Loretta Young Email & Phone Number

• Develop and manage the pipeline of opportunities, generates revenue, and provides support for an assigned region and specific accounts.
• Building strategic and valuable relationships by visiting customers within a broadly assigned region.
• Working with team members across functions to ensure customers have an excellent experience throughout the sales process.
• Discovering opportunities at target OEMs or new OEMs by networking within an OEM, adjacent to, or with Product Marketing's help.
• Developing opportunities by making outbound calls, receiving inbound calls, sending/receiving emails, creating presentations, and coordinating calls with customers and appropriate internal departments.

• Identify and evaluate potential opportunities to the DoD through DLA, direct to the military services or civilian partner companies.
• Work with Government Sales personnel in the evaluation of opportunities.
• Identify and pursue new avenues to market
• Work with the Procurement Team, assisting in the development and implementation of a supply chain strategy that aligns with the company's overall objectives and growth plans.
• Negotiate with vendors and suppliers to gain a competitive advantage on bids
• Lead and mentor a team of procurement professionals, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, teamwork, and accountability.

• Support strategic buying objectives for multiple branches and end users.
• Review material requirements and recommend or take appropriate purchasing actions.
• Provide input to the team regarding problems such as shortages and backlogs.
• Obtain and prepare data for cost and value analysis.
• Prepare and process purchase orders and requisitions for product.
• Evaluate areas of opportunity to leverage the best pricing and lead time for the demand requirements.

• Oversee the daily workflow and schedules of the department
• Collaborate with other departments and leadership to identify and develop needs and requirements for equipment, materials, products, and acceptable substitutions
• Assess current material availability; reasonably predicts future availability based on the market, delivery systems, and other variables
• Prepare and present market conditions and merchandise cost reports
• Prepare and process purchase orders and requisitions for materials, supplies, and equipment
• Draft, explain, and implement instructions, policies, and procedures for purchasing and contract management

• Manage multiple aerospace OEM accounts and drive client retention and satisfaction
• Develop positive, growth oriented working relationships with all customer touch points including management, engineering, procurement, planning and quality
• Conduct preparation of proposals and RFQs, contract/PO negotiation and contract/PO administration from quote to cash
• Identify sources and prepare / issue requests for quotes for varying types and complexity of products
• Evaluate and analyze supplier quotes for compliance and cost to provide the best possible outcome for customer proposal
• Negotiate with suppliers and customers regarding price, schedule and contract requirements

Palestine, Texas

• Conduct audits to ensure compliance to company policies and procedures and applicable laws and regulations such as ISO9001, AS9100, AS9120, AS6174, AS5553, export and import regulations, cybersecurity
• Analyze functional data and validate it against published standards and regulations
• Review reported quality metrics to assess the effectiveness of root cause and corrective action
• Develop and prepare audit plans, audit reports, findings and opportunities and present them to senior management
• Identify process experts to train and deploy as internal auditors
• Supervise and lead the internal audit team

• Develop, initiate, maintain, and revise policies and procedures for the general operation of the quality management system and other compliance efforts (i.e. Counterfeit, Export)
• Monitors, and as necessary, coordinates compliance activities of other departments to remain abreast of the status of all compliance activities and to identify trends
• Conduct periodic internal reviews or audits to ensure that compliance procedures are followed.
• Assess product, compliance, or operational risks and develop risk management strategies.
• Maintain and revise quality documents and policies; including forms, procedures, manuals and work instructions to ensure outputs of processes meet published standards
• Create meetings agendas, log and maintain meeting minutes, track and close resulting action items

Palestine, Texas

• Establish and implement sourcing and acquisition strategies, policies, procedures and best practices
• Lead procurement team and create training content and conduct training for all aspects of the procurement process
• Ensure that all purchases have accurate schedules, cost and support the overall strategy for the customer and company
• Accountable for ensuring items purchased are delivered within budget and to planned timelines
• Evaluate contracts and flow downs (T&C, quality clauses, FAR/DFAR) to ensure planned activities support compliance with contractual requirements, statutory requirements and organizational policies
• Identify sources and prepare / issue requests for quotes for varying types and complexity of products

Lufkin, Texas

• Lead site compliance (E.g. Customer Specific Requirements, AS9100D, NADCAP, FAI) including the facilitation of audits
• Develop and implement quality plans, processes, and procedures using statistical quality control techniques, lean manufacturing concepts and quality methodologies
• Interface with customers and counterparts, including engineering, to resolve complex issues and create Quality improvement plans through extensive analysis and investigation
• Monitor and audit performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency
• Communicate quality control information to relevant organizational departments, outside vendors, or contractors
• Create, write and distribute procedures, manuals and work instructions

• Achieve operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; * Preparing and completing action plans* Implementing production, productivity, quality, and.
• Analyze and interpret contract provisions to achieve compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements
• Forecast contract risks, measure the feasibility and enforceability of the contract, and clarify contract-related facts
• Evaluate contract language to determine necessity for amendments or extensions of contracts, and compliance to contractual obligations
• Analyzes and approves or rejects internal and/or contractor requests for deviations from contract specifications and delivery schedules.
• Serve as primary liaison with contracting representatives to ensure compliance with contract specifications and resolution of problems and issues, as they arise; arbitrates claims or complaints occurring in performance.

Lufkin, TX

• Lead site compliance (E.g. Customer Specific Requirements, AS9100D, NADCAP, FAI) including the facilitation of audits
• Develop and implement quality plans, processes, and procedures using statistical quality control techniques, lean manufacturing concepts and quality methodologies
• Interface with customers and counterparts, including engineering, to resolve complex issues and create Quality improvement plans through extensive analysis and investigation
• Monitor and audit performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency
• Communicate quality control information to relevant organizational departments, outside vendors, or contractors
• Create, write and distribute procedures, manuals and work instructions

• Develop and implement an electronic recordkeeping system for pertinent documents and data related to products, work transfers and quality management system
• Develop and submit metrics related to parts and quality processes
• Plan, review and update BOMs related to parts, materials and work transfers
• Handle complex problems and resolve escalated complaints or disputes
• Perform analysis and inspection of received product and associated records to ensure quality standards and compliance to customer and regulatory requirements, and tolerance specifications
• Operate inspection tools such as calipers, micrometers, optical comparators, tri-roll gages, thread ring gages

• Ensure that all purchases have accurate schedules, cost and support the overall strategy for the customer and company
• Accountable for ensuring items purchased are delivered within budget and to planned timelines
• Evaluate contracts and flow downs (T&C, quality clauses, FAR/DFAR) to ensure planned activities support compliance with contractual requirements, statutory requirements and organizational policies
• Identify sources and prepare / issue requests for quotes for varying types and complexity of products
• Evaluate and analyze supplier quotes for compliance and cost to provide the best possible outcome for customer proposal
• Develop, negotiate and administer purchasing agreements and contracts with suppliers in support of organizational requirements

Business Management

Education record

Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies