LEADERSHIP | Provide four direct reports with professional development practices, including individually focused coaching, development plan creation, and succession planning discussions. The team has been conditioned to create S.M.A.R.T. goals, directly linking supply chain strategy to key initiatives identified for the fiscal year.STAKEHOLDER INCLUSION | Ongoing focus on involving key internal stakeholders in process reviews and the identification of continuous improvement opportunities. Close partnership with Operations business functions has helped to align resources, responsibilities and determine the criticality of categories supported to ensure the proper priority of tasks.BUSINESS CONTINUITY | Oversight of 16 manufacturing plants, including the management of [material shortage] escalations and [material] allocations. Scope of responsibility supports $20M+ in weekly sales, while targeting a service level greater than 95%.NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT | Support launch excellence for new product development through core team participation, capacity planning, production planning and supply chain network optimization.

COST PRODUCTIVITY | Delivered $12M+ cost savings over two years through sourcing strategy execution, product redesign and contractual negotiations.CATEGORY STRATEGY | Researched, developed, communicated, and executed category strategy focused on identifying capable suppliers with a global manufacturing footprint.REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL | Managed Request-for-Proposal (RFP) process for $120M in spend annually. Created quoting documents and templates, developed schedule, completed and presented an award recommendation.SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT | Created and lead Global Quarterly Business Reviews with suppliers and key stakeholders to examine and discuss supplier performance across multiple business units. Established Innovation Sessions, fostering collaboration between brand management and current/prospective suppliers to showcase technology and new product design.CONTRACT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT | Managed contract lifecycle for all Power Base agreements, handling amendments, renewals, development, and negotiation of product service agreement terms.RISK MITIGATION | Mitigated risk of Section 301 Tariffs impacting EBITDA targets through several initiatives including exclusivity on a redesign of our highest volume product, negotiations on cost reductions efforts and the expansion of our supplier's manufacturing footprint into a countrywithout trade restrictions.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT | Established processes and led the team responsible for supporting the financial forecast through sourcing-centric projects, resulting in $40M cost savings over three years. Coordinated and managed monthly meetings with Operations Finance to discuss andreview project toll-gate statuses and outlook cost savings. Coordinated bi-weekly meetings with executive leadership from across the organization to discuss potential opportunities and provide updates on current projects.LEADERSHIP | Led hiring, training, and development efforts for all PPC resources. Served as team lead for five dotted-line reports, focused on cost savings through value engineering projects.COLLABORATION | Partnered with key internal stakeholders to identify and assign functional resources, ensuring projects were completed on-time, within scope and on budget.

STRATEGY EXECUTION | Developed and executed sourcing strategy for $60M Semiconductor spend for several key suppliers. Led strategic initiative to benchmark suppliers and launch a Request-for-Quote (RFQ) for thousands of electrical components, resulting in $2.5M in savings and the identification of $8M in opportunity.COLLABORATION | Led cross-functional team meetings to discuss sourcing strategy and gain alignment with internal stakeholders on business objectives, contractual terms, payment terms, and pricing models.LEADERSHIP | Frequently engaged with our global sourcing team in Shenzhen, China to provide guidance, coaching, and feedback linked to the sourcing strategy and other pertinent projects.

Technical Rotation ProgramSUPPLY PLANNING | Planned worldwide supply for three acquisition vendors by utilizing the planning process and tools. Collaborated with geography-specific demand teams to ensure appropriate product mix and supply quantities were available to fulfill customer orders. Engaged with global counterparts to ensure large contract bids were captured in the supply forecasts.SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING | Reported on various supply chain metrics during the monthly Sales and Operations meeting. Communicated exposure for contractually driven purchases from supplier managed inventory (SMI).LEAN PRINCIPLES | Leveraged lean problem-solving tools to identify inefficiencies in the A4 Color network for Latin America, which resulted in a fulfillment model change driving improved product availability, transportation, warehousing, and inventory savings.

Technical Rotation ProgramOBSOLESCENCE MANAGEMENT | Aided in developing a global obsolescence process to identify and remove waste from the Engineering and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems following the end of a product lifecycle. Created and facilitated weekly meetings using Business Intelligence (BI) reporting to drive obsolescence activity. Executed tactical work to change product status in SAP ERP system.METRICS DEVELOPMENT | Produced metrics package for Managed Print Services monthly business review to highlight North America SupplyChain performance. Created an internal team webpage to be used as a data repository for housing metrics, presentations, and other Customization centric documentation.COST EVALUATION | Participated on a cross-functional team with responsibility for building a model to calculate all Tier 1 manufacturing costs for multiple manufacturing scenarios. The model was used to determine the feasibility of relocating production.

Technical Rotation ProgramREQUEST FOR QUOTE | Completed analysis for business award based on Request-for-Quote (RFQ) submissions for the Color Laser product line. Presented results to executive leadership.COST ANALYSIS | Led analysis to determine the financial impact of a cost increase for both printer assembly and supplier managed inventory.COUNTRY STUDY | Managed the annual country study review process completed by the Practices Organization in Shenzhen, China. The report was used to evaluate the advantages/disadvantages of manufacturing in various low cost countries.FINANCIAL ANALYSIS | Developed a model for calculating the macroeconomic impacts across all business units and platforms based on variables such as trends in the commodities market, labor increases, and currency exchange rate fluctuations.COST NEGOTIATION | Negotiated cost increase from resin supplier by utilizing a “win-win” technique. Negotiation proved successful for reducing financial exposure for post-consumer recyclable (PCR) material for both current and future products.

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS | Identified and documented critical steps in the mergers and acquisitions process. Modified IBM framework for M&A to standardize workflow and streamline processes for project managers overseeing supply chain integration.VALUE-STREAMING | Identified waste by consolidating all documentation uploaded into IBM Accelerator tool. Effort reduced both resources consumed and cycle time for key activities.

PROCESS EVALUATION | Reviewed an internally developed excel based application to evaluate functionality and data management capability. Feedback was provided to the software development team resulting in improvements to the user interface, processing power and decommissioning of older tools.STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES | Focused on project sustainability by creating training procedures and video tutorials. Coordinated training sessions for end-users reducing dependency on the Internal Metrics team.