Parsippany, New Jersey, United States
As Associate Director of Clinical Supplies at Teva Pharmaceuticals, over 10 years of professional experience have been channeled into optimizing logistics and supply chain operations. Expertise lies in managing service-level agreements (SLAs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and leading strategic initiatives to enhance clinical supply processes. Collaborating with cross-functional teams has enabled the development of innovative solutions, ensuring timely and efficient delivery of clinical materials. Supported by a strong foundation in procurement, project management, and customer operations, the organization's goals have been advanced through data-driven decision-making and relationship-building with key stakeholders. Passionate about continuous improvement, efforts remain focused on driving operational excellence and delivering measurable results in fast-paced, high-stakes environments.
Purchase materials, equipment, supplies and services for a global leader in musculoskeletal orthopaedic products. Assist various departments in initiating purchase requisitions. Work with suppliers to provide quotes and ship dates. Review purchase requisitions, confirm existing inventory availability, placing orders for both indirect and direct items through JDE business system. Site invoice reconciliation administrator, resolving issues with outstanding invoices due to quantity/price/order discrepancies. Coordinate with requestioner and shipping/receiving department to make sure that items/services are received in JDE
Purchased materials, equipment, supplies and services for a global leader in consumer products. Consolidated requestor’s requirements, identified materials and controlled fulfillment of contract conditions, through the processing of purchase orders. Sourced new suppliers for different projects, negotiated pricing and drafted contracts, tracked On-Time delivery, as New Supplier Data Administrator for team. Participated in Supplier Audit Team. Managed payments process control for Procurement group. Organized import shipping, video control, cafeteria, transportation, security and car leasing services. Created and updated catalog pricing in MyPurcheses system, training customers/users. Earned P2P Process Qualification through P&G internal training. Simplification and Standardization Team member for Eastern Europe. • Negotiated reduced prices with vendors, resulting in $2M savings • Finance department paperwork simplification – Reduced from 80% to 30% • Developed standard drafts for different types of Contracts (goods, service, work) for three manufacturing plants
Active participant in full implementation of SAP in Ordzhonikidze plant. Worked with different modules, trained colleagues in general and specific module system use. Vendor Master Data leader at the plant (creation of new vendors in SAP). Resolved Finance issues dealing with blocked invoices, incorrect documents, missing contracts or attachments/agreements etc.. Implemented different tracking tools to measure On-Time Delivery and Prefered Vendor List for three (3) sister plants. Promoted as a result of the results and achievements. • Project Lead for Supplier On-Time Delivery Improvement – From 20% to 90% • Project Lead for reduction of amount non-SAP (non-controlled in payment) vendors – Reduced from 50% to 5%
As Admin. Assistant for Engineering Group, responsibilities included purchasing, inventory and production control to support customer orders, travel arrangements, budgets, expense reports etc.. for new plant startup. Evaluated and maintained inventory/equipment availability, recording material movements to meet production schedules for 2 manufacturing plants. Additionally, trained workforce while implementing continuous improvement programs designed to minimize inventory costs, reduce waste and achieve business objectives. • Through managed inventory levels, reduced backorders by 18% • Implementation and training for 2-plant Continuous Improvement Program, reduced excess inventory by 23%