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Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Buena Park, California, United States

• Negotiate contracts of $20 million annually to improve inventory availability, decrease costs while increasing revenue, and enhance vendor operational metrics. • Lead weekly cross-functional team meetings to develop strategic initiatives to improve cost structure, increase inventory efficiency, and resolve supply constraints.• Improved high impact, low performance supplier efficiencies by an average of 20% over the past year.

Irvine, California, United States

• Lead Inventory review meetings and analysis with cross functional team to determine target inventory levels. • Generated multiple spreadsheets capturing key data related to sales forecast, purchasing levels, and targeted line plans. • Research and validate across multiple platforms to identify correct buy plans, category breakdown and available to sell inventory.

Buena Park, California

• Lead buyer for $13 million spend in vitamins and carbohydrates category and responsible for 42 supplier accounts. • Negotiated reduced lead-time of over 20 raw materials accounting for $16 million demand on finished good products and improved supplier on time deliverance by 5%.• Lead a sourcing strategy team to eliminate delivery issues and create alternative sourcing options with external suppliers.

Buena Park, California

• Responsible for maintaining service and inventory metrics by ordering and managing raw materials through JDE Oracle. • Lead planner for nutrition raw materials supporting India markets. Responsible for coordinating order distribution, mitigating supply constraints and sourcing issues. • Principal contact in transition of 1,200 SKUs from external to internal production ensuring continuation of supply.

As an intern I fostered cross-functional collaboration and global communication to develop inventory management process maps for multiple international markets and recommended improvements for a repeatable, accurate global inventory management process.I was also responsible for executing daily Material Requirement Planning of service part components.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 4.0 Gpa

2024 Best & Brightest online MBA graduate from Poets & Quants

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Management And Supply Chain, Operations, & Information Analytics, Graduated With Distinction (Top 10% Of The School)

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi

Business Administration

Study Abroad Exchange Program

Honors Diploma, 4.09 Grade Point Average-4 Point Scale

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, SAVE, Helping Hands, Prom Committee, Track and Field, Cadet Teaching