bruce gowans

global business development mechanical components

About

Bruce Gowans is an experienced senior manager who has proved his ability in innovative and enterprising techniques in procurement management and financial astuteness to enable major impact on company profitability. Challenges and problem solving are amongst his desired requirements in the consideration of any new post. Specialties: atm,metals, sheetmetal, commodities, contract management, logistics, materials management, procurement, strategic planning, supervisory skills, supply chain

Country

united states

City

potomac

Industry

electrical/electronic manufacturing

Skill

program manager

Experience

global business development mechanical components

own businees

2018-9 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

commodity director

ncr corporation

2003-2 - 2010-4 · 7 yrs 3 mos

low cost region sourcing manager

ncr corporation

2002-6 - 2003-2 · 9 mos

commodity manager

global manufacturing rollout

2001-9 - 2002-3 · 7 mos

* Responsible for 12 buyers/engineers. Commodities: Electronics, PCB's, Memory, Processors, Powers supplies, Harnesses, Keyboards, encryption security. * Achievements: * Optimization of Harness supply with $2.25 million savings * Low cost region supply in Slovakia (p86 Harnesses). Ribbons/Cables from China

commodity manager

safes/cables

2000-6 - 2001-9 · 1 yr 4 mos

* Responsible for 20 buyers/engineers. Commodities: Safes, Locks, and Harnesses, Power supplies, Metal work, Fascias, Colour customisation and Prestaging * Achievements: * Cost reduction : Exceeded target of $ 3.5m , $4.1m actual * Auctions of dispenser harness, aria pick harness * Turned parts auction set up coordination * Support of Metalwork & safes/pwr/cables commodities * Implementation of Direct line feed program of Metalwork * Project leader of NCR cross-functional improvement team on color customization process from customer requirement to end product. (cycle time reduction and cost savings) * Implementation of Cost reduction control spreadsheet. * Initiated supplier development within commodity * Targeted improvement in Supplier performance in regards to Quality and Delivery

director of global mechanicals

ncr corporation

2010-4 - Present · 16 yrs 6 mos

Newly formed Global Mechanical Team. This new team will be responsible for the sourcing and supplier development relating to tooling, packaging, injection molding, plastic, belts and all phases of metal fabrication.