SUMMARY:

• Direct/Indirect Procurement | Process Improvement| Strategic Sourcing Support
• SAP Functional Support | Vendor Management & Evaluation | Project Management
• Contract Administration | Material & Ingredients Specification Management | Data Migration |Pharma
• Managed and Supported the Global Quality Organization through Collaborative and Cross - Functional Channels driving Confidential 's Supplier Quality Expectations of Raw Materials and Packaging Suppliers. Documentation of nutritional and ingredients labels and Confidentiality Disclosure Agreements.
• Train and Provide direction and quality guidelines to internal and external stakeholders. Manage approval over 300 suppliers; domestic and international annually.
• Increased the rate of suppliers scheduled audits resulting in surpass of Mid-year compliance forecast by 60%.
• Coordinate Food Defense Audits.
• Driving product quality and consumer satisfaction.
• Managed Confidential 's SAP Go Live & STP Migration of Packaging Category for over 400 internal and external sites. Met and exceeded quarterly benchmarks.
• Manage and support SAP Best Business Practices for over 4000 users across 7 divisions, registering 10k calls annually, continually exceed Corporate SLA's driving process improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems proficiency and knowledge includes: AS400, JDE, BASYS, JAYMES, Ariba, BPCS, MDM, SAP/SRM/CRM 4.0/ECC 5.0/BW, Share Point, Siemens Interspec Material Management Tool, File Maker, Photo Shop, Fieldglass, Adobe, K-Spec, Microsoft Office, Pivot Tables, V Look Ups, CranSoft, and other proprietary applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Software/Hardware Asset fulfillment/Purchasing Agent

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create purchase requisitions within SAP for hardware, software and maintenance in conformance with established policies and procedures.
• Ensure governance and compliance for purchasing activities are met, while educating requisitioners on best practices for procurement processes, including driving accountability for timely Goods Receipt postings.
• Work closely with suppliers, and various U.S. Cellular personnel to ensure the accuracy of part numbers, sku’s, item descriptions, pricing, etc.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key external supplier partners to ensure the efficiency in product procurement and timely issue resolution.
• Expeditiously responds to and resolves key stakeholder procurement issues/concerns working through requester, vendor and technical resources.
• Analyzes and resolves invoice and goods reconciliations as discrepancies arise.
• Process training requests for IS associates.

Clinical Contract Reconciliation Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enter contract terms into a database to allow for the generation of accurate payments during the study and Reconciliation at the end of the study. Participate in MSA, SOW contracts, addendums and vendor reviews with vendor relationship team.
• Create reconciliation of OUS and US contract payments utilizing systems to collect, summarize, analyze & consolidate payment history & compare result to budget identifying balances.
• Work with Team to obtain agreement on balance between payments & contracts; follow-up issues/discrepancies.
• Interacts with various levels of management and functions within organization, including but not limited to Accounts Payable, Finance, Clinical Trial Sites, Vendors and Clinical Program.

Food Safety Quality and R&D Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage and communicate the Quality standards to suppliers (Supplier Quality Expectations, Supplier Quality Resource Document, and HACCP Manual) outline the requirements raw material and package suppliers must meet to do business with Confidential .
• Manage and Collaborate with Food Safety Micro on Allergens Management and Best Business Practices by standardizing the Supplier Audit Process through the Categories Tier and Audit Matrix and the Audit Request/Line Assessment Form to drive Continuous Improvements. Ensure all required Quality Audits (GFSI, SQF, BRC, and FSSC) of Confidential ’s North American Ingredients and Packaging Suppliers are scheduled and completed in accordance with corporate requirements.
• Manage documentation of Audit Records, CDA’s, Audit Reports, Line Assessments, Labels, CAPA, Audit Certificates of Suppliers and EM's within the Quality Auditing Documentation Library.
• Make weekly and quarterly presentations of supplier KPI’s and SLA metrics during team and key stakeholder meetings.
• Manage accuracy and integrity of supplier’s packaging material and ingredients data within Interspec specification database, correct and update changes to material data.
• Support R&D, New Product Development, and Procurement in the approval process of new suppliers and materials.

SAP Procurement Data Steward/Packaging Specification Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Master Data preparation and enrichment; detect remove and/or correct data that is incorrect, out-of-date, redundant or incomplete. Ensure data integrity, leading to optimum performance of the system.
• Performed Data Enrichment, added value to data to make it highly structured, structured the source data with reference from the manufacturer’s catalog or through other resources.
• Lead Materials Management which provides an unbroken chain of components for production to manufacture goods on time for the customer base. Assisted Global Master Data team with the deployment of a master data portal, leading and conducting user acceptance testing and training for the packaging category.

SAP Business Support Analyst/Buyer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SAP super user responsible for the verification and resolution of P2P and purchase order transaction processes and training end users for final implementation.
• Ensure compliance and alignment with corporate and legal strategies.
• Resolve all Blocked Invoices, GR/IR Conflicts, and Opened Invoice Reports.
• Collaborate with Accounts Payable in Price Variance Resolution.
• SAP Functional Support & knowledge of SAP Modules (SD,MM,PP,FICO)

SAP-GUI Indirect Procurement Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for all procurement related information and functions, resolving issues pertaining to purchase orders, invoice discrepancies, purchase requisitions, procurement cards, and policy deviation requests while assisting buyers with purchase order approvals, change orders, account code changes, and invoice related issues.
• Complied detailed analysis and reports utilizing SAP Business Warehouse tool.

Senior Purchasing Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintained detailed and accurate supplier information in all required systems to allow for the efficient and timely processing of purchase requisitions, RFP's, RFI's, RFQ's, bid events, and purchase orders.
• Lead and managed the review, approval, and conversion of all requisitions into purchases with an annual spend of $20 million across 14 plant locations in nine states.
• Fostered positive relationships with supplier base, leading the sourcing of products and services, supplier selection and evaluation, and verification of certificates of insurance for on-site suppliers.
• Full accountability for ensuring the accuracy of all purchase orders, pricing, service level agreements, vendor information, and delivery details for each order.
• Delivered training and provided leadership and guidance to Confidential personnel in all facets of the requisition process and on utilizing corporate procurement systems (Ariba, SAP, and JDE).