Experience

Tyonek Manufacturing Group, Inc.

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Procurement Specialist I

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  Work with Project Managers to ensure requisitions for products and services are accurate in quantity, date, and detail; request quotes on price and lead time for commercial parts, custom parts, raw materials, services and outside processes; verify quotes submitted meet requisition requirements; evaluate quotes to select best offer in cost, delivery and quality; search for alternate vendors and/or parts when needing obsolete or hard to find parts; work with Quality Department to ensure orders have correct quality clauses; place orders to ensure timely delivery of parts and materials needed to keep manufacturing lines operating smoothly; follow-up with vendors to track order progress and provide updates; work with vendors to adjust order quantity or delivery as needed; work with vendors to correct shipment errors; work as liaison between vendors and accounts payable in resolving payment or invoice/order issues; evaluate vendors on performance; part of multi-department team tasked with resolving non-conforming part issues. • Discovered a glitch in outside process ordering procedure with the result that steps were added to the procedure to eliminate costly errors. • Recommended consolidation of outside process shipments in order to achieve greater cost savings when possible. Show less



LifeWay Christian Resources

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Supplies Buyer

  • Jul 2017 - Feb 2018

  Evaluated product need and capacity for each local market, planned sales and marketing campaigns, insured vendor compliance with standards, managed inventories, generated and analyzed reports to adjust product assortments, designed and edited products in conjunction with vendors, redesigned packaging in conjunction with vendors, negotiated marketing support funds from vendors, coordinated between stores and vendors on steps to remedy unacceptable or defective products• Adjusted chain inventory in response to market changes with the result that Supply sales through the first 4 months of 2018 were up 15.1% over the same period in 2017 • Managed inventories of over $3 million and generated and analyzed reports to adjust product assortments. Show less

• Category Manager Spanish and Supplies

  • Jul 2015 - Jun 2017

  Led expanded team including associate buyer, merchandiser, planner and marketers, hired and trained Associate buyer, helped produce training videos for stores, participated and reported in management strategic planning meetings, continued with previous buying functions• Improved discount levels with multiple vendors, achieving an average 5% improvement in discount• Led Spanish and Supplies categories to grow from 7.6% of total chain revenue to 8.7% of total chain revenue

• Spanish & Supplies Buyer

  • Aug 1998 - Jun 2015

  Led 3 person team in supporting all the buying and merchandising functions necessary for the success of the categories, selected products, managed inventories, generated and analyzed reports to adjust product assortments, designed and edited products in conjunction with vendors, redesigned packaging in conjunction with vendors, created layouts for displaying product, negotiated marketing support funds from vendors, worked with Accounts Payable to insure correct and timely payments, coordinated between stores and vendors on steps to remedy unacceptable or defective products, created new procedures to handle special purchasing situations• Achieved consistent year-over-year sales growth in both categories• Grew Supplies sales by 4.4% the year after experiencing significant store space reduction and contrary to planning estimates and the industry trend• Led major change in Supplies packaging design in the industry in order to improve merchandising• Spanish stores grew from 33 to 175 and sales grew over 400% between 1998 and 2015. Show less


Tennessee Baptist Children's Home, Franklin
• Activities Director

  • May 1996 - Aug 1998