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Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Empowering human potential by enabling clinicians and providing cost effective, value driven outcome-based care product options. Routinely interact with C-level & supplier executives, negotiating and presenting innovative sourcing strategies and solutions that create sustainable, long-term return on investment. Highly effective communicator, who influences decisions and drives the value of strategic sourcing to internal clients across all lines of business.

Nashville Metropolitan Area

Lead and manage the direct spending and associated supply base for the Resource Optimization & Innovation’s (ROi) Regard® branded private label medical product & services portfolio. Responsible for the global sourcing of components and finished goods, risk management, sourcing systems, and analytics. Develop and manage the sourcing strategy and team and work in collaboration with organizational business units to implement sourcing strategies creating value and maximize efficiency & profitability.

Nashville Metropolitan Area

Responsible for global sourcing, negotiating and contract management for a $45 billion group purchasing organization (GPO). Develop and implement strategies for various categories including but not limited to; Finance & Treasury, Marketing, SaaS, and Purchased Services.

Nashville Metropolitan Area

Responsible for global sourcing, negotiations, contract & vendor management, for indirect spend categories supporting a 30,000+ member Group Purchasing Organization and $1B in annual purchases. Categories include travel, marketing, purchased services (pest control, courier services, patient fall monitoring), facilities support services, and MRO supplies.

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for global sourcing, procurement operations and inventory management of a $200 million spend, negotiations, contract & vendor management, logistics, and new product development for a multi-national consumer products company (CPG). Categories include EPA/FDA regulated active ingredient chemicals, bulk chemicals, food products & commodities, durable hard goods, packaging, 3PL service providers and indirect cost & MRO supplies.

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for global sourcing of $300 million spend, negotiations, contract & vendor management, assist with logistics, and new product development for a multi-national consumer products company. Categories include EPA/FDA regulated active ingredient chemicals, bulk inert chemicals, food products, packaging, retail displays, 3PL service providers and indirect cost MRO supplies.

St. Louis, Mo

Responsible for sourcing, procurement, logistics, and production planning for an international manufacturer of medical devices. Developed & facilitated supply chain strategy meeting company's manufacturing, service, quality, production, & financial objectives. • Directed sourcing and procurement of $45M annual spend• Implemented logistics plan & negotiated carrier and 3PL contracts resulting in 15% reduction in overall freight/warehousing expense• Re-sourced key raw materials and renegotiate existing supplier contracts, increasing supply chain reliability and reducing COGS by more than $250,000 within first six months of employment• Designed & employed production planning tool allowing planners to achieve 98% production efficiency up from 89% and absorb 100% of overhead with one production line• Introduced 5S strategy to work order release and RM pick process decreasing line set-up and down time by 25%• Execute stocking & order management strategy leading to a four day reduction in time to pick/ship open orders and increase first time fill rates by more than 10% also reducing held inventory by more than 20% ($1.75M)

Saint Charles Mo

Manage, train, and develop nine person team responsible for product procurement and administration of complex distribution supply chain. Direct daily function and strategic direction of Purchasing Agents maximizing customer fill rates, turns, & company cash flow. ~ Analyze and facilitate annual spend in excess of $520 million. ~ Reorganized departmental structure to better fit company business model and developed SOP’s and training procedures improving employee understanding of the supply chain and providing consistent job results.~ Successfully achieve and maintain 12+ inventory turns while meeting 97% line item order fill rate. ~ Direct cross functional teams between departments that allows company to maintain a 6% increase in cash flow & reduction in working capital needs and still exceed vendors’ expected ADP. ~ Assist with design and implementation of new ERP software system creating new process capabilities & efficiencies resulting in 10% reduction in overall cost to do. ~ Execute purchasing strategies that maximize vendor contracts resulting in $13 million plus in rebates and discount purchases annually. ~ Develop & direct supplier diversity and vendor compliance programs.

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for operational management of Purchasing and Warehouse departments for regional wholesaler of industrial equipment, gasses, chemicals and IT & MRO supplies. Project manager for product development team. Sourcing and procurement for $35M annual spend.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Daily execution of buy plan and inventory management.

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for medical supervision of reservists. Dispensed meds, maintained health records, trained personnel in emergency medicine, managed medical supply inventory.

Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma

Bachelor Of Arts, Marketing

Bachelor Of Arts, Business Administration

Certificate Of Industrial Distribution, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management, 4.0

Certificate of completion for extensive 2 week course on manufacturing and industrial distribution