Technical Program Manager in Supplier Engineering and Quality

• Sourced and qualified raw material suppliers, negotiated prices with vendors, developed long lasting vendor relationships and created purchasing orders.• Established, documented, and maintained the quality management system, including HACCP plans, SOP, and policies to ensure compliance with FDA regulation and good manufacturing practice.• Led meetings to discuss about improvement plans for supply chain quality systems. Standardized and documented process changes.

Completed multiple rotations across multiple Abbott divisions and functional roles: Project Engineer, Supply Chain Analyst.Nutrition Division:• Led the LSS Green Belt Project to optimize the manufacturing process to reduce chocolate coating loss for nutrition bars and achieved cost savings of $300k/year within 6 months.• Organized weekly meeting with cross-functional teams from R&D, manufacturing, engineering and finance departments. Presented project progress to plant director and arranged for the future plans.• Conducted root cause analysis and drove improvements on manufacturing downtime, quality, and safety issues.• Established operation standards being executed by the entire onsite team (200+ employees).Diabetes Care Division:• Managed production plans and coordinated with the third-party manufacturer.• Identified and implemented improvements in the planning process and enhanced the order service level by 8%.• Strategically fulfilled an unexpected increase in demand with constrained manufacturing capacity.