Tina Morgan

• Global strategic procurement management and innovation sourcing for 2 primary categories in the external manufacturing segment across 6 business units
• Translated enterprise strategies, business needs, and market factors to craft and drive an aligned procurement strategy across brands and geographies
• Explored, identified, and executed continuous improvement opportunities and project to advance the category value delivery
• Managed supplier relationships and performance to foster collaborative partnerships; improving contract negotiations, service, quality, and ultimately drive innovation for long-term business success.
• Strategic and innovation sourcing

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• 3% YOY annual savings captured for spend coverage
• Negotiated contracts incorporating growth rebates, cost savings ideation requirement of 3% annually, and innovation ideation requirements with key suppliers
• Category strategy work identifying capturing 27% in savings opportunities

• Create and drive value through procurement category strategy development, aligned business needs, and enterprise strategies
• Market intelligence to predict business impact and inform strategic direction to minimize risks.
• Capture value in forming and managing collaborative supplier relationships to improve partnerships and contract negotiation positioning
• Assess and identify kitting business planning and inventory process gaps, set action plans, and manage project implementation to improve efficiency and capture cost savings.
• Manage supplier network category to support sufficient material supply and services.

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Aligned multiple kitting business units with varying procurement strategies into one, maximizing value with Phase 1 savings of 4%, Phase 2 OE improvement of 22%
• Revitalized the Risk Assessment Program
• Negotiated 17% annual cost savings for laboratory testing services.

• Responsible for all plant spend, including MRO, services, capital expenditures, and direct materials.
• Monitor market drivers, competitive landscape, emerging technologies, and regulatory factors to establish and implement procurement strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Develop and implement comprehensive sourcing processes, including effective commodity and vendor analysis, best practice sourcing strategies, contract negotiations, and robust vendor performance management.
• Material planning and inventory management
• Drafted, negotiated, and executed supplier contracts to protect the business

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Reduced corrugate annual spend by 50% - source change, strategic partnership agreement.
• Commitment of a strategic volume of resin to contracts resulting in 5% savings and allowing the ability to leverage the contract depending on market pricing.
• Implementation of national Fastenal contract for on-site vending program for safety supplies and VMI program for Maintenance parts

• Managed all aspects of flow, control, and accuracy over purchased materials including, inventory, planning, receiving, and procurement.
• Supplier development and strategic relationship management to secure the best possible value.
• Accessed supplier and warehouse capacity constraints to understand potential risks
• Implemented effective cost-saving initiatives to promote cost efficiency.
• Achieved financial objectives through collaboration with the executive team and preparing department budgets.
• Cost modeling and cost analysis, including make vs. buy analysis.

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Reduced packaging cost by 27% through redesign collaboration with Engineering team and source changes.
• Established procurement, material control, and planning processes; and implemented KPI metrics to track performance progression

• Develop of procurement strategies focusing on sourcing, qualifying and continually benchmarking suppliers to achieve best-in-class quality, delivery, and cost-reduction expectations.
• Material planning/scheduling, inventory movement transactions and management, of direct materials
• Reconcile forecasting, on-order, and part inventories through system monitoring, reporting and collaboration with suppliers and the management team.
• Set and maintain master component data, including safety stocks, yields, and consignment supporting JIT

• Responsible for power steering direct material purchases
• Created and managed contracts and sourcing strategies to reduce cost and accommodate capacity constraints
• Component scheduling-factoring lead time, safety stock, and demand
• Partnered with engineering and quality to improve supplier performance

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT:

- Reduced capacity constraint and captured 10% reduction in fabricated component spend by adding an additional source and implementing a volume commitment contract at less than 50% of total volume.