Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
➥ I am an innovative procurement professional with strong leadership experience. Looking to step in and enhance strategic direction, core values, while leading sustainability and cost savings initiatives, supply chain process, and supporting direct and indirect sourcing. A self-starter works under minimal supervision, with entrepreneurial vision, proactive, innovation skills, pays attention to detail, exceptional verbal, and written communication skills, while delivering results exceeding expectations. Forges strong external and internal stakeholder relationships to support supply chain management in healthcare, agriculture, and manufacturing. Develops complex strategic sourcing strategies and sources top quality commodity deals to reduce organizational costs and deliver against financial targets. Strong financial acumen, collaborative and analytical skills reviewing ERP business intelligence, P&L, and utilizing (KPIs) to articulate best practices and influence stake holders. Applies integrity to all teamwork decisions to resolve emerging crisis situations. Manages contracts and conducts business reviews to deliver products and services on time and on budget. Quickly adapts to changing environments by anticipating problems and facilitating cross functional support. ➥ My background features project management, organizational revolution that fosters enhanced production goals, optimizing warehouse designs to build revenue, contract negotiations, SRM programs, and supporting company financial targets. ➥ I always show my passion and commitment to exceeding stated goals, team collaboration, and transforming raw goods into finished productions to reduce inventory waste. ☛ Key Skills ☚ ✦ Quantitative Analysis ✦ Relationship Management ✦ Process Improvement ✦ Operations ✦ Category Management ✦ Communication ✦ Market Analytics & Intelligence ✦ Leadership & Team Building ✦ Decision Making ✦ Strategic Planning ✦ Supply Chain Management ✦ Risk Management ✦ Critical Thinking
Lead the strategic sourcing and supplier management activities that bring innovative products from concept to commercialization. Partner closely with R&D, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Marketing, and strategic suppliers to identify, qualify, and secure the ingredients, technologies, and capabilities needed to support global product launches. Leveraging market intelligence and cross-functional collaboration, accelerating innovation while driving value creation and long-term competitive advantage.
Initiated and led multi-faceted projects for all goods and services through collaboration with operations, design, finance and accounting, quality, and shipping & receiving across 13 locations. Transformed and regulated supplier relationships by developing metrics, performance goals and improvement initiatives. Analyzed industry trends and evolving technology to proactively identify supply base issues to minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and exploit emerging opportunities. Established short- and long-term planning and budget development to support strategic business goals. Established processes to maintain regulatory and sustainability criteria based on customer and industry expectations. ➥ Engineered logistics RFP for $10 MM of open market spend with 15+ suppliers resulting in a cost reduction of 7-10% through market analysis ➥ Designed, led, and executed material Handling RFP for 8 manufacturing facilities ➥ Pioneered data analysis tools across $50 MM annual spend ➥ Facilitated reduction of internal equipment by 10-20% to realign with business demand ➥ Expedited customer’s quality and procurement surveys to expand and diversify customer base ➥ Negotiated over 20 supplier contracts, achieving 10-30% cost reduction while maintaining service and quality ➥ Reduced working capital by increasing payment terms by 15+ days on key raw materials & services
Successfully led, developed, and implemented short-, medium-, and long-term category strategies, spend profiles, and pipelines. Initiated all sourcing activities and effectively communicated plans, activities, and goals to internal stakeholders. Interpreted market analytics and intelligence, spend, and contract management to continuously build pipeline of opportunities. Collaborated and facilitated innovative and constructive discussion with Quality, Engineering, R&D, Product Development, and Finance to deliver cost savings, utilizing market trends and conditions. Designed strategic relationship with suppliers, implemented risk management, SRM programs, and conducted Quarterly Business Reviews. Developed strong internal relationships, ensuring that Strategic Sourcing is engaged early on all prospective engagements requiring vendor support. Supervised overall responsibility for all sourcing activity conducted within assigned category, and responsible for end-to-end execution of all sourcing activities with high impact and/or visibility within the organization (e.g. RFP, RFQs, RFI, direct negotiations). ➥ Qualified and on-boarded strategic partnerships ➥ Ensured supply chain agility across resin and paper-based packaging, CoQ10, fish Oil, plant Seed Oil, excipients, and glycerin, $100 MM + annual spend ➥ Avoided over $2.5MM through strong supplier relationship management and market analytics ➥ Benchmarked contracted prices against market to deliver $100k in positive PPV ➥ Exceeded $2MM in cost saving projects involving cross functional teams ➥ Solved significant supply issues to deliver over 200 MM + bottle and caps to support incremental demand increases ➥ Cultivated strong internal relationships across multiple manufacturing plants ➥ Negotiated contracts across multiple categories to deliver growth and savings, supporting organizational and departmental goals
Optimized supply chain management to improve good and service purchases for 1 hospital and 3 clinics. Partnered with corporate headquarters to meet strategic & financial management objectives. Reduced rolling inventory and performed new product evaluations using technological expertise to effectively resolve complicated issues across departments. Ensured contract compliance in all procuring decisions. Lowered employee overtime to foster improved employee performance. Built positive relationships with executive leaders to surpass healthcare targets. Coordinated and administered supply network programs and cost-effective policies that ensure daily operations. Evaluated company purchasing activities to update materials management software. Organized materials by conducting data analysis and designing effective processes. Incorporated end user training and education models to strengthen operational performance. Supervised staff by assigning regular tasks related to materials acquisition, receiving, and distribution. ➥ Mentored team of 4 to adapt to growing business, think critically, and take ownership of department responsibilities ➥ As directing manager of 4 member incident command team, propose and acquire medical equipment to support high volume of patient emergency room admittance. ➥ Managed $5M administration budget to evaluate contracts and forecast healthcare expenditures. Achieved 10.1% overall operational expenses with useful supply arrangements. ➥ Provided 90% contract compliance, now exceeding 97% of targeted goals.
Procured raw materials and supplies to support Beverage, Dressing, and Carrot manufacturing plant operations. Orchestrated complex purchasing activities across packaging categories including pricing, volume, supplier contract management and negotiations, and delivery of goods. Negotiated favorable terms and stocking agreements with suppliers to support customer focused, agile, 24/7 operations. Strategically planned, scheduled, and monitored purchase orders. Tracked and reported suppliers’ service performance on supplier OTD, lead time, flexibility, product quality, safety stock, and shipping to complete and deliver quarterly supplier scorecards. Communicated effectively with stakeholders and cross-functional teams in Operations, Sales, Marketing and Finance to deliver company goals. Collaborated with Marketing, Sales, and Planning teams to support New Product Development. Drove timely raw material flow into manufacturing plant. Reviewed inventory management to order finished products as requested and reduced wasteful product storage. Conducted supplier reviews of long-term component levels forecasts, capacity commitments, and mitigations to ensure demand-supply balance. ➥ Executed purchasing contracts to deliver efficient annual production of 37M beverage & dressing cases ➥ $20M+ annual contract management and negotiations for rigid and flexible packaging ➥ Supervised $30M Consumer Packaging Goods, including bottles, preform plastics, caps, sleeves, labels, handles, and glue ➥ Contributed to $1.5M inventory cost reduction, conserving capital spending ➥ Redesigned warehouse operations, increasing revenue by $1.5M and reducing raw material costs by 5% ➥ Successfully managed supplier score cards to improve rolling inventory objectives and cost accounting, maintaining monthly production label write-off at $<10k