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Royal Oak, Michigan, United States

Focused on providing exceptional service in Purchasing, Operations and Strategic Planning to support effective global organizations.*Material Procurement and contract management*Shortage escalation for critical prototype/ production components and Recovery Plan Actions *Technical cost savings ideas and VAVE for cost downs*New business development.

Greater Detroit Area

Michigan based Owner and Property Manager for full time/ partial Short Term Rentals in greater Detroit area. Provide convenient consultation to help optimize your business operations.Extensive short term rental knowledge with providing consulting services to small business owners in developing the "right" fit strategy to grow their return. Location.

Exceeded buyer annual savings targets by utilizing global spend and optimized materials within supply chain.Developed and supported Global Strategies for CTS Systems (connector, terminal and seals) in order to reach and obtain annual targeted savings initiatives with benchmarking, 1 to 1 replacements and point of purchase in landed cost studies.Led Top.

Developed and updated Global Sharepoint sites to promote clear project ideas under coordinated Global Purchasing sourcing activities with buyers and leaders to support for cost savings ideas. Created and lead Global training sessions while running weekly Global Sourcing Committee meetings to support One Voice Purchasing initiatives. Worked with over 50.

Canton, Michigan

Negotiations for NA programs supporting sourcing for wire sub-assemblies such as COAX, Airbag Squibs, USB & LVDS, Ethernet & various battery cables for connection components.Worked closely with Advanced Program teams to help ensure successful launches of over 10 programs with various internal and external customers. Promoted engineering drop in and 1-2-1.

Canton, Michigan

Lead buyer for Passive Electronics including, sensors, switches, resistors, capacitors, chokes, inductors and LEDs purchased components for North America facilities. Worked closely with suppliers to ensure continuous supply in commodity during global market constraints while evaluating potential suppliers to support engineering and part performance.

Canton, Michigan

Raw Materials responsible for metal, copper brass alloys,stainless steel, and various resin buy for North America facilities.

Troy, Michigan

Purchasing responsible for North America Direct Materials reporting direct to Vice President of Purchasing. Commodities include various purchased components, packaging, raw material, blanking, laser welded blanks and tailor rolled blanks.Managed and led, for Direct Materials Purch., frequent communication regarding program launch status updates and.

North America

Procurement of raw materials including sheet steel, aluminum and tailor welded blanks.Supported program management on multiple new and current program vehicle lines.Lead new vehicle launches by managing all raw material tooling prototypes deliveries across NA manufacturing plants while developing and sourcing LTAs.

Auburn Hills, Michigan

Procured estimated $450M in raw material steel for various plants, internal and external Tier 1's. Key speaker during Supplier Training week - focused on FCA Resale raw material processes and communicated overall significance of commodity management.Worked with engineering for light weight initiatives and applied standardization into the volumes of steel..

Auburn Hills

Manage Raw Material Resale Program and Management Systems with an estimated APV of $2.4 billion. Steel and Aluminum commodities.Led and supported key system enhancements that interfaces between ERP systems such as SAP, Legacy and Web RFQ.Ensured proper current production requirements were met while working on advanced quoting decisions for multiple program.

Findlay, OH

Worked in the Global Procurement Department under Marketing & Corporate Support which supports Human Resources, Information Technology, Brand Marketing, Administrative Services and various other organizations.Daily responsibilities:Contract review and processingPlacing purchase ordersInvoice processingNew vendor setupsObtaining logistics quotes

Kentwood, MI

Materials Management Intern at the Kentwood East Seating Plant in Kentwood, MI. Worked as a Materials Planner for all of paint and weld while purchasing and managing for over 400 materials.Worked directly with Lean Manufacturing and Make-To-Order products.