Todd LaHote
Vice President, Supply Chain Management - Commercial and Fleet @ Aebi Schmidt Group
About
Supply Chain & Relationship Manager: creative solutions, planning and execution, collaborative negotiations, and leadership through periods of change. Empowers teams and drives accountability across the supply chain. If you are faced with the below challenges, then I am the person to help you: ➤ Create and foster collaborative internal and external business relationships to find winning solutions ➤ Disrupt the competitive landscape by consolidating a supply base to the strongest leaders or break monopolistic behaviors ➤ Develop and implement creative negotiation strategies to achieve breakthrough levels of cost ➤ Manage with suppliers through significant manufacturing technology change and rapid growth ➤ Source, negotiate, and launch first ever new technologies Change. Perhaps ironically, the constant through my career. I have continually demonstrated my ability to excel through periods of change - situations where there were unique challenges that required creative ideas, new approaches, and collaborative relationships to deliver success. What makes me different is my perspective, ability to see situations through a different lens from others, allowing me to successfully navigate through these change events and deliver business objectives. Key skills: - Inventive supply strategy creation - Strategic sourcing - Creative supplier negotiation solutions - Contract negotiation - Supplier relationship management - Supplier development - Leading global teams - Program management
United States
Ann Arbor
Automotive
Automotive, Purchasing, Supply Chain Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Contract Negotiation
Experience
Vice President, Supply Chain Management - Commercial and Fleet
Aebi Schmidt Group
Michigan, United States
Vice President of Purchasing
Utilimaster
Bristol, Indiana, United States
Responsible for direct and indirect purchasing, supplier quality, and material planning.
VP of Purchasing - Utilimaster
The Shyft Group
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Senior Director, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement COE
GE Appliances, a Haier company
Louisville, Kentucky Area
Responsible for cross-functional program management, supply chain program management, Supplier Diversity & Citizenship, supplier strategy and risk, and procurement information systems.
Senior Purchasing Program Manager - Vehicle Programs
Ford Motor Company
Global purchasing program management lead for future model small CUV and battery electric vehicles. Delivered programs through gateways at or better than target cost
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Direct responsibility for $3.5B spend and success of additional $2.5B in global spend. Implemented negotiation strategies to consistently exceed cost reduction targets, setting new record levels each year, while achieving target costs for future model vehicle programs. Led global commodity teams to implement higher levels of collaborative global strategies and planning which enabled achievement of individual region's unique deliverables. Improved supplier quality performance, restoring 80% of non-performing sites to required levels through strong collaboration and engagement.
Director - Production Purchasing (Automotive Components Holdings, LLC)
Ford Motor Company
Ford secondee as Director of Production Purchasing, responsible for $1.5B in production and post-production spend, ensuring continuing operations and operating metric improvement to position businesses for sale. Drove management process to identify, monitor, and implement mitigation plans for up to 100 at a time financially at-risk suppliers, successfully protecting ongoing production with zero supply disruptions. Led due diligence work for purchasing organization in divestment of two business groups
Senior Purchasing Manager - Electronics and Hybrid
Ford Motor Company
$2.5B spend of vehicle infotainment, electronics, and hybrid battery. Managed supplier strategy and negotiation process to deliver over $1B in incremental future spend for eight, first-ever electronic and software technologies to Ford vehicles, including Sync and second generation hybrid vehicle high voltage battery pack.
Director, Production Purchasing
Automotive Components Holdings, LLC
Ford Motor Company secondee as Director of Production Purchasing, responsible for $1.5B in production and post-production spend, ensuring continuing operations and operating metric improvement to position businesses for sale.
Education
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University
Marketing / Management
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