LAURA OXLEY
Chicago,IL
Summary
I have worked for the past 8 years as a project manager. I started out in logistics and worked my way up to the career I have now.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager & Procurement Specialist
- Responsible for managing very detailed, large-scale, million-dollar projects
- Implemented new guidelines and timelines for projects due to the unpredictable supply chain issues
- Reorganized the way we tracked projects to streamline information
- Consistently & successfully completed projects under budget and on time or even earlier
- Built lucrative and long-term client and vendor relations
- Created and established new more effective ways of keeping jobs on task
- Identifies any potential problems and solves them before launching jobs
- Lead daily meetings, keeping everyone informed on project status and or changes
- Coordinated accounts to process items according to established contract timelines
- Built a reputation for troubleshooting, problem solving, negotiating to ensure we avoided operational setbacks & cost issues
- Evaluated spending to negotiate vendor pricing
- Processed changes for any current projects I was in charge of
- Managed vendors, establishing meetings periodically to review performance and to execute any corrective action for low performance
- Took ownership of buying and sourcing for projects, leading to success in the areas of account management and purchasing lifecycle management
- Outstanding Knowledge of purchasing methods and procedures
- Proficient in analyzing all supplies and materials
- Collaborated with Quality Control and suppliers to resolve any quality issues
- Admirable experience in procurement of manufacturing materials.
DEDICATED PROJECT MANAGER|PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST
Mercury Plastics
09.2016 - Current
Logistics Coordinator & Administrative Assistant
Karlin Foods
06.2011 - 01.2016
- Analyzed daily freight to coordinate on-time delivery and identify system gaps
- Compiled data analyses to recommend solutions to senior management
- Reviewed freight bids by examining cost and carriers
- Synthesized cost-effective solutions to prevent future freight bid issues
- Raised customer loyalty by immediately resolving freight claims
- Collaborated with customers to identify and maximize growth opportunities
- Gathered customer and client end-to-end business needs
- Functioned as the QA department SME for product analysis and evaluation
- Eliminated 5 weekly team hours by streamlining supply ordering processes
- Developed a tracking system to organize team supplies
- Organized company-sponsored team events.
Education
Associate of Arts/BA - Art History
Columbia College
2009
Associate of Arts - Fine Arts
Harper College
2008
Skills
- Microsoft Suite
- Excel,
- PowerPoint
- Made2Manage
- Outlook
- PDM
- SharePoint
- Common operating systems
- Manufacturing
- Google Drive
- Social Media
- Enterprise Systems
- Project Coordination
- Project Assistant
Timeline
DEDICATED PROJECT MANAGER|PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST
Mercury Plastics
09.2016 - Current
Logistics Coordinator & Administrative Assistant
Karlin Foods
06.2011 - 01.2016
Project Manager & Procurement Specialist
Associate of Arts/BA - Art History
Columbia College
Associate of Arts - Fine Arts
Harper College
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