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AREA PURCHASING MANAGER
Summary

Purchasing leader with exceptional abilities in team leadership, tactical planning and project management. Top-notch strengths in verbal and written communication, work organization and complex problem solving. Well-versed in improvements, cost reductions and business operations support.

Skills
  • Problem Solver
  • Organization development
  • Process Driven
  • Operations/Project management
  • Employee/Customer relations
  • Verbal communication skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication and time management skills
  • Accounts payable, Negotiating
  • Approach, Network
  • Automation, Nursing
  • Benefits, Organization development
  • Budget, Organizational skills
  • Communications skills, Personnel
  • Oral communication, Plan development
  • Contracts, Policies
  • Customer relations, Problem solving
  • Customer support, Problem Solver
  • Data analysis, Problem-solving skills
  • Database, Processes
  • Decision making, Procurement
  • Drafting, Project management
  • Driving, Purchasing
  • Editing, Receiving
  • Fast, Reporting
  • Functional, Safety
  • Innovation, SAP
  • Inventory management, Self-motivated
  • Inventory, Shipping
  • Inventory Control, SPARC
  • Managing, Supervisory experience
  • Management skills, Supervising
  • Materials, Tables
  • Excel, Team player
  • MS Office, Phone
  • PowerPoint, Time management
  • Word, Training manuals
  • Works, Transportation
  • Mill, Verbal communication skills
  • Multi-tasking, Excellent written
  • Negotiation, Written communication skills
  • Cost controls familiarity
  • Bid process management
  • Project management
  • Price negotiations
  • Vendor invoicing
Experience
Area Purchasing Manager, Company Name, April 2019-CurrentCity, State
  • 4 locations.
  • Sourcing, purchasing, negotiating and managing inventory of MRO, equipment, services, raw materials, and supplies from external vendors.
  • Working with requestors to understand requirements, specifications, services, and timing.
  • Managing appropriate use of national, regional, and local contract agreements.
  • Implementing processes to improve purchasing efficiencies and automation.
  • Strict compliance with all state and federal guidelines.
  • Identifying and analyzing opportunities to competitively bid local spend to achieve the lowest total cost of ownership.
  • Optimizing working capital and on hand inventory levels.
  • Working with internal customers to identify and address unmet needs that align with procurement and business unit goals to deliver long term value.
  • Driving value creation through innovation.
  • Verifying data on all invoices on high volume level.
  • Supervising and developing storeroom personnel.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams at the facility and headquarters to implement business initiatives.
  • Ensuring compliance with all safety, purchasing, fiduciary, stores and environmental policies and procedures.
Senior Buyer, Company Name, January 2011-April 2019City, State
  • Lead of procurement for contractors for Green Bay facilities.
  • Implemented relationships with Mill Engineering and working directly with them.
  • Back up coverage to Purchasing Managers in Port Hudson, Mount Holly and Plattsburgh.
  • Lead as project manager for corporate multimillion-dollar projects.
  • Key contributor cost savings by negotiation of contract.
  • Liaise with corporate management on contract issues to ensure company standards.
  • Lead on contract terms and conditions.
  • Manage and maintain contract database.
  • Responsible for drafting, analyzing and negotiation contracts.
  • Write amendments to contracts in order to improve on service.
  • Evaluate prospective vendors.
  • Effective management skills to direct contractors to stay within budget.
  • Member of Contractor Safety team.
  • Ensures the contractual document accurately reflects the terms and conditions of purchase, including payment terms, freight terms, incoterms, and other key commercial terms.
  • Develops and maintains training manuals.
  • Analyzes root causes of accounts payable exceptions and takes steps to resolve and prevent.
  • Initiates changes to improve the effectiveness of the purchasing process.
  • Manages own time to accomplish goals and prioritize a variety of tasks.
  • Uses strong verbal and written communication skills to identify and solve problems that will deliver the greatest long-term value to internal customers.
  • Manages numerous locations to provide customer support.
  • Be a self-motivated, energetic team player with business acumen.
  • Exhibit proven critical/analytical problem-solving skills.
  • Experience in ARIBA, SAP, Isnetworld, DART, SPARC, Asset Suite, Track and Contractor reporting system.
