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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Woodinville, Wa

➤ Negotiating, executing, maintaining, and updating contracts for packaging suppliers and co-packaging partners.➤ Providing procurement leadership to ensure the most cost efficient and accurate processing of buying transactions.➤ Significantly contributing to successful bottling operations for over 8M cases of wine annually at 9 different locations.➤ Leading all activities related to expediting orders with suppliers, creating purchase orders, and monitoring inventory.➤ Communicating with stakeholders and identifying and solving problems for suppliers as well as internal departments.➤ Managing product launches for alternative packaging projects including kegs, cans, and bag in box applications.➤ Driving purchasing with the overall goal of minimizing the total cost of transactions without impacting service levels.➤ Engaging with marketing, operations, and creative to drive cross-functional alignment for bottling/packaging projects.➤ Managing all steps of the program lifecycle from product design to launch and retiring products when necessary.➤ Leading annual partnership meetings, reviewing KPIs, and value engineering new or existing packaging products.➤ Working with and supporting the leadership team and key stakeholders to provide procurement support and coverage.➤ Overseeing all packaging spend categories while ensuring competitive cost sourcing of quality goods or services.

Woodinville, Washington, United States

Issaquah And Seattle, Wa

➤ Managed entire purchase process from PO creation to finished product shipment while overseeing $25M in annual spend.➤ Supported marketing for new product launches and forecasted finished goods sales to determine future component needs.➤ Negotiated lead times and transportation with approximately 40 vendors and more than 700 SKUs at 2 separate facilities. ➤ Addressed all questions related to data, KPIs, and dashboards for supply chain operations and activities.➤ Analyzed industry trends, maintained an open bid process, and challenged suppliers to present cost savings strategies.➤ Successfully created detailed inventory reports to improve warehouse turns and reduce carrying costs.➤ Played a key role in achieving plant's cost per unit goal via negotiation of price, payment terms, and transportation.➤ Reconciled monthly inventory and successfully identified and solved root cause for invoice holds and open POs.

Issaquah, Washington, United States

Issaquah, Washington, United States

Issaquah, Washington, United States