Michael Cloud Email & Phone Number

Red Bank, New Jersey, United States

Maintained purchase orders for supply of fabric covers for foam goods manufacturing operations in the United States and Mexico. • Created, monitored, and maintained purchase orders in SAP for fabric covers for mattresses, mattress toppers, pillows, and furniture• Collaborated with Sales, Planning, Logistics, and Site Operations to ensure necessary supply of materials to meet customer finished goods demands• Collaborated with Product Development and vendors on new materials and programs• Acted as liaison between internal partners and vendors for vendor technical assistance, complaints/defects, material availability and lead time, expediting, and demand/forecast shifts• Monitored and expedited international and domestic shipments by all modes as needed• Partnered to revive and revise vendor scorecards and business review meetings• Reconciled all invoice discrepancies in the Kofax module in SAP• Streamlined and created work instructions for several purchasing processes and reports• Created all purchasing reports for department and company management• Maintained purchasing master data update requests

Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States

Purchaser for direct and indirect materials for molded rubber component manufacturing operations.• Planned and purchased supply of all raw materials, indirect supplies and packaging components, including expediting and open order management • Collaborated with Planning, Global Procurement, QA and QC to ensure supply of compliant materials• Coordinated domestic and international logistics for incoming materials• Partnered with Global Procurement and Logistics teams for strategic sourcing and cost-saving initiatives to leverage spend across sites and ensure adequate, timely supply of materials• Acted as the liaison between the site and vendors for material complaints/defects, changes, new material introduction and vendor technical assistance• Managed supply of reusable gowning• Managed inventory, cycle counts and warehouse organization• Partnered with Finance for resolution of invoicing issues• Acted as the Purchasing representative for all site and above-site projects

Philadelphia, Pa

Served as buyer for all direct and indirect materials and services for the AZ influenza vaccine manufacturing site in Philadelphia and formerly AZ R&D and Operations sites Gaithersburg, MD and Frederick, MD.• Planned supply of critical raw materials, device components and printed packaging components • Acted as the Procurement representative for all site and above-site projects• Collaborative work with Planning, Strategic Sourcing, QA and QC to ensure supply of compliant materials• Partnered with Regional and Global procurement teams for strategic sourcing and cost-saving initiatives and to leverage spend across sites• Partnered with vendors to bring value and continuous improvement opportunities to the organization• Led site cost savings initiatives to meet or exceed savings/avoidance targets every year• Developed and implemented vendor management KPIs. Worked with vendors to agree upon targets and drive year over year improvements• Acted as superuser for SAP and iBuy (Ariba) systems on ongoing basis and for upgrade projects• Served as primary contact for issues and questions relating to purchasing orders and invoices from both internal stakeholders and vendors• Procured materials for government contracts according to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)• Received several performance awards and bonuses every year• Served as member of Community Impact Committee (Volunteering/Charitable giving; Chair), Health and Wellness Committee and Green Team (Environmental Sustainability)

College Park, Md

Lab Manager, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program in the Biology Department.• Primary research project involved using chromatin immunoprecipitation to determine late-response gene targets of the immediate-early gene transcription factor Egr1 induced by visual experience in mice• Assisted in several other projects using a wide variety of molecular biology techniques and equipment• Trained new lab members including post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate research assistants• Ordered all supplies for lab and maintained inventory, purchasing and budget records

Hershey, Pa

• Conducted research investigating the role of polyamine synthesis pathways in breast cancer and the effects of difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) as an inhibitor of tumor cell growth and metastasis• Studies using in vivo and in vitro molecular biology techniques

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology

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