Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Supply Chain and Procurement specialist with 11+ years experience in sourcing, contracting, negotiating, and supplier management.
• Developed enhanced metrics to improve how Edison measures supplier performance and led implementation across multiple organizations overseeing more than $3B in annual spend. • Define strategy for enterprise-wide supplier management and influence cross-functional executive leadership to align on defined goals for execution.
• Develop and execute category strategies for categories totaling $180M in annual spend. • Maintain ownership of assigned categories to identify cost saving opportunities and source new suppliers. • Responsible for the negotiation, renewals, and management of Master Service Agreements governing construction and professional services. • Partner with business units in conducting market research to identify new suppliers and support sourcing initiatives. These efforts helped to double the supply base in certain specialized services to reduce risk and lower project completion times by six weeks on average.
• Lead all sourcing and procurement activities for Fox Factory’s defense business unit. Re-sourced more than eighty SKUs and more than $5M from underperforming suppliers. • Review Bills of Material (BOMs) with internal stakeholders to identify new parts that required RFPs and existing parts with opportunity for cost savings or lead time reduction utilizing alternate sources.
• Develops subcontract specifications, work statements, and terms and conditions for the procurement of specialized materials, equipment, and/or services • Subcontracting team lead responsible the negotiation, execution, and subcontract management for an entire portfolio of program subcontract spend totaling more than $85M. • Aligned subcontract requirements with prime contract requirements to ensure no major findings in CPSR audits. • Prepares bid packages, conducts supplier fact finding, analyzes and evaluates proposals, negotiates subcontract provisions, conducts source selection for competitive solicitations, writes awards, and administers resulting subcontracts • Negotiates, drafts, and coordinates additions, deletions, or modifications to subcontracts • Coordinates with the program managers and cognizant stakeholders regarding ongoing contractual and technical issues that have the potential to impact the program • Engages with contracts administration and purchasing to develop subcontract policies and procedures • Trains more junior employees and leads small teams for large proposal and execution efforts
• Acted as the primary supply chain subject matter expert and pilot user for the creation and implementation of a new tooling requisition and tracking system utilized across the sector. • Expanded work scope to include the sourcing, evaluation, contract award, and management of two additional domestic suppliers to offset international supply risk.
• Managed all aspects of fast-paced development programs from cradle-to-grave with RFPs, negotiations, contract management, and closeouts. • Work cross-functionally with multiple organizations and different levels of management supporting several different programs simultaneously.
• Managed a department of 16 hourly and 2 hourly direct reports in a manufacturing facility for the world's largest producer of comfort cushioning products. • Progressed in 8 months from manager trainee to department manager overseeing sixteen employees and two supervisors. • Increased inventory turnover by more than 20% by more utilizing data to more accurately forecast customer needs.