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Ami Ruane

Wichita,Kansas

Summary

Experienced in dynamic sourcing and strategic account management.

Adept at cultivating partnerships, maintaining key accounts, and optimizing profit channels.

Skilled leader with a proven track record of expanding professional networks, influencing decision-makers, and implementing effective strategies.

Collaborative and strategic team player with a strong background in customer relationship management.

Dedicated to driving success through teamwork and innovation.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Strategic Sourcing & Account Manager – Engineered Items Commodity

Pratt & Whitney
12.2023 - Current
  • Manage relationship, finance, production MRP, as well as many other aspects to their account.
  • Met with customers to discuss and ascertain needs, tailor solutions and close deals.
  • Negotiated prices, terms of sales and service agreements.
  • Fielded customer complaints and facilitated negotiations, resolving issues and reaching mutual conclusions.
  • Delegate necessary communication and tasks to various departments; i.e. engineering, planning, production lines, as well as quality.
  • Implementation of contracts and related processes.
  • Bid requests and proposals from partners for various commercial and military engine programs.
  • Supplier reviews and act as liaison between senior management, planning, accounting, strategic business development.
  • Risk management activities to meet contract deliverables. Comply with International Trade Compliance (ITC) standards. Provide delivery assurance support across all programs
  • Liaised with internal and external stakeholders to identify and leverage contract value opportunities.
  • Administered agreements by negotiating change orders, executing contract extensions and resolving administrative issues.
  • Managed and developed relationships with suppliers to attain maximum cost efficiency and leverage buying power.
  • Remote Location

Strategic Sourcing Manager – Engineered Items Commodity

Pratt & Whitney
06.2021 - 01.2023
  • Manage relationship, finance, production MRP, as well as many other aspects to their account.
  • Delegate necessary communication and tasks to various departments; i.e. engineering, planning, production lines, as well as quality.
  • Implementation of contracts and related processes.
  • Bid requests and proposals from partners for various commercial and military engine programs.
  • Supplier reviews and act as liaison between senior management, planning, accounting, strategic business development.
  • Risk management activities to meet contract deliverables. Comply with International Trade Compliance (ITC) standards. Provide delivery assurance support across all programs
  • Liaised with internal and external stakeholders to identify and leverage contract value opportunities.
  • Administered agreements by negotiating change orders, executing contract extensions and resolving administrative issues.
  • Managed and developed relationships with suppliers to attain maximum cost efficiency and leverage buying power.
  • Remote Location

Manager, Procurement – Global Supply Chain

Pratt & Whitney
01.2018 - 01.2021
  • Manage relationship, finance, production MRP, as well as many other aspects to their account.
  • Delegate necessary communication and tasks to various departments; i.e. engineering, planning, production lines, as well as quality.
  • Implementation of contracts and related processes.
  • Bid requests and proposals from partners for various commercial and military engine programs.
  • Supplier reviews and act as liaison between senior management, planning, accounting, strategic business development, and marketing.
  • Risk management activities to meet contract deliverables. Comply with International Trade Compliance (ITC) standards. Provide delivery assurance support across all programs
  • Remote Location
  • Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work.
  • Created and managed project plans, timelines and budgets.
  • Developed effective improvement plans in alignment with goals and specifications.
  • Provided reporting for forecast analysis and ad-hoc reporting in support of decision-making.
  • Helped meet changing demands by recommending improvements to business systems or procedures.

Sr. Analyst/Acct. Specialist– Global Supply Chain

Pratt & Whitney
12.2016 - 01.2018
  • Company Overview: A large aircraft engine manufacturing company, specializing in Commercial and Military engines.
  • Manage relationship, finance, production MRP, as well as many other aspects to their account.
  • Delegate necessary communication and tasks to various departments; i.e. engineering, planning, production lines, as well as quality.
  • Implementation of contracts and related processes.
  • Bid requests and proposals from partners for various commercial and military engine programs.
  • Supplier reviews and act as liaison between senior management, planning, accounting, strategic business development, and marketing.
  • Risk management activities to meet contract deliverables. Comply with International Trade Compliance (ITC) standards. Provide delivery assurance support across all programs
  • Remote Location
  • Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.
  • Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
  • Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.
  • Developed customized reports, summarizing and presenting data in visually appealing format.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
  • Generated ad-hoc reports to evaluate specific business requirements.
  • Evaluated customer needs and feedback to drive product and service improvements.

SCM & Planning; Customer Service & Sales Account Mgmt.

