• Manage all direct and indirect spend for NeoGraf Solutions manufacturing facilities including off-shore contract manufacturers. • Lead team to establish a new contract manufacturing partner in China allowing NeoGraf to improve service & lead time to key customers in growing strategic market segment. • Integrated a new indirect procurement and expense system, Coupa, into legacy ERP system helping to modernize the procure-to-pay process and giving functional budget owners real time and actionable spend visibility.• Executed multi-year consignment supply contract with strategic supplier to ensure our supply and cost position and to preserve cash flow. • Lead evaluation and qualification efforts for new suppliers and manufacturing partners. Extensive travel to Asia to visit suppliers and customers to negotiate specifications, price and volume allowing NeoGraf to expand product portfolio in growing market segment. • Established a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process & cadence to provide the business with visibility to forecasted customer demand to ensure adequate material & labor availability and production readiness.

• Led an international team that grew revenue exponentially at a targeted strategic customer. Met or exceeded annual budget targets.• Established and managed a contract manufacturing partner in China to service local APAC customers. Traveled to China as-needed. • Served as a single point of contact for high profile consumer electronics customer.

• Led continuous improvement efforts at two growing GrafTech manufacturing facilities with direct responsibility to develop and execute on company KPI's. • Developed and delivered lean training materials including value stream mapping, cell design, kanban, policy deployment, pokayoke, 5S, and quick changeover (SMED). • Supported yield projects & Kaizen events that resulted in exceeding annual continuous improvement savings targets seven months into the year. • Managed a team of three direct reports• Led a sucessful Kaizen event that developed and executed a business strategy to grow relationships and earn business at targeted strategic consumer electronic customer.

• Led and developed purchasing professionals in newly created centralized procurement team at four GrafTech manufacturing facilities with direct responsibility of all direct and indirect plant spend. • Developed and executed corporate cost savings initiatives including regional and global supply consolidation efforts. • Led the planning of and executed the long-term raw material strategy for Engineered Solutions business division to ensure GrafTech remains the leader in the carbon and graphite industry.

• Managed the sourcing for all raw materials for the four manufacturing facilities of the Engineered Solutions business division. • Served as procurement integration leader for the GrafTech acquisitions of Seadrift Coke and C/G Electrodes ($692MM, Nov. 2010), Micron Research ( $6.5MM, Apr '11) and Fiber Materials Inc.($14MM, Oct. '11) to ensure Sarbanes Oxley and internal compliance systems were established and synergy goals were met while maintaining current Purchasing Manger duties.• Actively participated in the annual business plan and forecasting process.

• Led procurement functions of GrafTech Lakewood, Ohio plant and Parma, OH Corporate HQ site.• Managed two buyers, one direct report, one dotted line. • Coordinated and led indirect corporate procurement initiatives with 13 GrafTech facilities worldwide. • Served a strategic procurement role, including business plan & sourcing strategy development and execution.• Led multiple Lean Kaizen events including an Energy Kaizen event recognized as one of the top three events in the corporation for 2009 for its effective use of Lean tools, methodology, savings, and transfer of knowledge.

• Managed $60 million adhesive, chemical and finished goods buy for MACtac.• Responsible for executing Sourcing strategy to stabilize price, ensure supply, and improve quality to the greatest extent possible via dual-sourcing and strategic partnerships.• Coordinated efforts of Research & Development, Marketing, Six Sigma, and suppliers to execute new product introduction (NPI) projects, cost-out efforts and new market development opportunities.• Responsible for all sourcing and supply chain activity related to newly launched Retail business unit, Morgan Home Products.• Member of the MACtac environmental 'Green Team' assembled to act on customer requests to source and manufacture environmentally friendly products.

• Responsible for the management, development, evaluation, and coordination of sourcing management, supplier / commodity strategies, business systems, performance measures and goals for the three MACtac manufacturing facilities.• Designed and implemented a new raw material planning model that allowed short term production demand to be independent of the raw material planning process for the $190MM raw material spend.• Resolved raw material delivery and supplier performance issues by working with plant buyers, suppliers, and production scheduling to ensure customer requirements were fulfilled.

• Prepared product price quotes for MACtac Roll Label division to maximize profit within competitive and regulatory limitations.• Supported marketing and sales force in developing new business opportunities related to volume, new products, and customer relationship building.• Performed market updates on competition, account base, pricing and product trends.• Continually interacted with sales and customer service to ensure an efficient customer quote to cash process. • Participated in customer contract and supply negotiations, general and product specific price increases, and system pricing and record maintenance.

• Managed and developed the $60 million dollar corrugated buy for GE Consumer & Industrial (GE Lighting, Appliances, Supply, and Industrial Systems).• Responsible for negotiating material cost-out and payment terms.• Led the negotiation and maintenance of new and existing contacts.• Facilitated communication between suppliers, engineers, and material managers to ensure timely and cost-effective completion of projects.

Contract employee working for General Electric Consumer & Industrial - Lighting and Appliances• Managed a staff of five direct reports responsible for providing procure-to-pay support for a $1.2 billion global buy.• Designed training materials, led group training sessions for system users as well as sourcing and finance management to support the corporate Oracle ERP implementation. • Created and commercialized system and process documentation and trained GE employees and suppliers on purchasing and accounts payable applications.• Managed $25 million purchasing card program for GE Consumer Products - Lighting.• Streamlined and digitized accounts payable processes making existing practices more efficient and effective.• Participated and supported accounts payable and procurement integration of GE Lighting and Appliances.