Pauline L.

Sr. Sourcing Manager @ Huhtamaki

About

Dedicated Finance/Sourcing Professional with demonstrated sourcing & finance experience. Strong Established Relationships with vendors • Senior Management Team Member • Supervision • Negotiated & prepare contracts, Oversee over $50MM of supply chain & capex Ordering, scheduling and reconciliation of raw material inventories. Manager of Stockroom - over 14K parts $10MM MRO buy for stockroom. Key user for maintenance of vendors, workflows. • Management Acct’g & Hyperion Financials Over 20 years of successful accounting month end closes within deadlines. 10 years in Procurement with management and supervision. Full general ledger reconciliation. Key point of contact in quarterly and yearly audits. Systems Mainsaver Oracle SAP BPCS/AS400

Country

United States

City

Waterville

Industry

Packaging & Containers

Skill

Supply Chain Operations, Purchasing, Purchase Orders, Materials Management, Risk Management, Contract Review, Supplier Performance, Sourcing, Finance, Inventory Control, Supply Chain, Accounting, SAP, Inventory Management, Budgets, Forecasting, Auditing, Continuous Improvement, Operations Management, Process Improvement

Experience

Sr. Sourcing Manager

Huhtamaki

2024-2 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Waterville Me

Procurement Manager

Huhtamaki

2019-10 - 2024-2 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Waterville, Maine

Member of Management Team. Inventory responsibility of packaging materials and chemicals, oversee management of stockroom and MRO buy and purchasing.

Procurement Specialist

Huhtamaki

2018-5 - 2019-10 · 1 yr 6 mos

Waterville, Maine

Accounting Supervisor

Central Maine Healthcare

2017-2 - 2018-4 · 1 yr 3 mos

Lewiston, Maine Area

Responsible for month end close process. Supervise a finance team of 7 and ap team of 4. Review reconciliations and help prepare and review reconciliations for audit. Review cash requirements and payment runs prior to issue.

Mill Sourcing Manager/Sr. Buyer

UPM

2012-5 - 2017-1 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Madison, ME

Overall responsibility for Mill Sourcing, Direct (raw, pmc clothing), Indirect, CAPEX, facility services. Working with global, local & regional team(s) to provide the best solution & cost savings. Coordinating trials to create competition & challenge suppliers. Maintaining relationships with suppliers. Some travel in US & overseas. Maintain contract systems, also research to new savings opportunities, follow market situations & maintain market intelligence. Negotiating contracts & prepare contracts for signature.Primarily responsible for Direct Materials, maintain direct material inventory, Chemicals, PMC, other raw, establishing relationships with suppliers & having meetings to stay abreast of new ideas, current products, upcoming trials, encouraging competition. Back up for indirect, Maintain SAP system for PO processing, vendor, customer set up, reporting, vendor analysis, work flow analysis & research, payment history & handling problems, maintain contract systems; ariba & scan market & also research to saving opportunities & being current on market intelligence.

Accountant

UPM-Madison

1991-5 - 2012-5 · 21 yrs 1 mo

Madison, ME

• Management Acct’g & Hyperion Financials • Monthly G/L Close, G/L Recons, Mthly journals, Qtly/year end audits, Cost Center reporting/budget • SAP Sales System; Invoicing, Customer Incentives/rebates • All facets of G/L accounting, P&L, BS, wire transfers • Sourcing reporting for raw materials, Back up for Buyer - Call offs, PO • Team member in conversion of MPI into UPM system for financials SAP • Salaried Payroll for MPI/MNA – All functionality • Salaried & Hrly P/R 300+ employees; labor contracts interpretation, Tax Filings, All functionality • Team Lead Lawson Payroll System • Bank Recons, CIP & Fixed Asset Reporting, A/R, Rebate Recon SAP, G/L recons • Team Lead on SAP General Ledger