Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, United States
Continuous improvement and strategic-focused leader directly responsible for up to 10 employees across the US, Italy, Czech Republic, and China. Responsible for leading the strategic sourcing roles and responsibilities of up to $285MM in annual spend across +15 manufacturing plants/ warehouses. Led team to achieve between 2-3.5% cost savings annually through material usage reduction strategies, low-cost material alternatives, and negotiation. Designed a talent development program for employees that enables process compliance and performance improvement. Recognized by multiple global corporate awards received for cross-functional business process improvements. Enabled Corporate-wide enhancement solutions on supplier delivery improvement. Consistently given high achiever status by my management amongst peer group.
Global continuous improvement-focused strategic sourcing manager directly responsible for 5 employees across the US, Italy, and India. Dotted line responsibility for all strategic project initiatives developed for process and performance improvement. Influential role in driving improvement in supplier performance management metrics (cost/delivery/quality). Strategic project leader for multiple key projects including operational lead time reduction, minimum order quantity optimization, vendor managed inventory implementations and commodity cost savings. Recognized by a 2016 Global Operations Excellence award received for a cross-functional business process improvement initiative as a project leader. Obtained formal certification for continuous improvement process excellence. Consistently rated by my management in high achiever status amongst my peer group.
Global strategic sourcing manager directly responsible for 5 employees across the US, Italy, and India. Implemented a business wide supplier forecasting process improvement designed to enable on time delivery. Led a cross-functional global project team towards optimizing commodity cost savings by using lower cost products. Project manager for the global strategic deployment of supplier performance metric continuous improvement plan. Expanded global dotted line procurement team towards optimizing data analytics competency to drive supplier metric performance improvement.