Sr Buyer Strategic /sourcing and Commodity Manager

Edgar Solera

802-***-**** - Mobile

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Job Description

Senior Category/Commodity Manager: Provide periodic reviews of spend reports, savings reports, and industry analysis. Following these reviews identifying and communicating new savings and improvement opportunities to the client through the designated governance team for prioritization and scheduling. Once receiving the client’s approval to proceed, such person will work with the suppliers and/or the client to carry out sourcing or change programs to achieve the target savings or improvements. This may include communications programs with the suppliers and/or the client’s employees, direct conversations with suppliers regarding proper billing, or joint client and Company’s teams focused on motivating the client’s employees to use preferred suppliers or contracts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Refine current sourcing strategy and recommend suggestions for improvement.

• Define sourcing (buying) and contracting process, recommend to and obtain approval from the Accenture client.

• Formulate procurement and category-specific policies and lead implementation.

• Develop supplier evaluation and selection criteria, in general, and for each spend category as part of agreed procurement strategy.

• Identify and evaluate incumbent and potential suppliers, applying established evaluation and selection criteria.

• Conduct activities as necessary (including managing the process of obtaining approved nondisclosure agreements), to build short-list of potential suppliers.

• Define and manage contractual and supplier relationships in collaboration with the client.

• Design and implement contract management and communications, including metrics and processes for due diligence of supplier capabilities, market and financial position.

• Design supplier and user compliance management program, recommend policies and procedures as well as implementation and performance tracking program.

• Define accountabilities for compliance tracking, analysis, and reporting, and client participation.

• Build and manage baseline (spend, requisition/PO process, supplier/user behavior and procurement practices) data, using external expertise as needed for due diligence.

• Perform category management for all categories in the final Aircraft Plan that have been sourced in leading the sourcing effort.

• Assist the Global Category Leads to develop and execute category strategy.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: Minimum 15 years of operational and strategic experience delivering Professional Services category specific sourcing/buying service, strategic sourcing, supplier/category management and compliance management, across North America, EU and Asia.

Professional Skills:

• Proven ability to working independently and as a team member.

• Potential people management – in this role c have direct line reports which they will be required to lead and manage. In absence of direct reports, will in any event act as an advisor to peers and offer the ability to leverage their knowledge across as may be required.

• Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

• Strong supervisory, coaching and project management skills

• Display professionalism and confidence.

• Excellent customer service skills

• Proven global expertise and perspective; executive level presence and influence

• Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills

• Excellent negotiation, influence, mediation & conflict management skills

1. Reporting to the Manager of Global Commodity Management for direct materials within Global Sourcing organization, Develop & execute complex sourcing strategies for inventoried direct materials.

Partner with Manufacturing, Production, Quality, and Technical leaders to identify supply chain opportunities in these commodity areas. Developing strong relationships with key stakeholders within the corporate and divisional levels and executing sourcing strategies to drive value and significantly impact bottom-line profitability. Ability to demonstrate through concrete examples, strong experience sourcing and managing one or more of the following categories at a global level.

Optimized Total Cost of Ownership

– Strengthened Supply Base and Supply Assurance

Defining a wide range of potential opportunities

Evaluate and filter opportunities

Strategic - Financial - Feasibility

Prioritize opportunities based on their magnitude

Develop actionable strategies for wide implementation

Expected outcomes

– Improved availability for the aircraft

– Reduced administrative costs

– Material cost savings

– Release working capital funds for more appropriate use.

Opportunities

Streamline Contracting Process

– Centralized contracting with decentralized ordering

– Greater use of long term contracts, Kan Bans

– Leverage existing and new strategic relationships

Eliminate duplicate PNs

– Review and revise PNs cataloging process

– Consolidate duplicate PNs

Obsolescence Mitigation

– Implement PBL in weapons systems contracts

– Develop tools /methodology to demonstrate/educate PMs value of tech refresh and obsolescence mitigation

Improve collaboration/partnering with industry

– Establish a consolidated supply and demand planning process

– Align company requirements and industry capabilities/plans

When performing assessment for Supplier Quality; is generally done by maintaining smooth operations at a materials supplier. Usually adapting, identifying and solving problems and applying solid communication and managerial skills. As Supplier Quality, responsible for investigating, analyzing and correcting problems in quality, production and control at a supplier location. Also performing audits and implement new strategies.

