JILL SUPPLY CHAIN/FINANCIAL ANALYST

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adrq7f@r.postjobfree.com 785-***-**** Topeka, KS 66604

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results-driven Supply Chain/Financial Analyst with over 15 years of experience of consistently delivering cost savings and improving the integrity of materials and services, provided from internal and outside resources. Such improvements are obtained through supplier management and contract negotiations while creating productive and enduring partnerships. A proactive leader focused on developing and implementing efficient process controls, which includes procurement, logistics, quality, and R&D improvement initiatives.

SKILLS

RFx (cradle-to-grave)

Contract Negotiations

Procurement\Vendor Management

Public and Private Sector

SAP, Ariba, PeopleSoft, JDE, Coupa

Production Planning

eProcurement

Financial /Data Analysis

A/P, Data Reconciliation

Project Management

Domestic and International Logistics

Direct and Indirect Spend

WORK HISTORY

Purchasing Coordinator(Contract) City of Lawrence – Lawrence, KS 5/2022 – Current

Create, administer, and manage RFx Process for all City Departments. Interface with Stakeholders, Suppliers, Legal, IT, and Finance to procure goods/services at a cost-savings. Develop resource materials that will standardize and centralize Purchasing functions in Workflow of new software implementation set for January 2023.

Procurement/Project Control Analyst(Contract) Evergy – St Marys,KS 4/2021– 12/2021

Manage Procurement Cycle of all Maintenance and Repair projects for all Kansas and Missouri facilities. Develop cost reporting analysis to support Project Management of each PO.

• Secure targeted cost savings through strategic vendor management and contract negotiations.

• Identify process improvements to ensure On-Time delivery, Quality approved materials, and accurate inventory management.

● Administer the supplier invoice approval process and resolve any discrepancies.

Lead Buyer/Planner Tri-Mas - Ottawa, KS 10/2018 – 04/2021

Direct Supply Chain and Production Planning for an Aerospace Fastener company with $20M+ in annual sales. Collaborate across the organization to increase efficiencies in operation costs by identifying process improvements directly related to production processes and material scheduling.

• Slashed customer back-orders 40% by identifying efficient sequences of production scheduling that reduced change-over/set-up costs resulting in increased profit margin.

Procurement Specialist (Contract) Hill's Pet Nutrition - Topeka, KS 10/2016 - 05/2017

Increased Cost Savings through Strategic Planning and Contract Negotiations for all Raw Materials for all North America production facilities. Improved results of KPI's through Project Management, Supplier Performance, Vendor Conflict Resolution, Contract Management and Quality Control. Continuous improvement of analysis of market-trends and logistics planning led to improved Production Planning with material availability to facilities which also improved Customer Service.

• Generated $3,000,000 in material cost savings through Contract Negotiations in Q1 of 2017.

• Expanded Supplier base by 110% through RFP which identified five new Vendors. Qualified each new source through Quality Compliance and Engineering approval of product management.

Vendor Manager/Process Improvement Analyst (Contract) Tri-Com Technical Services (se2) - Topeka, KS 07/2016 - 10/2016

Improved Project Management of Capital/OE/Infrastructure projects. Developed and managed project status reports to all stakeholders by collecting, analyzing and summarizing data and trends.

• Increased process efficiency by 30% in Vendor Management, Contract Negotiations, and Contract Administration by creating workflow mapping.

Buyer/Planner Simmons Pet Food - Emporia, KS 12/2014 - 05/2016

Improve Productivity, Quality and Efficiency of Operations achieved through MRP analysis, Contract Negotiations and Inventory Control.

• Reduced raw material inventory by 3,000,000 pounds and reduced production downtime due to inventory discrepancies from 12% to 2%.

• Generated cost savings of $200,000 in Q1 of 2016 through contract negotiations.

• Increased profit margin over 15% by working with Engineering and Quality Control to identify alternate materials, while maintaining integrity of required formula analysis.

Grocery Supply Owner – Topeka, KS 08/2011 – 10/2014

Managed all Operations, including Accounting, Purchasing, Inventory, HR, Sales, and Marketing. Increased profit by 30% by identifying new suppliers which delivered cost savings. Expanded the products in inventory to include home furnishings, health/beauty, and textiles in addition to groceries.

Procurement Officer III State of Kansas – Topeka, KS 10/2008 – 05/2011

Responsible for the cradle-to-grave process of establishing contracts for State of Kansas Agencies for their acquisition of goods and services; including review of requisitions, leading bid solicitations (RFP, RFQ, IFB), analysis of bids, establishment of contracts along with development of statewide, multi-agency contracts. Serve as SME in facilitation of contracts for goods and services in commodities and services such as enterprise technology, communication, business, scientific, financial, medical, educational, and consultants for; financial, legal, medical, research, human resource, government, etc.

EDUCATION

BBA – BACHELOR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BAKER UNIVERSITY 2005

CERTIFICATION

CPPB – CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC BUYER 2011-2016

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