Sourcing Specialist

Mojgan Soltani

Tel.: 514-***-****

E-mail: ******-*******@*******.***

Professional Summary:

Adaptable and results-driven Procurement and Supply Chain Management Specialist with over a deca of experience supporting diverse industries-including aerospace, defense, and medical devices. Skille at managing the full purchase- to-pay cycle, negotiating contracts, and optimizing supplier performance to drive cost savings and efficiencies. Thrives in fast-paced environments as a contractor, leveraging flexibility and a rapid learning curve to integrate into new teams, ERP systems, and processes seamlessly. Known for building strong stakeholder relationships, leading process improvements, and delivering actionable insights via data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI). Adept at balancing strategic sourcing with hands-on supplier management to meet stringent deadlines and ensure operational success. Proven track record in procurement administration, contract negotiation, and supplier performance management, resulting in enhanced operational efficiencies and customer satisfaction. Languages:

• English - Fluent

• French – Professional

Skills:

• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel)

• ERP Systems, Movex, JD Edwards, Syspro, AS400, Access, Sysmex, Quantum, Oracle, Sage, SAP

• Citrix Systems and Ramco.

• Power BI Dashboard

• Purchase-to-Pay Cycle Management

• Supplier Relationship Management

• Cost Analysis and Reduction Strategies

• Contract Negotiation and Management

• Inventory Management and Optimization

• AOG & Spare Parts Management

• Purchase Order Management, and process improvement initiatives

• Data Analysis for Performance Metrics, team coaching and mentoring

• Root Cause Analysis and Issue Resolution and customer relationship management Professional experience:

STELIA Aerospace North America Contractor May-2025 Sourcing Specialist

• Perform market analyses to anticipate trends, pricing fluctuations, and material availability risks.

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies for key categories, ensuring alignment with company objectives.

• Identify, assess, and onboard new suppliers capable of meeting aerospace industry standards.

• Maintain strong relationships with suppliers and negotiate favorable terms.

• Work closely with engineering, quality assurance, and operations teams to understand material specifications and project requirements.

• Act as a liaison between internal teams and suppliers to resolve issues or delays.

• Identify cost reduction opportunities through competitive bidding, supplier rationalization, and value engineering.

• Track and report on savings achieved through strategic sourcing initiatives. Mojgan Soltani

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E-mail: ******-*******@*******.***

Top Aces, Montreal, QC Contractor Jun 2024 – Nov 2024 Buyer/ Senior Procurement Specialist

• Manage CAPEX projects for all aspects related to the day-to-day purchasing and overall

• procurement activities for maintenance and flight operations.

• Providing purchasing support to bases or functions as assigned for both Direct and or Indirect

• procurement needs.

• Implement sourcing strategies that link to core business deliverables while leveraging the marketplace and supplier community.

• Responsible for ensuring the full Purchase-to-Pay cycle is completed for assigned responsibility.

• Maintaining supplier performance and ensure adherence to company standards.

• Identifying areas for improvement in overall cost of procured goods or services and/or supplier performance

• Administrating payment, warranty or quality issues for vendors as assigned.

• Providing reporting as requested and brief supervisor on issues requiring support.

• Work closely with the Inventory and Engineering groups to address commercial and technical issues. Pratt & Whitney Canada, Montreal, QC Contractor Oct 2021 - Jul 2023 Account Specialist

• Worked on commodities/ Fabricated Assemblies.

• Responsible to execute on deadlines, by understanding pricing, and products. Constantly tracking projects for production (internal client) and after marker department (dealing with external client) assess order which to be prioritized.

• Ensure on-time delivery of critical engine components.

• Collaborated with key stakeholders in the business to establish and periodize strategic requirements with suppliers and worked with different departments to ensure that everyone is on the same page.

• Responsible to speak with suppliers and shipping department to make sure everything is running smoothly with delivery.

• Strong understanding of commercial aspect (If a supplier is late, they can push back and as for desecrate or even return items), Strong negotiation skills with supplier when it comes to pricing and delivery dates.

• Responsible for evaluating all deliveries and ensure that the quality of the product is up to client and Pratt standards.

• Ensuring quality is up to company standards they will be working very closely with quality team.

• Worked with engineering department if there needs to be any changes in the design of the product.

• Worked closely with Contract team when dealing with price negotiations with supplier

• Strong understanding of contract per supply and know the difference procedures per supplier.

