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Novato, California, United States

Pearland, Texas, United States

• Directed the Single Use Bags Category, a 70 million CHF category, delivering against quality and service metrics across 3 business units and 20 global manufacturing sites, delivering $1.5 million CHF cost savings and 0.
• Reduced cost of goods sold and inventory for the business by negotiating with suppliers to improve commercial terms, including lead times, pricing, warehousing, and cancelation policies.
• Created and implemented category strategy to create a cost savings pipeline and key supplier development.

Sugar Land, Texas, United States

• Led global projects from charter through execution and presented project updates to senior leadership to ensure timely communication of milestones.
• Managed Indirect Services Category, a $175 million category, for ChampionX and subsidiaries to ensure continuity of key business programs by contracting with suppliers.
• Streamlined software renewals across 9 departments resulting in a lower cost and increased leverage with suppliers.

Newark, New Jersey, United States

• Managed Packaging Essentials, a $30 million category, including commodities essential to plant operations, delivering against quality and service metrics across all 32 brands and 15 MarsWrigley North America.
• Created and implemented 3-year project pipeline to deliver cost savings to the business, delivering $800,000 cost savings in the 2020 while improving supply security, supplier performance, and sustainability.
• Supported negotiation and data collection for Flexibles Category packaging tender, delivering $2 million in cost savings.
• Represented Strategic Sourcing function during cross functional data transformation project meetings.

Hackettstown, New Jersey, United States

• Implemented sourcing strategies assuring quality and continuity of inbound supply chain of Essential Ingredients, a $100 million category, across all 32 brands and 15 MarsWrigley North America manufacturing locations.
• Managed cross functional projects including recipe reformulation, material harmonization, strategic partnerships, and negotiation delivering $700,000 in cost savings for 2020.
• Onboarded qualified sources of supply to balance overall business risk on key materials.
• Executed an inbound quality verification program for 500 materials resulting in mitigation of any food safety risk.
• Established standard meeting format and tools to drive standardization of category management resulting in their adoption by 8 categories across the company.
• Developed database of supplier performance metrics and contract balancing to support performance analytics and strategic sourcing negotiations.

Hackettstown, New Jersey, United States

• Managed process of SKU creation and execution through cross-functional teams for seasonal and core brands: Snickers, 3 Musketeers, MilkyWay, and KIND.
• Expanded existing role to manage repatriation projects for the M&M’s, Snickers, and Twix brands, delivering $10M per year in cost savings.
• Trained and mentored 7 new associates on internal systems, processes, and project management.
• Outlined and designed international work-stream for SKU creation through proficiencies in problem solving and process development.

Mount Olive, New Jersey, United States

• Improved processes and communications between functions in specification coding process as technical lead resulting in reduced errors in supplier coding.
• Resolved inbound technical ordering and receiving issues using in-depth knowledge of SAP logic across all Mars Food and Mars Chocolate North America manufacturing locations.
• Responsible for invoice resolution and corrections across both Mars Food and Mars Chocolate North America locations.
• Supported bidding of packaging business by providing relative packaging data and daily functional support to the Packaging Operations and Sourcing teams.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Defined new process to increase the quality and quantity of the project team pipeline.
• Designed and implemented a central repository for standard taxonomies, index, content, templates, and work instructions that measurably improved resource productivity of the Seller Integration team.

Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States

• Supported accounting system transition – responsible for reconciling receivables accounts
• Created format for, prepared and presented periodic aging and reconciliation reports
• Created staffing plan for 2014 Air Show entrances and sales tents.
• Participated in / supported weekly staff meetings

Education record

Texas A&M Professional MBA Class of 2025 Candidate

Bachelor’S Of Science, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Sigma Nu: Recorder, Created and updated rosters, in charge of communication between executive board members and.

Business

Activities and Societies: Temple University Ultimate Team