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Wichita, Ks, Us

Wichita, Ks, Us

Lead a team who is responsible for ensuring the competitive position of various direct and indirect inputs across multiple operating assets. These inputs encompass industrial chemicals for crude oil processing, asphalt and water-treatment programs, catalyst systems, industrial gases, and fuel additives.

Wichita, Ks, Us

Responsible for ensuring the competitive position of various direct and indirect manufacturing inputs across multiple operating assets. Inputs include: process chemicals, water-treatment chemical programs, catalyst systems and fuel additives. Continuously work to improve procurement processes to ensure reliable asset operation and optimization. Facilitate discussion and decisions with business to optimize sourcing needs. Perform market analysis and discovery via research and routine RFI, RFQ, RFP (Requests for Information, Quote, Proposal respectively). Responsible for contractual origination to mitigate business risk and improve commercial acquisition cost. Work to aggregate routine process inputs across all companies to enhance purchasing position. Identify, initiate and facilitate waste elimination efforts. Conduct ongoing supplier feedback and relationship management to ensure we are the preferred partner of our suppliers.

Wichita, Ks, Us

Responsible for managing the competitive postion on indirect commodity chemicals and industrial gas needs across all company’s processing plants. Includes: 2 refineries, 8 biofuel plants, 4 chemical plants and subsequent product distribution network. Responsible for managing competitive position for various direct chemical process additives for polypropylene and asphalt products via market evaluations, supplier audits, dynamic contracting etc. Develop relationships with key stakeholders to better understand sourcing requirements and end customer needs. Assist technical teams to continuously conduct market analysis and risk assessment of chemical additive requirements. Work to enhance the value of relationships with strategic suppliers. Manage emergency sourcing situations from supplier outages, shutdowns or runouts to ensure operations are sustained.

Wichita, Ks, Us

Assist in developing strategies to categorically manage and source MRO (maintenance, repair, operations) needs for eight (8) biofuel processing plants. Correlate the value those strategies added to the business and align key stakeholders. Coordinate with external EPC firm (engineer, procurement and construction) in the build out and startup of company’s first biodiesel processing facility. Expedite critical equipment for project to meet startup timeline objectives. Manage various category evaluations via sourcing events. Continuously search for opportunities to eliminate waste, better optimize and improve our competitive position for MRO and other engineered equipment requirements.

Wichita, Ks, Us

Member of team tasked to form centralized purchasing and transacting capability. Develop detailed work process map to enable transformation from a decentralized model to an optimized capability for transaction and order fulfillment for exception management. Develop tools in MS Access and MS Excel to facilitate transition to centralized capability. Daily management of operations requisitions for maintaining processing capabilities.

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Collaborate with Plumbing and HVAC/R wholesale distributors, contractors and OEM’s throughout region to grow and maintain a depth of products for new construction, remodeling and every day consumer use. Perform daily sales calls to regular and prospective customers to explain current and new product advantages while negotiating pricing. Accountable for qualifying hundreds of customers while protecting the integrity of multiple brands. Analyze and forecast customer volume usage by product to determine strategic inventory levels for supporting new customer business acquisitions. Implement several sales promotions to help grow new product sales and increase overall growth. Proactively communicate to customers vast price changes due to commodity swings to provide important price information for pending sales.

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Alternated through various divisions within the company; worked closely with department heads on multiple management projects. Rotated through manufacturing, research and development, sourcing, marketing, accounts payable, internal audit, supply chain management, customer service and various sales divisions. Consulted with management in each division regarding process and procedures. Drafted written summaries and analysis of problems within each division and made strategic recommendations.