Purchasing / Commodity Manager

Debra Rowe

*** * *** **. ********, AZ ***** 805-***-**** ********@**.***;

www.linkedin.com/in/adamsrib

Contracts / Subcontracts / Commodity Manager

Highly qualified management professional with 10 + years’ experience leading procurement and contract operations for large, medium, and small manufacturing firms, both domestic and global spend – generating millions of dollars to top and bottom lines. Successful building and leading procurement and contract teams in negotiating and sourcing materials and services to meet growing consumer demand and profitability objectives. Highly effective at conceptualizing and implementing sourcing strategies, leading to successful negotiations and supplier relations. Produce cost savings through market analysis, quality initiatives, source selection, rationalization of strategies. Excel at leveraging suppliers across multiple platforms, and delivery performance goals from both domestic and offshore supply sources. Continuous improvement and metrics driven.

Core Leadership Competencies / Technical Competencies

Corporate Procurement Project Management

Supplier Quality Performance & Compliance (ITAR, DAR/FAR, IS09000.2008; Six Sigma Participant, Kaizen Leader)

Team Leadership & Collaboration

Inventory, Capacity, & Materials Planning

Aerospace Contract Administration & Negotiations

Mfg. Procurement Spend & Budget Management

IT Global Procurement & Sourcing Strategies

Procurement Best Practices & Process Improvements

MRP SAP MAS 90 DBA Deltek Costpoint P-cards MS Office/Outlook Ariba Syquest Great Plains ITAR, FAR, ISO, FDA, compliance

Professional Experience

Cambro Manufacturing – Huntington Beach, CA 8/2015-5/2016

Purchasing Manager - HQ of global injection plastics molding and manufacturing company

Manage department of 7

Manage spend of $150 million both direct and indirect

Refining supplier base in a privately owned and held corporation with respect to legacy employees while encouraging growth and leveraging talent and skills abundantly already available to transition to a better utilization of talent pool

Streamlining consumption into commodities, while also enhancing the utilization of technology to track, measure and improve process

Cost savings and improvements in six figures

Parker Hannifin – Irvine, CA 6/2013 – 6/2014

Control Systems Division – contract position for Subcontract Manager 6 month assignment extended two quarters

Supporting commercial aerospace group’s major subcontracts acquisitions for Bombardier and Embraer programs

Working with mechanical systems integration team for sourcing, negotiations, contracts award and post award administration. Built negotiation strategy, collaborated with cross functional team to insure back to back contracts

oSuccessfully negotiated, justified, definitized and awarded both contract amendments during this time with costs savings of $1.4M on $18M purchased

American Express – Phoenix, AZ 9/2012 – 1/2013

IT Procurement Project Manager (contract)

Fortune 100 financial management and credit card company

Supported the vendor management portion of the global supply management strategy, in supplier risk management

Lead a team of 7 business analysts to migrate data from one platform to R.Portal and to sync Commodity Manager usage globally

Ultimate end goal – a never before developed approved supplier list for total supplier leverage globally in a new IT tool

Work closely with India counterparts to maintain integrity of supply chain vendor risk management tools and mitigation protocols to meet risk management compliance guidelines

Utilized Ariba for e-auctions and placing PO’s.

Sybron Dental Specialties – A Danaher Company – Orange, CA 6/2011 – 3/2012

Sr. Commodity Manager (IT, MRO, Marketing)

Fortune 500 dental consumables company with manufacturing sites in 24 locations globally.

As a strategic business unit manager, managed the indirect spend at 11 domestic locations and 6 international locations. Strategic costs savings goal improved by $1.4M for a total of $3.4M. Built strategies and carried them out collaboratively.

Improved travel costs savings by $2M through consolidation of hotels, auto, airfare and improved policy booking habits

Improved MRO industrial spend $300K through deployment of VMI at all No Am sites, enabling headcount reduction

Have achieved annual savings in energy reductions at 3 sites valued at $283,000 by partnering with suppliers to execute facility improvements in lighting, deregulated energy and equipment repairs/upgrades

Improved IT spend by $500K through realignment of consumption through one negotiated VAR for hardware, software, support and accessories spend on a multi site, multi year contract for software, equipment, hardware consumption

Negotiated $200K improvement over opto/mechanical new product introduction. Formulated all contracts and RFx in Syquest and reverse and e-auctions in Ariba.

Contract compliance for all government contracts for ITAR, DAR/FAR, and annual small business reporting

Sierra Monolithics, – A Semtech Company – Irvine, CA 7/2009 – 3/2010

Purchasing Manager

$50 million start up electronics manufacturer with sole source position in broad band data communication management, sold to Semtech Corporation 12/2009

Manage procurement, and subcontract administration functions with accountability for subcontract management, sourcing strategies, compliance and strategic source development, flow-down compliance of customer contracts. Close intra discipline collaboration with engineering, sales/marketing, quality, and corporate synergies – highest focus on MRO, NPI and capital expense.

