Senior Consultant in Retail Industry
ID Number: 90321
Innovative supply chain management professional. A change management advocate with varied and progressive experience, specializing in procurement, strategic sourcing, negotiation, team management, cost reduction and project management. Highly experienced within manufacturing, retail, capital and facilities and service environments with a proven track record of recognized accomplishments.Accomplishments:
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✴ e-procurement license renewal
Renewal of licensing for e-procurement suite of applications with incumbent vendor, where we reduced the term of the agreement to fit in with Conway's technology roadmap while increasing the discount level from 5 to 21%
✴ Microsoft license negotiations
Conway has about 8,000 Windows licenses, thin client and PC's. While it owns Office 2007, it is deployed on only 35 machines, the rest of the users are on Windows 2003. Windows 2007 is not significantly different than 2003 therefore there has been a small demand within the company for 2007, but plans are in place to roll it out by the end of 2008. The next Office release is Windows 2010 and we do not anticipate MS will make any significant changes from 2007. Based on the current price for Windows, we determined the breakeven point between purchasing the new product and paying maintenance is circa 3 years.
This Senior Level Procurement Professional has recent Retail Industry experience working for Major Retailers managing over $1B in spending and delivering over $60M in cost savings. They hold an MBA degree are Six Sigma Greenbelt and are proficient in SAP, ORACLE and JD Edwards ERP Software.
They are an Innovative Leader with experience across US, Asian, European, & Latin American Markets with a successful history of creating sustainable, best-in-class Strategic Sourcing organizations that have aggressively increased operating margins through cross-functional collaboration and the development of global supply partnerships.
✴ Re-engineered the Purchase Price Variance (PPV) process to recapture $150K+ per month in negative PPV.
✴ Implemented aggressive customer inventory buyback program. Freed $400K in reserves and set 3 year Finance record for site on monies received back to P/L ($500K)
✴ Part of Transition Team that moved Medical factory and supplier base offshore. ISO 13485:2003 certification.
✴ Implementation of Ariba for MRO site procurement program. Streamlined processes to support $10M global spend.
✴ Identified issues in Strategic supplier rebate program. Recovery of $1M + in vendor rebates.
Core Competencies Include:
✴ Global Supply Chain
✴ Visionary Leadership
✴ Total Cost of Ownership
✴ Direct & Indirect Strategic Sourcing
✴ Succession Planning
✴ High-Value Negotiations
✴ Category/Supplier Management
✴ Process Re-engineering
✴ Supply Risk Mitigation
✴ Senior Consultant in Insurance Industry
Qualifications and Areas of Expertise
✴ MBA (Executive Program) – Pepperdine University
✴ Customer Relations & Satisfaction (CRM)
✴ S & OP/ Profit & Loss Management
✴ TQM/ISO/ Six Sigma Quality
✴ Product Launch & Global Transfer
✴ Lean Manufacturing (MultiSite)
✴ Productivity & Process Improvement
✴ Global Demand & Advanced Planning Systems (APS)
✴ ERP (SAP) and MRP II (Class A)
✴ Supplier/Supply Chain Execution & Trade Management
✴ Team Building & Empowerment
Key Achievements:
✴ Part of site staff team that grew site from $40M to $120M+ in Sales; Corporation Objectives met.