Manage the RFP process. Prepare the request, select participants, review proposals, negotiate contracts and prices with suppliers, and award the business based on TCO analysis.Influence supplier segmentation within categories and develop risk mitigation plans.Supplier management including onsite visits, performance reviews, risk mitigation at supplier, process improvement suggestions and business relationship development to secure strategic partners

Develop sourcing strategies and execute supplier negotiation strategies.Manage the RFP process. Prepare the request, select participants, review proposals, negotiate contracts and prices with suppliers, and award the business based on TCO analysis.Influence supplier segmentation within categories and develop risk mitigation plans.Supplier management including on site visits, performance reviews, risk mitigation at supplier, process improvement suggestions and business relationship development to secure strategic partners.

Facilitated projects for product sourcing and vendor qualificationFormulated RFQ’s to potential suppliers and managed total cost impact analysisVendor relationship management including but not limited to cost negotiations, delivery, order quantitiesPlanned business trips overseas as necessary to evaluate new and existing foreign sourcesCoordinated product reviews with necessary stakeholdersDeveloped new processes and documentation for product validation and reportingDetermined voice of customer root cause for quality issuesDeveloped new reporting to better support project data mining and cost savings quantification

Oversaw pricing negotiations with suppliers and tracked mitigations, $40K in savings 2013Commodity Management – resourcing, sustaining, and value engineeringGenerated and managed projects through RFQ’s/TCO’s for on time completion, $409k savings over projects for 2014Collaborated with multiple departments for product reviews and project completionInvestigated and cleared A/P hold invoicing issuesNegotiated Supplier payment terms and stocking contracts with suppliers to optimize inventory turns and prevent out of stock situationsCreated a resin database to track commodity price changes and cost change impact

Analyzed inventory levels and scheduled replenishment orders to support salesPlanned delivery routes to optimize time and miles traveled for driversScheduled direct-to-trade orders for 3rd party customersMaintained accurate warehouse layouts for assigned franchises to optimize pick time

Coordinated conferences and training sessions along with all relevant training material Compiled reports to reflect daily, weekly, monthly, etc. sales statisticsInterfaced with customers daily to assist with E-Quotes access and set – up questionsMaintained customer database to reflect customer account informationDeveloped macros to update excel based reports to reduce time and labor spent on manual updates