STEVE BRADLEY

**** * ***** *** *****, Edwards, IL 61528

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SUMMARY

A Global Strategic Procurement and Project Management professional with over 10 years experience in the Automotive, Industrial Equipment, Aerospace and Defense, Construction and Specialty Manufacturing industries. Expertise includes Procurement Project Planning and Control with trained application and experience in Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, Value Analysis – Value Engineering, CAPEX “Capital Expansion Projects” and Optimized Project Cost Modeling utilizing Enterprise Resource System such as SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft. A Proven Leader with high energy, excellent communication, mentoring, facilitation, and team member career development skills. Detail oriented with an outstanding ability to analyze current market conditions, suppliers, and negotiate long-term solutions with an eye for controlling the Total Cost of Ownership.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Caterpillar Inc, Peoria, IL Dec 2011 – Present

A $68B global organization with 12 business units, 1,145 facilities in 120 countries with a focus on the Construction, Mining and Commercial Equipment industry,

GLOBAL COMMODITY MANAGER, FACILITIES & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE

Provide leadership in the identification, development, and application for strategic sourcing sustainability and maintenance strategies to manage facility service and waste generation to support effective spend management with spend content in excess of $300 million.

• Autonomous development and implementation of a global commodity sourcing strategy to reduce total energy consumption by 25%, reduce solid waste landfill content to zero by 2020, and reduce water consumption by 10% while maintaining service levels and metrics that meet or exceed established key performance metrics.

• Develop and implement a global facilities service sourcing strategy to promote the use of integrated service providers to rationalize the existing supply base, implement service standards, drive year over year cost reduction and manage the organizations risk and exposure profile for $200 million of service spend.

• Develop and implement an obsolete electronic sub-system equipment return program to ensure regulatory compliance, proper accounting of the asset and the ability to capture obsolete components for reuse is aging equipment still in operation.

• Identified and selected two waste stream source plan providers that supported the implementation of an integrated campus model sourcing strategy which generated $4.5 million in savings over a six month period that encompassed 40 facilities and $40 million is service spend.

Woodward Inc, Santa Clarita, CA Jun 2009 – Dec 2011

A $1.9B global organization with 4 business units, 15 facilities in 10 countries with a focus on the Aerospace, Defense and Industrial Products industries,

GLOBAL SUPPLIER MANAGER, CASTINGS & FORGINGS

Provide leadership in the identification, development, and application of strategic sourcing strategies that impact effective spend models that leverage in the most cost effective manner possible $85M of global aluminum & steel castings and forgings purchases.

• Autonomous development of global sub-commodity sourcing strategies to leverage total annual spend with a focus on Low Cost Countries / Regions and supply base rationalization to ensure 6% year over year cost reduction and a lower total cost of ownership.

• Developed and implemented a core / non-core rationalization strategy that allowed for the direct outsourcing of $21 million of machined cast and forged components that generated a 32% reduction in total cost of ownership for the organization.

• Integrate all new business unit acquisitions into the global commodity strategies to leverage all additional spend categories and ensure limited spend leakage occurs outside of existing long term agreements.

Textron Inc, Ft Worth, TX Mar 2007 – Jan 2009

A $16B global organization with 10 business units, 105 facilities in 15 countries with a focus on the Aerospace, Defense and Consumer Products industries

STRATEGIC SOURCING MANAGER – ENGINEERING SOFTWARE, CONSTRUCTION & PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT

Provide leadership in the identification, development, and application of strategic sourcing methodologies to support the execution of cost effective spend management models in a cross functional team based environment to leverage in the most cost effective manner possible the $105M of global software platform contracted purchases in an SAP system.

• Benchmarked, developed and leveraged an Engineering Software License Management program, reducing total license requirements 15 % and generating $1.6M in savings for the Unigraphics, MSC and CATIA application platforms across the business units.

• Launched a key supplier performance program for IBM that included leveraging the current $34M in annual spend, set 2008 performance expectation / requirement, achieve a 10% cost reduction goal and long-term supplier development organizational goals.

• Tasked with development of all global commodity strategies and project requirements to control, negotiate & leverage $470M in purchases of all capital, production equipment & tooling requirements that resulted in a 10% cost reduction.

Honeywell International, Phoenix, AZ Mar 2006 – Mar 2007

A $33B global organization with 4 business units, 190 facilities in 31 countries that focus on the Aerospace, Defense, Process Control and Consumer Products industries

COMMODITY MANAGER – REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION, TOOLING & PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT

• Supervised the Real Estate (Acquisitions & Divestitures), Construction (New Plant, Refurbishment & Demolition), Equipment and Tooling commodity transition strategy to centralize all procurement activity which generated $15M cost savings in the first six months.

