Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing

MARVIN BUCKHALTER, CPSM

Phone: 318-***-**** I Email: ******@*********.***

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Webster University

M.A., Supply Chain Management

University of North Alabama

Master of Business Administration

Jackson State University

B.A., Finance

Certified Professional in Supply Management, (CPSM) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Blue Bengal Consulting January 2016-Current

Chief Procurement Officer

• Provide consulting services for routine, non-routine and complex goods and services through competitive and noncompetitive solicitation process

• Partner with clients closely to perform strategic sourcing activities

• Contribute guidance in the development of RFI's, RFP's and RFQ's and Invitations to Bid

• Provide interpersonal and negotiation skills with a proven ability to create and maintain positive working relationships with vendors, suppliers, shippers and customers

• Participate in the vendor selection process by comparing costs and evaluating the quality and suitability of supplies, materials and equipment

• Helped clients streamline their logistics network, assisted clients work with the management team of the company to identify problems with inventory, storage, and distribution, and come up with ways of increasing efficiency and reducing costs

• Design a procurement function and process, focusing on effective collaboration and communication with other departments

• Establish policies and procedures and lead initiatives for cost reduction and strategic sourcing

• Perform advanced analytical and consultative activities that report and leverage data for all suppliers and analyze new innovative cost-effective ways to reduce expensed and improve productivity

• Implement RFP/RFQ/RFI processes where it makes sense to aggressively leverage vendors and negotiate terms to reduce cost

• Establish, build and maintain relationships with all key suppliers and identify opportunities to consolidate to reduce costs and improve service delivers

Jackson Municipal Airport Authority September 2020-September 2023 Director of Procurement

• Lead all procurement functions in pursuit of sourcing strategies that increased productivity, improved supplier performance and reduced cost

• Drove improvement in turnaround and capital project planning, contracting and execution

• Served as the owner of the procurement process and engaged strategically to transform procurement processes and increase accountability of procurement in alignment with the organization

• Skilled negotiator of purchasing agreements and contracts worth several million dollars

• Understood and leveraged knowledge of the company's and competitor's products, industry trends, and superior business practices, and integrated the same into procurement operations in ways that achieved competitive advantage

• Selected suppliers and placed purchase orders that provided the highest quality products with a history of on-time delivery and cost savings benefits

• Worked closely with program management, material management, and production, among other internal and external customers

• Developed an overall strategy for assigned procurement categories, addressing resource gaps, and finding opportunities for efficiencies, and economies of scale. The overall strategic priority was to balance the utilization of external partners and internal resources, such that quality, cost savings, process efficiencies, and controls were maximized across product creation workflows

• Designed sourcing solutions with formal program definitions for services and deliverables, uniform pricing models/rate cards SLAs, and performance metrics

• Conducted formal RFIs, RFPs and RFQs and led negotiation to secure MSAs, SOWs, and SLAs that ensured market leading product quality, financial objectives, and time-to-market goals.

• Obtained/prepared, organized, analyzed, summarized, and presented qualitative and quantitative data in a clear way to support designing sourcing solutions, securing optimal pricing, conducting supplier negotiations, and supervised program and solution effectiveness US Army Reserves January 2000-December 2015

Sr. Noncommissioned Officer

• Assisted with operations and requirements generation execution in support of Army, Joint, multi-national forces for setting up contracts for supplies, equipment and services

• Led the execution and fulfillment of acquiring products and services to service the needs of the U.S

• Followed DOD guidelines in relation to ITAR, FAR and DFAR to ensure that products and services were purchased in the most efficient manner possible in the best interest of the Army

• Utilized a cross- functional approach to procuring, producing, and delivering products and services for military material applications to include sub-suppliers, suppliers and internal information and funds flow

• Developed statements of work, statements of objectives, and performance work statement, and procurement strategy

• Provided expertise and guidance to federal acquisitions in subject matter areas of specialized knowledge

• Coordinated and managed the preparation of analysis evaluations

• Developed and recommended streamline initiatives using innovative techniques, where appropriate to improve procurement operations and customer service

• Developed evaluation plans, pricing methodologies, and significant administrative plans

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