Materials Manager Buyer

**** ****** ***** *****

San Ramon, CA *****

Phone: 925-***-****

E-mail: adntsa@r.postjobfree.com

Barbara Price

Summary

Experienced Senior Buyer / Planner / Materials Management Professional offering extensive experience in Materials management and Procurement for Medical device and Semi-conductor companies from NPI through production

Self-motivated with excellent analytical, problem solving, communication, and organizational skills

Enjoy challenging work assignments and can learn very quickly. Good team player, with ability to juggle multiple tasks, and dedicated to excellence. Willing to participate in cross-functional team environment and go beyond what is expected to accomplish professional goals and objectives

Resourcefulness, ability to learn new skills and communicate on different levels

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Relevant Skills

Experience with ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 compliance

Supporting Medical audit procedures

Ability to set up and manage a sufficient stockroom, receiving department, MRB and maintain supplier records as required per company SOP’S

Continued success to plan, procure high volume of materials including Metal Fabrication and supplier management to reduce costs and to meet company build dates to ensure on time customer delivery

Tools: MS Office, Agile, Intuitive, SAP, Oracle

Professional experience

12/2019-03/2020 Randstad Staffing, Dublin, CA (Temp) Carl Zeiss Meditec Inspection/QC

Updated Supplier records to comply with ISO 90001 – ISO 13485

02/2018-09/2019 SVXR, Inc. San Jose, CA (Temp /Start-up) Senior Buyer / Planner

Procure materials for Semiconductor equipment

Receive / Ship all material transactions

Manage stock room / Cycle count / Physical Inventory

Responsible for kits required for contract manufacturer

Participated in productions meetings and supplier management

12/2016-12/2017 Roth Staffing, Pleasanton, CA (Temp) Senior Buyer / Planner

Procure materials for Engineering to support purchasing department

Support International purchases for Japan, Korea and Singapore

Support buyers with assignments as required

08/2009 – 09/2016 Oraya Therapeutics, Newark, CA Materials Manager

Manage the sourcing of material to support in-house system builds (1500 plus parts)

Responsible for supply chain and Inventory Management activities of all inventory and distribution per quality system procedures

Identify alternate suppliers whenever possible to minimize sole source restrictions

Manage the outsourcing of custom designed subassemblies such as PCB'S and cables

Creative in handling changing business priorities and the occasional ambiguous challenges of a fast moving start-up company

Responsible for Receiving and Stock room management, which includes: MRB cage/QC Hold cage/ RGA cage, planning and releasing all production work orders

06/2007 – 07/2009 KLA-Tencor, Milpitas, CA Senior Buyer / Planner

Responsible for raw materials in support of assigned product line, ECO implementation, outsourcing and purchase order integrity

Set up and managed floor stock program for acquisition and integration of new company

Identified obsolete material, teamed with Engineering to locate replacements

Global inventory management for Logistics through target stock level

Reduced MRB aging from 80 days to less than 7 days

Maintained invoice discrepancies to less than 5 days

Reduced inventory level by $175K through E&O analysis

Trained and supervised Junior Buyer staff in India for product procurement, and related purchasing activities

01/2000 – 06/2007 Therma-Wave, Fremont, CA Senior Buyer / Planner

Trained for and conducted SSQA Internal Audits

Active participation in Supply Chain Management through supplier audits and inspections

Successfully transitioned to “Advanced Cell Manufacturing” and adapted to diverse commodity procurement

Negotiated a reduction of supplier inventory of over $1,000,000 to defer JIT/Kanban contract obligations

Successful in achieving company’s strategic goals and objectives concerning cost savings, inventory turns, lead time reductions, shortages, on-time delivery and quality through Supply Chain Management

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