Provide Procurement Consulting to organizations (from $50 million to $1billion+), transforming procurement processes, while providing a competitive cost advantage for businesses across a variety of industries.
• Provide client savings that average 20% up to 49% on some projects.
• Negotiated agreement for uniforms providing $416K savings.
• Qualified a new stretch wrap material which resulted in a 31% savings.
• Negotiated agreement for the supply of electricity with $71.5K savings.

Global responsibility for developing strategies, process improvement,, for: uniforms & office products, Fruits & Veg, ,Utility Supply/Demand, Waste, Vehicles, and Chemicals. Manage Indirect Sourcing department staff, responsible for 34 U.S. locations. Determine global procurement policies as part of Global Procurement Leadership team. Train new U.S. / EU PROC leaders.
• Negotiated agreement for U.S. and Canadian uniforms with $367K savings.
• Negotiated waste hauling agreement, saved 17%.

Supervise the Sr. Manager and Manager, Indirect Sourcing. Responsible for procurement/maintenance for large vehicle fleet and MRO. Manage special projects for other departments, and provide project status and strategic direction on the weekly Operations Leadership calls.
• Implemented new national uniform agreement with a 30% cost reduction.
• Outsourced facility maintenance and repair pilot program providing $178K in annual savings.
• Provided 11% savings for building repair project.

Responsible for implementing, managing contracts for: capital acquisition of equipment, facility repair or replacement services, construction and architectural service agreements for facility expansion or construction of new facilities, energy acquisition, dry ice, wet ice, chemicals, travel, waste hauling/disposal services, pest control services, copier leases.
• Provided $324K in annual savings for waste hauling/disposal services.
• Negotiated $152K in annual savings for office products.

Provided purchasing and strategic planning consulting to manufacturers, distributors, and service contractors for diverse industries such as automotive, chemical, paint, and IT.
• Negotiated long-term packaging contracts providing cost reductions and limited future price increases to raw material pass through with no opportunity for labor and overhead increases.
• Negotiated double-digit savings for software maintenance ,computers, IT services for GE.

Officer of start-up mobile document signing services provider for mortgage and title companies.
• Took company from start-up to six figure annualized sales.
• Increased billable rate and service utilization based on high customer satisfaction.

Directed all purchasing, inventory control, including strategic planning, managing an annual budget in excess of $40M and procurement for ingredients, glass and plastic packaging, fresh produce, and service contracts.
• Provided total savings in excess of $1.2M.
• Developed new source of supply for starch providing an 18.5% cost savings and improved delivery.
• Reduced two plastic containers costs by 30% through development of alternate sources of supply.

Directed procurement of plastic resins and bottles, glass, pudding cup roll stock, flexible packaging, folding cartons, and represented Hunt-Wesson on the ConAgra Flexible Packaging Council. Developed costs for a budget exceeding $300M.
• Negotiated total savings and cost avoidance exceeding $72M .
• Delivered presentations to our CEO, division Presidents, and Controllers on anticipated raw material market movements.

Responsibilities included the purchase, logistics, production scheduling, and inventory control of plastic and glass containers as well as plastic closures and pudding roll stock. Represented Procurement on product development teams.
• Reduced an existing plastic closure price by $1.7M, which yielded a 33% decrease upon assuming responsibilities for plastic closures.
• Selected to lead the ingredients group for a supply chain initiatives gathering & presented results to the 110 participants.

Administered the purchase, logistics, production scheduling, and inventory control of all plastic and glass.
• Assisted in the development of a computer module, which provided a more accurate safety stock program and reordering positions. This resulted in Wesson Oil Operations reporting the best service ever with packaging shortages decreasing from 4.5% to .6%.
• Over achieved savings plan 4 years in row by more than 10%.