Sales Supply Chain
Resume:
JASON D. COLLINS, MBA
**** ********** ****, ***. #***, Charlotte, NC
***************@*****.***
Detail-oriented and innovative professional seeks to work in Analysis Management where extensive experience transforming data into intelligence is leveraged make an immediate, positive impact to the company.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Analysis professional with solid and successful experience in translating large amounts of data into clear and concise reports for Sourcing, Finance, Sales, Information Technology (IT), and Senior Leadership. Proven background driving and managing processes that standardize, streamline, and improve performance across functional areas in an organization.
* Expertise in Sourcing and Information Technology (IT). Solid track record of data and process improvement.
* Proven ability to generate reports with a direct impact on driving supply chain cost reductions and customer price increases.
* Strong leadership, organizational, communication and presentation skills with several years of experience presenting information to Senior Leadership.
* Knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint); programming languages/framework (SQL, C#, VBA, JavaScript, HTML and ASP.NET); and various databases (SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL). Strong contributor in two separate Business Intelligence implementation initiatives.
* Great enthusiasm for new challenges. High energy level, trustworthy and a strong work ethic.
* Trained and certified as a Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt.
CORE COMPETENCIES
* Market Intelligence Gathering and Analysis
* Spend and Payment Analysis
* Sourcing Tool Design/ Development
* Rogue Spend Identification and Transaction-Level Analysis
* Annual Operation Plan (AOP) Process Management and Improvement
* Sourcing Performance Enhancement
* Pricing and Costing Support, Analysis, and Forecasting.
* Project Savings Evaluation
* Procurement Policy Development
* Software Asset Compliance
* Report-Out Presentation Strategy
* Effective Scorecard Generation
* Intranet Site Management
* System Administration
SELECTED CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
MASONITE, 2010 – 2012
* Improved Senior Leadership’s understanding of Global Sourcing performance by completely redesigning the monthly report-out presentation. This resulted in greatly increased confidence in the results, allowed for the introduction of new actionable information, and decreased the man-hours required for completion by 80%.
* Increased Global Sourcing’s spend knowledge by developing a customized, multi-tiered purchase classification structure. Using this structure, the department gained a detailed, transaction-level understanding of all direct material spend. Achieved greater visibility for more than 70% of the North American indirect spend.
* Created several tools and reports adopted by the Finance Department for sharing results with Senior Leadership. These included tools for measuring purchase price variance and payment terms performance.
* Vastly augmented AOP development by redesigning all Global Sourcing reporting and models to allow for additional data with greater levels of detail. Got buy-in from the Senior Business Leaders to implement enterprise-level system and process changes that promoted automation and improved ability to measure results.
* Drove system changes that improved visibility into the root causes of profitability changes and increased the company’s ability to identify rogue buying activity.
* Developed automated Global Sourcing Supplier Scorecard. Designed structure and supporting data reports to make the Scorecard understandable and actionable. Scorecards generated from local database.
EDUCATION
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY, Rochester, MI
Master of Business Administration-Concentration in Finance, 2004
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY, Detroit, MI
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, magna cum laude, 2002
MASONITE, Charlotte, NC, Mar. 2010 – Apr. 2012
Senior Sourcing Analyst
* Analyzed spend and payment terms based on supplier and commodity.
* Supported category teams in the development of cost reduction strategies and determining the net financial benefit of related project savings.
* Developed monthly market and departmental performance reports for presentation to Company leadership.
* Served as liaison with Corporate Finance, Sales and IT departments who developed needed customized reports.
Accomplishments:
* Generated accurate and consistent Global reports after collaborating with European Analyst counterpart to better communize data sets and reporting templates. Identified several programming errors and areas for ERP improvements and submitted required documentation to the IT team to make the corrective changes.
* Assisted in Company’s efforts to pass price increases to its customers and increase profitability. Developed several models that detailed the impact of material and production cost changes on the company’s highest-running assemblies and finished goods. Collected sales data to provide a more dynamic and accurate measurement of product-line margin/profitability, updating models for Sales Department and Senior Leadership monthly. Additionally, designed and updated the presentation materials used to communicate raw materials market impact and the Company’s desired price increase to the customers.
* As the principal contact for Global Sourcing, educated the Business Intelligence development team on the Company’s sourcing-specific data and reporting requirements. Worked with that team to identify the necessary raw data, cleanse it, and transform it in such a way that business-driving decisions could be made. Defined and designed initial set of metrics and reports for automation and provided guidance on appropriate reporting mechanisms and audience for each piece of information.
TEXTRON, Troy, MI, Sep. 2005 – Feb. 2010
Procurement Analyst
* Created/formulated quarterly commodity market guidance reports for Procurement and Strategy organizations.
* Developed materials and market reports that supported cost reduction strategies.
* Designed and maintained Sourcing and Globalization teams’ Intranet sites.
* Administered a system that managed an Indirect spend budget of $700+ million (ARIBA).
* Functioned as administrator for the DNBi Open Ratings tool, which monitored Supply Base Risk.
Accomplishments:
* Created a 65-topic, company-wide Procurement policy manual that standardized procurement processes.
* Assisted in driving cross-division supplier spend leveraging discussions for completing assessment project and uncovered actionable spend with common corporation suppliers.
* Facilitated supplier intelligence economies of scale by developing corporate supplier assessment process and database-driven information-sharing mechanism. Conducted assessment process that included initial and detailed capability surveys; a financial health measurement tool; a risk measurement tool; and a detailed, customizable on-site assessment.
* Helped Software Asset Manager (SAM) with audit compliance by comparing software installations on employee laptops with purchased licenses. Performed role of SAM Manager for nine months.
* Supported Business Intelligence initiative by configuring a database-driven commodity coding application (AutoClass), in the Development, UAT, and Production environments. Supporting member of Implementation team.
COLLINS AND AIKMAN, Troy, MI, Jan. 2003 – Sep. 2005
Procurement Analyst
* Conveyed all negotiated price changes to manufacturing sites and distributed weekly reports on bottom-line impact to Supply Chain Management.
* Designed and updated periodic and ad hoc market intelligence and departmental performance reports for Senior Leadership
* Oversaw budget and developed monthly variance reports for Finance Director.
Accomplishments:
* Reduced the time for price change notifications, diversity reporting, and cell phone spend processes from several man-hours to a matter of minutes by streamlining processes and creating user-friendly systems.
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