Greater Los Angeles, California, United States
- Collaborate with distributors and industrial consumers in North America and Mexico market - Repair damaged customer relationship caused by covid supply disruptions and prior price hikes - Monitor competition and collect market intelligence; developed sales strategies to support 9 key global accounts - Design and implement rebate program to increase revenue generation - Improve under-performed deliveries by optimizing customer communications procedures
- Managed metal fabrication category with $20MM annual spend and developed category strategy to source products in North America, Asia, and Mexico - Improved TCO model for re-designing supply chain to re-source retail products from China to Mexico; reduced total lead time by 79% while decreasing cost by 5% - Generated cost savings through monitoring commodity markets, negotiation, inventory reduction and VAVE projects - Collaborated with factories in China and Mexico to onboard capabilities and capacity to fabricate products to specifications; presented to ROI-based CapEx projects to leadership and obtained approvals - Identified SKU rationalization opportunities and reconciled interests between departments for joint consensus to advance project - Contributed to NPD efforts and satisfied tight launch deadline of strategic programs at large retail customers
- Managed company’s MRO and indirect spend as well as roll forming suppliers - Led A3 supplier reduction project by consolidating parts according to required manufacturing capabilities - Assisted Director of Purchasing in development of Asia procurement strategy - Engineered and produced reports to gain visibility to supply base complexity, continuity, and performance - Researched and implemented new data entry techniques and programs to improve system maintenance efficiency and reporting accuracy
- Assisted procurement activities by ensuring accurate pricing and OTD - Gave recommendations on suppliers needed for extraction from supply base due to performance issues as well as potential new suppliers to add to the base - Worked with Costing and Planning to compile Purchasing metrics and inventory reports - Acted as main interface between Oracle implementation team and Purchasing department on issue resolution and regression testing
- Negotiated lower product cost and increased import business volume by 36% - Conducted supplier qualification and food safety audits in Asia counties - Coordinated 50-TEU import shipments to various US warehouse locations annually - Promoted company at food and beverage trade shows domestically and internationally