Blake Hill

Analyze sales data and other performance metrics to measure category performance, identify areas of improvement, and optimize pricing, promotions, and inventory levels. Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers, negotiating favorable terms and conditions, and resolving any issues that may arise on a North American Land scale.

• Established relationships with vendors to secure competitive pricing and discounts.
• Provided strategic guidance by delivering data-driven, actionable category-level insights.
• Formulated business recommendations and alternative solutions based on statistical data.
• Conducted market and supplier research to enhance sourcing and negotiation strategies.
• Negotiated contracts with vendors for cost-effective purchasing terms.
• Act as interface between business and supplier for category, resolving category issues.
• Represent Category Manager on teams and councils, as assigned .
• Participate in supply chain governance and performance management activities
• Evaluated product quality and vendor performance to maintain quality standards.

Actively engage with material planning teams to decide inventory levels and address redeployment opportunities by creating and executing inventory planning strategies. Construct and submit comprehensive reports on inventory consumption, purchase order functionality, and schedule delivery times to evaluate desirable stocking levels for production jobs utilizing SAP.

• Managed and sourced sand as well as proppant to 29 crews dealing with frac jobs at Well site across West, East, and South Texas, Oklahoma, and north Louisiana that acquired from Halliburton owned and third-party plants.
• Supervised and maintained adequate inventory levels aligned with business needs through consistent assessment, prioritization, and improvements.
• Created effective partnerships with PSLs and Business Development team to determine and meet future expected inventory demands.
• Developed clear lines of effective communication with northern mines and local mines to confirm on-time delivery schedules with trucking and railroad.
• Delivered leadership in guiding and advising logistics team on required action plan for each frac job with best available logistic routes by utilizing company plants.
• Proactively interacted and consulted with Category Management to accurately measure and forecast demands to negotiate and finalize contracts for upcoming years.

Held full accountability to steer and implement locally procurement goods and services agreements that are not covered under Category Management. Complied and generated all inventory reports as well as disburse purchase orders to key vendors for material procured using SAP. Planned, evaluated, and sourced appropriate options at lowest cost through execution of in-depth analysis of inventory information. Rationalized Southern Region inventory levels to tracking all company-owned sand plants and third-party trans-loads.

• Provided expertise procurement and sourcing service to 19 crews for frac jobs using Halliburton-owned and third-party plants across multi-unit well sites.
• Revamped purchase order post-award activities, such as invoice issues, change order management and claim avoidance between accounts payable, vendors, and customers while providing on-site training as needed.
• Produced high-quality service and expedited deliveries across South Central Region by nurturing strong trusted rapport among organization, customers, and vendors.
• Established database and shipments tracking system to direct and maintain current inventory levels as well as scheduled days to reorder required materials accurately.

Proactively collaborated with cross-functional team to plan, develop, and enforce strategic supply chain and logistic initiatives with focus to formalize and capitalize all deliverables within documented commitments and deadlines. Generated and presented month-end reports on process initiation and performance realization to updating executive management for decision making and action plans.

• Led compelling negotiations to attain best quality, delivery, and price for goods and services via generating requests for quotations (RFQ) and establishing competitive bidding from various suppliers.
• Drove project management leadership in planning and introducing multiple supply chain process re-engineering projects using new multidisciplinary and international SAP tools.
• Designed various performance-efficient and more reliable logistics management programs that ensured optimal performance and expedited deliverables processes.

Headed overall logistics procedures and ensured seamless movement of goods through in-country transportation as well as exploration and importation of goods in compliance with predefined organization policies, procedures, and local laws.

• Upheld sufficient sand and chemical inventory levels by driving 24/7 logistical support for 13 frac crews.
• Assured accurate maintenance of documentation and records by systemizing and retaining logs and files comprising of all relevant support for movements of material while collaborating and updating all associated stakeholders by sharing updated status and details.
• Formulated purchase requisitions, discovered material inventory levels, and introduced new sources for acquiring required goods and services using SAP.
• Reduced miles to wellhead as well as declined transportation costs by strategically placing trans-load facilities.