Global Purchasing Director (238447) MBA / Automotive, Glass, Industrial Equipment / Global Sourcing / $600M Spend / Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati OH
Dayton-based Purchasing and Manufacturing Executive with 20+ years of supporting global leaders like Honda, Toyota, and Faurecia. He has achieved an exceptional track record of delivering significant cost savings, supply base stabilization, and process improvement. He has managed spends up to $600M supporting multiple locations through international sourcing from countries like the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany, Spain, UK, Poland, India, China, and Japan. He is skilled in several ERP systems including SAP and JDE. He has provided Purchasing/Supply Chain support for over 300 sites across 30 countries!
He is a walking ATM who prints money in the form of cost reductions that add MILLIONS of dollars to the bottom line! He has completed multiple relevant industry trainings to keep his tools sharp! This Game Changer comes highly recommended by those who have worked with and for him. He is looking at new opportunities since he was caught up in a reorganization. He is willing to relocate. Move quickly and contact us for an introduction before you lose the opportunity! His notable experience includes::
• Developed global strategy bringing a leveraged sourcing approach to an organization that historically applied a decentralized strategy
• Identified targeted cost reduction opportunities and developed a five-year savings plan covering $120M in annual spend
• Took the lead on the savings recapture initiative leading sites to finalize implementation of $3M in lost direct material savings while delivering an additional $1M in indirect savings prior to staffing of IdP department
• Provided purchasing support to over 300 sites located in 30 different countries.
• Focused on improving service levels while reducing spend and risk.
• Delivered over $25M in validated savings annually through sourcing and TCO strategic projects.
• Leader of the operational indirect purchasing teams supporting USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
• Responsible for the tactical purchasing and procurement functions supporting 70 manufacturing sites.
• Exceeded targeted 4% annual savings impact on the budget goals annually.
• Emphasized internal accountability/effective long-term supplier relationships to gain savings beyond price.
• Led team to configure, launch, and train over 50 sites through successful deployment of SAP P2P modules.
• Created, developed, and deployed a new centralized purchasing department in the USA and Canada.
• Led at team of 10 buyers / 2 admin.
• Managed $120M in annual spend and delivered on our $5M annual savings target.
• Oversaw direct and indirect purchasing activities at 2 automobile exhaust manufacturing sites.
• Led a team of 2 buyers.
• Delivered over $5 million reduction in precious metals losses by driving a special project focused on controlling material flow, scrap reduction, and recovery.
• Served as interim plant quality manager and led the site to gain its original TS16949 compliance certificate.
• Managed staff of 4 engineers, 5 technicians, and 1 supervisor to achieve organizational goals.
• Improvement efforts helped reduce supplier PPM by over 50% and nonconformance events by 30%.
• Led department to effectively resolve and close 75% of outstanding supplier corrective action requests.
• Responsible for oversight and development of 4 engineering specialists who managed over 90 suppliers supporting 10 Toyota models produced at 5 different manufacturing locations.
• Oversaw $150M in annual purchases.
• Negotiated and achieved annual price reductions beyond targets each year; yielding over $6M savings.
• Designed, developed, and launched an expediting/forecasting system resulting in a 30% savings in labor hours.
• Personally trained procurement staff (25 associates) on the use of the newly developed system.
• $600M Spend
• Supporting Multiple Locations
• Supporting Automotive Manufacturing
• Supporting Tier 1 Automotive
• Supporting TS16949
• Global Sourcing – USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany, Spain, UK, Poland, India, China, Japan
• MRO Purchasing
• Capital Equipment Purchasing
• Leasing Equipment
• ERP Systems – QAD, SAP, JDE
• Bid Preparation / Review
• Contract Negotiations
• Minimizing Total Cost of Acquisition
• Strategic sourcing
• Implementing Lean into Purchasing / Warehousing
• Access Reporting
• Crystal Reporting
• VA/VE Negotiation
• Performing Variance Analysis
• Using Root Cause Analysis
• Value Stream Mapping
• Forecasting
• Business Restructures
SKILLS / TRAINING
• IESE Executive Education Course (Barcelona, Spain)
• ERP Systems: SAP / JDE / QAD
• Value Engineering Module 1 (SAVE International)
• Toyota Production System
• Standardized Work
• Situational Leadership
• Toyota Purchasing Cost Build Up (Toyoda City, Japan)
• Kepner-Tregoe Decision Making
• Karass Effective Negotiating
• Negotiate to Win
• Project Management
• Advanced SQL for Business Objects
• MS Office
• Past training in Japanese and Spanish language
• Honda Quality Circle Process
EDUCATION
• MBA (focus on international business and leadership), 2002 / Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• Bachelor of Science, Operations Management & Bachelor of Science, Management / Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio) 1995 Robert J. Firestone Excellence Award Recipient