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PROFILE

PROCUREMENT/SOURCING - SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Professional purchaser, sourcing specialist and supply chain management with more than 12 years of experience.

Consistently exceed objectives and increase bottom-line profits, and ability to decision making with multiple stakeholders.

Strong analytical instincts & skills, sound business judgment, and results-driven mindset.

Extensive experience in procurement of direct and indirect materials, with solid negotiation skills.

An excellent communicator with an ability to perform well in multitasking environment, and a quick learner.

Understand the basic concepts of process improvement, focus on execution, and Quality Assurance based on KAIZEN and LEAN in business.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Strategic Sourcing Methodology

People Management

Negotiation

International/Global Experience

Multi-category buying experience

RFQ/RFP

SAP/AMT/SAGE

Inventory Planning/Control

ERP & JDA (Demand Planning)

Vendor Scorecard and Vendor Management

Project Management

Problem Identification/Solutions

MRP and SRM tool

Proficient in MS office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS

SOURCING/PURCHASING AND SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT MANAGER May, 2018 - Present

KSB USA - GA

The KSB Group is one of the leading producers of pumps, valves and related service offerings. The KSB Group has sales and marketing organizations, manufacturing facilities and service operations on all continents.

Develop long term competitive strategies for product transition and enhancements, including and outsourcing products to Asia, South Africa, South America and U.S. vendors.

Build strong working relationships with various cross functional groups throughout KSB and various internal departments.

Work closely with sales to understand current and future needs to drive growth and translates those needs into Supplier requirements.

Understand that high Supplier performance is a result of the interrelationship of processes, technologies, and people. Uses this knowledge and skill to create mutually beneficial opportunities for GIW/KSB Mining group, and the Supplier Company.

Develop working relationships with new suppliers by performing preliminary research, meeting with representatives, verifying product availability, and finalizing terms.

Manage report capital budget plan vs. actual to executive and budget analysis based high spend articles.

Reduce working capital by increasing payment terms to 90 days.

Direct a seven-person global buyer’s team to support strategy plan.

Evaluate and mitigate risk, while observing operational and financial targets.

Manage core vendors and make improvements in total cost including terms, freight, unit cost, quality improvement and inventory reduction, and Invoice Management.

Execute global and/or local strategies, working towards the development and management of a strategic sourcing pipeline.

Develop and manage relationships with international/national/regional suppliers, assist in contracts, and major purchase agreement negotiations.

Lead in major spends categories for supplier selection, qualification, RFP process, and contract negotiations.

SOURCING AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST April, 2017 – May, 2018

Avantik Biogroup – Springfield, NJ

Avantik is an integrated medical products and services company, delivering superior quality equipment, consumables and service to anatomic pathology, Mohs and on-site pathology laboratories nationwide.

Manage strategic sourcing and procurement activities for manufacturing and service business unit.

Develop, integrate, and execute raw materials sourcing and procurement strategies, exceed the deflation goal of 50% with a stretch goal of appx. 75%

Create and execute plans to assure orders meet specified quality and delivery times and minimize the total cost of purchases.

Manage multiple RFPs, create spend reports to analyze, and develop monthly Margin Savings analysis.

Source new domestic and internationally suppliers, Develop cost reduction strategies and inventory reduction programs.

Negotiate with suppliers to meet quality, delivery, and cost objectives.

Lead significant improvements in pre-production, final inspection, purchasing and engineering processes to reduce the cost of the final product.

Identified and developed strategic sourcing initiatives resulting appx $200K cost reduction in precision machined parts.

Interact with cross functional teams including operations, engineering and finance to maximize product manufacture ability, and increase profitability. Manage three indirect reports.

Recognize new opportunities for innovation within assigned categories.

PURCHASER March, 2016 – March, 2017

Intercos - West Nyack, NY

Intercos manufacture and specialized in color cosmetic, pencils, nail polish and skin care with a global presence.

Oversaw the annual procurement of roughly $6.5 million (more than 1000 SKU's).

Built long and short term professional relationships with global vendors.

Negotiated the best price and MOQ to drive business profitability.

Forecasted inventory requirement, reduced the inventory on hand by approximately 50K/annum by reducing the safety stock, without impacting any service levels.

Created order calculators to improve speed, efficiency of reordering product, and reduced delivery time.

GLOBAL SR. BUYER AND SOURCING SPECIALIST February, 2010 – March, 2016

Global Contacts Inc. – New York City, NY

Global Contacts Inc (GCI) provides a unique service for industrial manufacturers looking for export opportunities to the Middle East.

Managed and continuously review the Purchase Order System (MRP), to ensure it is accurate, up to date and consistently met the requirements of the business.

Supervised 4 individuals of project team from different departments.

Increased margin up to 30% by renegotiating lower material cost based on high volume discounts.

Increased savings by 25% by re-negotiating prices with the overseas freight companies.

Extensive experience in Procure-to-Pay (P2P); Super user for all the procurement related processes and systems.

Vendor Management, including contract negotiations, supplier issued resolution, and responsible for planning.

Primarily responsible for sourcing products, assembly globally, executed and expedited assigned projects.

Established long and short term business relationships with domestic and oversea vendors from Asia, South America/ Africa, Europe.

PURCHASING ASSISTANT & LOGISTIC MANAGER March, 2008 – February, 2010

Casso Solar Corp – Pomona, NY

Casso Solar provide the complete design and fabrication of infrared heat processing machinery customized to maximize efficiency and productivity.

Managed a team of 3 individuals. Developed their skill sets.

Wire-Harness, electric commodities such as control panels, circuit breakers, conduits, connectors, enclosures.

Expedited RFQ/RFP, orders and contract negotiation for direct and indirect materials.

Created and sent purchase orders and built healthy relationship with local and Asian vendors for direct & indirect materials.

Six Sigma – Green Belt – September, 2019

MBA in Global Operations and supply Chain Management – Capella University – October, 2018

PMP-PMI

CSCP – APICS

Certified CPP and CPPM – APS

Certified Initialing and Planning project – UCI

Bachelors in FMM with Buying & Planning major - Fashion Institute of Technology, NY

Bachelors in Accounting & Finance — Lyallpur Khalsa College, India.

EDUCATION

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