Robert Simpson Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Regional Sales Manager for Canada for Wattstopper and Encelium Lighting Control Systems

Markham, Ontario, Canada

Specification Sales Manager for Encelium Lighting Controls at OSRAM Digital Systems

Toronto, Canada Area

- Primary Customer Interface - Customer relationship management - Worked with all functional groups (SCM, Ops, Engineering) to ensure customer committed deliveries met. - Worked with Sales and Business development to grow customer business.

- As part of the Cisco Global Customer Unit with revenue of over $700M, was the main point of contact in managing Celestica’s New England and Thailand manufacturing sites in developing global pricing strategies and leading the rollout of consistent Global processes between sites. - Led strategic negotiations with customer on all new quotes and quarterly re-pricing. - Worked transfers of products between Celestica sites

- Managed a number of accounts with revenues varying from $50M to $200MM. Was main customer advocate within Celestica and served as the primary focal point to set customer expectations and communicate customer requirements to the team. Accounts included Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Intel and Sun Microsystems. - Provided direction to the Technical, Supply Chain and Operational teams - Mentored Junior Program Managers

- Was responsible for developing processes within the Global Returns Management division and implementing them in conjunction with the Information Systems group. - Project Deployment Manager for a new Returns Management process and software system for Great Britain, Latin America and Asia. - Interfaced between the customer and the Information Systems department to drive problem resolution as well as lead process changes to completion.

- Led the Integration of new processes and the acquisition of factory automation equipment. - Interfaced with product design engineers to ensure products were designed for manufacturing and assembly. - Investigated new process techniques to improve and streamline circuit board manufacturing process and reduce non-value-added costs

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering