Christopher B.

Lead the Global Strategic Sourcing organization. Supporting all of the FBIN portfolio of brands including MOEN, House of Rohl, Emtek, Master Lock, Sentry Safe, Yale, Larson, ThermaTru, Fiberon, and Fypon via relationships with Direct Materials suppliers across mechanical, electronics, raw materials, and purchased finished goods categories and Indirect suppliers for IT, Marketing, Facilities, MRO, HR, and Professional Services.

Responsible for the creation and deployment of Strategic Sourcing process and tools across the FBHS portfolio of businesses. Program management of go-to-market activities to drive cost and cash improvement while reducing risk. Creation and Leadership of a Supplier Development function.

Executive level leader for Global Mechanicals Sourcing team. Manage annual spend of $1.2 Billion spend, 54k parts, and ~1400 suppliers for Cables & Harnesses, Composites, E & M, Fabrication & Machining, Mechanical HLA's, and Power.

Oversee and lead Global Electronics and High Tech Sourcing team. Manage annual spend of $1.1 Billion for Electronic Components, Electronics Manufacturing, Software, Displays, Computers, and User Interfaces. Lead aspects of corporate supplier consolidation project, focusing on Contract Manufacturing across all GE business units. Key accomplishment includes improving year over year deflation by 50% in first year and incremental 20% in second year. Other notable achievements are implementing an electronics lifecycle program and reorganizing team from regional to global-based structure.

Lead companywide strategy to manage all purchasing of Electronics Components and oversee the Electronics Contract manufacturing suppliers, driving supplier consolidation and cost out/quality improvements via Engineering re-design activities

Tasked with Planning and Inventory Management for all locations globally. Responsible for sales and operations planning for all Rockwell locations and North American distributors

Led the Supply Management market teams, Strategic Sourcing analytics team, and the Source to Pay business process improvement group. Oversaw and managed approximately 1.5 billion annual spend and 100 FTEs. Collaborated with Materials, Planning and Sourcing departments to ensure optimal performance (lead time reduction, lot size, delivery and inventory).

Led efforts for the global sourcing and supply management strategies for the Electronics commodities. Supervised team of 15 (located globally). Managed activities to achieve goals in Quality, On Time Delivery, Lead Time, Cash Flow, supply base rationalization, localization, and productivity results.

Responsible for the sourcing of all indirect materials and services globally, with $500 million annual spend. Supervised 13 employees located in North America, China and Europe. Managed efforts and workflow relating to indirect procurement, supplier selection, supply base rationalization and cost/delivery performance. Closely monitored P&L and supplier quality.

Led cross functional teams, focused on driving global sourcing strategies within designated business unit (IT Hardware, Telecommunications ,Outsourced Help Desk, Software, Fleet Services and Environmental Services).

Analyzed and selected vendors. Designed/implemented computing infrastructure supporting global implementation of SAP. Closely monitored implementation as it related to servers, storage, networking, data centers and disaster recovery.

Lead the outsourcing of Help Desk and Deskside support services from requirements gathering, through RFQ, to vendor selection and contracting for a multi-year arrangement.

Responsible for the global UNIX Server and Storage team comprising of 12 members, over 250 devices, and a $5M+ annual budget supporting mission critical business and manufacturing environments.

Individual contributor role supporting Server and Storage devices supporting the European PeopleSoft ERP environment.

Deployed to Fortune 500 customer sites to implement and configure computing devices and software to run complex Distribution centers