Manager Customer Service

David A. Schuman

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LaGrange GA, 30240 Phone: 678-***-****

Director of Procurement • Director of Purchasing

Senior purchasing professional with 21 years procurement expertise in:

Cost Reduction and Savings: Consistently over-delivers cost savings targets. In 2010 achieved 162% of goal for a total savings of $16.6MM on a $70MM spend.

Contract Negotiation: Negotiated complex $12MM agreement with an equipment supplier which included exclusivity of intellectual property, price increase limitations, extensions of exclusivity and cancellation for cause or convenience.

Leadership: Served as Business Representative for SAP implementation that resulted in a reduction in staff from 14 to 7 employees, and a 20% measured increase in customer service level.

Strategic Sourcing: Achieved a 5 year goal of independence from sole source equipment supplier for the first time in the company’s history which resulted in a cost savings of approximately 25% per $5MM machine.

Team Building: Built strong team cohesion during difficult mergers and acquisitions. Led multiple teams of purchasing professionals ranging from small focused groups to up to 17 employees for global purchasing of plant needs.

Process Improvement: Team Leader of Global Purchases to Payment (P2P) task force involving the Middle East, Asia, Europe and North American regions. Implemented significant standardized process globally with consideration of local customs and laws.

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

Proctor & Gamble (P&G) LaGrange, GA

Global Capital Purchases Group Manager

Duracell Batteries 2000 - Present

• Manage all of indirect spend for Duracell globally, recently focusing on high speed assembly equipment. Annual Spend from $70-$150MM

• Provide expert oversight to four sites in the U.S., two in China and one in Belgium. Supervise indirect purchasing staff for all locations.

• Highly regarded by engineering counterparts as the business expert for difficult concurrent engineering design/build projects.

• Successfully negotiated additional savings beyond competitive bidding for storeroom services provider contract obtaining $2.5MM in savings on $10MM annual contract.

• Negotiated patent rights for tubular sleeving technology to be included in the price of the supplier’s drawing package. $4MM value included in $350M purchase.

• Reached an agreement with a long term supplier for the continuation of existing equipment exclusively to Duracell, at the same time coordinated with the development of an agreement with new generation cell line development and design.

• Responsible for the environmental abatement of a US production facility involving ongoing monitoring and contingencies for future land use.

International Paper (IP)

Senior Purchasing Manager Panama City and Jacksonville, FL 1995 – 2000

Arizona Chemical (IP’s chemical division)

• Focus area of managing contracts for Superfund Environmental Abatement and several environmentally sensitive plant closures.

• Business representative for SAP process design and implementation for IP’s chemical division. This was IP’s first division-wide SAP implementation and a strong business representative was needed to verify the validity and implement changes to existing processes.

• Consolidated purchasing team from 14 to 7 as a result of improved processes due to SAP’s functionality.

Purchasing Manager - Energy Memphis TN 1993-1995

• Led a team that purchased a co-generation turbine engine to power our largest paper machine including the 6 mile pipeline that bypassed the local energy provider. Achieved savings of $20MM per year of the 20 year contract.

• Bought an average of $300MM per year in natural gas for selected IP locations.

• Was intimately involved with futures buying, hedging and alternate fuels for mills.

• Primary contact with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during this time of rapid energy deregulation.

Purchasing Manager - Richmond Gravure Richmond, VA 1991 – 1993

(Division of IP)

• Managed changes required by a new acquisition by IP.

• Purchased Gravure printing rolls, paper stock, ink, chemical recovery services and waste reduction services.

Purchases Trainee (IP) Erie, PA- Mobile, AL 1990 – 1991

• Rapidly moved through the trainee program which included Mill purchasing and corporate purchasing experience.

Education:

Bachelor’s of Science, Purchasing and Material Management Arizona State University – Tempe, Arizona 1990

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