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Auburn Hills, Michigan, US

Auburn Hills, Michigan, US

Auburn Hills, Michigan, US

Auburn Hills, Michigan, US

- Global Commodity Strategies: Develop, gain cross-functional alignment, and implement Global Strategic Commodity Business Plans.- Supplier Rationalization / Supplier Relationship Management: Identify and develop supplier partners that meet and/or exceed long-term business expectations.- Identify & Implement Cost Reduction opportunities:- Market.

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, DE

• Lead, develop, and implement global commodity strategies for $160 million spend on microcontrollers, ASICs, ASSPs.
• Implementing supply base consolidation plan to increase alignment and focus on strategic partnerships with BIC suppliers.
• Drive global commodity strategy alignment across multiple product lines and business units to maximize leverage.
• Achieved 7.5% cost savings in 2011 through strategic sourcing, LTAs, Forward BOM Management, knowledge based negotiations, VA/VE implementation, LCC localization, and negotiating global volume based “family” pricing.
• Utilizing “Matched Pair” approach to align portfolio roadmaps with supplier / silicon industry roadmaps to ensure cost competitiveness by eliminating legacy product via the introduction of next gen technology ( step.
• Utilize and promote various cost saving tool box strategies to drive continuous improvement and meet business objectives.

Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, DE

• Responsible for sourcing and managing global supply base for friction material.
• Drove coordination of global commodity strategies to ensure new sourcing activity is in line with cost targets, purchasing processes, and meets the performance and timing goals of individual programs.
• Established cross-functional strategies, cost models, VA/VE workshops, strategic supplier partnerships and product roadmaps to drive engineering changes and re-sourcing activities, to achieve business goals.
• Ensure on-time launch for brake programs and delivery at or below target cost for piece price and tooling, while meeting targets for quality, delivery, and other cost areas.
• Track program cost for piece price and tooling through Forward BOM Management.

• Responsible for leading new customer Procure to Reconciliation solution implementations, overseeing project plans to ensure on-time launches, coordinating project team tasks to meet customer specifications, growing.
• Led a new customer implementation consisting of 3 locations, 45 users, and over 80 suppliers, launching ahead of schedule in 90 days while delivering 100% commodity coverage and providing several customer requested.
• Supported a new customer implementation inclusive of 55 locations, 92 users, and over 150 suppliers, launching ahead of schedule in 60 days with 100% commodity coverage for the customer, and several customer requested.
• Coordinated packaging engineering workshop for three customer locations resulting in over $375,000 in identified savings opportunities (over 12% of packaging buy).
• Led supply chain activities to meet sourcing, cost savings, and commodity coverage for client related MRO spend.
• Managed supply base development activities including new vendor expansion, supply base compression, and the formation of strategic supplier partnerships.

London, England, GB

• Responsible for diversifying Chrysler’s supply base via increasing their global sourcing activities.
• Worked cross-functionally with Auburn Hills Engineering, Procurement, Supplier Quality, Logistics, Supply, Finance, Human Resources and Legal departments, while leading and supporting the sourcing activities out of.
• Manage the re-sourcing and new program placement and negotiation activities across all programs and commodity groups.
• Identify qualified global suppliers while maintaining / exceeding current cost, quality and technology expectations.
• Reduce sourcing and purchase order cycle time from 300 days to 90 days by identifying and eliminating obstacles.

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

·Responsible for global commodity strategy of $477 million foundation brake buy consisting of calipers, rotors, drum brakes, DIH park brake and friction material. ·Provided leadership while managing supply base to achieve corporate quality standards, cost objectives, diversity development goals and timing expectations associated with current production and.

London, England, GB

• Responsible for commodity strategy, supply base management, cost management and program sourcing of park brake mechanisms, cables (park brake, mechanical and shifter) and miscellaneous tubing across all vehicle.
• Managed supply base, mitigating economic hardship requests and resolving purchase order issues.
• Negotiated $15 million in annualized savings by adapting LPP cost model tool for shifters, cables and clutches.
• Facilitated supplier cost review meetings with purchasing and engineering to achieve year over year cost savings, resulting in negotiated savings of $89 million.
• Drove diversity development with new business award to qualified diversity supplier.

London, England, GB

• Managed fastener deck with annual volume of buy worth $135M.
• Led global cross-functional team responsible for implementation of strategic KTO sourcing initiative.
• Facilitated 100% of the quoting, evaluating, tracking, negotiations & sourcing of all KTO fasteners.
• Achieved corporate wide savings with proliferation of KTO common fastener initiative.
• Traveled to Germany to develop global strategies with Daimler business unit colleagues including lead buyer initiative, volume bundling initiative and part commonization strategies.
• Held Fastener Sourcing Seminar in Stuttgart, Germany with participation of over 120 global suppliers.

London, England, GB

• Managed 25 suppliers with annual volume of buy worth $75 million.
• Cross-functionally worked with engineering and supplier quality to develop supply base and modify sourcing strategies to meet Chrysler’s goals.
• Led commercial cost saving activities by utilizing e-commerce tool to market test non-performing suppliers.
• Negotiated $7.7 million in savings off $32 million buy (24%) via “Nut Family Sourcing” initiative.

London, England, GB

• Supervised activities of more than 40 hourly UAW employees to ensure timely unloading, coordinated movement and continuous delivery of material to assembly line.
• Worked with manufacturing, engineering, quality & safety to improve material presentation and delivery, coordinate part changes and prevent critical shortages.
• Implemented electronic KANBAN system to manage small lot and bulk container delivery throughout facility.
• Surpassed 23% improvement for certified line shortages.
• Reduced unscheduled OT by greater than 90%.
• Successfully built out Jeep Wrangler during new model launch with zero units lost due to part shortages.

London, England, GB

• Supervised activities of more than 40 hourly UAW employees to lead material movement activities within and outside the plant to meet manufacturing requirements while ensuring that productivity and safety goals were met.
• Successfully launched new IFS building while establishing all required manpower, JIT schedules, material flow layout and training.
• Achieved 100% on-time delivery of St. Louis Assembly Plant production requirements by planning and prioritizing daily customer build requirements and meeting JIT shipment schedule.

London, England, GB

·Managed vehicle gateline scheduling across all vehicle platforms while enhancing the communication between Scheduling’s Platform Managers, Supply, Sales Distribution and assembly plants. ·Improved communication by enhancing department reports and establishing electronic distributions. ·Worked with IT to implement an enhanced Reslot Database providing.

Bachelor Of Arts, Supply Chain Management

Master Of Science In Management (Msm), Managinging The Marketing Function, Financial Metrics, Organizational Design, Financial Accounting