Global Parts.aero
01.2010 - 12.2016
  • Company Overview: A large General Aviation parts Distribution Company, specializing in Hawker Beechcraft airframe parts.
  • Assigned to grow & manage the company’s largest customer Beechcraft Corporation.
  • 24 hour parts support to over 400 buyers, supply chain specialists, and management for all lines of Beechcraft and Hawker aircraft. Procure and sell parts to Beechcraft Corporation, Hawker Beechcraft Services, and European customer accounts. Manage customer finances, core returns, as well as any other aspects to their account. Field all communication between Global Parts and customer.
  • Delegate necessary communication to employees or other departments. Manage all internal functions for customer account. Maintain ISO/ASA standards of quality for the aircraft industry per manufacture and customer specs.
  • Direct and maintain marketing and sales programs to customer needs.
  • Achieve 1500 vendors/suppliers per ISO/ASA/FAA/EASA standards. Uphold data base of over 300 thousand part numbers, restocking, procuring based on planning and analysis of inventory.
  • Bid requests and proposals from Spirit Aftermarket PMA Group for Global’s Manufacturing and Structures facilities.
  • Grow repair station customer accounts, planning, and analysis of inventory, accounting, strategic business development, and marketing.
  • Established inventory targets, stock level, and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory.
  • Oversaw demand planning, purchasing, and logistics.
  • Collaborated with internal teams to improve outputs to meet demand and supply requirements, ensuring inventory integrity targets for finished goods.
  • Improved, standardized and documented planning and scheduling processes.
  • Tracked and monitored purchase orders, deliveries and invoicing to verify accuracy and compliance.
  • Increased global supply chain efficiency and development by leading cross-functional teams and enabling supplier integration and management technology tools, upgrades.
  • Leveraged valuable business relationships and skillful negotiations to obtain favorable vendor pricing.

ProAdvantage Program Administrator Citation Parts Distribution

Cessna Aircraft Company
01.2007 - 01.2009
  • Company Overview: A large general aviation manufacturing company
  • Succeed customer database, tracking usage hours and billing accordingly. Provide reports to management on customer usage.
  • Develop and implement customer service plan for department. Answer in coming questions from international customers on program status and information. Update various database programs with changes to better customer service.
  • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
  • Develop weekly status reports for management.
  • Expense vouchers for payment and maintain internal ledger of all transactions.
  • Formulate presentations for diverse audiences.

Coordinator/Assistant, Black Board Administrator

Friends University
01.2006 - 01.2007
  • Care and coordination for Organizational, Management & Leadership Bachelor’s Degree Program in the College of Adults and Professional Studies.
  • Created and maintained Blackboard shells for all OML classes throughout the state of Kansas. Supported average of 22 cohorts (groups of students with an average of 17 in each class) located throughout the state. Visited each new cohort and conducted orientation to get them acclimated to the University.
  • Scheduled instructors for all classes that rotated on a five week basis in eleven different cities.
  • Maintained data base for student’s grades, instructor payroll, and text books.
  • Solved student issues and assured satisfaction for over 375 students.

Customer Relations & Marketing Manager

Steven Motor Group
01.2000 - 01.2006
  • Customer relations, handled complaints and adjustments for entire motor group. Following up with customers after purchases.
  • Creating marketing promotions. Recorded, organized, and communicated customer feedback to provide management with data for decision making. Created a marketing campaign with a focus on customer appreciation, resulting in increased sales.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Organizational Management and Leadership

Friends University
Wichita, KS

Associate of Arts - Business Management

Friends University
Wichita, KS

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Customer training
  • Lead prospecting
  • Needs analysis
  • Market forecasting
  • Revenue growth
  • Preparing contracts
  • Multi-task management
  • Business negotiation
  • Client relationship building
  • Management collaboration
  • Data analytics
  • Team Training
  • Customer satisfaction

Accomplishments

  • Lead and coordinating the planning, purchasing, scheduling and deployment of a $57 million aerospace distribution company; scope of the project involved 1500 customers over 18 months and multiple vendors, continually completed on-time, on-budget with minimal downtime.
  • Grew a customer account that started at $2 million annually and converted it to a $10 million account annually.
  • Negotiation with multiple vendors for a 20% cost reduction for major purchase of inventory, saving the company revenue.
  • Created several processes and implemented for improvement in quality control per ISO/ASA Certification.
  • Negotiated multiple multi-million-dollar contracts and planned orders for further business development within Strategic Sourcing as well as aviation R&O.

Timeline

Sr. Strategic Sourcing & Account Manager – Engineered Items Commodity

Pratt & Whitney
12.2023 - Current

Strategic Sourcing Manager – Engineered Items Commodity

Pratt & Whitney
06.2021 - 01.2023

Manager, Procurement – Global Supply Chain

Pratt & Whitney
01.2018 - 01.2021

Sr. Analyst/Acct. Specialist– Global Supply Chain

Pratt & Whitney
12.2016 - 01.2018

SCM & Planning; Customer Service & Sales Account Mgmt.

Global Parts.aero
01.2010 - 12.2016

ProAdvantage Program Administrator Citation Parts Distribution

Cessna Aircraft Company
01.2007 - 01.2009

Coordinator/Assistant, Black Board Administrator

Friends University
01.2006 - 01.2007

Customer Relations & Marketing Manager

Steven Motor Group
01.2000 - 01.2006

Bachelor of Science - Organizational Management and Leadership

Friends University

Associate of Arts - Business Management

Friends University

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