Sourcing Professional Resume

Desired Industry: Business/Management	SpiderID: 16209
Desired Job Location: Phoenix, Arizona	Date Posted: 10/9/2007
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: 10/09/07
Desired Wage: 85000
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Management (Manager, Director)	Willing to Travel: Yes, More Than 75%
Highest Degree Attained: MBA	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Objective:
Sourcing, Strategic Sourcing, Commodity Management positions

Experience:
Consultant, Independent, July, 2006– Present
Key Accomplishments
•Retail Consulting - Developed business and functional requirements and rollout plan for Store Ordering system for 160 store retail chain. (Spring- Summer ‘07)
•Strategic Marketing - Developed and delivered Marketing materials, presentations, and workshops. Performed detailed analysis of market dynamics, market trends, and projected revenue opportunities. (Winter '06)

Consultant, Accenture, Phoenix, Arizona, May 2005 – July 2006
Focused on creating value and capturing annual savings through involvement in organizational redesign, demand planning, procurement transformation, project management, training and engineering activities of corporate and business units.

Key Accomplishments:
•Project Manager - Provided input to the BP Supply Chain Assessment team in the area of Procure-to-Pay project planning and multi-site delivery optimization. Conducted future state process and business rule definition for an e-Procurement application.
•Program Manager – North American lead for Process Performance Modeling, a corporate-wide collection and categorization of Supply Chain Best Practices. Served on the Accenture faculty, training new hires Project Delivery Methodologies.
•Subject Matter Advisor - Responsible for preparing the high spot review of spend across Sempra/Socal/SDGE utility business units. Identified $40 M+ in total savings opportunities. Gathered contracts renewal data from several disparate systems and formulated a high-level business case for a strategic sourcing program.
•Subject Matter Advisor - Assisted with procurement process analysis and proposal development at PG&E for strategic sourcing work. The proposal was directed at supporting the roll-out of an Accenture Procurement Solutions outsourcing implementation. Assisted with defining the scope of the outsourcing pilot program and due diligence for approximately 1.2B in spend.
•Delivery Manager – Responsible for the Integrated Supply Strategic Sourcing portion of the Business Transformation program. The sourcing work covered approximately $36MM in annual spend. Executed the Wave 1 sourcing program for Integrated Supply, guiding the activities of the team and client sponsors to develop detailed spend assessments and category strategies.

Consultant, Independent, Feb 2005 – May 2005
•Served as the Implementation/ Conversion Lead for the site-wide implementation of the Oliver Wight Sales and Operations Planning Tool across the Marketing, Operations, Engineering, and Procurement teams of Honeywell’s $45M/yr Aerospace unit.
•The project plan included full integration with Demand Planning and MRPII, and the Honeywell Corporate-wide rollout of the same tool, which impacted over 300 users globally.

Contracts Representative, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jan 2004 – Nov 2004
Responsible for negotiating and writing contracts in support of facilities readiness. This included contract negotiations, budgeting, forecasting spend within yearly financial constraints, market surveys, supplier selection, and supplier performance evaluations.

Key Accomplishments:
•Wrote and managed service contracts, fixed price awards, consulting contracts, and time and materials (T&M) BPAs in Oracle’s purchasing modules. Maintained contract documentation and selected Terms and Conditions. Spend total was $60M in ‘04.
•Performed detailed spend analysis including forecasting of seasonal labor use in JMP (SAS) for project budgeting. Facilitated team evaluation of supplier performance, while driving and tracking communication of corrective actions.

Full-Time MBA Projects and Activities at Arizona State University, Aug 2001 – Dec 2003
Taught undergraduate supply chain management and participated in various business process improvement internships and research projects. Teaching activities included leading a classroom, and developing new coursework. Projects required the preparation of research plans and progress reports, extensive flow-charting, and presentations of findings.

Key Accomplishments:
•Taught EOQ, logistics, and queuing theory at GA at ASU. Two-time nominee for J.W. Teets teaching award (01-02).
•Teamed with Six-Sigma group to cut $300K waste from four manufacturing lines at Honeywell Aerospace. Worked with manufacturing engineering and assembly teams to developed work-cell allocation plans by mapping factory cycle time, yield and capacity per production station. Also developed management’s plan for headcount reduction. (Summer 02).
•Developed economic and infrastructure readiness models for foreign site outsourcing for Honeywell Corporate Procurement. Studied economic parity of low cost regions in MiniTab and earned Green Belt. (Summer 03).
•Worked with Anheuser-Busch project managers to define service levels for Value Added services for $1B in spend. (Fall 03).

Business Development Manager, Supply Chain Solutions, ANX eBusiness (SAIC), Southfield, Michigan, Aug 2000 - Aug 2001
Part of founding management team for Automotive Sector start-up. US lead in developing the market strategy for ANX's push into new, global E-Business opportunities. My team created and sold supply chain service offerings to automotive, logistics, steel, financial, and health care segments. This included: writing marketing material, preparing proposals and scheduling direct sales calls to customers. Represented ANX at Trade Shows and E-Business conferences.

Key Accomplishments:
•Reviewed ANX’s current market position in E-Business services and assessed the positions and likely strategies of several major competitors.
•Performed quantitative market research assessments to improve product offerings and determine purchasing triggers for $2M product launch. Probed purchase intentions through questionnaires and interviews. Presented findings to ANX exec team.
•Sold supply chain e-business services to 17 automotive, logistics, steel, financial, and health care customers.
•Acted as prime point of contact with Fortune 200 companies such as Ford, Federal Express, DHL, and American Sunroof. Executed two successful pilot programs for collaborative services that directly demonstrated product's value proposition.
•Negotiated strategic partnerships with outsource content providers, saving $500k development costs.

Materials Program Manager, Intel, Chandler, Arizona, Jan 1998-July 2000
Duties included driving supplier development, materials qualification, and supplier performance improvement through value engineering stamped metal, thermal and plastic commodities.

Key Accomplishments:
•Managed supply chain and strategic sourcing for $60M in materials targeted to five globally dispersed factories. Managed engineering and business inputs to configuration management and the virtual factories.
•Demonstrated supplier management by implementing six-sigma problem solving, DOE, and failure analysis to reduce incoming defect levels, lower lead times, and improve quality reporting for plastics commodities.
•Primary point of contact for all vendor contact to Intel’s factories for Plastics and Metals. Monitored and drove corrective action reports, supplier yield improvements, cost reduction efforts, and metrology qualifications in a concerted effort to maintain strategic inventory requirement of <10 DOH and <3wks Lead Time. Won Divisional Awards from Server and Desktop Groups.

Education:
Master of Business Administration; Supply Chain Management Specialization, Finance Minor, May 2003
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (GPA 3.95 / 4.00)

Master of Science in Engineering; Materials Science, May 1993
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (GPA 3.46/4.00)

Bachelor of Science; Cellular/Molecular Biology, August 1986
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Skills:
Supply Chain Management
Outsource Management
Strategic Sourcing
Retail Consulting
Marketing Research and Analysis
Sales and Operations Planning
Linear Programming and Simulation (SPSS, SAS and JMP)
E-Business
Six Sigma Tools (Green Belt Certified – plus DOE, Control Plans)
Finance
Word, Powerpoint, Visio, Excel, Oracle, MS Project

Reference:
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Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Fred Bobberts
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