Felonda Brown
Memphis,TN
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Associate
Discover Financial Services
Remote
09.2022 - Current
- Independently identify and implement control improvements and process efficiencies relating to role, supporting automation, and a stronger control environment.
- A full cycle implementation experience in an Oracle ERP implementation, including requirements gathering, fit/gap analysis, functional design documentation, user acceptance testing, training and deployment activities.
- Compile statistical information, create and narrate initial draft reporting of P2P activities
- Provide financial reporting, audit, and compliance support.
- Resolve transactional escalations of more complex Procure to Pay activities to ensure proper application of system controls and appropriate application and enforcement of Corporate Expense policy.
- These activities require gathering the relevant supporting details from source reporting and/or business partners and acting based on independent review.
- Demonstrate subject matter expertise and ability to apply independent judgment in decision-making to advance more technical components of one's own responsibilities.
- Facilitates timely execution of activities in preparation for sub-ledger close and subsequent month-end close.
- Understand and manage the end-to-end flow of wide scope of open, current, and aged transactions through various internal and external P2P systems.
- Provide internal and external business partner support or first-level system support that proactively monitors, trouble shoots, analyzes, and initiates corrective actions to promptly resolve issues, restore service, implement changes, and escalate more complex issues to P2P Program Lead for analysis and issue resolution.
- As needs are identified, develop and customize training materials per requirements and present them for scheduled and ad-hoc sessions.
- Represent role and awareness of broader team functions in cross-functional teams to independently support the advancement of priorities in areas of responsibility, new business initiatives and/or resolution of production events, the scopes of which may evolve over time and be long-term in nature.
- Independently lead projects unique to the role and engage business and technology partners as needed to support advancement and implementation.
Senior Procurement Associate
Moderna
Remote
02.2022 - 08.2022
- Provide leadership in customer project implementation buy providing subject matter expertise in source to Pay Processes utilizing SAP Ariba.
- Create tickets in Service Now for Oracle GL account mapping to cost center.
- Supporting project for catalog implementation.
- Participated in meetings regarding new products and services or initiatives.
- Manage and support the end to end procure-to-pay process.
- Research, analyze, coordinate, and respond to incoming inquiries, that range from requisition reassignment, reopen purchase orders.
- Provided guidance and support on procurement processes to internal teams or departments.
- Ensured timely delivery of orders by coordinating with vendors, customers, and other stakeholders.
- Created reports on purchase order status, vendor performance, and other metrics as needed.
Procurement Associate
L3Harris
Remote
07.2021 - 02.2022
- Plans and implements activities related to the procurement of raw materials, goods, and services.
- Compiles and analyzes statistical data to determine feasibility of buying products and to establish price objectives.
- Tracks all Purchase Orders through reports, works matched exceptions, open commitments, receiving discrepancies, returns, supplier discrepancies, and problem reports/supplier corrective action responses.
- Interfaces with receiving and accounting to resolve issues
- Meets established goals, objectives, and performance metrics and solves problems of increased scope and complexity where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
- Act as a mentor to lower-level peers and provide guidance on tasks.
- Reviews Purchase Order (PO) Compliance packages up to Delegation of Authority (DOA) level, which includes familiarity with source justifications, commercial certifications, and price justifications along with other Federal Acquisition Regulation/Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (FAR/DFARS) and Department of Defense (DOD) Contractors Purchasing System Review (CPSR) requirements.
- Negotiates with suppliers and analyzes suppliers' operations to determine factors that affect prices and to determine lowest cost consistent with quality, reliability, and ability to meet required schedules.
- Reviews proposals, negotiates prices, selects, or recommends suppliers, analyzes trends, and maintains necessary records.
- May prepare request for proposals (RFP) and bid packages.
- Negotiates and settles with suppliers regarding damage claims, rejections, losses, return of materials, over-shipments, cancellations, and engineering changes.
- Follows applicable anti-corruption ethics, laws, and regulations.
- Intermediate professional with practical knowledge of job area.
- Works under moderate supervision to set objectives for own job area.
- Communicates with contacts inside and outside own team to explain and interpret operational processes, practices, and procedures.
- Identifies and addresses changes within own job area.
- Works to achieve operational targets with some impact on departmental results.
