The Director of Strategic Sourcing and Subcontracts is a key executive responsible for orchestrating and overseeing multi site strategic procurement, sourcing, and subcontracting initiatives within the organization. This role entails leading a team to strategically manage supplier relationships, negotiate contracts, and drive cost-effective solutions while ensuring the highest standards of quality and compliance.

The Senior Manager in Supply Chain Management plays a pivotal role in overseeing and optimizing the end-to-end supply chain operations of an organization. This leadership position involves managing a team, developing strategies, and driving continuous improvements to ensure efficient procurement, production, logistics, and distribution processes.

• Developed proactive approach to seamlessly integrate organizational core competencies for increased efficiency • Co-leading initiative to increase material availability to the production like by 20% in three years. Project has increased material availability by 6% in first 6months• Enhanced risk management process by creating a proactive push system utilizing risk profiles based on system thinking principles to mitigate risk and reduce out of station work • Experienced coordinating effectively with team members, internal and external customers and senior leadership• Experience global supply chain design and strategy implementation• Facilitating implementation of project management infrastructure for Aeronautics by providing a web based repository where users can view/understand fundamentals of project management and resources for successful project execution

• Managed software implementation project to improve material availability & increase supplier experience though advanced demand and inventory visibility. Integrated over 150 suppliers with 7000 parts.• Identified process improvement to reduce contract creation cycle time by ~83%, reduced inventory carrying cost. Project achieved a reduction in cycle time of 76% and 99.5% material availability. • Crafted a supplier performance rating utilizing aggregated data to measure supplier ability to maintain inventory levels. • Created metrics and measures to determine process health; collaborated with buyers & suppliers to optimize results. • Nominated as a change leader to bring awareness of a new organization through communicate and engagement.

• Managed a team of six buyers• Negotiated $1.25M savings on a three year financial wellness service• Refined existing operational process resulting in savings of ~$15M pre-tax profit dollars• Re-engineered tax accrual software to prevent double paying tax to both the supplier and state • Managed complex project teams interfacing with senior level executives within the procurement policies/procedures to contract services in excess of $25M

• Lead to reduce the number of discrepant invoices which resulted in a cost avoidance of ~$3M• Managed project teams to successfully execute several contracts for various corporate initiatives • Facilitated training to top level LM Corporate Executives on procurement software tools creating a more self sustaining process with less touch points• Selected to attend an Early Career Leadership Fundamentals course

• Responsible for daily management and placement of 20-50 mechanical/electrical commodities and indirect purchase orders • Developed strategic sourcing plans by identifying preferred suppliers to maintain seamless supply chain operations • Promoted operational efficiency by identifying process improvements resulting in new organizational procedures • Increased utilization of manual order processing resulting in an optimized set of organizational agreements • Change agent for new ERP system transition resulting in reduced end user learning curve to achieve pre go-live productivity metrics and performance. Identified by senior leadership to management for facilitating P2P Wave 3 AP training for 50+ end users • Identified pretax financial savings through calculations identifying in excess of $3M • Conducted Reverse Auctions for Cleaning Services/Snow Removal resulting in $1.5M in savings • Created a step process sheet to teach other buyers how to track the amount/type of discrepant invoices by manager• Developed new process for records retention creating a standard process for all MS2 sites to follow • Coordinated the transportation of a oversized company asset from FL to NJ in a three day timespan