Mia Planas

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

South San Francisco, CA 94080

415-***-****

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Professional

Summary Highly skilled procurement professional with over 20+ years experience in a manufacturing environment. Experience includes managing raw materials, packaging and supplies for manufacturing and retail, seasonal planning, demand forecasting, inventory management, food safety guidelines and product development.

Experience See’s Candies, San Francisco, CA 2013 – present

Procurement Manager Raw Materials

●Responsible for management of ingredient category for the company.

●Coordinate and complete special projects assigned.

●Lead cross-functional teams as needed to explore opportunities, meet company objectives or support ongoing business process.

●Develop, train and manage direct reports.

●Evaluate business opportunities to maximize cost savings while ensuring best quality and service.

●Works closely with QA team to ensure that food safety guidelines are met and in compliance.

●Ensure supply through continual communication with internal partners, including Production, Packing, QA, Shipping, and R & D.

●Plans forecast updates and identify risks and opportunities.

●Develop contingency plans that include strategic sourcing timelines and multiple supply options are available.

●Process orders and contracts.

●Identify and qualify new suppliers as necessary.

See’s Candies, San Francisco, CA 2011 – 2013

Raw Materials Buyer

●Responsible for reviewing and buying of raw material items used for manufacturing. This is accomplished by reviewing historical demands and patterns, and projected demand changes within the context of specific crop harvesting and processing schedules.

●Maintain strong and frequent communication with suppliers and other market resources to understand relevant crop cycles, conditions and harvest/processing practices that directly impact the quality and availability of products.

●Along with a Quality Assurance representative, conducts annual facility audits with existing suppliers and periodic facility audits with potential suppliers.

●Coordinate projects with R & D to develop new product launches.

●Review inventory reports on a monthly basis.

●Serve as back-up to Raw Material Assistant Buyer when needed.

See’s Candies, San Francisco, CA 2000 - 2011

Packaging Buyer

●Responsible for managing and purchasing all-year and seasonal items of packaging used by the Packing/Production groups and shops. Buys are based on quotas determined by all retail selling groups and historical usages.

●Purchased and managed approximately 500 different skus.

●In charge of sending out quotes, negotiating best pricing, lead times and freight costs for items required in manufacturing.

●Trained Assistant Buyers and served as back up to the entire Packaging team.

●Worked collaboratively with suppliers and internal departments to develop new packaging and seasonal items.

●Maintained strong and frequent communication with suppliers.

●Developed a good understanding to market resources of supply and demand changes that impact market and industry pricing.

●Along with a Quality Assurance representative conducted annual facility audits with existing suppliers and periodic facility audits with potential suppliers.

●Reviewed inventory reports on a monthly basis.

See’s Candies, South San Francisco, CA 1999 - 2000

Non-Inventory Buyer

●Responsible purchasing requisitioned items such as uniforms, office supplies, printing and other items needed for all departments in the company.

●Assisted Buyers and Packaging Materials Manager when needed.

●Reported to Packaging Materials Manager.

●Promoted to Packaging Buyer within 5 months.

California Supply, Union City, CA 1998 - 1999

Assistant Buyer

●Served as the main person for corrugated materials and boxes

●Assisted Purchasing team when needed

●Reported to Purchasing Manager.

Kent H. Landsberg Company, Hayward, CA 1997 – 1998

Customer Service Rep /Cisco Products Coordinator

●Received, processed and expedited orders for customers.

●Liaison between Sales team and Purchasing.

●Main contact for Cisco Systems.

●Reported to Purchasing Manager.

Education General Education

College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA 1990 – 1993

Business Administration

Cal State East Bay, Hayward, CA 1993 -1996

Skills Creative, efficient and diligent problem solver who is motivated to exceed position requirements.

Good understanding of supply chain functionality including manufacturing, logistics and distribution.

Working knowledge of GMP and FSMA.

Ability to understand and work with multiple enterprise-wide systems.

Proficient in Word, Excel, Windows XP, Oracle.

ERP – Ross.

References Furnished upon request.

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