• Developed and managed the site identification and procurement strategy for two new manufacturing locations for the aerospace business unit in Chihuahua Mexico to support global cost reduction goals of 15% and delivered the facility to operations in 9 months.

• Negotiated the governmental incentives package with the state of Chihuahua which included state funded training facilities and local municipal funded infrastructure to support current and future production requirements that generated a cost savings of $6 million.

• Managed the day-to-day activities, professional career development and long-term growth of 5 - commodity specialists and 1 - assistant manager to support all commodity areas.

Telco Solutions III, Franklin, TN Sep 2005 – Mar 2006

A $25million Electronic Contract manufacturing organization with 1 North American business unit with its main focus in the defense industry.

PURCHASING MANAGER

Responsible for all direct and indirect procurement strategy development, contract development and manufacturing requirements planning for all printed circuit board and wire harness assembly with annual spend in excess of $18M for the 200,000 square foot facility.

• Developed and implemented long term cost reduction strategies and guidelines for $13 million in printed circuit boards and electronic components utilizing Asian and other Pacific Rim production sources that generated $2.5M savings.

• Direct supervision of 2-raw material buyers, 2-materials requirement planners, 1-transportation supervisor and 1-inventory control coordinator for the purchasing and planning department.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY Jan 1999 – Aug 2005

A $160B global organization with 15 business units, 160 facilities in 100 countries w/a focus on the Automotive & Heavy Equipment industries

PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST – CONSTRUCTION, REAL ESTATE, TOOLING & PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT

Identified & implemented all procurement strategies for the purchase of automated process production equipment, mechanical transfer presses and conveyance in excess of $300M for major automotive model changes, plant refurbishment & additional plant capacity for 8-automotive manufacturing and assembly operations & 3-aluminum casting facilities in the western hemisphere utilizing Oracle based Enterprise Resource Planning system.

• Developed and implemented procurement strategies and project requirements for the purchase of capital equipment in excess of $100,000,000 for major automotive model changes and additional plant capacity for five (8) automotive manufacturing and assembly operations and 3 aluminum casting facilities in the western hemisphere.

• Categorized & developed an international sourcing program for the supply of $270M in ferrous casting components to support the internal machining and assembly of Forming Dies, Injection Molds, and Casting Molds for the production of automobiles in the North American market that resulted in a 44% reduction in the total cost of ownership.

• Identified, approved & actively managed the supplier base for all capital, construction, & MRO for the assigned areas of Body Weld, Quality, and Stamping within the mfg and assembly operations to improve on time delivery of equipment by 15%.

• Defined & controlled all global sourcing strategies for the continuous supply of non-ferrous (Aluminum) cast engine components to support 2-engine machining and assembly facilities with annual spend in excess of $60M that resulted in annual savings of 10%.

• Established the global procurement strategy for returnable containers and racking that generated annual savings of $4.5M.

• Designed & oversaw the construction procurement strategy development for the San Antonio, Texas new plant expansion project valued in excess of $1B including the negotiation of the state and local governmental incentive packages that generated $160M savings and managed the construction procurement strategy for the Tacata Mexico plant expansion project valued in excess of $400 Million that completed 2 month ahead of schedule and was 21% under budget.

Systems Engineering & Construction Feb 1997 – Jan 1999

A $50M company with 3 US business units focused on the design, manufacturer & installation of automated material handling systems for the steel processing industry.

PURCHASING MANAGER

Responsible for the development and management of all contracts for the purchase of capital equipment, design and build fabrication, construction projects and general services for the organization in support of ongoing contracted expansion projects.

• Developed & executed all contracts for the purchase of $18M of production equipment, construction service and MRO requirements for all projects resulting in $4M savings.

• Liaison with the project team on elements of project planning, scopes of work, request for quote and delivery schedule for all equipment and construction activities.

• Managed the day to day activities and career development of 2 – buyers and 1 – staff assistant.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Bradley Mechanical Jan 1994 – Feb 1997

International Paper Company Mar 1990 – Jan 1994

MILITARY

United States Marine Corp – Honorably Discharged

EDUCATION

BS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

CERTIFICATIONS

Institute of Supply Management, Certified Purchasing Manager (Inactive)

Six Sigma Green Belt (Honeywell & Textron)

Toyota Production System

Master Mechanical License

Master Electrical License

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