Linda Eads
Pocurement & Inventory Manager
Spring,TX
Summary
Results-driven procurement professional with expertise in identifying cost-savings opportunities, managing vendors and negotiating contracts. Proven track record of successful cost optimization and supplier performance management. Talented leader, following purchasing process, procedures and associated regulations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Procurement & Inventory Manager
Ezee Fiber Texas, LLC
Houston, TX
01.2022 - Current
- Oversaw QuickBooks to NetSuite Procurement & Inventory Items Integration.
- Executed Procurement workflow & Inventory Item Process.
- Oversee Procurement for all Business Units.
- Establish & enhance end-to-end procurement processes.
- Instruct Stakeholders on Procurement & Inventory control processes.
- Managed Vendors for quality, cost & relationships to optimize organization’s value.
- Contract negotiations to obtain best price.
- Execute Procurement strategies to ensure supply chain security.
- Optimize project stock inventory management.
- Identified & Mitigated risk in end-to-end Procurement & Supply Chain.
- Oversaw Inventory reconciliation process.
- Oversaw fixed asset management within Inventory System.
- Directed NetSuite improvements & implementations initiatives for Procurement and Inventory Items.Strengthened inventory processes to balance supply needs with budget and space limitations.
- Labeled, organized and located inventory items in staging areas or on shelves according to quantity, size, or type of material.
Procurement & Office Manager
Martin Marietta
Kingwood, TX
06.2021 - 01.2022
- Integration from Southern Crushed Concrete to Martin Marietta
- Managed resource allocation for executing customer account reconciliation plans.
- Communication / Training and Education / Execution
- Develop clear communication strategy of roles and workflows.
- Train employees of new processes workflow and new program tools (Oracle ERP)
- Manage Customer Support during integration.
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders to update processes as necessary, train and lead employees & customers to ensure successful implementation.
- Procurement Manager
- Fixes asset classification
- Managed creation of purchase orders, Non-Blanket, Local Blanket & Corporate Purchase Order's along with receipt of goods purchased.
- Accruing and reconciling weekly and monthly reporting
- Managed new vendor process, including vetting and entering approved vendor into system.
Logistics Project Operations & Office Manager
Southern Crushed Concrete
Houston, TS
04.2019 - 07.2021
- Established workflow processes, monitored daily productivity, and implemented modifications to improve overall performance of personnel.
- Developed training documentation and trained employees of operation processes for 18 plants around greater Houston area.
- Manage all reporting, forecasting sales & materials, ticket reports to 3rd party delivery drivers.
- Quality Assurance all Orders entered for each day.
- Project Manage many other projects that arise per plant, ranging from equipment inventory, IT roll outs, indirect procurement, and process improvements.
- Customer Management resolve all issues that arise from orders, shipping & invoicing.
- Change Management material pricing consisting of change orders, system pricing, document control and communicating through all plants and corporate offices.
- Managed dispatch call center and scale house employees.
- Managed office operations while scheduling appointments for department managers.
Project Operations Scheduling & Expediting
Neuman & Esser USA
Katy, TX
05.2016 - 06.2018
- Project Management of 10+ new reciprocating compressor packages for upstream or midstream projects; skid or foundation mounted applications.
- Managed project schedules using MS Project, ensuring that all build of materials orders are meeting delivery date for production.
- Managed building relationships with vendors for pricing, expediting, and knowledge of new products for compressor packages.
- Performed supply chain reporting of all goods ordered for monthly forecast and match project management tool ensuring reports match monthly, quarterly and yearly.
- Oversaw the presentation of projects details for all active projects, including budget management, cost-to-complete analysis, margin tracking, Work-in-Progress (WIP) forecasting, change order management, and vendor updates.
- Conduct bi-monthly Production Meetings for each project with Enterprise Project Management (EPM), addressing scheduling conflicts, budget updates, build of materials (BOM) discussions, vendor issues and compressor build delivery.
- Established and maintained relationships with vendors and NEA partners
Assistant Project Manager
GE Oil & Gas
Houston, TX
11.2014 - 02.2016
- Provided administrative support to Project Managers and Engineers by participating in internal and customer meetings to accurately record meeting minutes and action items.
- Project Knowledge with all GE Oil & Gas business functions (Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Sourcing & Service Teams) for the Maersk 20K project to ensure communication of workflows were completed properly.
