Michelle Binnie

Responsible for the negotiation and closure of contracts involving various supply chain strategies within multiple customers, vendors and Jabil sites globally. This involves strategic inventory focus, incorporating contract negotiation, adherence to Jabil and legal terminologies, and liaising with customer/business units to ensure we are in compliance with existing contracts. Upon requirement from the Business Unit team, this is also a Customer Facing role.

Project management of high volume/high spend parts across European high velocity sites (particularly in Italy), and adopting supply chain strategies that could improve efficiencies and limit liabilities in line with targets from our Senior Corporate Team. This involved European travel to improve supply chain contracts, current procurement patterns and engage in dialogue with suppliers and site teams to improve existing T & C's.

Project management and tactical execution within the materials team to address specific issues that had arisen within the stock reconciliation and supply chain system within the facility. The project involved creating a “closed loop” process to eliminate the variance gap between system and physical inventory levels. Heavy team collaboration required therefore the project involved liaising with the purchasing, planning and inventory control departments within the site to reach a satisfactory outcome at the end of the secondment. This role involved weekly travel to engage with site teams, and the ultimate resolution of agreeing the solution and documenting a written procedure to ensure the issue was resolved.

This period sees me gaining promotion to Senior Buyer for a high value medical account, and increasing my workload to cover a new aerospace and defence customer also. Main duties included managing/coaching/mentoring 5 buyers and being the customer interface for our team. At the end of this period, we transferred the business to Asia, and I became responsible for the supply chain transfer process from Livingston to Asia, one of the main objectives being a smooth and seamless transition to our China facility.

Held a variety of Purchasing positions within various teams as business flexibilities dictated: Feb 05 – Nov 06 Buyer – Telecoms/Aerospace & Defence Direct interface with customers and set up of new Aerospace and Defence account Jan 04 – Aug 04 NPI Buyer Mentoring buyers, MRP management, resolution of problem deliveries/invoices, quotation mgmt Aug 03 – Jan 04 Business Unit Buyer Submitting/collating RFQ’s, pricing management, sourcing management. Sep 02 – Aug 03 Volume Co-Ordinator Build analysis, point of contact for planning to commit builds for production, resolution of late materials issues, implementation of ECN Jun 01 – Sep 02 Buyer MRP management, implementation of Jabil SC strategies, uploading quotations, systems management, management of allocated parts.