Procurement and Supply Chain Leader Resume

SUMMARY:

Dynamic professional offering wealth of experience in operational effectiveness to business and financial goals. Track record for strong analytical skills that produced time savings, cost reductions and engagement with cross functional partners. Team leader in implementing systems and processes with various ERP systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hope Hull, AL

Procurement and Supply Chain Leader

Responsibilities:

Forecasted and managed budgets to targets for several supply chain functions
Directed a new supplier to develop and manufacture a new display that replaced and obsolete product that was being procured through after markets. This reduced the total cost from $1 0
Established programs to reduce product lead times greater than 8 weeks, by working with suppliers to carry long lead items based on providing forecasts. This reduced the products time to market and the need for excess inventory.
Instituted target prices for buyers, which resulted in an average of 8% placement lower than standard cost.

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Controller

Responsibilities:

Teamed with Program Management and Contracts departments to restructure long term warranty agreements. Reduced a 20 - year warranty to 1-year standard warranty by providing spare components. This better defined liability and reduced the need to carry excess inventory providing margins improvements greater than $500K
Leader in replacing in house time keeping system that lessen yearly maintenance cost by 50%, provided more timely data for review and analysis. The system was web based increasing the access for employees to enter time and meet the requirements of daily inputs.
Instituted new expense reporting system (Concur) providing a timelier entry and processing of employee expense reports, provided parameters that met with compliance of company travel policies, and automated journal entries to general ledger.
Restructured/relocated accounting and finance departments reducing manpower and shortening month end closing timeframe from 5-days to 2-days

Confidential

Site Business and Supply Chain Manager

Responsibilities:

Prepared and presented Business unit dashboards for site, prepared and presented procurement dashboards for the site. These reports detailed key parameters for stake holders and senior management to review the performance of the programs and the site
The site lead in the sale of business unit. Providing performance indicators past and future, preparing asset and liabilities list culminating in a successful sale in less than a year.
Managed 3 major subcontractors in the design and delivery of key sub-systems.

Confidential, Williamsville, NY

Program Manager and Manager of Financial Planning

Responsibilities:

Lead the first development activity that was conceived and initially developed by Huntsville group for Amherst Systems. This provided a new product type and revenue stream to Amherst systems
Reduced the time to generate management reports, Cost Performance Reports and management dashboards from two weeks to one week. The receipt of more timely information provided for more analysis and earlier actions by the management team

Confidential, Hope Hull, AL

Supply Chain Manager and Controller

Responsibilities:

Achieved 99% inventory accuracy using a daily cycle count program, that replaced the need for plant wide physical inventory
Development critical suppliers to outsource production subassemblies that we previously done in house, printed circuit boards, cable harnesses, machine and paint operations.
Accomplished inventory turnover increases from 4 to 12 times a year on active product lines
Improved cash flow to turn the company from of a borrower to a debt reducer, by improving margins, through accurate costing and pricing of products