JOHN LABELLA

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Phone 470-***-****

Experience:

OFFICE DEPOT CORPORATION, (Southeast Region Sales Hub), Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Oct 2016 to Present

CROSS REFERENCE/PRICING ANALYST

Summary:

For my duties as a Cross Reference/Pricing Analyst, I processed contract pricing requests from worldwide sales branches and independent sales organizations for quotes on manufactured products, comparing their requests or current competitor pricing agreement to contract pricing (if available) as well as suggesting replacement items when applicable, as well as Freedom of Information Act bids.

Processing RFQ/RFP from branch sales offices

Provide guidance and mentoring of pricing functions to others.

Maintenance and improvement of contract customers and pricing system/procedures.

Reviewing pricing quotes on earlier quotes to customers, to win renewal contract.

Used Salesforce to enter, assign, review and process pricing bids.

Coordinate client and vendor visitations.

Maintained/reviewed pricing files from various customers.

Kept track of purchase contractual compliance purchases, and recommended customer contact when needed.

Collaborate with Merchant and Sales department to add new items when available, and remove discontinued items from customer contracts, making recommended replacements.

Prepare contract pricing proposals for FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) bids.

MURATA ELECTRONICS, Smyrna, Georgia. May 2016 to Aug 2016

PRICING COORDINATOR/QUOTE SPECIALIST

Summary:

In my role as a Pricing Coordinator/Quote Specialist, I processed quotes from worldwide sales branches and independent sales organizations for quotes on manufactured products, comparing their requests to contract

pricing (if available) as well as suggesting replacement items when applicable.

• Processing RFQ/RFP from branch sales offices

• Reviewing pricing quotes on earlier quotes to customers, to win purchases

• Worked with advanced Excel functions to clean and apply Murata format to customer data

• Maintained/reviewed pricing files from various customers

HENRY SCHEIN, INC, Melville, New York May 2005 to Nov 2015

PRICING ANALYST

Summary:

In my role as a Pricing Analyst I worked closely with Senior Management analyzing supplier pricing to ensure system cost integrity. My functions included updating item cost, sell price, reviewing pricing reports and daily research and resolution of invoice discrepancies, using Excel (with v-lookups/h-lookups, and other advanced formula and pivot tables). Work analysis was performed in close collaboration with purchasing and marketing teams to maximize communication and synergy. I monitored key metrics and supplier pricing performance to ensure supplier communications were received, accurately updated and managed for optimum performance.

I also created and developed a training course and video for team members.

• Interface with IT dept for reporting data, uploading financial changes into mainframe system, creating ad-hoc reporting, tracking pricing trends from suppliers

• Manage price changes to assess financial impact for Senior Management, and coordinate future pricing offers

from suppliers to Buying Team to improve Inner Margin.

• Communicate effectively and work closely with buying team so company can meet supplier prerequisites (such as minimums, case quantity’s, deal requirements)

• Timely and accurate entry of all price changes, and maintaining price logs

• Initiate negotiations for price increase extensions and significant price change variances

• Timely resolution of daily invoicing discrepancies; identifying their causes and suggest proactive actions to prevent future purchase order/invoice discrepancies on item and vendor level

• Review and analyze pricing reports to assess cost system accuracy and purchasing adjustments,

including those for daily changes, invoice-low, invoice-high and future file cost reductions.

• Responsible for reviewing and updating cost information from suppliers and partners

• Negotiate buyouts and price extensions with suppliers

• Analysis of supplier A/P items, contract maintenance and shipping issues

Accomplishments:

• Team Lead on Culture Project, coordinated meetings, set individual pricing, team and departmental goals and

time-schedule; Provided presentations to management; negotiated pricing contracts and cost extensions;

compared pricing deals between suppliers.

ARROW ELECTRONICS, Melville, New York October 1998 to May 2005

PRODUCT ACCOUNTANT

Summary:

• Responsible for inventory valuation, inventory costs and processing supplier contract rebates

• Contract rebates and chargeback audits, bill backs, inventory reconciliation with sales, write-downs and write-offs

• Prepared and analyzed monthly point-of-sale inventory records and reconciliation for suppliers

• EDI transmission status and review, general ledger, journal entry research

• Account analysis and monthly reconciliation of financial system to inventory system

• Journal entries for scrap write-off and write-down of goods, branch bill backs, scrap goods

• Reviewed quarterly obsolescence report, assisted in financial write downs

• Reconciliation of inventory to accounting-system records and drop shipment billings

• Expense and trade vendor set-ups; COD’s and International/Domestic wire transfers

• Reconciled vendor statements, managed weekly Accounts Payable check runs

• Analyze supplier accounts, negotiated extended terms, assist in monthly-closings

Accomplishments:

• Negotiated +$150k savings with IBM over inventory calculation

• Negotiated contract dispute with largest suppliers

• Created weekly email template for supplier-reporting, realized +$100k annual savings

• Managed Task Force to reduce aging financial receivables (ship and debit dollars)

• Supervised archived records project, presented cost-savings to multiple-departments

Education: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Old Westbury, New York

Bachelor of Science Major: Accounting

Skills: Microsoft Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Word, Hyperion, Monarch

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