In my current position I work directly with multiple Scrum teams to support, complex initiatives. I practice the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, accountability, and continuous improvement. I facilitates sprint demos, planning, and retrospectives. My goal is to track and communicate team velocity, along with the sprint/release progress. Providing status reporting on key performance indicators KPIs, schedule, resources and milestone delivery are day to day functions. The summary of my job responsibilities are as follows:• Works with limited supervision and is responsible for applying Agile Project Management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to deliverables, processes, and systems in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations • Develop and manage budget for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives• Work with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department• Evaluate, and overcome program risks for management and stakeholders• Outstanding working knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes• Managing vendor resource requests ensuring continuous solutioning at a high velocity.

The Advisor position plays a key role in engaging strategic partners, stakeholders and support providers to facilitate the creation and implementation of strategies in existing and new areas, while minimizing business inefficiencies. Position duties range from business data analysis, project management, data investigator, presentation creator and contract negotiation/ moderator. A sample of my day to day task were the following: • Assisting with strategic initiatives, including working in a cross functional team environment on multiple projects at a time • Lead a cross functional team while managing the entire sourcing and negotiation process through formal and informal Request for (RFQs), (RFPs) and ensuring adherence to policies or standards from awarded strategic partners• Partnering with product owners, stake holders and finance reps to develop strategies for quality driven improvements• Track and communicate the performance of existing initiatives and monitor the competitive landscape• Liaise with executive directors, legal and cross-functional team to prioritize, workflow and issue resolution for project impediments. • Identify and manage contract language exceptions.• Provide technical procurement expertise • Partner with legal to lead complex contract negotiations and ensure favorable commercial terms• Cast light on pricing structure, and robust ongoing service level agreements.• Standardize processes within the Express Sourcing and work with team members to develop SOP’s for their tasks.• Administer the largest e procurement sourcing event within the last 5 years. Processing MNDA’s, reviewing cleansing data sheets, and host weekly update meetings with LSA team, internal stakeholders, and event participants.

As Strategic Sourcing Agent I am responsible for strategies and negotiations on a defined set of projects that support current corporate and regional metrics including, but not limited to, profitability, cash flow, sales growth and risk reduction. Coordination, development, communication and implementation of commodity and negotiation strategies on a global basis. Drives key sourcing decisions on global supply base for new and concurrent projects , whether domestic, near shore or offshore. Responsible for communicating and managing changes in demand and/or material costs for raw materials by maintaining close communications with the supply base, sales, technology and manufacturing entities. Management of these changes includes expansion/contraction of supply base and insource/outsource of manufactured products.Active collaboration with international regional counterparts to make effective supply decisions, leverage global volumes and identification of global cost reduction opportunities.Identification and management of issues related to flow, turn, and economic order quantities, length of supply chain, storage requirements, and obsolescence.  Provide strategic direction, leadership, and oversight of clinical and commercial supply plannings.Develop, implement, and manage the supply chain for New product introductions to market.. Ability to operate both strategically and tactically—understands and communicates the big picture while willing to roll up sleeves to get work done Comfortable with ambiguity—able to work effectively in an evolving and dynamic environment, with experience developing structure and process to operate efficiently and effectivelyIdentifies and deploys best-practices as they relate to supply chain strategies and operations relevant to the market sector. This includes pulling together the various commodity segmentation strategies into one cohesive supply chain strategy supporting the relevant industry segment.

  Inventory planning and purchasing of established product lines Follow up on order's placed to ensure that goods or services have been received to satisfy customer's needs and expectations. Recognizing trends and developing strategies to meet supply requirements on limited information, ability to estimate capacity planning and inventory requirements for new products.  Coordination with 3PL , freight forwarder and international customs to verify smooth transportation process from procurement to receipt.  Purchase for Contractual Agreements and work with regions to evaluate risk and review alternatives. Responsible for MRP forecasting, planning, procurement, and expediting orders for production requirements Support inventory reduction by consistent analysis for production needs vs opportunity cost for inventory monthly accounting accruals, general ledger account reconciliations, and operational financial reporting. Works closely with quality/regulatory personnel to assure products purchased and records maintained are in compliance of national and international requirements (GMPs&ISO) as well as corporate quality systems regulations Coordinate international spends of 12 million annually. Motivating movements for international shipments through customs process and secure necessary raw goods in timely manner.  Manage and lead inventory cycles and adjustments and counts Interpreter of engineering drawings of component parts  Effectively build and manage vendor relationships and evaluate supplier performance metrics.  Responsible for new vendor account setup and management. Analyze (BOM) for yield, update bill of materials for cost changes or components, as applicable. Relentless root cause analyses, and ability to complete improvement projects in a matrix team environment on a global basis  Plans and controls inventory to support manufacturing o

 Responsible for MRP forecasting, planning, procurement, and expediting orders for production requirements Support month end close and other accounting analysis for production supply chain costs including monthly accounting accruals, general ledger account reconciliations, and operational financial reporting. Manage and lead inventory cycles and adjustments. Lead trainer for inventory-maintenance staff in the proper inventory receipt, charge out, and compliance policy to SOP. Generate and negotiate RFP to analyze price trends for operational efficiency. Effectively build and manage vendor relationships and evaluate supplier performance metrics.  Responsible for vendor setup, AP files, reconciling check book and credit cards. Work closely with auditors and shared service center to assure internal control compliance and financial reporting. Subject matter expert for ERP conversation to SAP

 Prepared cost accounting entries for non-inventory transactions and various miscellaneous expenses. Maintained and updated Sarbanes Oxley documentation for external auditors.  Reported payroll expense calculation from staff time sheets. Approved and processed accounts receivable and accounts payable invoices. Lead root cause investigations to determine inventory problems and documented findings for executive management review Perform weekly inventory cycle counts, retired inactive parts, and administered organizational parts transfers. Responsible for reviewing customer accounts and internal collection of delinquent accounts. Evaluated customer accounts and prepared analytical analysis to determine which should be closed and escalated to third party collection status. Created receiving reports for inventory shipments on the dock and office.  Processed troubleshooting orders and printing service tickets. Processed insurance certificate submissions for the mid-south market. Processed product returns to suppliers due to defective materials

 Responsible for revenue reporting for seven restaurants owned and managed by the company Calculated liquor tax filing for the states of Tennessee and Michigan. Reviewed and prepared daily financial reports such as P&L, unpaid accounts payables, and cost tracking. Authorized accounts payable transactions and check printing  Reviewed general ledger account reconciliation, credit card revenue reconciliation, vendor and employee file maintenance. Performed food inventory cycle counts, performed inventory adjustments, and reconciled inventory Worked closely with executive chef and special events coordinator to ensure food inventory is available for upcoming events. Weekly reporting to executive management for operational overview.