Alexis Glover

Strategic Sourcing: Managed product categories to ensure cost efficiency, governance, and risk mitigation while delivering high-quality goods/services on time.
Supplier Partnerships: Established long-term relationships with key suppliers to negotiate favorable costs, schedules, and terms, enhancing overall supply chain effectiveness.
Subcontract Management: Developed comprehensive subcontract management plans, ensuring timely supplier selection and compliance with company standards.
Performance Monitoring: Gathered and analyzed productivity metrics, providing actionable insights to supply chain leadership and stakeholders for ongoing improvements.
Conflict Resolution: Led efforts in resolving supplier issues, mentoring team members, and implementing best practices for conflict management across the supply chain.
Talent Development: Supervised and trained subcontract managers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
Cost Reduction Strategies: Identified and executed opportunities to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and manage supplier risks through strategic negotiations.
Contractual Oversight: Managed supplier contractual performance throughout the subcontract lifecycle, ensuring adherence to company procedures and government regulations.

Purchasing Management: Developed and maintained comprehensive purchasing records and reports, ensuring accuracy and transparency in procurement activities.
Supplier Sourcing: Identified and established new sources of supply, recommending alternate options to safeguard against supply chain disruptions while discontinuing unreliable vendors.
Negotiation Expertise: Exercised autonomy in selecting suppliers and negotiating pricing, delivery schedules, material deviations, and invoice adjustments to optimize procurement outcomes.
Team Leadership: Guided peer buyers and coordinators to achieve timely completion of procurement activities, maintaining high standards of quality and service.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Consulted with engineering teams on supplier qualification and coordinated production processes to align supplier capabilities with company requirements.
Vendor Liaison: Acted as a key liaison between company personnel and vendors, addressing quality, service, pricing, and delivery issues proactively.
Risk Management: Advised management of potential vendor failures and any issues that could impact production timelines or contractual obligations.
Multi-Program Contracts: Implemented and negotiated contracts across multiple programs, ensuring alignment with strategic sourcing objectives.
Procurement Systems Management: Input and revised purchase order information in procurement systems, maintaining data integrity and accuracy.
Evaluation & Analysis: Applied advanced purchasing techniques and performed complex cost analyses to compare material costs effectively.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked closely with various departments to clarify specifications and expectations, ensuring alignment and successful project outcomes.
Risk Management: Analyzed data to anticipate unfavorable events, developing proactive control strategies for supply contracts and agreements.
Cost Control Initiatives: Led efforts to manage spending, fostering a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs while overseeing $10M in annual expenditures.
Vendor Diversity: Investigated and approved new vendors to enhance supplier diversity, broadening the company's sourcing capabilities.
Material Flow Planning: Strategically planned material flow throughout the shop floor, optimizing operations and ensuring efficient use of resources.
Procurement Strategy: Proactively organized procurement waves and secured pre-contract awards with Program Managers, ensuring timely delivery of long-lead items.
Quality Collaboration: Partnered with the Quality department to address on-time delivery and resolve general quality issues, enhancing overall supplier performance.