Head of Supply Chain / Purchasing Manager Resume Cambridge, MA - Hire IT People

OBJECTIVE:

A challenging Supply Chain / Operations opportunity to utilize my extensive background, supporting all operations / management in a professional, world - class Life Science / Medical Device company.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Head of Supply Chain / Purchasing Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsible for all Purchasing, Planning, Production, and Inventory Controls (4 locations), Spare Parts for Technical Service, and Installation Groups in support of $ 37M line of business.
Project Manager for Custom Made To Order Capital OR Room systems.
Managed all supply, ECO, RFP, RFQ, Corporate Purchasing Synergies
Wrote RFP and RFQ requests.
On the team to implement Lean Manufacturing Techniques, and Six Sigma practices. Green Belt and Blue Belt Certified.
Implemented Consignment Inventory Program.
Utilizing SAP and Oracle Peoplesoft ERP systems.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Operations - Materials/Warehouse/Logistics Manager

Responsibilities:

Manager - Materials, Warehousing, Logistics for Cancer Center.
Cancer Treatment Clinics
Research Laboratories
Clinical Research Trials with Bio Pharmaceutical Companies.
Manage RFP, RFQ, Negotiate Supply Contracts.
Negotiate Price, Supplier Management as Core Functions for Clinics.
Negotiated Price Contracts / cost Ownerships
Order Management using SAP ERP system
Managed inventory products for labs, set up KANBAN stocking initiatives. Internal and 3rd party supplier maintained.
Worked with Researchers for correct products and identified, and found (best) correct suppliers
Searched and found Second Source (Plan B) Suppliers
Managed Bills of Materials
ECO- FFF-Scrap- Cost SavingsPurchases consisted of
Research Clinical Trial Supplies- Inventory - Stock
Research Clinical Trial IT and IT peripherals
Negotiated Consignment Inventory Program for Institute and all Labs
Supplier owned inventory until seal was broken and consumed.
Managed all EDI (Inventory) Supply Chain / Purchase Orders
Total Spend $14M
Reduced Inventory by 37% without affecting Confidential t support.
Responsible for all campus deliveries.
Responsible for all Capital Equipment deliveries
Interfacing with Finance, to assure Capital Asset Tags are applied upon receipt.
Managed 30000 monthly receipts
Live Cell and Tissue Transplant receipts- (wrote protocol)
All Research Clinical Trial special receipts

Confidential, Needham, MA

Operations Director

Responsibilities:

Responsible for all Operations, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Planning, Production, Operation Engineering, Shipping and Inventory Controls (2 locations), Warranty Services, Spare Parts for Technical Service, and Installation Groups in support of $ 2M line of Wireless Sensor business.
Strengths and experience in defining strategic goals and objectives. Using teamwork to build productive links within and external departments, working collaboratively within the Operations, Engineering, and Quality units to achieve site objectives.
Compliant US FDA Good Manufacturing Processes, and ISO13485.
Implemented a change atmosphere from an engineering driven to a manufacturing environment
Implemented a change business relationship so it was good business for Company (customer) and Supplier.
Reduced available to promise times from 10 weeks to 2 weeks.
Corrected and Restored Vendor / Supplier Relationships.
Implemented Supplier Management Agreements
Created and Wrote Pricing Contracts
Implemented Penalties and Bonus initiatives
Identified FFF (Form Fit Function) backward and forward part, component usages to product support
(Global) Travel as required to support operations.

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Materials Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsible for all Purchasing, Planning, Production, and Inventory Controls (4 locations), Spare Parts for Technical Service, and Installation Groups in support of $ 85.5M line of business.
Compliant with US FDA Good Manufacturing Processes, ISO 9001, 9002. Transitioning to ISO13485. Managed SOX compliance.
Project Manager for Custom Made To Order Capital OR Room systems.
Managed all supply, ECO, RFP, RFQ, Corporate Purchasing Synergies
Wrote RFP and RFQ requests
Project Manager 5 integrated ERP system implementations. Operational on day 1 for all 5 implementations.
On the team to implement Lean Manufacturing Techniques, and Six Sigma practices. Blue Belt Certified.
Implemented daily, and Increased Cycle Counts accuracies from 56% to 99%.Jan, 2006 inventory@ 99.9842% Nov.2005 inventory@99.996
Implemented Vendor Stocking, and Consignment Inventory Programs.