Victor S.

9 Direct Reports. Responsible for directing and coordinating the effectiveness of all purchasing activities and personnel supporting the challenging needs and levels of service expected by the Focus Factory Buying team's customer base. Provides daily direction to Buyers and Buyers-Senior; acting as a liaison to customer for Tactical Purchasing issues to ensure effective resolution. This will also include ensuring team members are trained and have a good understanding of the requirements of customer contracts (LOI/LOU, PSA, MSA, etc.) and are in compliance with the applicable requirements.

• Develop functional customer solutions in Tactical Procurement issues and ensure effective resolution in distribution and logistics. • Consolidate tactical purchasing decisions regarding the placement and management of all purchases within the assigned MRP portfolio to meet scheduled demand, including order placement, rescheduling, cancellation of items and / or receipt and reconciliation and issuance approval of invoices. • Responsible for the management of all items of excessive and obsolete inventory. • Understand customer P & L, inventory levels and freight rates. • Leading and coordinating the effectiveness of all procurement activities and preserving expected levels of service for NPI projects.

• Develop and maintain a professional and positive relationship with key customer contacts and counterparts in Account teams, Business Lines and Support Teams at all times. • Gather, analyse and validate customer forecasts and apply error analysis techniques to improve forecasting. Process customer orders and ensure compliance with terms and conditions. • Execute with excellence in the area of order-book and customer programs and proactively resolve issues to secure supply to customer and to achieve best-in-class delivery performance. • Provide customers with prompt, early and accurate information regarding status of orders. • Pursue the customer for increased order coverage where gaps exist compared to lead-time, forecast or contract data. • Drive regular customer logistics review meetings by discussing order coverage and forecast. • Ensure customer issues and any other significant customer intelligence relating to business opportunities are escalated in a timely manner to the Account Team and Customer Service Management.

• Plan, schedule and monitor the movement of materials in the production cycle. Order, reschedule and cancel material based on requisitions and MRP output. • Maintain procurement records such as items, costs, delivery and inventories. • Manage supplier to price, delivery and quality expectations. Analyze inventory levels. • Prepare liability reports for obsolete management. • Gather quotations, examine bids, negotiate contracts and make awards. • Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability and delivery schedule. Interface with suppliers and customers to secure delivery and the best price. Make tactical buying decisions. Execute corporate sourcing programs. • Conduct quarterly supplier reviews. • Diagnose and analyze the Needs of the company. • Identify whether the company financially is subject to a financial credit. • Monitor for impact measurement and new needs detection. • Mitigate shortages, excess on order and excess on hand. • Management of probationary list, and follow up with suppliers for SPOC.