• Coached teammates in various processes. (Contract understanding), Power BI Dashboard Experience. Lockheed Martin, Montreal, QC Contractor Feb 2021 - May 2021 Senior Buyer/Supply Chain Management

• Purchase material and services in accordance with established corporate guidelines and Mojgan Soltani

Tel.: 514-***-****

E-mail: ******-*******@*******.***

acquisition procedures.

• Assist with the development of sources of supply for material and services.

• Solicit quotations, analyzed bids, evaluate suppliers, prepare purchase and repair orders and

• Manage the parts that require outsourcing and ensure service levels and pricing is met.

• Liaise with several departments including production, engineering and finance for supply chain requirement.

• Ensure daily administration of quality related matters with vendors including processing returns, invoice

• snags and vendor performance.

• Provide administrative support to Operations groups for production and repair related matters requiring

• coordination such as material requisitions, production kit verifications and similar related tasks. Pole Air Aviation, Montreal, QC Aug 2020 - Feb 2021 Senior Buyer

• Responsible for sourcing, negotiating, buying & expediting all kind of parts, equipment, tooling and devices.

• Developed profitable purchasing strategies.

• Assessed supplier profiles and analyze offers.

• Prepared and implement effective negotiation tactics.

• Managed relationships with key suppliers to maintain quality of goods, timely delivery and compliance with terms of contracts.

• Analyzed and resolved purchasing issues/discrepancies.

• Reviewed and monitored supplies and stock levels.

• Prepared and submitted detailed reports (revenues, buying expenditures etc.) and kept updated records.

• Report KPI (Key Performance Indicator) data as requested by Supply chain Manager to assess and analyzing track vendor performance.

• Participated in cost reduction activities and report price increases.

• Researched a variety of sources, documents, etc. to ensure adequacy of specification in terms of

• Clarity, precision, and related criteria.

Bombardier, Montreal, QC Contractor Feb 2020 - May 2020 AOG Specialist Buyer

• I am being the front line focal for all customer request for AOG & spare parts, and dealing with Suppliers around the world:

• Process customer orders and vendor purchase orders in SAP. Handling the customer communication

• and manage escalations for orders, MRA, disputes, credits and other issues.

• Participating with ISSM in supplier reviews and/ or with CSAMS in customer reviews.

• Responsible for managing critical shortages of parts to support the return to service of an aircraft or

• the customer’s required date.

• Preparing and maintaining any relevant KPI and presentation materials as required.

• Communicating with suppliers and with Customers on all orders.

• Action assigned CRM items. Specializing in zero stock and AOG order fulfilment and order upgrades for Swiss Port, Air Baltic, Korean Airlines, Egypt Airlines, Delta Airless- the clients of these airlines are a part of the purchasing department.

• Managing the internal and external procurement flow of materials to meet the appropriate level of service to our customers and the inventory level requirements within budget constraints.

• Managing delivery discrepancies and deviation related to new aircraft deliveries. Administrating Mojgan Soltani

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portfolio activities related to invoicing and PO pricing issues. Analyzing varied situations in a

• pressurized environment and make decisions in an efficient and structured manner. Thought Technology LTD (Medical Devices), Montreal, QC Feb 2019 - Dec 2019 Strategic Senior buyer

• Prioritized purchasing, job kitting, assembly activities ensuring customer needs are met.

• Managed purchase orders with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of materials and ensured that all

• Built the business relationships will local and global suppliers and partners to drive supply chain efficiencies and improved operational cost and customer service.

• Managed the supply chain to ensure cost effective, efficient and traceable movement of inbound goods.

• Developed and maintained inventory and production plans, schedules and forecasts, to minimize raw materials, maintain appropriate stock levels, and meet customer demands.

• Led Syspro ERP supply chain modules system implementation projects maximizing TTL’s ROI.

• Ensured supply chain processes are consistent with the company’s QMS, and managed audit requirements and resolve audit issues.

• Partnered and coordinated with marketing department to understand trends, forecasts, complexity of order. fulfilment and key customer issues.

• Evaluating, improving planning, purchasing, and shipping processes to drive operational efficiencies and cost

Pratt & Whitney Canada, Montreal, QC Contractor Aug 2018 - Nov 2018 Senior Delivery Assurance / Supply Chain Management/AOG, Spare Parts, Aftermarket

• Interacting with the supply chain and manufacturing to provide accurate promise dating information to the customer representatives.

• Interacting with many different organizations to ensure all solutions to satisfy customer demand have been exhausted.

• Supporting the new APS market, representing 20% of the new spare gross sales.

• Ensuring that Pacer reports are updated with delivery information from supply chain.

