Todd Kinzer Cpsm Email & Phone Number

I am a GLOBAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL with a keen focus on driving market viability and revenue growth. I consistently cut costs and improve quality through continuous process improvement. For the last 12 years, I have led global sourcing and supply chain for a quilting machine manufacturer that has seen 525% revenue growth and expansion from 30 mostly domestic suppliers to 300+ suppliers, 90% international. My accomplishments during this time include—• Realizing cost savings every year, even with major expansion of suppliers and products, through aggressive global and domestic sourcing. Recognized in 2010 with the Employee of the Year award for $250K in cost savings in 2009.• Managing relationships with cadre of 250 global suppliers, maintaining continual communication to ensure top quality standards while maintaining 85% supplier retention rate.• Prospecting and negotiating 215 new global suppliers.• Developing relationships with partner suppliers to reduce costs over buying on open vendor market.• Facilitating bringing hundreds of new products to market in collaboration with Engineering, Marketing, and Production teams to ensure quality and specification control and to enable early supplier collaboration.• Sourcing new China-based supplier for pivotal project in 2014 and spearheaded early supplier development, including co-engineering efforts, plant visits, and collaboration with factory managers; when volatile project saw severe drop in sales, successfully transitioned supplier’s offerings to other projects. KEY SKILLS:Supply Management | Global Sourcing | Continuous Quality | Cost Control | Quality Improvement | Inventory Control | Logistical Planning | Global Procurement | Regulatory Compliance | Planning & Forecasting | PCBA Components | Transportation Coordination | Product Development

Listed skills include Supply Chain Management, Management, Supply Chain, Process Improvement, and 46 others.

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  Purchasing Team Manager

  Firefly Automatix, Inc.

  Nov 2016 - Present - North Salt Lake, Utah