Purchasing Manager

C. Jason Brown

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Murphy, NC 28906 ***.***@*****.***

EXPERTISE

• Sourcing materials and services

• Negotiating contracts and long-term agreements

• Managing team members, engendering dedication and loyalty

• Directing procurement for new product development and manufacturing operations

• Leading team communications, responsibilities and deliverables

• Reducing operational costs

• Interchanging MRO products and maintaining JIT scheduling

• Supplier performance analysis

• Driving continuous improvement projects to reduce in materials utilization processes

• Products: bearings, gearing, rubber (hoses, belts, seals), motors, hydraulic and pneumatic, chain, electric

drives, couplings and machined components

EXPERIENCE

Purchasing Manager

Moog Components Group

November 2008 to Present

• Directing $35 million in annual spend

• Supporting commercial, medical, aerospace and defense programs

• Sourcing machined parts, injection moldings, electrical components, bearings, wire, and PCBA drives

• Developing and maintaining global and domestic supplier relationships

• Developing strategies for supplier risk mitigation

• Compliance in NAFTA, CAFTA, Conflict Minerals, ITAR, RoHs, REACH, DFARS, Buy American

• Conducting market analysis for metals (copper, neodymium and dysprosium)

Divisional Purchasing Manager

Jim Walter Homes

May 2005 – February 2008

Named 2007 Top 100 Regional Builder Purchasing Executives

• Sourced regional vendors

• Managed supplier contracts

• Developed divisional price agreement system with national building supplies

• Eliminated variable and delivery costs

• Implemented turnkey and rebate programs

• Managed purchasing processes with systematic efficiency

• Job cost analysis and margin error evaluation

• Developed and implemented strategies to enhance future cost controls

• Issued and approved regional job cost bids

Applied Industrial Technologies

February 1995 – April 2005

Sales Supervisor

• Led branch sales into Top 10 of 400 national branches

• Established and maintained 99.8% error-free performance

• Managed associates in purchasing, sales, invoicing and shipping/receiving

Outside Sales

• Sales of MRO products and solutions to local manufacturing Purchasing Departments, Maintenance

Managers and inside Procurement Specialists

Inside Sales

• Sales and technical support for local manufacturing, processing and OEM customers

• MRO product research and sourcing

• Expediting purchase orders

Customer Service, Sales Team Leader

Emerson Power Transmission, Division of Emerson Electric

June 1993 – January 1995

• Created mechanical solutions and support for distribution and OEM customers

• Evaluated shipping specs and scheduled customer shipments for general, custom and hedge orders

• Evaluating and troubleshooting customer crisis needs, offering alternative products, non-standard

sourcing and/or shipping

Cost Estimator

Campbell Rhea

December 1991 – June 1993

• Created bids for national dealers of institutional laboratories (casework, counter top, fume hoods, etc.)

• Performed take offs and bid development for dealers

• Reading blueprints and drawings, analyzing specs

• Found bid discrepancies and initiated addendums

COMPUTER SKILLS

SAP

Timberline

Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Baan IV

EDUCATION

Western Carolina University

Bachelor of Science, Marketing

Six Sigma Green Belt certification

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