• Expediting with supply chain all orders and participating and leading “shortage” meeting discussions.

• Providing overdue forecasts and working with planners to understand any demand variations,

• and Participating in all related meetings, and Supporting ACE, Ethics and ITC initiatives.

• Working on assigned projects (IE champion of ACE activity, etc.).

• Tracking the flow of critical/hot parts through the suppliers manufacturing shop from the raw material phase, through manufacturing, quality, shipping and delivery to the customer.

• Proactively working with the supplier to monitor all parts to support On-time deliveries to our aerospace customers.

• Driving actions to mitigate potential delivery delays by identifying risks, performing root cause analysis and development of recovery plans to bring shipments back in-line with customer requirements. Nellson Nutraceutical LLC, Montreal, QC May 2017 - Jul 2018 Supply Chain Planner Analyst / Strategic Account

• Supported major customer account and managed their request and offer products / service to meet their needs.

• Occasional travel to customer site in New York.

Mojgan Soltani

Tel.: 514-***-****

E-mail: ******-*******@*******.***

• Supported a 3 DC ‘s order management operation to ensure orders are sent to the DC’s in a timely.

• Managed to meet the customer’s requested delivery dates.

• Monitored and managed in-house and remote inventory levels for parts required for business.

• Worked in collaboration with Operations and Sales to help assure forecast accuracy.

• Generated and communicated forecast reports, including current and future forecasting analysis.

• Ensured forecasting processes and methods was followed.

• Accountable for maintaining correct pricing on incoming orders according to internal.

• Complied guidelines and partners with Sales and Controlling for resolution for discrepancies.

• Assembled and analyzed pertinent data to create forecasts (based on historical sales).

• Trends, seasonality, promotions, and customer inventory level.

• Reviewed and validate all inventory adjustments and transfers, and documents.

• Resolved customer concerns or queries and /or escalates as required.

• Logistics: followed-up production planning and verification of delivery dates.

• Responsible for planning and preparation of weekly and monthly calendars. Advantech satellite Network, Montreal, QC Contractor Aug 2016 – Feb 2017 Senior Planner

• Releasing work orders to production for new customer orders, forecast or engineering demand.

• Checking shortages and expediting with supplier.

• Following-up on status of any kits released to production or in stock.

• Analyzing MRP reports and following up with purchasing on any long lead time.

• Maintaining system, complete work orders whenever necessary.

• Implementing ECO for WIP and stock on hand inventory when required.

• Coordinating material flow in production for released projects.

• Creating daily shipping list.

• Coordinating WIP physical inventory count during annual PI.

• Ability to understand technical concept.

Hypertec (IT Products), Montreal, QC Contractor May 2016 - Jul 2016 Buyer IT

• Negotiated changes and other terms and conditions with suppliers to obtain the best return at the most cost-

• effective prices possible while retaining quality specifications.

• Reviewed supplies and took correct action to eliminate non-performing suppliers.

• Procured of components for main production line: establishing legitimacy of production requisition.

• Purchasing/ planning for assigned commodities /components and IT Products such as Hardware and software.

• Managed relationships with external suppliers by building strong value-add.

• Researched and evaluated suppliers based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability,

• Reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier’s reputation and history. Analyzed the price proposals, financial reports and other data and information to determine reasonable prices reasonable prices.

• Entered purchase orders into the ERP system based on ERP outputs and SAP.

• Kept the purchase system current and accurate including minimum/maximum, re-order points.

• Managed directly the warehouse employees, for both the shipping and receiving teams.

• Maintained appropriate inventory levels as designated by the company. Mojgan Soltani

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E-mail: ******-*******@*******.***

• Purchased and negotiated with Dell, Xerox, HP, Toshiba, Samsung, and other distributers as well. Future Electronics Inc., Montreal, QC Jan 2010 – May 2016

• Strategic Shippable Backlog Analyst Oct 2013 - May2016

• Sales Analyst/ Strategic Bond Management Analyst Oct 2010 - Oct 2013

• Sales Analyst/ Strategic Order Management Coordinator Jan-2010 - Oct 2010 McKesson Canada, Saint-Laurent, QC Aug 2009 - Dec 2009 Account Specialist

Future Electronics Inc., Montreal, QC Aug 2007 - April 2009 Quality Analyst

MPB Communication Inc., Montreal, QC Sep 2005 – Mar 2006 Manufacture QA Coordinator

Education:

• Diploma in Computer and Automated system technologies from College Superior Electronics

- (Montreal).

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