Manage tactical spend of 120 or more purchases per month, insuring on time delivery, cost containment, pre-award negotiations, and documentation on all purchases. Commodities included engineering services, build to print, spec

Refined reporting and data capture elements in Great Plains in collaboration with IT to better target costs savings

PCBA’s, electronics, test equipment purchase, test equipment rental. Cross functional team included purchasing (contracts and risk mitigation) engineering for scope and technologies, quality for customer flow down and compliance, ITAR, and ISO flow downs. Additionally achieved a goal to properly align over exposure of spend to too many suppliers, channeling spend to a more robustly equipped source of supply eliminating 35% of MRO supply, and 7% costs savings, and some administrative cost avoidance through improved price, delivery and customer service post award, as well as a 21% improvement in quality failures realized through weekly review of quality rejections

L-3 COMMUNICATIONS – Anaheim, CA

7/2002 – 3/2004 & 3/2008 – 6/2010

Procurement / Contracts Manager (Interstate Electronics & Power Paragon)

$14.9+ billion global power supply manufacturer serving military and commercial organizations.

Manage $50 million in total spend for division sourcing, procurement, and contract administration functions with accountability for subcontract management, sourcing strategies, procurement practices & procedures, and contract compliance. Supervise and train a team responsible for purchasing MRP inventory and services supporting product development

Tracked and managed daily requirements for multiple procurement contracts with strategic suppliers valued at $5 million

Generated more than $500K in cost savings with a one of several suppliers in a partnership to transition from adhoc buying to a full box build purchasing strategy. This involved engineering BOM clean up, realignment of master schedule and releases. Added value to operations by reducing price variances, improved quality and fewer resource drains in tracking scheduled deliveries.

Decreased number of requisitions from 2,500 to 1,800 per month by developing and implementing a strategy to streamline and enhance procurement processes across operations with designated users being assigned authority to release against BPOs, and Pcards

Boosted on-time delivery performance by 20% within nine months by establishing and maintaining a supplier scorecard and certified supplier program to maximize vendor performance and quality

Trained legacy purchasing team in ways to add value to the organization by stepping back and seeking ways to improve the supplier engagement through better scope development, early involvement, negotiations strategies and supplier development

Contract compliance for all government contracts for ITAR, DAR/FAR, and annual small business reporting. Maintained purchasing certificate with DCMA/DOD in good standing through internal audits and employee training.

MICROVISION – Bothell, WA

4/2004 – 2/2008

Global Strategic Sourcing Manager

Global manufacturer of miniature display and imaging products with annual revenues exceeding $150 million.

Unique setting of venture capital and think tank new product introduction setting.

Streamlined Engineering spend and developed accountability system to eliminate unauthorized purchases

Aligned contracts from customers with subcontracts to reduce exposure saving over $500K unrealized prior

Improved material availability, quality, and price stability by designing and rolling out a supplier certification program and scorecard to source, track, and manage a large global supply base.

Unique commodities included electronics, optics, coatings, polymers, packaging, assemblies, machine shop prototypes all material types, IT infrastructure purchase, IT lease agreements, VAR commodity management.

Delivered 10% increase in cost savings on production lines and 43% on prototype lines by leveraging supplier / strategic relationships through early supplier involvement.

AASI (Mooney Aerospace Group, Ltd.) – Long Beach, CA

5/2001 – 5/2002

Purchasing Manager

Prototype aircraft designer.

Directed all product procurement to build, test, and certify new venture prototype aircraft. Total spend $23 million.

Developed supplier partnerships leading to vast supplier investments in venture capital – worked closely with Marketing and CEO to develop those goals. Relieved $17 million in cost liability by leading purchasing negotiations as part of completing company dissolution / merger.

Team lead for purchasing department data migration to Great Plains ERP system implementation.

ITT CANNON – Santa Ana, CA

8/1998 – 1/2000

Subcontracts Manager / Lead MRO

Manufacturer of connectors for commercial, medical, automotive, and aerospace industries.

Provided subcontract administration supporting for all MRO team spend in the amount of $1billion annually including capital

Reduced number of MRO vendors by 25% by building and maintaining strategic alliances, consolidating one time buys into long-term contracts and expanding supplier exposure to overall business.

Saved $60,000 annually by improving processes to cost-effectively develop statements of work and RFQs in support of business requirements for ITS

Team lead for SAP implementation project and project manager for compliance to contract terms with installer. Mitigated large dollar scope creep and held supplier accountable through many negotiations.

BOEING COMPANY – Long Beach, CA

2/1996 – 7/1998

Principal Subcontracts Negotiator

Leading global aerospace manufacturer with annual sales exceeding $60 billion.

Selected to manage operations supporting 50 subcontracts to provide corporate services. Prepared package audits to meet compliance requirements. Developed contract performance metrics for senior management. Total spend in excess of $250 million annually.

Decreased costs for outdated office equipment by 23%, Textiles 18%, Construction 13%, Telecommunications 22%, 8% Travel through best practices efforts (competition, negotiations, tracking spend and measuring, post award administration)

Realized $490,000 in cost savings by streamlining and enhancing warehouse software, material handling, and scrap management functions. Team lead for Boeing South for all Purchasing Department concerns in ERP source selection project for all Boeing South

Education

Bachelor of Science in Business, Biola University, LaMirada, CA 2001 CPM, Certified Procurement Manager (Boeing), SPSM Senior Professional in Supply Management (SPSM) through the Next Level Purchasing Association

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