Project Manager Supply Chain

Bruce Gommermann

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Profile

Over 25 years of estimating, outsourcing, supplier management, and purchasing success with outstanding cost reductions

Strong creative and engineering skills to support VA/VE initiatives

Instrumental in driving new product to market and named on six patents

Managed supplier relationships in U.S., Mexico, China and U.K.

Work and communicate effectively across multiple levels in both internal and external organizations

Well-developed interpersonal and multicultural sensibilities

Career Highlights / Achievements

Oct. ’19 to June ‘20: New England Wire Products – Greensboro, GA

a)V.P. New Product Development – Collaborated with customers to provide custom solutions for displaying merchandise in stores and strengthen sales relationships

b)Review customer need for best manufacturability of parts and provide alternatives

May ’17-Oct. ‘19: Summit Mfg – Bay Shore, NY

a)Project Manager – Managed projects with factories in U.S. and China to produce store fixtures. Lead PM on CVS Beauty Lab store fixture reset. Units were produced using metal, wood, laminates and integrated LED lighting. Also produced new tooling and injection molded parts with LED lighting for wall and floor fixtures. Approved first article of all parts for production. Managed packaging, labeling and shipping from factory to match POG installations per store location. Managed 3PL to meet installation crew needs in each store location.

b)Purchase raw materials for manufacturing using engineering drawings and BOM. Issue work tickets for manufacturing floor. Work with production on quality of production parts and ensure on time delivery and on budget of finished goods. Develop and manage spreadsheets to effectively communicate status of production jobs.

c)Work with customers and sales to manage job expectations

1993–Dec. ‘16: Display Technologies – Lake Success, NY.

a)Effort, achievement, and recognition characterize the career at this industry-leading point-of-purchase equipment supplier – developing and selling value-added in-store merchandising solutions that drive impulse sales for clients

b)Steadily promoted through increasingly responsible positions for consistently ensuring the most productive, cost-efficient, highest quality, and profitable solutions to business needs

c)Skillfully managed the complete spectrum of project management – from initial customer brief translation to the design team, to estimating, to purchasing and managing the quality specifications right through to shipping the product to the end user.

d)Worked with various manufacturing disciplines – injection molding, tooling, wire, vacuum forming, acrylic fabrication, printing (digital, silk screen and offset, hot-stamping and pad printing)

e)Managed cost estimating and purchasing negotiations for both custom and stock products.

f)Worked with engineers to design and solve problems to drive costs down

g)Set up bid program for $16MM injection molded product line driving 6% cost savings

h)Worked closely with creative department to ensure customer objectives were met blending design with best manufacturing processes

i)Worked with key account managers and customers to provide solutions to meet Brand and Retailer needs

j)Took over an existing Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) product line from sister company

k)Supported 50% growth in CPG sales over two years

l)Moved CPG products from in-house assembly and warehouse to a completely out-sourced model saving labor and warehouse space

m)In addition to the above cost savings the new supply chain for CPG product reduced purchased costs by 5%

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Technology

Graduated University of Wisconsin – Stout, Menomonie, WI

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