Sales Supply Chain

STEPHEN M. SCHOLZ

**** *. ***** ***** *****: 303-***-****

Westminster, CO 80031 Email: *****.******@*****.***

CAREER SUMMARY

Procurement professional with domestic and international operations and

corporate experience in the hospitality, travel & leisure, and tier-one

automotive supply environments. Strong communication, leadership and

analytical skills with a commitment to implementing cost savings.

. Reputation for managing supply chain to ensure quality, guarantee

delivery, and contain cost.

. Excellent interpersonal skills with the demonstrated ability to

collaborate, achieve buy-in, negotiate, and gain consensus from

internal customers and suppliers.

. Consistent record of decreasing costs to gain competitive advantage.

. Proficient in electronic data systems, including Microsoft

applications and Lotus Notes.

Reputation as a strategic problem solver. Multi-lingual. Fluent in written

and verbal English, German, and Spanish, with skill in conversational

French. Strong team leader and player.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VAIL RESORTS, INC., Broomfield, CO 2009-present

Extraordinary Resorts, Exceptional Experiences in mountain, lodging, and

real estate development segments. $1.15 billion annual revenue.

Senior Buyer, Information Technology

Serving as key point of contact for lead technicians and IT management

for all computer, networking, security, and infrastructure procurement

requirements. Volunteered to lead special MRO projects as well.

. Developed and standardized information technology purchasing processes

and ordering methods.

. Exceeded fiscal year 2009 savings goals by 100%.

. Consolidated spend with preferred suppliers by implementing key

sourcing strategic agreements.

. Focused on total information technology lifecycle value proposition,

not just best price.

. Supporting shift from a decentralized to a centralized procurement

environment.

. Negotiated 15% savings for trash and recycling removal services.

. Achieved 12% savings for electrical and mechanical services by

implementing preferred vendor program.

BEHR AMERICA, INC., Troy, MI 2007-2008

Tier one automotive and heavy truck supplier of engine cooling and climate

control systems. $900 million annual sales.

Senior Series Buyer

Managed metal stampings supply chain, procuring $25 million steel and

aluminum stampings, $16 million oil cooler assemblies, $9 million

fasteners. Supported four plants in Charleston, SC, Dayton, OH, Fort

Worth, TX and Ramos Arizpe, Mexico.

. Led cross-functional steel commodity strategy team to rationalize

spending during centralization of purchasing from plant to corporate

level. Costs were contained during 30% raw material market increases.

. Negotiated 3% cost reduction with supplier using linear price

progression comparison models.

. Collaborated with plant engineers to facilitate electronic change

approval process and ensure on time change execution to resolve

customer quality issues.

. Championed successful implementation of Vendor Managed Inventory

program for all fasteners for Charleston, SC plant. Communicated and

negotiated to gain consensus between Legal, Purchasing Management,

Logistics Management and supplier.

AUTOLIV ASP, INC., Auburn Hills, MI 2001-2007

Tier one supplier of automotive safety restraint systems with $6 billion

annual sales globally.

Buyer, Seatbelts Division

Responsible for current and strategic purchasing of production and

prototype components including injection molded, blow molded and extruded

plastics, electrical switches, wire harnesses, seatbelt webbing, thread,

and pyrotechnics. Resolved communication issues in English, German,

Spanish, and French between 49 suppliers worldwide and three

manufacturing plants in North America.

. Captured 21% wire harness production savings and 17% pyrotechnic

assembly production savings by transferring production to low cost

countries such as China and Hungary.

. Reduced hall-effect switch assembly costs by 15% and quality rejects

25% through implementation of automated production line in Germany.

. Co-developed blanket prototype pricing and servicing agreement with

dedicated supplier to save $250,000 annually. Lessons learned were

transferred from prototype to production supplier.

. Saved $1 million by commonizing customers' seatbelt webbing thread /

weave type.

VALEO ELECTRONICS, Auburn Hills, MI 1995-2001

Global tier one automotive supplier of switches, sensors, lighting systems,

climate control modules, keyless entry systems with $3.5 billion annual

sales in North America.

Purchasing Engineer 1998-2001

Investigated, developed, and implemented internal and external cost

reduction projects.

1. Executed European Tooling Transfer Project, material substitutions,

assembly and component redesign, pad printing outsourcing, and

returnable packaging programs.

2. Standardized engineering tooling and cost breakdown forms for

purchasing department.

3. Evaluated program component tooling condition, assisting sales

department in accurately quoting new business and contract extensions

to customers.

Buyer 1997-1998

Responsible for procurement and supply chain management of $29 million

annual budget for injection and insert-molded plastic components for

Electrical Switches and Sensors Group, Rio Bravo, Mexico Plant.

. Developed global sourcing and supply management strategies for current

production and advanced program purchasing with 27 European and North

American suppliers.

. Reduced material budget by 5%, met supplier optimization targets and

reduced supplier incoming parts per million reject levels by 93%.

Business Unit Materials Manager, Rio Bravo Plant, 1995-1997

Tamaulipas, Mexico

Managed material control and logistics of components from suppliers and

finished goods to customers for new product launches, current production,

and service part orders.

1. Increased business unit annual inventory turnover rate from 9 to 55

annual turns, reduced premium freight from 11% to 0.1% of product

sales and eliminated production line downtime by implementing raw

material and finished goods MRP material requirements planning,

Kanban, and pull systems.

EDUCATION

B.A. Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 30 credit hours in Engineering Training

International Business Management, Friedrich Alexander Universit t,

Nuremberg, Germany.

Extensive additional training including:

2. Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Lotus Notes, PeopleSoft,

SAP, XPPS, JD Edwards, eMatrix, One World, AS400's.

3. Value Added / Value Engineering, lean manufacturing, blueprint reading,

geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing, design for manufacture /

assembly, Weibull reliability data analysis, Pro-E CAD software.

4. Dale Carnegie, Toastmasters, Karrass negotiation Level I and Level II,

Franklin Covey time and work management, Plan-Do-Check-Act problem

solving strategy, Train the Trainer.

MEMBERSHIPS / AFFILIATIONS

Toastmasters International, Institute of Supply Management / National

Association of Purchasing Management

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