JARED E. PIERCE
Las Vegas,USA
Summary
Experienced leader with a strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for a collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.
Overview
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Certification
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Buyer II
JT4 LLC
2025.06 - Current
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Led end-to-end, cradle-to-grave lifecycle activities for a complex portfolio of $45M Department of Defense (DoD) programs, maintaining 100% compliance with FAR, DFARS, and corporate governance.
- Strategic Procurement & Resourcing: Managed competitive solicitations and source selection activities, optimizing vendor proposals to secure best-value solutions that reduced procurement costs by 12% while safeguarding critical program schedule baselines.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Partnered with cross-functional teams—including engineering, finance, and end users—to align program goals and resolve technical variances, recovering 18% of schedule delays across critical milestones.
- Vendor & Contract Management: Spearheaded strategic supplier relationship management and contract negotiations, securing favorable pricing and terms that captured $2.3M in cost savings and met 98% of overarching program milestones.
- Risk Management & Execution: Tracked critical program milestones and vendor performance metrics, mitigating supply chain risks to improve on-time delivery by 15% and ensure total operational readiness.
- Executive Communication: Authored executive-level documentation, business cases, and project briefs for senior leadership, accelerating contract administration approval times by 25%.
- Continuous Improvement: Designed and executed process improvement initiatives that optimized operational efficiency by 20% and eliminated communication bottlenecks across all program stakeholders.
Head of Vendor Relations & Procurement
GOHUNT
2024.01 - 2025.06
- Budget & Strategic Oversight: Directed end-to-end program strategies and managed a $30M annual budget, driving operational optimizations that achieved a 30% cost reduction without compromising quality.
- Program Portfolio Management: Established and scaled a portfolio of 235 high-impact vendor programs, implementing governance frameworks to ensure consistent quality, timely delivery, and strict compliance with organizational standards.
- End-to-End Program Delivery: Spearheaded a retail storefront initiative from the initial design phase through operational launch, scaling the program to generate $500K in annual revenue.
- Team Leadership & Performance: Built, mentored, and led a high-performing team of five specialists, establishing clear accountability structures and optimizing cross-functional workflows to maximize delivery efficiency.
- Executive & Stakeholder Alignment: Partnered directly with the CEO and department heads to align program initiatives with core business objectives, leading cross-functional committees to accelerate organizational growth.
Senior Buyer
GOHUNT
2021.01 - 2024.01
- Portfolio & Cost Management: Managed a portfolio of 155+ high-value vendor programs valued up to $20M annually, executing strategic supplier negotiations that achieved a 7% cost reduction and an 8% margin expansion.
- Data-Driven Strategy & Forecasting: Analyzed market trends and performance metrics to architect demand-planning models, optimizing inventory levels and mitigating supply chain risk to decrease stockouts by 15%.
- Talent Development & Mentorship: Mentored and coached junior team members in strategic negotiation tactics and vendor governance frameworks, significantly boosting overall team execution capability and performance.
- Cross-Functional Integration: Partnered with warehouse, marketing, content, and accounting business units to integrate program schedules with strict budget constraints, successfully driving initiatives that elevated corporate brand presence.
Associate Buyer
GOHUNT
2019.07 - 2021.01
- Program Launch & Revenue Generation: Built, structured, and launched a net-new footwear sales program, driving rapid market adoption to generate $1.2M in revenue within the first nine months.
- Digital Product Delivery & AI Integration: Collaborated with cross-functional teams to engineer and launch 450 SEO-optimized product pages utilizing AI technology; enhanced customer education and visibility to achieve a 9% return rate, significantly beating industry averages.
- Data & Inventory Architecture: Engineered and maintained a complex database of 10,000+ SKUs, leveraging data analytics and AI tools to optimize inventory visibility and streamline the digital user experience.
- Strategic Planning Support: Partnered with senior leadership to design and execute seasonal procurement and portfolio strategies, directly contributing to a 33% increase in category sales.
- Cross-Functional Operations: Analyzed and integrated workflows across warehouse, e-commerce, content, and marketing divisions, implementing efficiency updates that increased overall operational effectiveness by 25%.
- Professional Development: Developed foundational program management and operational capabilities, executing diverse cross-functional tasks while maintaining an exceptional track record of performance reviews.
Squadron Superintendent
United States Air Force
1998.10 - 2020.01
- Program Governance & Asset Management: Served as Squadron Superintendent for Air Combat Command’s premier remotely piloted aircraft unit, managing a $144.8M program portfolio consisting of advanced hardware, software, and mission-critical assets.
- Training, Quality Assurance & Evaluation: Directed comprehensive training and standardization evaluation programs; logged 22,000+ flight and operational hours across multiple platforms, ensuring strict quality control, risk mitigation, and compliance with rigid operational standards over 18 global deployments.
- Lifecycle Modernization & System Integration: Managed complex, multi-million-dollar engineering change proposals and modernization programs for airframes, ground control stations, hardware, and software to guarantee seamless system integration and zero mission downtime.
- Strategic Planning & Joint Interoperability: Partnered with executive-level military leadership to develop long-range strategic goals, tactics, techniques, and procedures, significantly improving program interoperability between domestic business units and international allied forces.
- Executive Briefings & VIP Relations: Acted as primary technical subject matter expert to deliver high-stakes capability briefings and operational demonstrations to executive stakeholders, including U.S. Senators and foreign royal families.
- Performance Excellence & Recognition: Maintained an exceptional track record of performance, receiving repeated official commendations for adaptive leadership, operational excellence, and successful management of complex technical programs.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Instructor of Technology and Military Science
Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, AL2020-01
Associate of Applied Science - Air and Space Operations Technology
Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, AL2019-01
Associate of Applied Science - Aviation Operations
Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, AL2018-01
Professional Manager Certification -
Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, AL02.2018
Skills
- Program leadership
- Strategic planning
- Contract Negotiation
- Budget Management
- Team leadership
- Operational Efficiency
- High-Stakes Decision Making
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- High-pressure decision-making
- Team leadership and direction
- Project coordination
Certification
- Professional Manager Certification
WEBSITES, PORTFOLIOS, PROFILES
- Https://www.instagram.com/hawkeye7818/
- Https://www.facebook.com/jared.pierce.332
- Https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-pierce-30469251/
Timeline
Buyer II
JT4 LLC
2025.06 - Current
Head of Vendor Relations & Procurement
GOHUNT
2024.01 - 2025.06
Senior Buyer
GOHUNT
2021.01 - 2024.01
Associate Buyer
GOHUNT
2019.07 - 2021.01
Squadron Superintendent
United States Air Force
1998.10 - 2020.01
Associate of Applied Science - Instructor of Technology and Military Science
Community College of The Air Force
Associate of Applied Science - Air and Space Operations Technology
Community College of The Air Force
Associate of Applied Science - Aviation Operations
Community College of The Air Force
Professional Manager Certification -
Community College of The Air Force