- Document Control project documents including customer approval drawings, technical queries, variation orders, project management actions and engineering actions for Maersk 20K projects, gaining approvals for new technology.
- Simplification Projects for Unifier, consisting of Workflow specific training and Entering Risk solutions ensuring colleagues understand tool fundamentals, ensuring GE & Customer(s) trained to meet audit qualifications.
- Managed weekly reporting for upper management, statistics of technical queries, document control, VORs, actions and risk for 20K project, reports were also modified for customer presentations.
- Project Closure (Commissioning & Warranty), procurement, sales orders, invoicing, variance orders & databook. Closing projects under budget, $6M savings.
- Managed data for transition of Transferring JDE to Oracle .
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems
Project Coordinator
T-Systems North America
Houston, TX
09.2010 - 11.2014
- Project Coordinator of US Global Product Delivery (GPD), Project Manager Teams & Program Management Office.
- Assistant Global Business Program Managers and Resource Management, which consisted of on/off boarding all Project Management staff.
• Manage account access to Shell tools for project management
• Trained all staff, use of all tools required for Shell Global Account (SGA).
• Managed Time Writing for US Staff and created process improvement documents for global PMs on SGA, increasing staff knowledge of 98% which saved 50% of time.
• Manage updates for Global Product Delivery (GPD) SharePoint sites. - Troubleshoot and resolved all tools used for GPD
• Process documentation creation for Global Product Delivery Team
• Prepares monthly spreadsheets, tables, presentations, and graphs using various software applications.
• Responsible for documenting, facilitating, directing, organizing and reporting project activities, under the direction of Manager, support the leadership team in administrative activities.
• Extensive knowledge of Shell tools for Project Management
• Knowledge of Shell Improvement Program ISR Contract & change releases. - Program Management Office – PMO, US Region PMO
- Registered, Quality Assurance, Submitted Change Requests, Project Proposal Requests & Component requests for all Shell Projects.
- Supervised multiple projects from project start through delivery by prioritizing needs and delegating assignments.
Executive Assistant
Hewlett Packard, HP
Houston, TX
05.2007 - 09.2010
- Provide high level administrative support for Vice President of Quality and Customer Experience Organization within Global Notebook Division.
- Collaborate with other Executive Assistants between Global Business Units for internal and external highly focused, deadline driven operations.
- Compile, analyze, and interpret data, to create spreadsheets for reconciling budget of 14 Global cost locations totaling over $18 million of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial analysis
- Project Management of various projects with strict deadlines
- Deliver key initiatives to direct staff, Schedule/Managed meetings, Coordinate/expense reports and travel
- Purchasing Management, direct and indirect procurement for teams, created Purchase Orders, BPO for all cost locations. Created & managed Statement of Work and MLA. Tracked and reported budget.
- Oversaw Human Resource business practices within Global Notebooks Division
- Managed group events for launch programs and annual team events.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ 01.2005 - 09.2009
Skills
Process Improvement
Vendor Management
Data & Analytics Knowledge
Financial Acumen
Procurement Process
Inventory control systems
Problem Solving
Technical Skills
Curiosity
Risk Management
Certification
[Basic MUX BOP Control System,], GE Oile & Gas[Company Name] - [Timeframe]
Timeline
Procurement & Inventory Manager
Ezee Fiber Texas, LLC
01.2022 - Current
Procurement & Office Manager
Martin Marietta
06.2021 - 01.2022
Logistics Project Operations & Office Manager
Southern Crushed Concrete
04.2019 - 07.2021
Project Operations Scheduling & Expediting
Neuman & Esser USA
05.2016 - 06.2018
Risk Management, GE Oil & Gas
05-2015
[Basic MUX BOP Control System,], GE Oile & Gas[Company Name] - [Timeframe]
04-2015
Introduction to GE Oil & Gas Captial Drilling, GE Oil & Gas
04-2015
Riser System Equipment, GE Oil & Gas
02-2015
Assistant Project Manager
GE Oil & Gas
11.2014 - 02.2016
Project Coordinator
T-Systems North America
09.2010 - 11.2014
Executive Assistant
Hewlett Packard, HP
05.2007 - 09.2010
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
University of Phoenix
01.2005 - 09.2009