Gregory

Unruh

Professional

Gregory Unruh

**** *. ******** ******

Orange, CA 92865

657-***-****

ac0ge8@r.postjobfree.com

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Profile of Qualifications

● Results-focused leader specializing in driving operations growth, creating strategic initiatives, providing world-class customer services, and cultivating a strong company image eager to offer over 20 years experience toward maximizing a top employer’s success.

● Ambitious self-starter who plans, prioritizes, manages, and completes tasks within fast-paced, deadline-driven situations.

● Excellent communicator who interfaces between executives, public-sector officials, sales / business teams, and customers.

● 20+ years experience in global supply chain management and international trade. Arrangement of all transportation systems concerning movement to and from global points including, but not limited to ocean freight, rail movement, domestic truck movement, and United States Customs arrangement.

● Leader of various aspects of margin impact trading from negotiation of purchase price and products, global agency recognition, and transportation arrangement through project development.

● Marketing of both the purchased product as well as the origin manufacturer to establish long-term contractual agreements between all interested parties.

Professional Synopsis

CycleLink USA / Consultant to Purchasing & Logistic Managers September 2015 - PRESENT, Diamond Bar, CA

Responsibilities Include, but not limited to -

● Guidance on strategic purchasing & recognition of global market trends.

● Control and awareness of pricing mechanisms to be utilized by purchasing team.

● Interfacing between purchasing and logistics groups introducing logistic price components to purchasing team to illustrate business transaction profitability.

● Review of negotiated global freight contracts & domestic transportation agreements to determine viability by branch.

● Overall suggestion and commentary to department heads on the links between logistics and purchasing for optimum productivity between departments.

Ultra Paper Co. Int’l LLC / V ice President of Logistics / Purchasing

November 2012 - PRESENT, Villa Park, CA

Responsibilities

● Strategic international trade, negotiation, and purchasing experience of various paper products ex global marketplaces

(Asia, Europe, South America) via both government and privately owned paper mills, to and from consumer clients in the United States.

● Establishment, structure and monitoring of representative agency agreements in each global location leading to origin based infrastructure to fully assist and integrate with each specific producer on a daily basis.

● Arrangement of all transportation and importation of product.

● Manage all Purchase Order / Invoice / Accounts Receivable documentation.

● Marketing and sales of product.

Triax Trading & Logistics, LLC / Vice President

January 2001 - October 2012, Yorba Linda, CA

Responsibilities

● Establishment and negotiation of all global contracts (Asia & Europe) relating to the transportation (ocean freight, Asian domestic trucking, U.S. domestic trucking, United States Customs) of various paper products from Asian marketplaces.

● Marketing of the company to potential United States clients to establish and form a “niche” within the Paper & Recycling Trading Industry on how to transport product in the most efficient and cost effective manner.

● Development of relationships between Asian / European / U.S producers and purchasers incorporating transportation and trade between all parties.

C. Steinweg / President of U.S. Operations

February 1995 - October 2001, Handelsveem B.V., Rotterdam Responsibilities

● Establishment of six (6) locations (Seattle/Tacoma, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, & Toronto) for a widely recognized Metal Trading and Warehousing firm headquartered in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

● Negotiation and trading of Metals and Recycled Products (Copper, Aluminum, Zinc, Tin, Lead, & Paper Products) on the COMEX, ISRI, and LONDON METAL EXCHANGES.

● Management of all logistical and supply chain operations, inclusive of global ocean freight contractual negotiations, railway integration, coordination of inbound / outbound trucking transportation and customs arrangement.

● Hiring of all staff and team building in each location to assist that individual location with long-term growth potential.

● Marketing of the individual local branch to the local government and economic factions to establish long-term infrastructure.

● Negotiation with Labor Unions in each location concerning both on-site personnel (offices and warehouses) and off-site (docks and terminals) to formulate strategic growth for all entities and parties in each location.

JAS Forwarding, INC. / Vice President

August 1993 - November 1994, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

● Played a vital role in overall business growth basis acquisition of both U.S. and foreign-based accounts under the guidance of the president of the company.

● Established and improved efficiencies between both global and domestic branches by initiating mainstream electronic communication.

● Introduced additional “sub-contracting” to further broaden the company’s overall branding in individual markets both domestic and foreign. This ranged from establishment of warehouses, negotiation and acquisition of commodity parcels, and transportation forwarding of such parcels.

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Key Areas of Expertise

● Commodity Trading

● International Trade

● Marketing / Sales

● Contract Negotiations

● Client / Business Relations

● Project / Program Management

● Team Building & Organizational Impact

● Strategic Analysis / Planning

● Start-Up Operations

● Expense / Labor Control

● Site Management

● Data / Records Management

● Proficient in Word/PowerPoint/Excel/Outlook

● Finance / Accounting Support

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References

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