Global Supply Chain + Transportation + Logistics Sr Director with a legacy of streamlining supply-side activities, maximizing customer value, and gaining a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Leverage more than two decades of operations management expertise, achieving cost, quality, and service goals through the implementation of innovative business strategies and ability to help organizations respond to changing market conditions. My leadership strength at its core is in my progressive and creative thinking, winning expectations, creating partnerships inside and outside of the workplace, knowing that no one does it alone. My winning strategy is reading the room, listening to what is being said, and not being said, paying attention to the tone of voice and body language, picking out what is most important to the speaker, and making this my priority. What sets me apart from others in my field is being honest with myself, peers, carriers, and vendors maintaining my integrity, and finding a path to exceed customer expectations, creating a win-win solution for the company and its customers.PROFESSIONAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:►Steadily tapped for increasingly challenging leadership roles requiring deep-level industry expertise and rock-solid understanding of transportation and logistics. Known for delivering workable solutions and producing high-impact results, writing protocols and SOPs for third-party warehouses across the USA, traveling for live audits, carrier interviews, and service and supply chain ratings.► Optimized transportation spend steering negotiations for carrier sourcing of TL/TL freight and accessorial costs and reducing annual spend up to 14% in the first two years. ►Increased LTL negotiated discounts by 2% per shipment, converting business needs to solutions and generating an additional 3% category spend savings.►Lifted standings from top 30% to #1, improving rank in Consumer Product Group category within national shipper consortium for two consecutive reporting periods and elevating overall standings from #41 to #2.EXPERTISE: Freight Negotiations & Logistics | Nationwide Carrier Sourcing | Dedicated Fleet Optimization | Strategic Planning | Best in Industry Protocols | Strategic Sourcing-Single Source/ Backhaul/ Mileage Grouping | Inventory & Vendor Management | Import & Export Compliance | KPI Review & Enhancements | Inter-Departmental Cross-Functional Facilitator | Continuous Improvement | Shipper & Carrier Service Providers-Subject Matter Expert | Union & CBA Compliance | Transportation | Spend Cost Reductions