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Middleton, Ma, Us

Middleton, Ma, Us

Wayne, Pa, Us

Munich, Bavaria, De

Manage indirect materials and services procurement team consisting of Strategic Commodity Managers and Tactical Buyers responsible for $260M annual spend.Notable accomplishments;• Achieved excess of 5% annual savings as measured against Year over Year annual spend (200% KPI).• Developed and managed distributed procurement team supporting seven regional facilities through off shore shared services.• Integrated procurement processes of five merged or acquired business entities including regional joint venture.• Developed and drove stakeholder engagement positioning procurement as trusted advisor to enterprise

Organized, controlled, and measured strategic procurement activities for indirect material and service commodities including; Industrial operations support, Marcom, Travel, Fleet, and Lighting Services. Developed and implemented purchasing projects as prescribed by process need.• Corporate T&E & P-card programs, supply base optimization, recommended supplier list management.• Fleet administration transition, travel program optimization, Shared service center migration.

Peabody, Ma, Us

Planned and developed scheduling required to meet on time product delivery.• Developed, controlled, and maintained material plans to meet committed production schedule.• Managed inventory levels to meet production requirements and inventory utilization targets. Buyer (contract position) Procured low volume, high mix fabrication, castings, molded components, machined parts and electrical components for the manufacture of high-end medical scanning equipment. • Managed balance of supply and cost for castings and machined parts during offshore startup and consolidation effort. Maintained required on hand balance to meet production while transferring 600 active line items to four offshore suppliers in three months as targeted.

Peabody, Ma, Us

Buyer (contract position) Procured low volume, high mix fabrication, castings, molded components, machined parts and electrical components for the manufacture of high-end medical scanning equipment. • Managed balance of supply and cost for castings and machined parts during offshore startup and consolidation effort. Maintained required on hand balance to meet production while transferring 600 active line items to four offshore suppliers in three months as targeted.• Managed full spectrum of supply chain issues for rapid startup of a previously discontinued product line. Delivered required materials for 300 discontinued line items within targeted 6 weeks. Many long lead time items required aggressive expedite, ECO cut in, and on hand material re-work.• Oversaw the development of Analogic’s first supplier rating system. Functional process definition and procedure delivered to management team on time.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed HP’s business relationships with 5 Asian suppliers. Managed service material contracts for ODM notebook and server products with a combined spend of 33M.• Developed contractual terms and conditions governing ODM global service supply to two outsourced third-party service providers. • Managed successful resolution of several multi-million-dollar financial disputes, including a 2-year, $13M warranty recovery issue and a 3-year, $8M complex, 3-way dispute with vendors. • Reduced ODM service material cost 6-11% for four consecutive years.• Selected as Subject Matter Expert for service logistics component of SAP 4.0 implementation. Developed functional business specifications for New Product Introduction. • Reduced quote process from 3 days to 15 minutes with technical help from IT. Designed the system to show trends, key performance indicators & profitability and to model various scenarios. This system is now widely used within HP.• Drove transition of global repair and direct delivery of service material requirements from ODM supplier base to 100% third party service providers.• Delivered 10-25% improvement to warranty recovery per year.• Developed Request for Quote and Financial analysis process for product warranty and service requirements of new products. This process provided well defined and manageable warranty cost allocations to total product cost, led to improved warranty recovery and decreased corporate services warranty expense by 40%. • Developed and implemented ODM defective core credit pricing process.

Houston, Texas, Us