Courtney M.

Strategic Category Management & High-Stakes Negotiation Global Spend Oversight: Directed the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle—identification, evaluation, and selection—for raw materials, metal fabrication, and electrical components categories. Commercial Leadership: Negotiated complex contracts, terms, and service level agreements (SLAs) to secure favorable pricing and payment terms while ensuring 100% supply continuity for critical infrastructure. Supplier Integrity & Risk: Led comprehensive supplier audits and evaluations to ensure strict compliance with ethical standards, legal regulations, and industry best practices. Key Achievement: Custom Control Panel Outsourcing & Backlog Reduction Production Hour Shift: Spearheaded the creation of a brand-new sourcing category for custom control panel builds to directly address and reduce S&C’s production backlog. Operational Impact: Orchestrated a cross-functional internal team to define urgent supplier requirements, obtain samples, and secure custom engineering approvals for low-voltage enclosures. Results: Successfully offloaded production hours to external partners, significantly shortening customer lead times and increasing manufacturing throughput. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Capacity Planning NPD & Stakeholder Alignment: Partnered with New Product Development (NPD), internal fabrication, and Sales to identify and implement supply chain efficiencies that reduced total landed costs. Capacity Relief Strategy: Co-chaired a cross-functional committee to execute capacity relief options for S&C’s manufacturing units, focusing on machined, stamped, and laser-cut components to prevent production bottlenecks. Strategic Reporting: Developed customized data solutions for global sourcing managers to streamline category management and improve visibility into supplier performance

Market & Margin Protection: Monitor and report the financial impact of metal price fluctuations, tariffs, and scrap volumes on product lines. I provide the data-backed rationale for strategic customer pricing adjustments to protect margins against market volatility. Strategic Capacity Planning: Co-chaired a cross-functional committee to develop capacity relief strategies for manufacturing units (machined, stamped, and laser-cut items), ensuring production continuity during peak demand or supply constraints. AI-Enhanced Data Solutions: Architected automated data tools that enable Global Sourcing Managers to streamline category management. By moving from manual tracking to customizable, real-time reporting, I reduced administrative overhead and improved decision-making speed. Predictive Lead-Time Logistics: Developed and implemented a lead-time metrics model to benchmark supplier performance against production schedules. This "early warning system" flags potential bottlenecks, allowing the team to intervene before supplier delays impact customer delivery dates. Financial Integrity: Identified and resolved $323,000 in cost variances through a rigorous audit of internal price point reports, directly recovering bottom-line value.

-Mitigate service risks by interacting with suppliers and customer service on potential service issues with Weber products -Manage and support product requirements set forth by R & D, Project Management, and Commodity Managers -Optimize inventory according to seasonal business model and work with suppliers to approve production plan based on sales forecast -Set and maintain safety stock levels for assigned SKUs including Weber accessories and replacement parts -Evaluate impact of non-conforming material on supply levels and quickly coordinate with suppliers to rectify errors in the material -Manage list of assigned SKUs being discontinued to ensure that suppliers have no leftover material and plan last delivery dates with information from sales forecasting

-Managed day to day operations and inside sales for four brands of Knight Transportation - intermodal, refrigerated, dry van, and brokerage services nationwide -Launched new opportunities for brokerage services through relationship building with current customers -Responsible for 97% on time delivery and pickup for assigned national account -Established inbound and outbound power lanes to lower costs and increase revenue on trucks

•Accountable for increasing and maintaining business growth with Fortune 500 accounts in the Southeast •Innovated ways to create capacity to serve national accounts and utilize other Knight services •Tracked on time service for Knight’s strategic customers •Developed relationships with new and existing customers to improve business opportunities •Served as liaison for assigned regional accounts and communicate with sales managers on pricing and service opportunities with service center managers •Proactively communicated any service issue to customers and react quickly to change to ensure delivery

•Responsible for bringing in revenue as a team including states NC, SC, and VA •Oversaw customer service and solicited daily for freight •Negotiated pricing for truckload rates

-Built relationships with drivers and customers to improve metrics. -Multitasked with different geographical regions to create load assignments. -Dispatched drivers -Achieved company benchmarks for mileage and revenue goals

As an intern I completed a sourcing event for International Paper's Vicksburg, MS mill with a designated team. Inbound and outbound truckload and intermodal transportation was sourced successfully for contract terms of two years. For the motor group, I prepared reports that include carrier fines, cost errors, truckload spend, a monthly dashboard, and carrier scorecard. For the rail group, I prepared the quarterly rail volume report, the on-time delivery report, fuel surcharge spend and savings, and assisted in tracking rail diversions. I learned how to use Intellitrans, Business Warehouse (BW), SAP, and intermediate-advanced excel skills on the job.

Honors: MSU Shackouls Honors College College of Business Ambassador College of Business Scholarship Recipient Dean's List Delta Sigma Pi 3.6/4.0

9 week study abroad in the Spanish language covering culture, grammar, and vocabulary.