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Rachael Haslage

Littleton,CO

Summary

Strategically focused Supply Chain Management professional with over 15 years of procurement, sourcing, negotiation and contract management experience. Highlights include strong relationship management, thorough attention to detail, analytical, energetic, influential and adaptable individual. Track record of fostering robust supplier relationships, ensuring compliance, and driving continuous process improvements.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

PROJECT MANAGER/INSIDE SALES

Applied Power Industrial Sales
12.2024 - Current

Role Overview

Responsible for handling customer inquiries, preparing quotations, entering orders, and providing technical support. Serving as a key point of contact for clients and partners to ensure a positive transactional experience.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work directly with factory reps to ensure timely processing of order fulfillment
  • Provide technical support and product information to customers via phone and email
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with a magnitude of customers, over 11 manufacturers, and the inside/outside sales team
  • Communicate time sensitive information to customers, based on factory feedback
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of product offerings and industry developments
  • Provide outside sales support with a responsive communication and a solution-based approach.

SR. PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST

Kratos Industries
02.2024 - 11.2024
  • Analyze cost, evaluate supplier quotes, identify opportunities for cost reduction
  • Played vital role in ensuring the company maintained a reliable and cost-effective supply of materials and services to support time sensitive operations and contribute to overall success
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop robust procurement strategies aligned with organizational goals.
  • Create, issue, and post order management of purchase orders
  • Negotiated contracts with suppliers to obtain favorable terms and pricing.
  • Resolved invoice and payment issues to facilitate prompt payment to suppliers.

SR. PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST

Crusoe Energy
10.2022 - 09.2023
  • Procure materials, supplies, equipment and services needed for the deployment of new and existing projects related to Digital Flare Mitigation (DFM) and Cloud Computing infrastructure and operations
  • Vendor maintenance, importing/exporting of goods, supplier and technical analytics, contract executions and coordination of other field activities
  • Develop contractor relationships including executing Master Service Agreements and verification of contractor compliance with MSA terms and conditions
  • Represent SCM at various levels on cross functional teams to cultivate and maintain strong working relationships with suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders
  • Evaluated supplier quotes based on purchasing procedures and competitiveness in quality, price and delivery.

CATEGORY MANAGER

Ball Aerospace
11.2021 - 11.2022
  • Supplier sourcing, supplier proposal evaluations; employ value analysis techniques to analyze price, technical capability and financial viability, help investigate supplier’s ability to perform within the proposed cost, technical, and schedule parameters
  • Acted as the authorized signature authority for procurements, subcontract and indirect supplier contracts
  • Assist in the identification of strategies and opportunities to reduce cost, improve efficiency; contribute to program risk and opportunity management
  • Responsible for the management of supplier performance throughout the contract lifecycle; resolve supplier performance issues and any internal issues that affect supplier performance
  • Responsible for managing optical commodity, supplier, tactical and strategic relationships, through strategic and targeted negotiations. Solicit engineering change proposals as needed.

SENIOR BUYER

Sundyne
08.2019 - 11.2021
  • Purchase a highly mixed and/or technical category of manufactured & machined parts and equipment
  • Point of contact for Procurement training, contract negotiations, material deviations, mentoring, improvement in efficiencies, Kaizen events, data analysis and system integration
  • Administer orders in a timely and economical basis with focus on best combination of price, quality and delivery
  • Collaborate with material handling, receiving, inspection and logistics to execute material delivery
  • Coordinate with manufacturing staff and plant production staff with regard to projected production schedules
  • Acts as a liaison between suppliers and involved departments to resolve commercial related issues
  • Process non-conforming material requests with internal departments and supply chain partners/suppliers

MATERIALS BUYER

Liberty Oilfield Services
06.2018 - 05.2019
  • High level analysis on reporting, forecasting and planning
  • Initiate contract negotiations and management of regional contract types
  • Responsible for issuing RFI’s, RFP’s, RFQ’s to commodity-based suppliers
  • Evaluated and established metrics to track key supplier performance and qualification
  • Focus on innovation and creating efficiencies with focus on extensive operational support
  • Improved forecast accuracy utilizing consensus demand planning and in depth inventory management
  • Manage transactional procurement task from cradle to grave, facilitate logistics of material with operations including transloads, trucking and railroad

BUYER

DCP Midstream
07.2015 - 06.2018
  • Act as liaison between cross-functional departments such as engineering, finance and operations to ensure understanding and compliance of supply chain practices and procedures
  • Work through change management issues to increase Purchase Order usage from 0 – 80%
  • Sourced and negotiated high volume suppliers to lower pricing and improve contract terms
  • Evaluated supplier performance to determine continued use and alternate supplier options
  • Implemented Summary of Transaction documents, Master Service Agreements and contract agreements
  • Post order management, including PO acknowledgements, expediting, change orders, PO closures
  • Actualized supplier specific corrective action plans to address recurring invoice disputes, through system and work-flow process collaboration
  • Provided internal system and process training for internal stake holders to drive supply chain efficiency

INTAKE BUYER

DCP Midstream
06.2012 - 07.2015
  • Source orders for internal/external customers and facilitate the entry of requisitions to purchase order
  • Facilitate bids for non-sourced goods and services and ensure proper SOW documentation
  • Act as a resource point for suppliers and internal personnel to provide tactical Supply Chain support
  • Maintained developed strategic sourcing plans for chemicals, coolants, and engine oils
  • Blanket PO Management of monthly, quarterly and annual purchase orders for oils, chemicals and services
  • Procure and expedite long-lead items to meet project deadlines

SUPPLY PLANNER

Bluelinx Corporation
04.2010 - 06.2012
  • Managed procurement needs by sourcing, expediting, tracking and post order management
  • Maintain Chain of Custody, ie. FSC Certified raw goods; ensuring government regulations were followed
  • Maintain fill rates of 99.8% for key National Account customers, Home Depot and Lowe’s retailers
  • Coordinate with transportation to reduce LTL’s and maximize freight and shipping costs
  • Partner with international vendors and logistics to ensure accuracy and just-in-time delivery of import material
  • Monitored inventory to reduce turn days and Slow/Excess/Obsolete material while maintaining balanced on hand inventory

Education

B.S. -

Metropolitan State College of Denver
Denver, CO
01.2013

Skills

  • Sales Force, Zoho, Coupa, Hubspot, Agile, JDE, JDA, IFS, Microsoft Outlook, Mac, JDA, PeopleSoft, ADP Open Invoice, Epicor, AS/400, SAP, Ariba Contract Management System, ISNetworld, MS Office; Power Point, Excel

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Time Management/Organization
  • Strategic and tactical Supply Chain management
  • Team Work/Collaboration
  • Applied Technologies
  • ISO 9001 Quality & Operational Excellence
  • High ethical standards
  • Inventory Control & Reduction
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • On Time Delivery/ continuous Improvement

Timeline

PROJECT MANAGER/INSIDE SALES

Applied Power Industrial Sales
12.2024 - Current

SR. PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST

Kratos Industries
02.2024 - 11.2024

SR. PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST

Crusoe Energy
10.2022 - 09.2023

CATEGORY MANAGER

Ball Aerospace
11.2021 - 11.2022

SENIOR BUYER

Sundyne
08.2019 - 11.2021

MATERIALS BUYER

Liberty Oilfield Services
06.2018 - 05.2019

BUYER

DCP Midstream
07.2015 - 06.2018

INTAKE BUYER

DCP Midstream
06.2012 - 07.2015

SUPPLY PLANNER

Bluelinx Corporation
04.2010 - 06.2012

B.S. -

Metropolitan State College of Denver