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• Responsible for managing team of Category Managers with commercial spend accountability of $1.1B for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), brakes, steering, suspension, wheels, and drivetrain components.

Deerfield, Il, Us

Deerfield, Il, Us

• Responsible for managing category strategy and commercial responsibility of $400M Property, Storecare Operations, Supply Chain Private Fleet and Carrier Transportation spend.

Lisle, Il, Us

• Responsible for managing team of category managers with commercial spend accountability of $700M of aftermarket component spend across brakes, suspension, wheels, axles, filtration, and body components. • Develop global supply base and leading strategic sourcing events to exceed product category margin improvement targets of $20M and to source new products to drive incremental revenue of $40M.

Lisle, Il, Us

• Lead aftermarket procurement team conducting detailed category analysis of $1.3B Navistar material spend identifying near-term and long-term material cost and supply chain optimization savings opportunities of $40M+• Developed product market positioning strategy across product catalog, inventory stocking and e-commerce platform to increase product segment margins. • Designed and launched robust analytics tools identifying $15M+ of savings opportunities across total spend by consolidation of multiple data sources evaluating service component replacement pricing.

Lisle, Il, Us

• Cross-functional category management team lead responsible for managing procurement strategy and commercial management of $530M of production and aftermarket brake and suspension systems component spend.• Exceeded strategic cost reduction goals through execution of product strategic sourcing, negotiated supplier agreements, supply chain optimization and product design opportunities realizing annualized savings of $30M• Aligned Navistar strategic sourcing opportunities with Global Volkswagen Procurement Joint Venture team to leverage global purchasing scale to negotiate agreements for brake system components.• Strategically negotiated agreements for first to market standard product positioning for on-highway heavy duty truck platforms for air disc brake and collision mitigation systems achieving $7.2M in annualized savings.

Greenwich, Ct, Us

• Lead annual procurement organization strategic planning and continuous improvement implementation across multibillion dollar spend of major heavy truck manufacturer. • Developed and implemented enterprise wide supplier relationship management process utilizing Salesforce Account Management System.• Facilitated gap closure analysis driving $4M savings project pipeline for cross functional procurement management team.• Lead 10 interactive training classroom topics and developed supporting standard operating procedures across client’s procurement organization.

Greenwich, Ct, Us

• Painted cohesive vision, strategy, and road map to develop an effective, standardized, and sustainable strategic sourcing process to manage multi-billion dollar client direct material spend.• Achieved $4.8M in material and logistics savings through managing the implementation of strategic sourcing initiatives for heavy truck manufacturer body systems cross functional management team. • Well versed and proficient at enhancing client's expertise in areas such as spend analysis, category segmentation, sourcing strategy, negotiation and supplier relationship management.

Tampa, Florida, Us

• Led process improvement initiatives leading to improvement in areas such as cost, quality, production planning, cycle time, throughput, and inventory. • Managed client’s cross-functional team through corporate level business re-engineering and developed framework to support business changes; including managing and interfacing with senior level client executives.• Established strategic project plans and objectives to manage internal resources through long term and fast-paced engagement and implementation of best practices in industries such as food, consumer goods, general manufacturing and mining.• Analzyed OEE and performed line balancing analysis to implement labor optimization for manufacturing and food processing plant resulting in $7M in annualized savings.• Conducted root cause analysis sessions of operational downtime with management across all areas of operation; Provided tools and strategies to improve operational effectiveness.

Tampa, Florida, Us

• Proficient at enhancing customer knowledge of lean principles and leading process improvement initiatives aligned with achieving targeted cost savings• Conducted detailed analysis of planning and scheduling systems for mining and manufacturing operations. Implemented sales/operations planning process, developed capacity model, aligning equipment and resources with customer and production demand.• Designed and implemented management operating systems for production and maintenance of open pit mining operations resulting in $3.3M in annualized savings.• Identified management/operator training needs as well as developing specific training programs, standard operating procedures, computer based training and conducting training sessions.