Manager Supply Chain

CLIO WILLIAMS

Mobile: 281-***-**** Email: ************@*****.***

Experienced senior buyer with extensive knowledge of supplier management. Strong international and domestic experience in the full supply chain process. Personable leader and mentor to new supply chain staff. Readily looked upon as a gatekeeper of departmental knowledge.

BUSINESS HISTORY:

Commercial Metals Company - CMC Steel Mill, Seguin, Texas March 2019 – March 2021

Senior Buyer

Provide continuity of management, supervision, and leadership within Supply Chain Services by assuming duties and responsibilities as designated by the Senior Manager of Purchasing CMC Steel Texas.

Assist in the development of a competent, productive, and affective departmental staff by participating in the interview process for applicants and making recommendations regarding hiring decisions, training staff members involved in procurement operations, providing input regarding performance, and in the absence of or direction of the Senior Manager, supervising staff engaged in procurement functions.

Oversaw the insurance, safety and ICA/MSA contract leader for CMC Steel Mill.

Use of Kanban, Kaizen, Six Sigma and other Lean strategies to benchmark and to remove non-value-adding processes at this mill.

Review and implement Spend Under Management and Spend Efficiencies while right-sizing supplier base.

Supervisor over Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) programming.

Manage contract negotiations, compliance, and reviews of contract language.

Minimize industrial liability by reviewing approval or disapproval of CMC contracts in terms of adequacy of contract terminology, content, and obligation of physical resources of CMC and advises CMC buyers of statues, regulations, and procedures for the procurement of commodities and/or services.

Capital equipment project and services buyer for all of CMC Steel Texas.

Operations go-to in Purchasing Department for all CMC Steel Mill issues, outside of standard purchase orders.

Nabors Industries, Houston, Texas December 2014 – February 2019

Supply Chain / Buyer II

Saudi Aramco-Nabors Drilling (SANAD) joint venture project buyer, currently 47 rigs.

Saudi Arabia buyer, Nabors Drilling International.

Purchased for domestic rig fleet upgrade project 2016-2018

Purchased for domestic rigs coming out of stack into the Eagle Ford area.

Analyzed equipment trends to determine areas for improvement - from cost savings, timely supply, and quality of materials.

Forecasting rig moves; evaluating cost variances among vendors for maximized savings.

Team member of Oracle Financial Suite upgrade.

Assist with vendor vetting process, including Master Service Agreements (MSA) and contracts, working closely with MSA legal team.

Collaborate with Quality Control and engineering to identify qualified suppliers and to continuously improve the performance of existing ones.

Focus on vendor management, holding them accountable for cost as well as performance.

Assist suppliers with questions or problems concerning the supply chain process to ensure timely delivery.

Team lead over emergency on-call buyer program.

Mentoring new employees as to corporate policies, procedures, and departmental practices.

Nabors Industries, Houston, Texas October 2011 – December 2014

Supply Chain / Vendor Services: Support Specialist

Performed activities related to Vendor Master Data Management.

Supported the initiation of requests for creation, update, or change to master data.

Executed changes to master data as approved by business review process including requests to create, change, extend, block/unblock, activate/deactivate, or otherwise modify master data.

Informed requestor and key stakeholders of request status as appropriate.

Reacted to escalation notices to expedite creation or change to master data as needed.

Point person for vendor training of Nabors Supplier Gateway portal.

Created several SOPs to assist colleagues and vendors with repeat invoice issues.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Bachelors of Health and Science, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, 1996

Working towards CPSM certification in Supply Chain Management – ISM, expected completion 8/1/2021

SKILLS:

PC and MAC

Microsoft 2016 and 365

Microsoft Office: Edge, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, and Visio

Kaizen, Kanban, JIT, Lean, Six Sigma

SAP, SharePoint, One Drive

ORACLE Financials, Web Conference Center/Adobe Connect, Cisco

Peoplesoft and Syteline

External Tools: One Drive, SharePoint, Teams, Zoom, Skype, Plateau, SQL Documentum Database, CITRIX, SalesForce, Harvard Graphics, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Creative Suites

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Institute for Supply Management: ISM – Austin Board Membership Chair, Austin, TX

Oilfield Helping Hands, Houston, TX - Past Member

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Procurement Professional (CPP), International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management (IFPSM), 2020

Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM), Institute for Supply Management (ISM), target end of 2021

REFERENCES:

Available upon request.

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