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SHANE E. ZIMMERMAN

Supply Chain, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Purchasing
Chandler,AZ

Summary

A Six Sigma certified professional with 23 years of strategic sourcing, supply chain, purchasing, contracting, and all related systems experience. Career preempted to support immediate family member who battled a terminal illness (past 4 years). Interested in once again following my work-life passion utilizing my experience, leadership, technical & functional knowledge to maximize the strategic needs of the business.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

OWNER

Self-employed (Combined Insurance)
Chandler, AZ
05.2019 - Current
  • Successfully launched and developed effective business & sales organization
  • Created portal for maximum workload efficiency and standardized processes
  • Consulted with customers to assess needs and propose optimal solutions
  • 65% sales increase annually year over year (3)

DIRECTOR STRATEGIC SOURCING

UNITED HEALTHCARE
Phoenix, AZ
04.2015 - 10.2018
  • Responsible for managing sourcing, contracting, contract implementation and supplier performance for Physician Preference Implantable Item Categories ($1.5B)
  • Lead and managed all materials, to include strategy, capital, lifecycle, rent-lease-buy recommendation, supplier negotiations, analysis, tracking, tools automation, contracting, and company equipment program
  • Established infrastructure to include people, system automation, controls, workflow, and support tools for streamlining the sourcing and P2P process
  • Directed Ariba/SAP downstream implementation for company procurement activities, onboarding, contract administration, and sourcing processes
  • Successfully re-engineered indirect contracting department into a strategic sourcing organization
  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.

SOURCING MANAGER

REPUBLIC SERVICES
Scottsdale, AZ
09.2008 - 04.2015
  • Responsible for managing sourcing, contracting and supplier performance for Republic Services transportation spend category ($500M)
  • Effectively assisted in reengineering trucking cost models to support negotiation strategy and understanding of supplier cost structures
  • Managed & developed additional transportation team resources, exceeding all savings and compliance goals
  • Developed detailed category strategies for all transportation spend tiers
  • Collaborated with strategic partners to develop and manage key performance indicators and quality assurance processes.
  • Developed requests for proposal and issued requests for quotes to support sourcing efforts.
  • Cross functional interface with operations, post collections, sales, finance and all levels of leadership to ensure customer expectations are exceeded
  • Successfully improved relationships with strategic suppliers, resulting in true partnership development between companies
  • Developed and implemented supplier performance metrics and procedures for quarterly reviews between suppliers & business units
  • Cross functional interface with operations, sales, finance and leadership to ensure customer requirements/expectations are identified and exceeded
  • Managed and developed relationships with suppliers to attain maximum cost efficiency and leverage buying power.

SR. COMMODITY MANAGER

US AIRWAYS (AMERICAN AIRLINES)
Tempe, AZ
07.2001 - 09.2008
  • Renegotiated and consolidated several commodity based projects through the US Airways merger integration, resulting in year over year savings
  • Manage Oracle based procurement system team to include supplier catalogues, on line auctions, policies, procedures and continued automation improvements
  • Significant role in the re-engineering of corporate purchasing to include direct involvement in hiring 90% of current organization
  • Effectively represented corporate purchasing in all Sarbanes-Oxley procurement related initiatives, meeting and exceeding audit compliance
  • Re-engineered processes related to supplier administration and effective consolidation of US Airways suppliers
  • Corporate purchasing leader for implementing a web enabled purchasing system (Oracle 11i).

E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS LEADER

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, E-COMMERCE
Tempe, AZ
08.1996 - 07.2001
  • Maintained working knowledge of company products, services and promotions
  • Verified team adherence to channel-specific methods, procedures and policies
  • Educated and engaged customers and team members through product demonstrations
  • Led and used operational systems to process purchases of products and services
  • Managed financial tracking, inventory coordination and social media marketing

Education

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE -

Arizona State University
1995

Skills

  • Proven supply chain cross-functional project management and implementation success
  • Maturation of people, systems, and tools resulting in individual maturity paths established
  • Effective category sourcing strategies and negotiation leverage development
  • Experienced ERP (SAP/Ariba & Oracle) development, growth, implementation, and automation
  • Data driven decision making with 6 years within multiple business intelligence tools
  • Supplier performance tracking, relationship development, and contract management
  • Accomplished organizational re-engineering, change management, and process improvement

Certification

Six Sigma GreenBelt

Timeline

OWNER

Self-employed (Combined Insurance)
05.2019 - Current

DIRECTOR STRATEGIC SOURCING

UNITED HEALTHCARE
04.2015 - 10.2018

SOURCING MANAGER

REPUBLIC SERVICES
09.2008 - 04.2015

SR. COMMODITY MANAGER

US AIRWAYS (AMERICAN AIRLINES)
07.2001 - 09.2008

E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS LEADER

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, E-COMMERCE
08.1996 - 07.2001

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE -

Arizona State University

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