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Woodbridge Township, Nj, Us

Woodbridge Township, Nj, Us

Amsterdam, Amstelplein, Nl

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

• Lead RFI, RFP and carrier negotiations to reduce total company transportation spend by 15% ($835K)• Conducted data analysis on carrier data in order to create a lane profile to support capacity fluctuations within North American supply chain.• Collected business requirements from stakeholders and inputs from carriers (i.e. temp excursions) to create a “what-if” model to reduce cold chain freight spend. • Created alternative distribution models through lane analysis to identify high spend lanes, bid out for favorable pricing and reduce overall freight spend.• Managed communication with freight vendors to ensure timely and accurate billing.• Procure domestic carriers from vendor pool to accommodate daily/weekly capacity fluctuations based on site and temperature requirements.• Manage end-to-end supply chain contract lifecycle. This entails authoring procurement contracts, confidentiality agreements, and scope of work documents; obtaining legal and stakeholder approval to facilitate contract execution.

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

• Managed air and ocean rate refresh project to identify lanes with top spend. Achieved project deliverable of obtaining favorable rates from logistics service providers (LSPs) by leveraging volume projections; whereby reducing freight spend by 18%. • Oversaw global categories for transportation procurement, including ground transportation, trucking, small parcel, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and temp control shipments. • Analyzed transportation air and ocean quote requests from global leads to generate appropriate quotes from rate book based on origin/destination pairs, routing requirements, lane responsibility and equipment type.• Owned global and regional rate books. This consisted of maintaining accuracy of rate books by updating new lanes, ad-hoc lanes, and rate updates. • Responsible for communicating rate book changes and updates to relevant stakeholders within the global procurement teams.• Conducted analysis on data provided by manufacturing sites for air and ocean lanes with service failures. This analysis was presented to global leads and LSPs and used to revise routing and transit points to meet service levels.

Edison, New Jersey, Us

• Managed supply chain team consisting of logistics, workflow, and warehouse coordinators. • Monitored stock and direct import (DI) shipments into 3PL distribution centers to ensure timely arrival and delivery, while communicating key shipment stock status to regional sales managers and customer service team• Planned and scheduled quarterly production of repackaged goods including streamlining delivery workflow, projected three months ahead, whereby increasing output by 30%• Prepared, analyzed, and distributed weekly, monthly billing projections for DI container shipments for upper management review.• Recognized by ownership for exceeding projected monthly revenue by 15% through timely invoicing of Direct to Customer (DTC) shipments.• Established departmental KPI’s for 3PL warehouses, including reducing container receiving time from five days to 48 hours.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

• Executed plan to implement sustainable due diligence process with logistics intermediaries. • Managed multi-regional compliance teams to ensure timely completion of Due Diligence and Midterm Certification of international logistics intermediaries and drive accountability through evaluation of monthly and quarterly KPI’s.• Summarized reports for sector and cross-sector management, maintain central database of metrics and report monthly progress to global management teams• Spearheaded process improvements to manual due diligence approval process and piloted software in North America reducing time required for due diligence completion from 6 months to 2 months. • Submitted RFI’s to fourteen logistics intermediaries and conducted analysis of 60 countries to support annual submission of Fair Market Value assessment required by Healthcare Business Integrity process

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

• Managed eCommerce RFI responses from 17 Third Party intermediaries for Procurement Manager and analyzed responses and scoring metrics to narrow down and advance 7 providers to RFP round.• Interacted with cross functional teams including eCommerce, Procurement, Transportation, Quality, and IT to draft RFP guidelines document and questionnaire to be submitted to RFP finalists outlining specific capabilities.

Secaucus, New Jersey, Us

• Provided weekly, monthly, and quarterly cost reporting and analytics to Management, Operations, and supply chain teams• Analyzed and interpreted logistics data as it relates to supply chain management, strategic sourcing and transportation costs• Planned transportation resources based on weekly, monthly, annually forecasts and made changes in real time to meet sourcing, production, and delivery capabilities • Managed delivery dates, time-based order completion, carrier availability, and distribution center acceptance • Conferred with logistics management teams to optimize service levels, maintain supply-chain efficiency, and minimize costs • Implemented freight consolidation program resulting in 20% reduction in transportation costs through supply chain efficiency and load maximization

Hoboken, Nj, Us

• Responsible for coordination of inbound, outbound shipments to and from US distribution center. • Efficiently performed daily accounts payable duties including vendor setup and payment, voucher discrepancies, and general ledger adjustments. • Acted as liaison between customer service, warehouse, and sales teams to ensure product was available to ship prior to ship date and met the required ETA once shipped.• Forecasted of inventory, and variance reporting of actual versus forecast, and reconciliations.• Performed detailed analysis of ship methods used by the customer service department and identified optimal ship methods to reduce shipping costs by 8% annually. • Reviewed freight invoices to ensure accurate application of freight incentives.

Kowloon, Hk

• Successfully negotiated with freight carriers to obtain competitive rates for company; saving 10-15% off published charges. • Proactively traced Air Ocean shipments from origin to destination and effectively communicated any delays to sales and operational teams. • Performed analysis of Air/Ocean costs provided by operations department, and provided shipping quotes while maintaining margins set by import manager. • Pursued leads provided by overseas offices, and established relationships with new customers.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

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Master Of Business Administration - Mba, International Business

Bachelor Of Science, Business Economics