Roger Baker, Mba Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Coordination, management and execution of all procurement activities. This includes procurement planning and forecasting development of bidder's lists, preparation of specifications, issuance of bidding documents, coordination of bid evaluations, contract negotiations, preparation of conformed contracts, administration of executed contracts, expediting of document submittals and delivery, and monitoring and reporting of procurement activities.

Kansas City, Missouri

Responsible for the purchase of all Merchandising sku's for 45,000 retail locations. Managed an annual spend of $50 million. Led a team of 7 buyers in the procurement of market support programs and product displays.Developed and implemented a vendor strategy that led to the reduction of buyers from 7 to 4. Negotiated vendor agreements that decreased cost, significantly reduced lead time and improved quality.Delivered year-over-year and market savings of $ 25 million over 2.5 years of leading the merchandising department.Implemented LEAN training with local business entity. Worked with LEAN Strategist to target areas to apply learnings. Vendor was able to significantly increase its volume of work without additional headcount. Lead time, cost and serviceability all improved dramatically.

Kansas City, Missouri

Responsible for the purchase of all Energy, Building Services, MRO, and Capital Equipment needs for all domestic and international facilities. Managed an annual spend ranging from $75 to $100 million. Led a team of 4 buyers. Significant changes and progress made in the areas of Energy and MRO.Managed and led the selection of an energy management firm to assist Hallmark and its wholly owned subsidiaries in the management of all energy needs. Developed and instituted Hallmark’s first Hedging Policy. Saved $1.7 million in first year.Completed 2010 energy budgets using vendors’ software for all domestic and international facilities. Prior to 2010 there was no one central database for capturing invoices, forecasted / actual energy usage, supplier agreements and other key information. Program yielded energy related annual savings over $5 million.Return of $6.50 for every $1 paid to energy management firm. Facilities utilized vendors’ software and experience to identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption including the evaluation of green energies; such as, solar and wind power.

Responsible for the purchase of all Waste Management, 3rd Party Logistics, Capital Equipment and Surplus Sales products and services for all domestic and international facilities. Managed an annual spend of $25 million. Led a team of 4 buyers.Increased revenue Hallmark UK received on the sale of waste paper from its printing, manufacturing and distribution centers by 29%.Negotiated and awarded all waste paper from domestic facilities to a single supplier. Negotiated a 3 year contract which included the replacement of dated equipment. Achieved a 30% increase in revenues in the first year of agreement.Managed the shutdown and outsourcing of several manufacturing processes from three Hallmark facilities to multiple vendors. Negotiated contracts and the sale of all existing equipment as part of agreement with vendors. Reduced cost by 15% and saved $1.2 million.Identified an alternate source for the recycling and redeployment of IT Devices. Vendor processed 166 tons of electronic devices in first full year of contract and sold devices on secondary market for $753,000. The vendor demanufactured 100% of the devices that had no secondary market value.

Kansas City, Missouri

Responsible for the strategic sourcing of all Capital Equipment purchases for all Hallmark facilities both domestic and abroad.Created a 2 day Capital Equipment Strategic Sourcing Training Program for all facilities both domestic and international. Course was mandatory for all Engineers, Production Management and local procurement professionals.Served as the lead negotiator for Hallmark’s UK subsidiary for the purchase of 2 new multi-million dollar 40" lithographic sheet fed presses. Worked closely w/ UK personnel to develop and execute a negotiation strategy that led a negotiated savings of 18%.Served as the lead negotiator for a highly customized sortation system for Liberty distribution center that was the first of its kind in the industry. Successfully negotiated the original quoted price of $28 to $18 million.

Mba In Management

Bs Industrial Engineering