NATALIE CANHAM
Summary
Talented and motivated professional with 8 years of experience in logistics, project management, and operations within supply chain. Strong strategic planner, problem solver, and effective team leader, committed to engaging new processes and strategies to deliver KPI's and support cost saving objectives. Open and clear communication at all levels with demonstrated vision, leadership, and supply chain expertise. Creative with critical-thinking abilities useful in developing practical solutions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Transportation Procurement Specialist
Primient (Former Tate & Lyle)
Decatur , IL
09.2021 - Current
- Direct contract negotiations with the class one railroads, new railcar purchases, and lease agreements for the company's 6,000 private railcar fleet.
- Develop and implement effective regional procurement strategies, supplier relationship management, and delivery of short-term and long-term financial plans.
- Manage Warehouse needs to support production at 3rd party transload stations and establish operation requirements.
- Provide rail metrics to the Supply Chain team in order to capture cost savings and forecasting goals.
- Execute cost-analysis to control costs and actualize plans of freight cost reduction.
- Research and analyze relevant market data fundamentals.
Rail Fleet Analyst
Tate & Lyle Ingredients
Decatur , IL
04.2019 - 09.2021
- Provide logistical needs for the day-to-day movement of rail cars.
- Ensure shipments are rated correctly in TMS and completed in SAP.
- Work with the Procurement team to ensure freight costs are properly in the system.
- Analyze rail freight invoices and approve/dispute to ensure Tate & Lyle accounts are up to date with the rail carriers.
- Manage the starch and sweetener billing, expediting and logistical issues.
- Assist the commodities group with billing issues and various other day to day issues.
- Assist the Director of Transportation with freight cost contract negotiations for the Class I railroads.
- Work on special projects for cost savings and transportation processes.
- Run reports for analyzing transit time, car movement, and various other rail related items.
Transportation Analyst
Archer Daniels Midland
Decatur , IL
01.2014 - 01.2019
- Negotiate and analyze pricing contracts for cost optimization.
- Create reports to analyze rail metrics using Power B.I. and Excel.
- Manage the rail SPLCs within the MDM Hub to match customer information.
- Investigate outstanding charges for the Class I railroads.
- Mediate disputes between Archer Daniels Midland and rail suppliers with the goal of resolution and cost optimization.
- Ensure railroad rates/routes are updated in the rating system daily for successful billing of railcars.
- Assist business units with billing railcars in IBM.
- Track railcars in logistical system, Railcar Management System.
Human Resources Assistant
Archer Daniels Midland
Decatur , IL
01.2014 - 04.2014
- Assisted with the implementation and organization of the global headquarters move to Chicago.
- Processed and analyzed payments for high dollar global invoices for the accounting department.
- Initiated employee relocation authorizations and moving arrangements for transferring employees.
- Scheduled meetings and established agendas for meetings.
- Updated and maintained weekly expense reports for current employees.
- Accurately updated the employee database with any changes or additional personal information.
- Promptly notified terminated employees of repayment contracts.
Marketing Intern
State Farm Agency
Decatur , IL
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Contacted prospects and current customers on a weekly basis as part of revenue generation activity.
- Led the planning and development of company-sponsored events.
- Responsible for actively analyzing sales goals and quote expectations for all employees within the agency.
- Promoted company growth by the development of online presence through social media.
- Created spreadsheets for company budget allocation and expenditure.
- Gathered and verified client information for accuracy of records on agency's customer database.
- Processed account receivables of incoming cash flows for customer payments on all current policies.
Education
MBA - Business Management
Millikin University
Decatur, IL05.2016
Bachelor of Science - Business Marketing
Millikin University
Decatur, IL12.2013
Skills
- Contract negotiation
- Logistics Expertise
- Budget Administration
- Account management
- Team leadership
- Problem resolution
- Computer literate: MS Office, SAP, Oracle- Transportation Management System, IBM, Bourque Logistics
Certification
- Six Sigma Orange Belt (2020)-Tate & Lyle
- Conflict Mediation Certificate (2012) - Millikin University.
Accomplishments
- Oversee a portfolio of $300M in transportation spending.
- Assisted Director with negotiations on all railcar lease agreements of $80M relating to the transfer of ownership from Tate & Lyle to Primient.
- Assisted Director with finalizing and implementing two $60M annual contracts with the Class One railroads.
- Managed negotiations of return lease of 90 hopper cars for annual savings of $785,000.
- Successfully trained 4 Rail Fleet Analysts.
Timeline
Transportation Procurement Specialist
Primient (Former Tate & Lyle)
09.2021 - Current
Rail Fleet Analyst
Tate & Lyle Ingredients
04.2019 - 09.2021
Human Resources Assistant
Archer Daniels Midland
01.2014 - 04.2014
Transportation Analyst
Archer Daniels Midland
01.2014 - 01.2019
Marketing Intern
State Farm Agency
01.2012 - 01.2013
MBA - Business Management
Millikin University
Bachelor of Science - Business Marketing
Millikin University
- Six Sigma Orange Belt (2020)-Tate & Lyle
- Conflict Mediation Certificate (2012) - Millikin University.
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