Kenneth Isaac Patron Manrique

Oversees international procurement operations, manages US government contracts, and leads intercompany procurement teams across multiple countries.

• Manage procurement teams across the US, New Zealand, UK & Singapore to ensure seamless global operations.
• Administer all US Government contracts, ensuring compliance and performance.
• Secured multiple USG contracts including the KC-46 Initial Spares Indefinite Delivery & Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) generating over 50 million USD in revenue
• Supplier and Manufacture headhunting & subsequent rapport building. High level networking between manufactures with varying capabilities.
• Manufacture site visits globally in-line with maintaining relationships and ascertaining exact capability / bandwidth.

Led procurement initiatives to increase sales, improve profit margins, and strengthen vendors and customer relationships.

• Strategic sourcing to include study of technical data to obtain obscure information.
• Daily study of technical orders, engineering drawings, maintenance manuals, and illustrated parts breakdowns.
• Advanced knowledge of TO structure & format to extract necessary data.
• Directed procurement strategies that resulted in increased sales and profit margins.
• Negotiated pricing, lead times and delivery schedules with both customers and vendors to support AOG requirements
• Built and maintained strong relationships with key customers and vendors to ensures supply chain realibility.

Supported procurement operations throughout research, quotation generation and order processing.

• Familiarization with data entry procedures withing the Pentagon 2000 system.
• Basis of knowledge studying Technical orders, and other manuals.
• Researched part numbers and analyzed historical pricing to generate accurate, competitive customer quotations
• Processed high-volume customer sales orders and generated vendors quotations while maintaining accurate records in the company database