Acting as a supplier quality engineer (SQE) focus on supplier development in a manufacturing or service process. Working with suppliers to continuously improve performance, implement process controls and develop quality assurance plans. Must be critical thinkers and active listener with good time management skills in order to work with suppliers and project management teams to define deliverables-goods and services ready for consumer delivery.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business and Materials Management field.

Major in Business Administration and Economics Minor

National University of Costa Rica/US Army Extension Program

US Army Supply graduate. Logistics Specialist

Service: U.S. Army Honorable discharge. Viet Nam Veteran.

Knowledge:

Materials Resource Planning, MRP II – MAPICS – CHESS, ERP, ORACLE, IFS, SAP principles

Software: Microsoft Office- Excel-Word-MS Project– Graphics- Power Point

Computer systems: Mainframe –CICS – Personal Computers

WORK HISTORY:

CURRENT EXPERIENCE: Title: Sr Buyer / Commodity Manager Supply Chain and Strategic Global Operations

GOODRICH CORPORATION. Vermont 07/08 to present

Execute supplier contract negotiations and delivery to meet MRP schedule requirements. Resolve quality discrepancies and documentation required to facilitate on time delivery. Assist in managing the sold material process and inventory management. Assist in proposal development with coordination of supplier inputs. Source and acquire material in support of DOD & Government Contracts and Capital requirements. Have overall responsibility for procurement and supplier management. Specific duties include: RFQ generation, quote proposal analysis, negotiations, documentation, PO generation and supplier follow-up.

EXPERIENCE: Title: Sr. Buyer, Strategic Sourcing. Supply Chain Management

GE AVIATION MECHANICAL SYSTEMS Yakima, WA 05/01/07 to 6-30-08

Sourcing in supply chain management, purchasing or planning within a manufacturing environment, In this position, responsible for acquiring, purchasing and negotiating materials, equipment and supplies for requisitioned material. Purchase materials as required by Kan Ban & ERP systems, applying FAR requirements, supporting strategic sourcing objectives. In this role also enhancing operations strategies for quality, cost, delivery and innovation

EXPERIENCE: Title: SUPPLY CHAIN SPECIALIST-MASTER SCHEDULER

GKN AEROSPACE CHEM-TRONICS INC. EL CAJON, CA . 01/06 TO 4/30/07 (TRANSFERED TO GE AVIATION) Under limited supervision, managing of all logistics, schedules and capacities for new programs and servings as system support on all new development programs. Ensuring that production schedules meet demand and that there is appropriate supplier safety stock built. Monitoring developing and implementing and providing process improvements for the movement of materials and parts through the entire manufacturing cycle from the requisition of raw materials to the delivery of the finish product to the customer, Coordinating and setting priorities with the Mexico facility, Quality, Engineering, Purchasing, Logistics and suppliers to ensure the flow of product. Maintaining factory-wide detailed production

EXPERIENCE: PURCHASING MANAGER/SUPPLY CHAIN SPECIALIST

Magneto Inductive System Limited USA, San Bernardino, CA 01/04 to 01/06

Description: Responsible for Materials Management organization, which includes Production Planning, Raw Material Planning, Inventory Control, Purchasing, Warehouse and Distribution. Performing Master Production Scheduling for entire organization. Working along with Customer Service to ensure that customer’s orders requirements are met. Set up of Kan bans applying lean manufacturing techniques. Successfully implemented cycle count programs where targeted accuracy has been consistently met. - Successfully set up and maintained usage of an MRP system for raw material planning, production planning, purchasing - Master Production Scheduling applied in both a Make to Order and Make to Stock environment. - Purchasing Policies and Procedures to include their impact cross-functionally. Utilization of Supplier Performance Tools. Applied fundamental Supply Chain management, contributing to supplier development efforts. Key purchasing contact for supplier performance and provided resolutions. Participated in Continuous Improvement teams. Leading projects within and supply base. Commodity scheduling. Responsible for multiple suppliers, and components across multiple commodities. Responsible for integrating of Supply Chain best practices. Develop, align and deploy effective key commodity strategies, with accountability to positively impact associated annual spending.

PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE:

SYSTEMS:

• Landing & Actuation Mechanical, Flight Control.

• Fluid Management Valves, Pumps, Oxygen

• Cockpit and Cabin Propulsion and Space.

• Interior Structures: Seating, Lavatories, Galley,

• Electro-mechanical Controls, Sensors.

• Commercial transportation and safety equipment

with suppliers

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