KIM COLLINS

SUMMARY

Dedicated professional offering a unique combination of Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Sci-Quests skills including 21 years of experience, which includes Purchasing Buyer and teaching the Oracle system to buyer’s as well as senior staff and clients.

Creative and enthusiastic with proven success in building and managing relationships with peers, and customers and the general public; Committed to personal and professional growth and opportunity. Additional areas of expertise include:

1.Team Building & Leadership / Oral & Written Communications/Program Planning & Development/Banner System

2.Oracle Interpretation/System Script Writing/Interact with Managers & Directors.

SKILLS

Microsoft Office, PeopleSoft, Oracle Discoverer, MS Word, Excel Spreadsheet. Proficient in the following systems - Banner, Sci-Quest and Workday.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FRENER- REIFER AMERICA INC. NEW YORK, NY JAN 18 TO JUN 18

PURCHASING / BUYER CONSTRUCTION

Negotiate construction contracts.

Drafting contracts.

Analyst A/P Tracker and input data in system.

Request Review and Award RX Process (RFI, RFQ, RFP).

Analyze data in the ERP system, Navigation.

Create Metric.

Enter vendors as well as contracts into the Navigation System (ERP).

Posting invoices in the system for payment.

Create PO’s in the system.

Sourcing Vendors.

Negotiate and implement deals that maximize cost savings, improve service levels, mitigate contractual risks, and creates/improves overall value.

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY- NEW YORK, NY NOV 17 TO JAN 18

BUYER

Create RFP's as well as negotiate savings within the purchasing environment

Create PO's and review requisitions

Prepares and executes bidding events including RFI/RFP/RFQ

Procure non IT goods and services; compare costs and evaluate quality of materials ensuring industry standards

Contract savings as well as draft contracts to specifications

Create contracts for new vendors as well as bids

Work within the Workday (ERP) systems not only with creating PO's, updating and extending contract that are expiring

Uploading/Creating vendors that a not in the system

Analyze data in the system

Sourcing vendors

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE - NEW YORK, NY AUG 17 TO OCT 17

PROCUREMENT GENERALIST

Contracts and negotiation

Drafting new contracts

Adding existing SOW’s as well as contracts with new vendors

Supervised purchasing agents, ensuring quality and accuracy of work

Encumbered, approved and processed purchase orders

Review all contracts and creating RFP’s for new vendors

Create and pull extract vital data to be reviewed for new contracts

Preform data exports from excel spreadsheet

Vlookup as well as pivot tables to extract specific data

THE NEW SCHOOL NEW YORK, NY APR 13 TO DEC 16

SENIOR BUYER

Data Management, Cleansing Data as well as handling exceptions

Purchasing / Buyer

Proactively identify data gaps and issues

Request, review and award RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs

Perform data exports from My New Source and combines multiple data sets to derive and create metrics

Scrub data by reviewing data fields and deriving inconsistencies from inaccurate processing

Utilizes advanced excel features such as vlookups, pivot tables

Sourcing supplies through both systems Sci-Quest and Workday systems. As well as contract management

Identify and resolve issues resulting from documents that fail to post from Sci-Quest to Banner. Knowledge of Java as Banner software.

Work with technical leads to assess the error and follow up with appropriate individual

Measure system performance by analyzing and reporting on university spend categorization, based on commodities and annual contract spend with suppliers

Work on multiple projects against deadlines in an extremely dynamic environment, where consistently producing deliverables within agreed upon timeline is expected.

Support security role maintenance, including role hierarchy, profiles and access permission

Identify, document and report Application defects to the development team.

Senior Buyer (April 2013 – July 2014)

Obtaining (RFP’s) Request for Proposal through the Sci-Quest System

Sourcing vendors as well as products for each departmental needs.

Create RFP’s for solicitation as well as perform bids, and contracts for purchases.

Keep abreast of commodity codes for each item entered in the system

Monitor contact expiration dates via Sci-Quest system six month prior to end of contracts for renewal. This included Independent Contractors and licenses and construction and leases on equipment.

Draft new contracts as well as some red-lining

Supporting and keeping abreast of all requisitions and purchase orders received through the system as well as paper requisitions.

Preparation of functional specifications and system requirement

BROADLANE INC. NEW YORK, NY JAN 01 TO APR 12

SENIOR BUYER

Evaluate user and department item master requests.

Recommend best practices to the management to increase efficiency.

Provide functional support and training for all Oracle apps to end-users.

Create and utilize data loader scripts to update items in Oracle ERP.

Identify and monitor all capital purchases utilizing Wise Track Asset Management system

Authorize invoices for payment by reviewing for accuracy and documentation

Manage relinquishment of excess and damaged inventory items; handle all E-Auctions

Manage, prioritize and follow through on multiple projects simultaneously

Establish as well as maintain professional vendor relationships

Compare vendor data with client date using Microsoft Excel.

Create and run queries in Microsoft Access.

Serves as the primary Data Team point or contact for Broadlane staff.

Monitor EDI transactions using Broadlane’s Contract Management System.

Oracle forms and reports toolset.

Data Analysis.

Microsoft Access and Excel and PeopleSoft.

Discoverer Reporting.

ERP Support, Modules, AP, AR, HR, GL.

Secure Banner request and updates to the system as requested.

SENIOR PURCHASING BUYER JAN 00 TO DEC 01

Analyze data and develop strategies for vendors and purchasing functions

Responsible for Inventory management, forecasting and reporting

Negotiated Corporate volume discount contract with vendors

Negotiations with vendors on availability, product specs, distribution, delivery deadlines and price

Initiated and analyzed quotations, negotiated Corporate as well as facility contracts with key suppliers.

Analyzed and monitored pricing trends

Ordering of Medical, Office supplies and computers as well as printing and colligate books.

VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK DEC 95 TO DEC 99

MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT

Maintain preparation of budget estimate and monitoring departmental expenditures

Develop and manage, supply chain, cost saving initiatives

Oversight of all corporate contracts

Involvement with policy creation and vendor relationship

Review and file monthly and quarterly department of transportation report

Conducted inventory management, forecasting and reporting

Work with outside auditors, accounting, finance and treasury personnel

Developed vendor relationships and negotiated contracts with vendors

EDUCATION

Touro College: New York, NY

BA Business Management 1994, Deans List

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