English Teacher Operations Analyst

CAREER SUMMARY

• Senior Operational Buyer and Procurement Strategist with an advanced

background in supplier negotiations, internal stakeholder engagement, and operational analytics initiatives to drive high-percentage cost savings and avoidances across large organizations

• From a leadership perspective, established global strategies and participated on global segment teams while collaborating with Strategic Buyers and internal stakeholders with a visionary approach and forward-thinking strategies

• Identified and implemented annual cost savings and cost avoidance, achieving 80+ cost savings efforts to reach $850K in savings and 40+ cost avoidance initiatives leading to $625K savings

• Skilled in procurement systems including SAP, Revgen, and managed and created purchase orders in Costpoint for labor and travel, ensuring 100% accuracy across automation

• Experienced in government contracts and finalized purchase orders with highly sensitive and confidential data, consistently going above and beyond the organization’s expectations to ensure client satisfaction and gaining their trust to achieve a positive rapport

• Spent time in China as a Math and English teacher, ensuring student participation and expanding on global culture through living abroad PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

AUTOLIV – AUBURN HILLS, MI

Operational Buyer 2019 – Current

• Exceptional buyer with an operational analytics background, focusing on engaging and overseeing supplier negotiations, selection, and monitoring on a regular basis, as well as executing critical supplier consolidation efforts

• From a leadership perspective, established global strategies and participated on global segment teams while collaborating with Strategic Buyers and internal stakeholders with a visionary approach and forward-thinking strategies

• Strategically optimize value stream mapping and deliver process improvements across the organization

• Identified and implemented annual cost savings and cost avoidance, achieving 80+ cost savings efforts to reach $850K in savings and 40+ cost avoidance initiatives leading to $625K savings

• Consistently negotiate long term agreements and payment term changes, achieving longer payment terms with vendors to support the plant objectives for 3 separate facilities

• As a vendor management expert and advanced buyer strategies, successfully identified bundle packages and provided sourcing recommendations to Sourcing Board and being recognized for high-level recommendations

• Built, repaired, and maintained customer relationships through communication and collaboration, allowing for better pricing structures and critical relationship management to benefit the bottom line of the organization

• Help create and implement commodity strategies resulting in savings while keeping stability within supply base, using historical spend, stakeholder, and supply base input to forecast demand with high-percentage accuracy

• Collaborate with cross-functional and global teams to drive savings and ensure stakeholders are receiving proper materials and services at best pricing

Zachary Andrew Burns

248-***-**** zacaburns@ yahoo.com LinkedIn

• Strategic Purchasing

• Operational Buying

• Vendor & Supplier Management

• Visionary & Forward-Thinking

• Data Analysis & Research

• Project Management

• Process Improvements

• Training & Development

• Negotiations

• Relationship Building &

Management

• Global Collaboration

• Bid Processes & RFQs

• Experienced in JD Edwards, SAP,

Power BI, Crystal Reports, & Sievo

CORE COMPETENCIES

HEWLETT PACKARD / HP ENTERPRISE – PONTIAC, MI

Procurement Operations Analyst 2015 – 2019

• Skilled in procurement systems including SAP, Revgen, and managed and created purchase orders in Costpoint for labor and travel, ensuring 100% accuracy across automation

• Compared purchase requisitions and quotes for quality assurance, as well as reviewed detailed bid specifications for purchase requisitions from HP managers, allowing for purchase requisitions to reach 100% compliance with proper documentation

• Established, maintained, and managed key supplier relationships for assigned categories, delivering optimal operations from a purchasing perspective while focusing on cost-savings and cost avoidances

• Utilized a professional communication approach to correspond with vendors obtaining RFQs, and less the process of executing purchase orders to the awarded vendor

• Reviewed individual purchasing request to ensure fair and competitive bidding was applied, verifying company is compliant with state and federal purchasing requirements and avoiding unnecessary fines

• Responsible for reviewing and analyzing performance metrics and KPIs, comfortably presenting to executive leadership including the areas of improvements that were identified to shareholders

• Experienced in government contracts and finalized purchase orders with highly sensitive and confidential data, consistently going beyond the organization’s expectations to ensure client satisfaction and gaining their trust to achieve a positive rapport

• Well versed in legal terminology and communicated directly with legal to ensure correct terms and conditions are used

• Consistently maintained a 24-hour turn-around-time in high volume situations, increasing client satisfaction due to staying on schedule and delivering on time; followed up on product shipments and addressed delays when needed

• Created training materials for onboarding employees and presented training to upper management, allowing for 100s of employees to be well trained and educated through creative material NANHI EXPERIMENTAL PRIMARY SCHOOL – FOSHAN, CHINA

Math & English Teacher 2014 – 2015

• Designed and taught math and English curriculum for 350 Chinese elementary school students, improving student learning by applying knowledge of prior language study to course objectives

• Utilized an innovative approach to increase after school program participation by 25% through continued outreach to students

EDUCATION

CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY – MOUNT PLEASANT, MI

Bachelor of Science, Logistics & Marketing

August 2014

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