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• Spearhead procurement strategies and manage supplier relationships.• Identify cost-saving opportunities, resulting in 15% reduction in procurement expenses.• Utilize data analysis to forecast demand and optimize inventory levels.• Execute end to end procurement processes, from sourcing to executing purchase orders.• Ensure data accuracy and efficiency, conducting comprehensive analyses.• Manage vendor compliance, executed purchase orders, conduct supplier meetings to review supplier KPI’s.• Attain targeted profit margins.• Maintain product costing and pricing and ensure accurate purchase orders.• Set SRC for sales based on current market pricing.• Strategically source items based on similarity and product performance.• Negotiate quantities ordered based upon customer orders, economic order point all while optimizing efficient utilization of warehouse spacing.• Complete special projects as needed.• Communicate supplier invoice discrepancies and work with supplier and accounts payable to close invoice issues and resolve issues to ensure timely payment.• Prepare and analyze stock status reports.

• Streamline procurement process, resulting in a 20% reduction in stockouts.• Conduct regular supplier evaluations and implemented improvements in supplier performance.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless supply chain operations.• Validate pricing and work with vendors and accounts payable to resolve errors in partial or duplicate shipments, price discrepancies, substitutions, and case counts on the PO.• Maximize all procurement aspects of supply chain management, including but not limited to customer promotions, market trends assessment, pricing analysis, product availability and expediting.• Strong analytical skills to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.• Conduct new employee training.• Adhere to contract terms and conditions per supplier agreements.• Identify price cost variances to regulate price optimization standards.• Supervise product transitions of new product launches and current product conversions.• Ascertain root cause and make quick corrective actions with suppliers on late deliveries, shipping errors, and service performance.• Maintained strong relationships with key suppliers, ensuring consistent product quality and on-time delivery.• Maintain an average fill rate of 98.6% year over year.• Reduce aged inventory by an average of 18% per year.• Optimize replenishment turns through balancing of demand and supplier MOQ’s.• Streamline reports to reconcile and resolve POs on the open PO report.• Create and disseminate individual team-based scorecard that included all aspects we are responsible for, such as fill rate, days on hand, aged inventory, and AP matches.• Experience in Clarity Blueridge, Dot Foods, Dev400/Gemini, Jira and PowerBi systems.

Centennial, Co

• Validate pricing and work with vendors and accounts payable to resolve errors in partial or duplicate shipments, price discrepancies, substitutions and case counts on the PO.• Maximize all procurement aspects of supply chain management, including but not limited to customer promotions, market trends assessment, pricing analysis, product availability and expediting.• Strong analytical skills to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.• Conduct new employee training.• Adhere to contract terms and conditions per supplier agreements.• Identify price cost variances to regulate price optimization standards.• Supervise product transitions of new product launches and current product conversions.• Ascertain root cause and make quick corrective actions with suppliers on late deliveries, shipping errors, and service performance.• Collaborate with sales to examine market conditions, forecast demand, delivery schedules and product information. • Oversee and facilitate the processing of purchase orders and transmitting to vendors for processing.• Maintain an average fill rate of 98.6% year over year• Reduce aged inventory by an average of 18% per year.• Optimize replenishment turns through balancing of demand and supplier MOQ’s.• Streamline reports to reconcile and resolve PO’s on the open PO report.• Create and disseminate individual team-based scorecard that included all aspects we are responsible for, such as fill rate, days on hand, aged inventory and AP matches.• Experience in Clarity Blueridge, Dot Foods, Dev400/Gemini, Jira and PowerBi systems.

Aurora, Colorado

• Oversaw and executed purchase orders for 18 warehouses nationwide for over 10 vendors and thousands of various items.• Conducted supplier meetings to investigate supplier fill rates issues and new products.• Profound ability to identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets by utilizing statistical techniques.• Conduct forecast modeling and distribution management of item demand.• Decreased aged inventory by 58% from 2015-2016.• Foster strong relationships internal and external through concise and detailed communication.• Identify areas of stock management surplus, potential out of sticks, and aged inventory.• Collaborate with accounts payable to resolve pricing discrepancies.• Facilitate transportation of frozen foods, all while ensuring the integrity of shelf life and freight consolidation.• Maintain adequate in-stock inventory levels, ensuring that inventory is consistently rotated to maintain sales and minimize shrink.• Created a new template for monitoring start to completion of return to vendors and shared with co-workers to help increase productivity.• Worked in Manhattan IO, E3 and WBS systems.

Bachelor Of Arts Communications, Media Studies

Activities and Societies: SDSU Advertising Club

Education record

Activities and Societies: International Club, Announcing Club, Multicultural Club, Varsity Golf Team,