Kim Borges

Livermore, CA • 408-***-**** • ad2uwd@r.postjobfree.com

Results driven Senior Buyer with over 20 years of experience and a proven track record helping companies advance their purchasing processes while achieving savings targets. Successful in building & maintaining strong relationships with internal/external customers and vendors.

Skills

E2E Purchasing

Selling Price Recommendations

Competitive Sourcing

Supplier Negotiations

SOP documentation

Critical Thinking

RFP

Supplier Relationship Management

Work History

Senior Buyer 8/2022-Present

Totus Medicines Corporation – Emeryville, CA

Startup opportunity in helping drive supply chain initiatives for R&D lab team.

Established order request intake, fulfillment, and replenishment to ensure material availability, driving on time delivery while working closely with the lab.

Managed material receiving, tracking chemicals and approval of invoices for payment.

Designed stocking locations and levels with lab and conducted replenishment.

Onboarded and managed lab coat vendor with weekly deliveries.

Coordinated onsite company events from onboarding and managing to drive successful outcomes while staying within budget. Ordered and maintained employee food perks while maintaining budgets.

Monthly reconciliation of company credit card.

Senior Buyer, 10/2014 to 9/2022

Invitae Corporation – San Francisco, CA

Sr Buyer for Inventory, MRO & International

Conducted multiple RFPs awarding business to drive lowest possible cost, factoring in quality and reliability, negotiating favorable contracts for long term scalability.

Led new lab project equipment purchases saving the company over $1M in new equipment purchases for new lab located in North Carolina.

Purchased new equipment for International Labs starting up in Australia and Israel and built out asset tracking tool.

Analyzed inventory usage and assessed trends to determine proper stocking and ordering levels for optimum buy signal targets while maximizing Inventory turns.

Trained new buyers with designed SOPs and managed competency for accuracy to meet company requirements and standards.

Helped build out the Indirect E2E procurement module during Oracle implementation.

Held regular cadence vendor meetings to drive KPI’s (sOTIF, cost savings, quality standards)

Led the procurement team in invoice reconciliation with the AP team driving us from over 30 to 40 invoices on hold at any given time to 0 by month end.

Purchasing Manager, 11/2013 to 03/2014

Resa-Relectric Inc – San Jose, CA

Sourced inbound sales orders, placed PO's with the preferred vendors using the lowest cost to attain a 60% margin.

Cleared a backlog totaling $106K of 174 returns items by taking appropriate action and disposition the material based on the material discrepancy.

Negotiated restocking fee when returning good material outside of the vendor's return policy.

Senior Buyer/Production Planner, 03/2007 to 09/2013

Smiths Detection-Safran Morpho Detection – Newark, CA

Managed Suppliers and Contract Manufactures in all commodities, large machine parts for high volume of critical parts, including PCB and PCBA.

Negotiated and procured electronics, motion controlled and large machine commodities and

other complex material for new product integration (NPI).

Created, implemented & executed various levels of templates, procedures with associated

cost analysis methodology, became an expert with utilizing the ERP system by minimizing

new buys and reducing excess inventory.

Revised Strategic Supplier Chain to reduce single sourced suppliers reduced risk, achieved &

exceeded cost savings targets of $500K on low volume, high mix parts.

Ensured MRP accuracy of all new buy messages and executed action message based on

business needs utilizing strategic buy strategies.

Took ownership of global supplier management during absence of leader.

Implemented metrics for new buys and repairable parts.

Contributed to Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR's) ensuring supplier delivery, quality and

service expectations met overall metric driven goals and objectives, improved on-time delivery

goal of 90%.

Developed and implemented policies and procedures for process improvement for the buyers

Education

Bachelor of Science: Business Management, 2006

University of Phoenix - Tempe, AZ

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