Tyler Levato

Strategic Cost Management

• Analyzed project costs for bid strategy improvement, identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Streamlined contract bidding and procurement processes, ensuring best prices and service for project bids through cost benefit analysis.
• Develop high-complexity project strategy and bid packages for multimillion dollar, multimodal, and global supply chain projects requiring constant coordination across multiple internal and external parties.

Leadership Collaboration and Strategy Development

• Collaborated with Director and Ownership level leadership on company strategy, forecasts, and process refinement and implementation.
• Led cross-functional teams post project meetings to review process refinement, supplier performance, and post-project financial and executional success.
• Compiled handoff document and led cross-department meeting with stakeholders for won projects defining strategy, scope of work, budget expectations and areas of concern, supplier selection, project details, contract details etc. to prepare all departments from execution to finance to ensure project understanding and to drive project success through minimizing delays, confusion and cost overruns.
• Kept senior management well-informed with project status reports and assisted in resolving performance and conflict management issues.

Financial Analysis and Reporting

• Devised and implemented strategies to analyze project financial health, controlling costs and driving sales growth strategy.
• Completed monthly profit and loss performance reports for sourcing department, based on initial budgets versus project actuals.
• Cost tracked projects during execution to monitor invoice accuracy for approval, triggering customer billing and identifying areas of risk to project margin and develop alternative or rescue plans to reduce impact internal costs and customer expectations.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Communicated regularly with suppliers to maintain quality standards, improve relationships, and resolve disputes.
• Built and maintained relationships with local vendors, suppliers, and partners for efficient supply chain management.
• Went to top industry conferences to represent company and to find new and develop existing customer or supplier relationships.

Team Leadership and Bid Strategy

• Managed multiple projects, led sourcing department with team of 4+ direct reports, and ensured project deadlines were met while working complex bids.
• Redefined team processes, Delegated tasks, monitored workflow, and mentored team members to maximize productivity, efficiency and collaboration.
• Maintained and refined databases of employee training, SOPs, templates and resources for efficiencies in new employee training.
• Mentored team members and cross-trained existing employees to maximize department collaboration, communication and team building across departments.
• Assisted in organizing, overseeing, and delegating team bid assignments to drive operational excellence and hit deadlines.

Process Improvement and Regulatory Compliance

• Identified and optimized regulatory risks management, gather, prepare and fill out regulatory forms to be compliant with all federal and local regulations for each individual project.
• Evaluated and qualified new suppliers within innovative and emerging supply segments, ensuring industry compliance while introducing new and innovative market solutions.

• Collaborated with commercial and operational teams on global sourcing projects and complex supply chain strategies and budgeting.
• Developed and executed renewable energy projects including waste streams and project decommissioning strategies with focus on sustainable recycling solutions and 0 waste solutions.
• Managed supplier base to support corporate objectives in areas of cost, quality, delivery and customer satisfaction by keeping high-value projects on time and on or below budget requiring critical decision making and pricing analysis.
• Manage supplier base to support corporate objectives in areas of cost, quality, delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Maintained effective and lasting supplier relationships with over 200 suppliers through dynamic communication, collaboration and supplier management.
• Sourced and vetted suppliers for turn-key project strategies and bid submission for high-complexity, high-risk and high-value supply chain projects with focus in disaster relief, renewable energy, traditional infrastructure and over dimensional transport solutions.
• Develop sourcing strategies and pricing to improve procurement processes, supplier/customer relationships and capability development to attract new business opportunities.
• Completed year long management training course through OpX Solutions EPL and EPP focusing on personal and professional development

• Supported gross profit goals by negotiating and controlling costs, lead times, freight terms, supplier contracts and project cost tracking and approval.
• Leverage pricing and contract negotiation to award high value, high risk project work to carefully vetted suppliers focusing on cost, safety and project strategy.
• Sourced and onboarded 50+ new suppliers and partners to create new industry strategies to alleviate growing global supply chain issues and constraints specifically focusing on over dimension and high value product.
• Create and release project RFQs, receive and compile favorable pricing, and submit project proposals for civilian and government infrastructure primarily in renewable energy supply chain industry.
• Control project budget and timeline through cost analysis, supplier management, decision making and evolving project strategy.
• Responsible for project cost tracking as well as supplier invoice approval and triggering customer billing for multiple high revenue ($1mm+) projects concurrently.
• Attend leading renewable energy and global supply chain conferences as company representative to maintain existing and develop new supplier, customer and industry relationships and opportunities.
• Develop project strategies, scope and consulting documents focusing on capital sourcing for turn key supply chain solutions including global multi-modal transportation I.E ocean vessel, barge, rail, specialized heavy haul transportation and routing.

• Direct supervision of Inventory Control Team
• Responsible for over 500,000 sq ft of inventory across multiple departments.
• Managed multiple warehouses and drop yards.
• Coordinated logistics of inventory between auction/job sites nationwide to our Sulphur, LA warehouses and Simpsonville, SC warehouses
• Coordinated logistics of inventory from or to customer job sites
• Determined inventory needs for weekly master production schedule
• Implementation and training of new inventory and MRP system
• Responsible for coordination of purchasing new required inventory
• Responsible for attending Job Site auctions or pre-bid inspections
• Designed and implemented new inventory control S.O.P.

• Oversaw daily operations of office and warehouse employees
• Supervised new projects, processes and programs including sourcing, design, implementation and training.
• Supervised and spearheaded recruiting department responsible for all office, driver hires and orientations
• Diagnosed basic to intermediate IT issues before determining escalation to critical IT team
• Organized new warehouse projects for local and international customers.
• Assisted in supervising routing and dispatching of 150 drivers
• Assisted in fleet management of 150+ trucks and 450+ trailers
• Interviewed, hired and trained staff for all departments
• Responsible for Account management of multi-million dollar customers and projects
• Responsible for marketing and social media accounts including targeted advertising
• Oversaw shipping operations, inventory and storage of freight for over 250,000 sq ft of warehouse space