Mackenzie Graves Email and Phone Number

• Collaborate with customers, vendors, contractors, and owners to ensure on time delivery.• Develop and manage multiple project schedules.• Monitor progress of overall construction activities.• Be on calls with management to review job site issues, work schedules, sub-contractor performance, and workflow efficiency.• Organize and schedule regular vendor meetings which provide updates on deliveries, technical issues, documentation, etc.• Organize and schedule regular customer updates on all aspects of the project.• Help implement suggested changes by either customers or vendors and coordinate appropriate updates to scheduling and other timeline activities.

• Able to maintain and reduce excess purchasing as lead times change due to pandemic. • Place purchase orders for a large territory from centralized, regional office.• A part of a team that reduced inefficient inventory by $18 MIL over 6 months’ time. • Maintain vendor files with pricing sheets, quotes, contracts. • Able to work within a team setting, managing a high volume of email requests to ensure purchasing related questions/issues are addressed. • Trained dozens of associates in the ERP system.• Put a system in place to use surplus material before purchasing new stock.

• Handle the procurement of materials, services, and supplies for local branches in territory. • Assists in resolving vendor related problems.• Maintain up-to-date supplier and vendor information; to track purchase and the status of orders and deliveries; and to generate purchasing reports and statistics. • Identify, research, and evaluate suppliers that meet the organization's standards of price, quality, timing, and reliability of supply.• Monitor the quality and timeliness of materials and goods supplied; follow-up the status of purchase orders with vendors to ensure timely delivery.• Responsible for the review and administration of long-term and/or blanket purchase contracts.

• 200+ vendor lines for 5 states and 120 branch locations• Daily replenishment purchases with vendors, internal buys, and transfers• Manage vendor product files, pricing, vendor po’s and lead times forecasts• Support customer relations with vendors and internal branch associates• Loading and maintaining customer’s job quotes• Observing and using surplus material before purchasing outside of stock

• Full-cycle coordination of weddings, showers, cocktail activities and other landmark events.• Established strong relationship with clients to better understand and assist with vision enhancement of clients’ wants and needs.

• Ensured client satisfaction before, during, and after events• Monitored, followed-up, and met appropriate accounts receivable collection rates• Increased revenue by 25% during first year of employment• Extreme proficiency with writing contracts, proposals, and client communication• Led business development and established new markets including Weddings, Quinceañeras, and Pageants• Developed and negotiated packaging and pricing for new and existing markets• Assisted clients in program planning and menu selection• Solicited local group catering business• Created and coordinated traditional marketing and social media

Responsible for :• Managed 31 locations’ purchasing needs throughout west coast• Ensured stock inventory levels met operation needs• Successfully negotiated vendor pricing to cut costs resulting in company savings• Monitored and regulated open orders, ETA, and backorder status daily• Purchased for consumer and government agencies• Mediated communication between sales team and vendors