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Virginia, United States

∙ Work with Sales and Category Managers to source material for new cosmetic, beauty, and pharma product skus.∙ Lead effort for identifying and relaying new project requirements to supplier partners to acquire optimal material options and obtaining pricing and technical data for review.∙ Developing and maintaining effective supplier relationships that.

Binghamton, NY, US

∙ Process requisitions into Purchase Orders and place orders with vendor in compliance with theestablished standards∙ Ensure pricing is accurate and confirm expected delivery with vendor. Communicates to endusers the delivery information.∙ Works with Accounts Payable through invoice discrepancy within the acceptable turnaroundtimes.∙ Responsible for order.

Frisco, Texas, US

• Manage overall direction and coordination of Purchasing and Procurement functions for a clinical laboratory that spans numerous sites, and additionally consists of multiple interconnected companies.
• Negotiate contracts and agreements by working with vendors and internal departments such as legal, compliance, and executive team to ensure contracts meet corporate goals and objectives.
• Interact with suppliers, brokers, transportation agencies, and outside buying groups to develop procurement strategies.
• Identified, developed and managed key relationships with sourcing partners, suppliers, internal stakeholders.
• Responsible for order placement timing, supply/demand alignment, material replenishment and supplier performance.
• Coordinate with logistics and warehouse teams to ensure of an optimum efficient process from ordering to delivery to end users.

• Manage overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of procurement for an invitro diagnostic clinical laboratory start up that was one of the fastest growing companies in the US.
• As part of managing procurement for HDL, I also established and managed the procurement departments for 3 other partner companies, 1 start up subsidiary, and 1 company that was purchased.
• Negotiate contracts and agreements by working with vendors and internal departments such as legal, compliance, and executive team to ensure contracts meet corporate goals and objectives.
• Built and managed a procurement team consisting of 3 Buyers, and a Purchasing Assistant.
• Established company inventory control systems and processes. Set up naming conventions, locations, tracking methods, guidelines, policies, and benchmarks. Created an inventory control team to execute.
• Interact with suppliers, brokers, transporation agencies, and outside buying groups to develop procurement strategies.

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Responsibilities include P&Ls, purchasing, working with outside vendors, and production management.
• Maintain positive and productive relationships with the customer base through follow up and identifying needs based on historical data and trending.
• Collaborate with sales force to identify strategies, and sales opportunities to increase revenue. Interact directly with customers on a daily basis.
• Provide estimates and quotes to customers, while maintaining consistent follow up to ensure sale closures.
• Research and analyze market changes with the activities of competitors to ensure we are in line with the current market trends and make adjustments as needed.
• Ensured preventative maintenance measures were followed to manufacturer’s specifications in order to maintain optimum equipment performance and safety standards.

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Managed 7 Federal service contracts in custodial, grounds maintenance, warehousing, at the Defense Supply Center of Richmond.
• Ensured specifications of each contract was fulfilled to specifications.
• Evaluated the number of hours being utilized to operate within budget.
• Supervised and analyzed quality control processes according to industry standards.
• Developed improved quality control standards based on trends of deficiencies and analyze for process improvements.
• Ensured preventative maintenance measures were followed to manufacturer’s specifications in order to maintain optimum equipment performance and safety standards.

Bachelors, Criminal Justice

Aas, Administration Of Justice