Vince Devlin Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

During his time with Kronos, Vince developed a best in class global procurement organization that over a 10 year period completed +1,600 sourcing events which generated $89M in cost takeout with an average cost savings of 13% per event. The team also drove extensive business process improvements across the organization through policy & procedural.

• Selected to provide leadership in this newly created position to build a global procurement function including staffing, systems, policies and procedures. Reported directly to the Chief Financial Officer of Global.
• Triggered nearly $27 million in savings over a period of 2 years by establishing a global opportunity assessment and RFP roadmap process.
• Executed the large-scale deployment of e-sourcing tools throughout North America and Europe; oversaw the design and implementation of diverse modules for spend and contract management among other areas
• Facilitated SOX compliance across all spend categories, reduced suppliers by 20% and triggered $500,000 in annualized savings in 1 year after implementing Oracle iProcurement; trained over 500 users in 18 months.
• Named “Top Performer” by the CFO of Global Operations in 2005 and 2006; this recognition is reserved for the top 10% - 20% of all employees.

• Responsible for directing the transformation of the organization's supply chain operation by leveraging the overall corporate purchasing power to contain cost and enhance supply strategies. Developed processes to.
• Cut costs in regards to materials and logistics by over $30 million in 3 years via the development and implementation of category intelligence and supplier segmentation and rationalization tools.
• Enhanced overall material service levels while reducing inventory by $5 million, which equates to 20% over 3 years.
• Minimized obsolesce by 30% and triggered revenue growth of $7 million over 2 years by structuring a seasonal forecast and production planning model for the Christmas Greeting Cards and Retail product.
• Generated an expansion of 300%, grew sales by $12 million and saved $300,000 in internal expenses by centralizing product outsourcing with an integrated ASP solution.

• Recruited to build infrastructure and supply chain model for regional distributor's expansion plans.Recruited to build infrastructure and supply chain model for regional distributor's expansion plans. Implemented.
• Refurbished and scaled the purchasing department to support and facilitate the growth needs of the business.
• Introduced strategic RFP processes that produced cost reductions of $3.5 million and enabled the company to secure a competitive advantage in the commodity business.
• Accelerated custom quote cycles, cut inventories by 20% and enhanced service levels from 94% to 97%.
• Conceived regional sourcing strategies and led efforts to facilitate the nationwide expansion of operations; reallocated $15 million (50% of annual expenditures) to new suppliers, which delivered significant cost.

Manager of Procurement & Vendor Alliances, '95-'97 – Oversaw 31 staff and $4 billion inventories in 9 distribution centers.Direct Import Manager, '93-'95 – As founder of this group, designed and built a process to exploit untapped profit opportunitiesDivisional Merchandise Manager, '89-'93 – Oversaw 6 buyers and $450 million of retail sales volume in.