Procurement Specialist
Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems, Inc
Memphis, TN
01.2015 - 09.2021
- Business Partner for procurement support such as processing purchase requisitions, error resolutions, vendor management, process controls, quality, supporting capital appropriation process, strategic innovation, and procurement education
- Supporting project for catalog implementation
- Managing service now tickets by researching and providing resolutions
- Manage multiple projects running concurrently involving interdepartmental collaboration; prioritize work based on operational and financial need goals
- Proactively supporting Center of Excellence and Senior Leadership Team with innovative business solutions aligned with organizational strategic directives
- Provide leadership and oversight of the procurement organization encompassing the sourcing of all indirect goods and services, outsourced procurement services, vendor diligence and the Procurement Center of Excellence including the developmental coordination and implementation of organizational and Procurement systems, tools, processes, and policies
- Implementing strategies that drive cost reductions, continuous improvements, and optimization of process globally
- Implemented the Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management System to reduce the usage of safety consumables and overall costs through accountability, resulting in a reduction of three full-time and one part-time position, saving the company over $120K
- Support all procurement, indirect/direct commodities for business partners 3PL (3rd Party Logistics), and maintenance needs for operating companies, including day-to-day activities with annual operation expense of $52.3 million for the Memphis Logistics Center
- Conduct vendor audits to determine compliance and provide advise with recommendations regarding compliance issues and corrective actions to the management team
- Reconciled the Good Receipts versus Invoice Receipts resulting in $1.6 million cost saving
- Solid team leader driving success through collaboration, active listening, personal development, and project management
- Instrumental in providing project support for $1.8M - Project Future MLC Consolidation
- Research and maintain a core understanding of indirect/direct commodity dynamics, market drivers and conditions including major cost drivers and early trends that may contribute to increased category costs
- Work closely with quality to ensure appropriate vendors are added to the ASL (Approved Supplier List), support for change control of a product or system are introduced in a controlled and coordinated manner
- Prepare records management for proper offsite storage and conduct retrievals as needed
- New Product Introduction procurement support, lead supplier meetings for deliverables and collaborate with engineers in various phases of the NPI process to understand their unique expectation of Procurement supplier interaction
- Round table discussions with stakeholders on ways to maximize savings through cost reductions
- Proficient in managing Business Processing Reengineering by reducing on hand warehousing inventory with JIT
- Assist Supplier Development Coordinator and Buyers with material flow issues to improve supplier quality or delivery performance
- Extensive knowledge and experience in the application of Supply Chain Management disciplines used to develop and execute sourcing strategies
- Utilized negotiation and communication skills to restructure vendor contracts
- Meet personally with vendors to examine current contracts and determine areas of restructuring
- Provide win-win solutions for cost savings on both sides
- Highly collaborative team player with impeccable attention to detail
- Maintain Wholesale Drug Distributor Licenses for accuracy
- Site Ambassador onboarding new hires for the facility
- Site Health Champion
- Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Certified Supply Chain Professional, 5S, trained.
Purchasing Clerk
Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems, Inc
06.2007 - 01.2015
- Create requisitions
- Process checks request for utilities, rent/lease payments for building and rental of equipment
- Confers with vendors to obtain products or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule
- Data Entry and filing paperwork
- Run reports to help determine need
- Prepare bid requests
- Maintain procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories
- Resolve invoice issues
- Determine product overages/shortfalls and communicate to manager; assist with reallocation or substitution of product
- Communicate process changes in scope/coverage to suppliers when needed.
Education
Associates of Occupational Studies -
Southeast College of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration -
University of Phoenix
Advanced Master Certificate in Supply Chain Management & Procurement -
Michigan State University
Master Certificate in Integrated Supply Chain Management -
Master Certificate in Supply Chain Management & Procurement -
Master Certificate in Supply Chain Management & Operations -
Master Certificate in Supply Chain Management & Logistics -
Advanced Certificate in Integrated Supply Chain Management -
Manufacturing Planning & Controlling -
Strategic Sourcing & Distribution Fulfillment -
Skills
- ERP Implementation (Oracle)
- FAR & DFARS Regulations
- Testing
- Procurement
- Request for Proposal
- Request for Information
- Request for Quote
- Indirect/Direct Spend
- Ariba/P2P Trainer/SME
- Supply Chain Management
- Cross functional relationships
- Negotiation
- Conflict Resolution
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supplier Management
- Project Management
- Service Now
- Customer Service
- Managing 3 PL
- Budget Allocation
- Develop, educate purchasers on Procurement Requirements, Tools and Systems, Procedures and Policy
- Respond to user questions and requests for assistance that have been submitted to mailbox
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Problem-Solving
Certification
APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional - Certificate of Completion
Timeline
Senior Associate
Discover Financial Services
09.2022 - Current
Senior Procurement Associate
Moderna
02.2022 - 08.2022
Procurement Associate
L3Harris
07.2021 - 02.2022
Procurement Specialist
Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems, Inc
01.2015 - 09.2021
Purchasing Clerk
Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems, Inc
06.2007 - 01.2015
Associates of Occupational Studies -
Southeast College of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration -
University of Phoenix
Advanced Master Certificate in Supply Chain Management & Procurement -
Michigan State University
Master Certificate in Integrated Supply Chain Management -
Master Certificate in Supply Chain Management & Procurement -
Master Certificate in Supply Chain Management & Operations -
Master Certificate in Supply Chain Management & Logistics -
Advanced Certificate in Integrated Supply Chain Management -
Manufacturing Planning & Controlling -
Strategic Sourcing & Distribution Fulfillment -
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