Jess Rinehard

• Expedite materials when required and handle any rejections or other problems with materials purchased, including the issuance of a SCAR and RTV (Return to Vendor). • Communicate with customer service, program managers, accounting, shipping, receiving, quality, and other departments as needed. • Monitor current purchase price to current standard cost via Purchase Price Variance (PPV) report and alert the commercial team to any significant cost changes that would impact profitability. • Develop and implement short and long-term procurement planning programs to assure adequate quantities of suitable materials are available to support actual requirements at the lowest total costs. • Monitoring of material consumption and forecasts, to best manage on hand inventory to budget and production requirements. • Expedite and escalate solution of problems that arise in relation to quality, delivery, and pricing. • Working through the Dir. Of Strategic Souring for the negotiation of settlements with suppliers on any problems that could result in financial losses to the Company. • Conducts review of supplier’s facilities and product/process capabilities to assess current and potential supplier qualification. • Maintains a strong supplier database (AVL), utilizing the supplier scorecard, and ranking their performance. This report is completed in line with the supplier management procedure, grading suppliers on key performance measures such as quality, delivery, quantity, and price. • Develop and maintain responsible suppliers. Know the key personnel and have an understanding of their production processes and internal systems at each critical supplier. • Obtains competitive quotations as directed and selects suppliers based on quality, cost, lead-time, service, and financial stability. • Aggressively seek and recommend cost saving possibilities based upon new sources, substitutes, improved systems, or new items.

Manage the process of globally sourcing products that support all divisions in meeting corporate goals. Seek out products and associated suppliers to deliver corporate goals for Revenue, Cost, Inventory Turns, Quality and Customer Service. Working with all Divisions, manage sourced product supply chain, managing internal and external relationships. Negotiate agreements and contracts to support business. Reports to Product Sourcing Manager. • Act as sourcing lead with Sales, Marketing, Research and Development teams on new product launches managing inception through execution ensuring clear communication through all aspects of a project. • Provide leadership, management, and strategic direction of the new product supply activities across assigned new product development programs from a supply sourcing and supply development perspective. • Design and implement an effective global sourcing strategy to reduce product costs, ensure supply, and manage all sourcing processes. • Qualify, select, onboard, certify, and manage relationships with suppliers to ensure best price, delivery, quality, and optimal inventory levels to achieve desired profitability. • Coordinate, negotiate, and manage request for quotations (RFQs) with both new and current suppliers. • Work with Procurement Operations, Warehouse, and site teams to improve supply chain performance. • Identify, develop, and implement global, cross-functional supply chain improvement opportunities within the supply chain to achieve best practices. • Provide leadership to drive resolution of blocking items related to supply chain during product development, collaborate and communicate with internal work partners on status, issues, and actions. • Analyze data or insights (including supply options, market trends and competitors) to determine industry and consumer trends. Conduct assessments of existing products/services to assess the potential for new products and services