Shilah Friday
Los Angeles,CA
Summary
- Accomplished professional with a proven record of success in negotiating long-term Sales, vendor contracts, creating and producing purchasing orders, managing inventory and reducing costs.
- Experienced in leveraging solid relationships with customers, and vendors by prospecting, and sourcing leads.
- Committed to providing exceptional customer service and performing any task.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Purchasing Specialist
Younger Optics
Torrance, CA
2023.12 - 2024.09
- Responsible for all purchase orders, for materials, office supplies and services
- Processed all onboarding with vendors and managed invoices with AP team
- Negotiated with all Vendor, service technicians, pricing agreement, monthly and quarterly projections and contracts
- Oversaw all materials, through receiving team, created inventory management cycles, and inventory cycle counts for production control
- Managed production processes and planning with sales team for all inventory processing, shipping and allocating parts
Purchasing Coordinator
Homepro
Carrollton, TX
2022.05 - 2023.10
- Manage company's day to day by Purchasing materials, parts, supplies, equipment, and service plan accordingly, following purchasing policies and procedures to optimize price, delivery, And terms
- Negotiating with vendors, maintaining a relationship with all vendors and suppliers to meet customer needs
- Assist with AP invoices and payments
- Assist with receiving team to receive products and proper placement for deliveries
- Review purchase contracts, solicit bids on sales price, monthly budget and price discrepancies and lower cost expenses
- Manage purchasing orders, with oodoo,and Excel to review and maintain standard cost, delivery and time
- Assist with purchasing office items and customer needs by providing support and knowing all company products, policies and procedures
- Track status of all inventory parts and delivery, negotiate priority with suppliers to meet standard deadline and past due delivery for homes.
Purchasing/Sales
Orbit Promotions
Irving, TX
2021.01 - 2022.05
- Product Management sales, purchased all materials for office and businesses, wrote sales contracts for obtained orders, submitting all orders for prompt processing
- B2B field marketing
- Coordinated and solicited buying parties to sell merchandise, vendor management
- Managed and organized a group of 10+ out in the marketing field, fundraising, sales, KPI's, scripts, leadership, team meetings
- Contacted regular and prospective customers to determine the lasting relationship of the purchase
- Follow up with leads
- Prospecting via phone, email, and site calls
- Lead prospecting closed deals
Purchasing/Inventory Control Manager
Aaon Coil Products
Longview, TX
2018.09 - 2020.11
- Supply chain, pricing, inventory, Lead of department
- Accounts, recruitment and staffing, customer service, ERP System
- Negotiated with vendors to determine price and terms of sale
- Managed office supply orders, invoices and inventory for the department to support availability
- Management of delivery order and scheduling
- Managed inventory cycle counts, product storage and locations
Education
Bachelors - Business Ethics
Texas A&M Commerce University
Commerce, TX05.2018
Skills
- CRM Software
- Marketing
- Procurement
- Pricing
- Contracts
- Microsoft Word
- Customer service
- B2B sales
- Budgeting
- Purchasing
- Direct sales
- Sourcing
- Microsoft Excel
- Contract management
- Forecasting
- Project Coordination
- Warehouse management system
- Customer acquisition
- Manufacturing
- Product Management
- Inventory control
- Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Contract negotiation
- Sales
Personal Information
Willing To Relocate: Anywhere
Timeline
Purchasing Specialist
Younger Optics
2023.12 - 2024.09
Purchasing Coordinator
Homepro
2022.05 - 2023.10
Purchasing/Sales
Orbit Promotions
2021.01 - 2022.05
Purchasing/Inventory Control Manager
Aaon Coil Products
2018.09 - 2020.11
Bachelors - Business Ethics
Texas A&M Commerce University