Senior Strategic Procurement Mgr 2019

HEIDI GLEASON

Phone: 920-***-****

Email: **TUheidi.gleason@yahoo.comU25T

CAREER SUMMARY

Experienced Strategic Procurement professional with 20 years of progressively increasing responsibilities and experience ranging from transactional purchasing to strategic procurement and management. Proven track record of adding financial value through modern procurement techniques, cost analysis, negotiation, supplier development, strategy and leveraging cross functional team synergies. Extensive Legal Contracts experience. Wide exposure to numerous commodity categories throughout career with major emphasis in chemicals, packaging and services. Global procurement experience for a broad industry spectrum including Chemical, Medical device, Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical, Automotive, Flexible Packaging, Consulting, Tape, OEM.

I have a strong love for procurement and sourcing that is exhibited as a hard-working drive to succeed, achieve goals as well as lead, coach and mentor talent.

KEY STRENGTHS

Cross functional team Leadership Sourcing Methodology Knowledge

Negotiation Strategy Development & Implementation

Supplier Management Contracts- Negotiation, Drafting, Implementation

Project Management Cost Analysis/Financial

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR - Minneapolis, MN

Strategic Sourcing Consultant July 2018 – Present

Self-employed consultant leader client defined requirements which can include sourcing, contractual agreements, negotiations, RFx process, legal contracts and strategy required. Indirect categories comprise majority of assignments with some process and project management included involving cross functional leadership.

PLANET PHARMA, LLC - Minneapolis, MN

Contractor Oct 2017 – July 2018

Strategic Sourcing business partner for Biopharmaceutical start-up. Liaison to Corporate Procurement onsite to enforce Corporate procurement policies on sourcing, supplier due diligence, and contracting requirements.

Encountered wide range of services and direct spend categories consistent with a new business.

Negotiated and managed Legal agreements and contractual agreements applicable to all services and goods in cGMP environment.

Enforced legal compliance via gap analysis of contract repository in Ariba against local database for renewals and follow up tasks.

Corporate Procurement commodity taxonomy for strategic alignment of new category.

SHERWIN WILLIAMS - VALSPAR, Minneapolis, MN

Sourcing Manager- Global Resins May 2016 – Oct 2017

Expert global negotiator and commodity leader recognized for cost savings and price increase avoidance on polyester, alkyd and vinyl resin spend approx. $100M.

Drafted commodity category resin strategy and implementation.

* Talented supplier manager engaging suppliers in long term strategic relationships for a win-win partnership.

Craft risk avoidance and mitigation plans as well as monitor capacity with goal of eliminating supply disruptions.

Executed multimillion-dollar legal agreements.

COLOPLAST, Minneapolis and Mankato, MN June 2012 – May 2016

Supply Manager – Strategic Chemicals

Corporate Strategic position for NA chemicals, packaging, indirect service categories with >$45MM spend.

Lead effective cross functional team projects to implement strategy for cost savings, risk elimination and regulatory & quality improvement.

Global Blow Moulding Category Manager

Consistent annual top performer achieving savings over goal and in 2013 was awarded global highest cost savings,

Gap analysis and strategy to rectify delinquent supplier approvals to achieve more risk adverse and create an agile supplier base with cGMP, FDA, quality and regulatory compliance.

DUTCHLAND PLASTICS, Oostburg, WI June 2011-June 2012

Procurement Manager

Managed Procurement, Quality and Regulatory for family owned roto & blow moulding company.

Achieved 7% in cost savings during recession and positively impacted Working Capital through creative use vendor-based replenishment programs such as Kanban, VMI, consignment, SOMI.

Lead Procurement and QA teams of five direct reports and revamped workflow to better accomplish company goals of growth initiatives and overall efficiency.

Structured Quality Department to best practices: ASQ basics, Corrective action, RMA, etc.

COATING EXCELLENCE INTERNATIONAL, Wrightstown, WI June 2008 – June 2011

Raw Material Procurement- Resin

Strategic focus for resin, substrate and adhesives commodities. Created strategies for risk mitigation, quality improvement and value on plastic resins and filmic substrates by slashing raw material costs 7% overall.

Project Management: Created and cost savings projects for cost savings and risk management.

Managed three reports on indirect spend for cost, quality and professional development.

Subject Matter expert publishing communications report on petrochemical economic feedstock for management team.

PERMACEL TAPE & AUTOMOTIVE (Nitto Americas) Jan 2006 – June 2008

Procurement Specialist - Chemicals

Co-created NA Shared Corporate Procurement and Sourcing department by defining new centralized team charter, role & responsibilities, metrics, and strategy for optimum synergy across five plants in the Automotive and Tape business units.

Strategically managed $33 Million chemical spend for four domestic manufacturing plants resulting in a 4% savings YOY during challenging hurricane and petrochemical inflationary period.

KOHLER COMPANY Jan 2005 – Jan 2006

Sourcing Specialist – New Product Development Faucets

Faucets Group New Product Development procurement paired with Supplier Quality from ideation to launch for New Faucets product suites.

Through successful time management, sourced project requirements for on time and on budget launch to coincide with International Home Shows.

Developed excel Make vs Buy analysis tool.

EDUCATION

Lakeland College Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration, Summa Cum Laude GPA 3.83/4.0

PMI Project Management- Studying for PMP exam – 2019

Karass Negotiation Seminar I

WSET Level 2 Wine and Spirits certification

Yellow Belt Six Sigma

PROFESSIONAL

ERP Systems: SAP, Oracle, Epicor, Developed Custom ERP for chemicals.

Spend Analytics: Ariba, Zycus, Advanced MS Office.

2019- Studying for PMP certification.

National Association of Professional Women

Twin Cities Society of Cosmetic Chemists

CPM ISM – expired. If required, will commit to CPSM.

Committee Member - ISM Twin Cities Membership

ASQ Certifications: MDD, CMDCAS, ISO 14971, 9001 Standards and ISO 13485 Auditor

Irish Fair Volunteer

Relocating to Arizona Feb 1, 2019, Remote positions considered

Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/heidigleason

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