Jennifer Keesee
Indianapolis,IN
Summary
A seasoned National Accounts Sourcing Project Manager at Fastenal Company, I excel in fostering project management expertise and talent development. My leadership ensured strategic sourcing success and optimized market intelligence, achieving project goals with efficiency. Skilled in collaboration and training, my approach significantly enhances team capabilities and project outcomes.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
National Accounts Sourcing Project Manager
Fastenal Company
05.2024 - Current
- Managing and coordinating project development from initiation to closure
- Reviewing initial project details to design project scope, goals, deliverables, sourcing strategy and capacity planning
- Providing a project schedule to identify when each task will be performed and clearly communicate expectations to all project stakeholders
- Performing all aspects throughout the project life cycle from request, assessment, planning, execution, monitoring, and optimization
- Communicating and collaborating with stakeholders and various support departments (Content, Supplier Development, BI, etc.) to meet project specific requirements
- Managing project scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented in the project brief and approved with all stakeholders
- Monitoring project progression to ensure on time delivery
- Tracking and reporting on project milestones and providing status reports
- Leading and motivating project team members on a proactive basis
- Executing pricing analysis and recommending competitive strategies to achieve project revenue goals
- Evaluating final working copy and presenting a summary to stakeholders highlighting key areas of interest
- Performing and documenting a post-project evaluation to determine how well results were achieved o Identifying trends and determining process/system improvements
- SME - Subject Matter Expert. Training and Developing a culture of project management expertise
National Accounts Sourcing Administrator Lead
Fastenal Company
10.2015 - 05.2024
- Developing project plans for sourcing/quoting requests from sales representatives
- Analyzing and assigning quotes to the sourcing team members based on workload and product category specialization
- Preparing quotes for system load and running internal reports
- Completing cross reference requests
- Monitoring the progress and work of quotes in order to ensure customer deadlines are met
- Performing quote review analytics
- Compiling customer deliverable quotations
- Communicating/coordinating with high level sales representatives
- Creating and maintaining SOP for specialty projects, including multi-continent global sourcing opportunities
- Train, development and lead the National Accounts Sourcing International Admin Team
National Accounts Sourcing Lead
Fastenal Company
05.2010 - 10.2015
- Performing industry and supply market research
- Identifying new potential suppliers and sources
- Implementing strategic sourcing initiatives
- Category and Project Management
- Organizing and maintaining work quotes from start to customer ready finish
- Communicating with high level representatives
- Supporting the training and development • of the team
- Leading and training team members
Store Manager
Payless Shoe Source
05.1996 - 06.2000
- Delivered excellent customer service
- Responsible for day-to-day operations of the store, which includes scheduling, ordering and processing merchandise
- Management of employees and human resources
- Mentoring and training of all new and existing employees
- Inventory upkeep and handling of cash/till, store opening and closing
- Leadership and training of new store managers
Education
Bachelor of Science - Organizational Leadership
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, INMastering Project Management Course
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NCBachelor of Science - Organizational Leadership
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN05-2009
Skills
- Long Term expertise in large scale National and Global Accounts Project Management
- Engaging in talent acquisitions, development, and retention
- Fostering a culture of project management expertise through internal and external trainings
- Project Manager excellence through proper process identification and resource allocation
- Training and Development of project manager procedures and tasks from initiation to closure of project
- Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to optimize market intelligence
- Subject Matter Expert - Project Manager tools, resources and best practices
Timeline
National Accounts Sourcing Project Manager
Fastenal Company
05.2024 - Current
National Accounts Sourcing Administrator Lead
Fastenal Company
10.2015 - 05.2024
National Accounts Sourcing Lead
Fastenal Company
05.2010 - 10.2015
Store Manager
Payless Shoe Source
05.1996 - 06.2000
Bachelor of Science - Organizational Leadership
Indiana University, Bloomington
Mastering Project Management Course
Wake Forest University
Bachelor of Science - Organizational Leadership
University of Indianapolis