Highly motivated management professional with excellent organizational and multitasking skills, extremely detail-oriented, with a strong work ethic. Outstanding communication and negotiating skills.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Purchasing
Gemini Bakery Equipment
11.2018 - Current
Responsible for all purchasing for the Parts Department.
Work with companies in Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, Italy, France, Israel and the United States to procure goods to fulfill orders.
Approve all invoices for purchase orders placed with vendors.
Research product information for sourcing quotes for the best pricing and shortest lead times to meet customer needs.
Create purchase orders in Navision and Acumatica software systems and follow up until parts are received.
Develop and maintain relationships with all vendors.
Run the requisition worksheet report three times a week to pull all inventory and non-inventory items needed to order.
Update all vendors' contact information in the Navision system.
Attend the open order monthly meeting.
Follow up with vendors for order status weekly.
Assist the Sales, Engineering, Shipping, and Customer Service departments as needed.
Process RMAs and coordinate with shipping to complete the returns.
Quality control of all goods coming off the press.
Make sure all goods for each job are accounted for.
Other duties as assigned
Purchasing
Graphic Enterprise
03.2015 - 11.2018
All purchasing for the company. Worked closely with salespeople, customer service representatives, and managers.
Approved and processed all invoices by matching them to POs, quantities, amounts, and costs.
Processed all utility invoices.
Received items into the Navision and Acumatica systems using packing slips.
Processed all RMAs.
Researched products for cost and vendor.
Fielded calls from vendors and salesmen.
Administrative Assistant
Harrielle Embroidery
09.2009 - 02.2015
Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable using QuickBooks.
Purchasing and receiving of goods and supplies.
UPS & FedEx shipping.
Screenprint Department is unloading the press, catching, counting, and packing goods.
Quality control of all goods coming off the press.
Make sure all goods for each job are accounted for.
Purchasing, Accounts Payable
Advent Design Corp
07.2013 - 04.2014
Handled all purchasing for the company. Worked closely with all company engineers to ensure everything was ordered and received by the needed dates.
Processed all invoices for materials purchased by matching packing slips to what I ordered, utility invoices, etc.
Received items into the ERP system using packing slips.
Billed customers for items purchased from the company.
Check runs.
Applied cash receipts.
Handled all RMAs.
I fielded all calls from vendors.
Purchasing, Executive Assistant, Reception
Insinger Machine Company
12.2011 - 04.2013
Handled and created all invoices for the Parts and Service Department.
Purchased all metals, parts, machines, components, heaters, etc.
Worked closely with engineers, parts and service, and the VP of Manufacturing. Shop to ensure all parts are ordered and received by the needed date.
Processed all RMAs
Entered sales orders for parts.
Answered all incoming calls.
Obtained a log of all service invoices through Excel.
Fulfillment Analyst, Medicare Part D
United Healthcare Group
09.2011 - 12.2011
Assisted in preparation of materials for the 2012 MPD campaign
Proofread PDFs prior to submitting to vendor for printing
Used Excel to track items sent to vendor
Prepared files for vendor
Tracked progress of print jobs
Fulfilled member requests for replacement materials
Coordinated files with lettershop for mailing
Checked proofs and sent to appropriate personnel
UK/US Direct Mail Manager
Contour Adjustable Beds/ New Era Media
Bensalem, USA
07.2007 - 06.2009
Company Overview: formerly Craftmatic Adjustable Beds, EAK Advertising.
Managed various direct mail campaigns totaling in excess of 1 million pieces monthly.
Measured campaign performance based on P&L, backend reports.
Creating and maintaining detailed direct mail campaign schedules, and providing project status reports to the corporate management team, as well as to participating independent distributors.
Liaising with list brokers to strategically acquire targeted mailing list sections for each campaign.
Implementing new mail pieces and list-testing ideas.
Providing instructions to the computer service bureau for merge, purge processing, and house file database segmentation.
Working with Lettershop to ensure timely and accurate mailing of each campaign.
Processing and reconciling vendor invoices, creating and updating job cost worksheets, through to reconciliation.
I kept track of all inventories for each of my mail pieces.
Placing all ads throughout the U.S. And reconciling all ad billing.
Supervisor/ Direct Mail Manager
Craftmatic Organization/ EAK Advertising
Trevose, USA
08.2002 - 07.2007
UK Direct Mail Manager (see the above description).
Accounting liaison for the US and UK offices of EAK, processing all invoices of the advertising agency.
Supervisor for UPS shipping, receiving, mailroom, and supply rooms.
I placed all newspaper ads for our territories in the U.S., and reconciled billing.
Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Administration.