Amanda Young
Overland Park,KS
Summary
Commercial Sourcing Manager at Westlake Hardware with strong skills in vendor negotiation and talent management. Demonstrated success in sourcing unique products and increasing sales through strategic partnerships. Proficient in data analysis and project management, consistently achieving improvements in operational efficiency and profitability.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
COMMERCIAL SOURCING MANAGER
Westlake Hardware
Lenexa, USA
02.2020 - Current
- Category manager for 165+ locations in commercial needs, sourcing hard to find products that are outside of our current portfolio.
- Working with 75+ members of the commercial sales team for all large sales to help close deal.
- Daily communications with 12 warehouses, merchandising team, legal and accounting department.
- SKUs creation, procurement, maintenance of data, products and the commercial website.
- New vendor search, legal contracts review and set up, negotiation of rebates and annual contracts.
- Vendor liaison, introduction of new products, pricing analysis.
- Logistics movement of LTL and full trucks for B2B, retail stores and vendors.
OPERATIONS & LOGISTICS MANAGER
Vision Media
Overland Park, USA
04.2018 - 10.2019
- Movement of 20'-40' containers from Asia to the US and then distribute throughout our channels, average containers 1000+ boxes.
- Make decisions on ground small pack, to LTL to full truck loads.
- Search and work with asset based and 3PL providers.
- Work in CRM daily by making sure orders are correct, allocate to the right warehouse.
- Oversee vendors from multiple warehouses to clients in USA, Canada, Caribbean, Puerto Rico to Bermuda.
- Manage vendors to provide best COG & work in Great Plains to procure inventory, receiving in goods, code to the correct accounting ledger, invoice match for the finance team.
- Confirming machine times, raw materials, daily outputs, problem solving, maintaining floor stocking agreements.
- Monthly walk and annual inventory control with all warehouses.
Education
Lean Practitioner of Six Sigma - Green Belt Six Sigma
Villanova University
Villanova, PA 02.2024 - 11.2024
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Business Administrations
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 08.1988 - 05.1992
Skills
- Talent management
- Sales
- Customer service
- Analytics
- Team building
- Merchandising
- Inventory
- Goal driven
- Coaching
- Financial services
- Strategies
- Marketing
- CRM
- Great Plains
- JDA
- EPICOR/EAGLE
- Microsoft Suites
- Supply chain management
- Data analysis
- Vendor negotiation
- Project management
- Risk assessment
- Inventory control
Eligible To Work In Us
True
Projects
Standardization of many distributors into one cohesive group set up with multiple companies. Project managed with vendor and their distributors throughout the US so that everyone bills through one location, one standard pricing and one freight term.
Awards
- Award from the Mayor for serving on the Executive Board for many years in Downtown Overland Park
- Top 20 salesperson over 29 locations year after year, won store of the year, won best window display., #1 in sales at store level all years employed.
Languages
Mandarin
Limited
Cantonese
Limited
American Sign Language
Elementary
Spanish
Elementary
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Lean Practitioner of Six Sigma - Green Belt Six Sigma
Villanova University
02.2024 - 11.2024
COMMERCIAL SOURCING MANAGER
Westlake Hardware
02.2020 - Current
OPERATIONS & LOGISTICS MANAGER
Vision Media
04.2018 - 10.2019
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Business Administrations
The University of Kansas
08.1988 - 05.1992