  • Experience with MS Office Software (Excel- working knowledge of pivot tables and data analysis, Word- document creation/editing and PowerPoint- presentation creation/editing).
  • Leads project teams across disciplines and seeks guidance from Purchasing Manager.
  • Understands national, regional and local contract agreements and assures adherence.
  • Analyzes vendor bid packages to drive recommendation based on total cost of ownership.
  • Manages an annual spend.
  • Develop consultative relationships with field business leaders to identify learning and development gaps.
  • Act as a subject matter expert and assist in the development internal training and development programs.
  • Self-directed, work with a high sense of urgency and possess the ability to solve problems and collaborate with other disciplines to meet the needs of the operation.
  • Sourcing, purchasing, negotiating and managing inventory of raw materials, equipment, MRO, services and supplies from external vendors.
  • Working with requestors to understand requirements, specifications, services, and timing.
  • Managing appropriate use of national, regional, and local contract agreements.
  • Identify and analyze opportunities to competitively bid local spend to achieve the lowest total cost of ownership.
  • Optimizes working capital and on hand inventory levels.
  • Works with internal customers to identify and address unmet needs that align with procurement and business unit goals to deliver long term value.
  • Looks to drive value creation through innovation.
  • Supervising storeroom personnel.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams at the facility and headquarters to implement corporate initiatives.
  • Ensuring compliance with all safety, purchasing, fiduciary, stores and environmental policies and procedures.
  • Inventory or store room management experience.
  • Supervisory experience.
  • Experience managing the implementation of large procure to pay projects.
  • Experience delivering training or supporting programs related to large change initiatives.
  • Experience with an inventory management computer system.
  • Assist in scope development, responsibilities, methodology and approach required to enable the supplier base on the Ariba network.
  • Manages communication plan development and program-wide communications to key stakeholders.
  • Communicates Supplier Enablement Program benefits, requirements, timelines to suppliers and stakeholders.
  • Develop consultative relationships with field business leaders to identify learning and development gaps.
  • Act as a subject matter expert and assist in the development internal training and development programs.
  • Identify and drive closure for P2P process improvements that will drive additional efficiencies and benefits for spend sent through the network.
Senior Dispatcher, Company Name, December 2003-January 2011City, State
  • Supervised all receiving, storage, inventorying, and timely shipping.
  • Plan loads with one-way carriers within the Georgia Pacific network of mills, plants, warehouses, and wastepaper vendors to meet the customers' needs.
  • Scheduled and Coordinated with Commercial Carriers for the shipments.
  • Develop positive relationships with the carriers.
  • Inventory Control.
  • Supported remote contact center.
  • Plan loads for multiple dedicated fleets that are utilized within the Georgia Pacific network of mills, plants, warehouses, and wastepaper vendors.
  • Understand and comply with all state and federal Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations.
  • Monitor and execute daily work plans to with a high degree of accuracy.
  • Analyze data to identify operational inefficiencies and service issues for system and functional improvements.
  • Take calls from a phone queue to resolve Overages, Shortages, and Damaged load issues.
  • Build relationships with internal customers.
  • Demonstrate excellent communications skills with both internal and external customers.
  • Exhibit strong problem solving, decision making, multi-tasking and organizational skills in a fast-paced environment.
  • Traveled to different locations and remotely to train others on systems.
Education and Training
NWTC-Nursing assistant 1996-Denmark High School Systems Experience: 4DX Training-Ariba/EIM Superuser/ISNetworld/Trax/Sparc/SAP/Passport/MP2/Ariba Spend/Ecosystem/DART1999
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Job Titles Held:

  • Area Purchasing Manager
  • Senior Buyer
  • Senior Dispatcher

Degrees

  • NWTC-Nursing assistant 1996-Denmark High School Systems Experience: 4DX Training-Ariba/EIM Superuser/ISNetworld/Trax/Sparc/SAP/Passport/MP2/Ariba Spend/Ecosystem/DART

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