Karen Twomey

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Salisbury, MA 01952 acuchk@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Positive procurement professional with 10 plus years of experience in seeks a buyer opportunity with an energized organization. Focused on cost savings and avoidance, reduced inventories and policy compliance while maintaining superior supplier relationships

Experienced MRO and MRP buyer; well-versed in Supplier Diversity programs

Emphasis on LT reduction and flexible capacities via Kanban and SNC planning

Excellent people skill, engaged with cross functional internal/external customers

Expertise in master service agreement negotiations with legal collaboration

Engaged with quality, safety, and logistical groups daily to insure material flow

SAP, Oracle’s Agile, A/P Readsoft, OneSource, Workday, Microsoft Office

Experience in material planning for NPI manufacturing assembly

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Medtronic, Danvers, MA 2011-2015

Buyer/Planner

MRO, Microbiology and Production Buyer for medical device manufacturer.

Negotiated 95K annual cost savings for clean room and security contracts, 24K savings for warehouse vehicle lease and a 20K savings with the consolidation of offsite storage

Appointed Supplier Diversity Coordinator for Cardiovascular business unit initiatives.

Implemented a regulatory request for material change to become a latex free environment

Managed indirect supplier scorecard review, supplier file migration, a/p invoice issues, qualified new suppliers to ASL, developed documentation for indirect purchasing policy compliance, emphasis on material OTD, process non-conforming material reports, crafted change orders to update specs with support from supplier quality engineering. Warehouse, human resource, regulatory, value stream, packaging and engineering manager support.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Beverly, MA 2006 –2011

Buyer/Planner

Technical buyer capital equipment, casted and sheet metals, valves, fittings, pumps, molded plastic, electronics, PCB’s, tubing, hardware, electrodes, and packaging for both OEM and mfg. for $83M Environmental Water Analysis Instrument Division.

Primary material support of mfg. cell team via MPS scheduling on make-to-book line with 2600 variations

Principal advisor to internal/external customers for product availability and shipment

Monthly cost savings up to 10K achieved by RFQ price negotiation, realignment of supply base or support of modified design

Reduced lean inventory levels by 30% through negotiated blanket and Kanban agreements

Team secretary of process improvement freight logistics cost reduction team; trained peers on RoHS/HTS Classification and compliance.

Managed vendor relationships through QA supplier rating program; improved OTD to 95% and brought MRB to less than 1K.

Approved samples, Eco’s, executed PO’s from data analysis, updated part modifiers, resolved acct payable issues

Pentucket Regional High School, West Newbury, MA 2005

Long Term Substitute History

Salem State University, Salem, MA 2003-2005

Graduate Student full-time

Grant awarded by State/Employer to be retrained in teaching profession.

Lucent Technologies, N. Andover, MA 1999-2002

Optic Supply Chain Specialist

Commodity and Supplier management

Managed $80M transceiver sourcing strategy for telecommunications design and development teams. Supervised five indirect reports.

Created alliance global partnerships with leading edge companies and negotiated cost savings of 32%.

Sales and marketing expertise linked to a $10M cost reduction in inventory liabilities.

Proven ability to restructure use and process of commodities that generated $25M in savings.

Participated in industry technical conferences to engage market, promote programs and benchmark standards.

Procurement Supervisor

Sourcing management and support to local buying team

Mentored, trained and coached a team of eight purchasing associates in support of local and global supply chain strategy. Successful in company instructed phase-out of zone transaction center resulting in immediate cost savings of $300K.

OTHER EMPLOYMENT

AT&T Technologies, N. Andover, MA, Material Analyst

ERA Keenan Realty, Salisbury, MA, Real Estate Salesperson

EDUCATION

MBA, Franklin Pierce University; M.Ed., Salem State University, Secondary Education

BA, Western New England College Liberal Studies

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

CSCP coursework, APIC seminars, Hazmat and WPI project mgt., MA Realtor

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