Jeff Russell

- Directed in areas of purchasing and supply chain management by establishing strategic procurement vision for the carbon steel product family aimed at achieving organizational objectives

- Developed and executed global sourcing initiatives by leveraging North American volumes to generate cost savings

- Managed a total spend of $2.6B, 1.5M tons of steel material, for 150 steel service centers across North America

- Monitored key market analytics for trends and communicated updates to the Regional Purchasing Managers to assist in timely purchase decisions

- Began to Implement a new centralized-decentralized procurement model aimed at generating cost savings and improving supply chain processes

- Provided input on policy and process standardization and identify opportunities for continuous process improvement

- Responsible for leading projects of varying complexity including those focused on cost reduction strategies, process improvements, and controls

- Worked with business partners to ensure purchasing and procurement optimization by generating cost savings and anticipating issues

- Transformed procurement organization from a decentralized to a hybrid centralized-decentralized purchasing model, generating cost savings by leveraging Canadian volumes and optimizing supply chain performance improving customer service levels

- Developed standard operating procedures aimed at improving tactical performance levels

- Worked with internal business partners to ensure procurement optimization for generating cost savings and anticipating issues

- Applied strategic sourcing practices and managed supplier negotiations to ensure that full benefits are realized and sustained

- Managed a total spend of $150M representing 100,000 SKUs, for 30 branches across Canada

- Develop and manage to completion detailed commodity, supplier and negotiation strategies for all managed commodities and suppliers

- Developed global manufacturers to be compliant with Canadian industry standards and specifications, including pressure vessel applications and NSF standards

- Qualified new vendors, including conducting RFPs and managing vendor negotiations for core product lines

- Managed and mentored the procurement team, assisting in the setting of performance objectives, regular team meetings and communicating direction and changes, and indirectly managed 2 people in China and 2 people in India

- Drove supplier consolidation and supplier risk management objectives

- Evaluated, made recommendations, and developed organization-wide procurement policies and procedures for the implementation of standard best practices

- Managed Canada Customs, ensuring all imports were compliant with Canada Customs regulations

- Developed and managed third party quality testing program to ensure all imports were compliant with applicable industry standards

- Stayed current on industry trends and key market analytics for timely opportunities and risk management

- Negotiated and managed global logistics with freight forwarders to minimize impact to total landed cost

- Developed metrics and used data to drive continuous improvement into support of business management and strategy

- History of delivering on key performance indicators, including spend and compliance reporting and year over year productivity and working capital goals

- Indirectly managed a team of 8 Buyer's responsible for purchasing $45-50M of electronic and hardware components

- Developed and implemented effective cost management programs to deliver optimized Total Cost of Ownership and continuous cost improvement

- Negotiated and managed long term contracts with year over year productivity commitments, quality and on-time delivery goals

- Monitored key supply base performance metrics (KPIs) and market conditions

- Monitored purchasing activities and where appropriate challenged cost escalations

- Ensured departmental objectives are in compliance with Corporate strategic initiatives

- Managed performance of suppliers and ensured performance issues are quickly addressed

- Supplier relationship management: to develop and manage vendor partnerships and control the contractual and commercial obligations of each supplier

- Responsible for purchasing various electronic components, managing a diverse supply base and transitioning purchases from non growth to growth suppliers

- Conducted evaluation of supplier proposals to reduce costs or improve quality and work with engineering on implementation

- Provided demand forecasts to suppliers, recorded supplier delivery performance and developed non-performing suppliers for improvement

- Assisted Supplier Quality Assurance with quarterly supplier evaluations

- Project leader for several procurement initiatives, including Webplan, Shared Scheduling, Kanban, Pull Replenishment and consignment inventory

- Collaborated with Engineering on various developmental programs from prototype to production (A380, IPACS, Rescu406AF Beacon)

- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

- Managed the purchasing and negotiations for the Indirect Material Spend (MRO, Office Supplies, Landscaping, Energy) and Capital Expenditures, driving significant cost reduction for all ABC Divisional plants

- Collaborated with Maintenance Managers on regular maintenance requirement

- Conducted evaluation of supplier proposals to reduce costs or improve quality and worked with Maintenance Managers on implementation

- Monitored and managed supplier performance, communicated performance issues and managed significant problem areas to ensure improvements