Purchasing Manager Resume Examples

Frederick Anozie

(704) 555-0118 ◇ Charlotte, NC

frederick.anozie@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/frederick-anozie ◇ frederickanozie.com

Objective

Purchasing director with 16 years in procurement, leading the purchasing function of 28 across 5 sites for a building products manufacturer with $1.1B in revenue and $620M in annual spend. Delivered $41M in verified savings across 4 years, cut the supplier base from 2,100 to 900 while raising on-time delivery to 98%, and built the category management structure that the company runs procurement through today. Runs purchasing as a strategic function that shapes margin, supply risk, and working capital, and reports on all 3 to the executive team.

Education

M.B.A., Catawba Crown School of Business 2012 – 2014

Concentration in Operations and Supply Chain; coursework in Strategic Sourcing, Corporate Finance, and Negotiation.

B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Catawba Crown University 2006 – 2010

Certified Professional in Supply Management since 2013; completed an executive procurement leadership programme in 2021.

Skills

Procurement Leadership

Procurement strategy and operating model, category management, multi-site purchasing organisation leadership, savings governance with finance, executive and board reporting, budget ownership

Sourcing and Supply

Strategic sourcing events, supplier base rationalisation, long-term agreements and indexed pricing, supply risk and resilience, supplier development, commodity market management

Systems and Process

Procure-to-pay system implementation, spend analytics, policy and controls, working capital through payment terms, mergers and acquisitions integration of purchasing, team development

Tools & Platforms

SAP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA, Coupa, Power BI, Excel, Tableau, Microsoft 365, Jaggaer

Experience

Purchasing Director 01/2021 – Present

Catawba Crown Building Products Charlotte, NC

Lead the purchasing function of 28 across 5 sites for a $1.1B revenue manufacturer with $620M in annual spend, reporting to the chief operating officer.
Delivered $41M in savings across 4 years verified by finance through 30 category sourcing events and indexed pricing agreements covering 60% of spend.
Cut the supplier base from 2,100 to 900 while raising on-time delivery from 89% to 98%, and extended average payment terms 12 days, releasing $18M in working capital.

Purchasing Manager, then Senior Category Manager 04/2014 – 12/2020

Piedmont Crown Manufacturing Charlotte, NC

Managed $210M in direct material spend and a team of 10 for a $600M manufacturer, after 3 years as senior category manager for resins and packaging.
Delivered $14M in savings across 4 years and built the resin index pricing model that stabilised $80M in annual spend through 2 volatile years.
Led the purchasing integration of 2 acquisitions with $90M in combined spend, delivering $6M in synergies within 12 months.

Buyer, then Senior Buyer 07/2010 – 03/2014

Piedmont Crown Manufacturing Charlotte, NC

Managed $25M in components and packaging spend across 60 suppliers.
Delivered $2.2M in savings and cut lead times on 300 parts by an average of 30% through supplier development visits.
Promoted to senior buyer after 2 years and to senior category manager after 4.

Projects

Category Management Structure. Reorganised purchasing from site-based buying into 8 category teams with a category manager, a 3-year strategy, and a savings and risk target for each, supported by a spend analytics platform across $620M, which delivered $41M in savings over 4 years and became the procurement operating model for the company.

Supplier Base Rationalisation. Analysed 2,100 suppliers by spend, criticality, and performance, ran 30 sourcing events to consolidate categories, and exited 1,200 suppliers over 3 years with a transition plan for each, which raised on-time delivery to 98%, cut administrative cost $1.8M a year, and cut quality rejections 45%.

Procure-to-Pay Implementation. Led the implementation of a procure-to-pay platform across 5 sites and 900 suppliers in 14 months, with 96% of spend under purchase order at go-live from 61%, which cut invoice processing cost 50% and gave finance a complete commitment view for the first time.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Serve on the board of a supply management association chapter with about 400 members.
Speak at procurement leadership conferences about 3 times a year on category management.
Mentor 3 procurement managers a year through a national association programme.

Leadership

Lead a purchasing organisation of 28 through 8 category managers, and serve on the operations leadership team of 8.
Developed 6 buyers into category managers and 2 category managers into purchasing managers at other companies across 10 years.
Present savings, supply risk, and working capital results to the executive team monthly and to the board twice a year.

Carla Mendonca

(401) 555-0121 ◇ Providence, RI

carla.mendonca@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/carla-mendonca ◇ carlamendonca.com

Objective

Purchasing agent with 6 years in purchasing, placing and managing about 4,800 purchase orders a year worth $28M for a hospital system with 3 hospitals and 40 clinics. Holds a 99.6% order accuracy rate, cut average order cycle time from 5 days to 2, and negotiated $1.9M in savings on medical supplies and equipment across 3 years. Places the order right the first time, follows it until it arrives, and knows which suppliers need a call before the due date.

Education

B.S. in Business Administration, Narragansett Crown University 2016 – 2020

Coursework in Purchasing and Supply Management, Operations, Business Communication, and Accounting.

Certified Purchasing Professional, American Purchasing Society 2023

Also completed a healthcare supply chain certificate in 2022 and a negotiation skills course in 2024.

Skills

Purchasing

Purchase order creation and management, requisition review, supplier quoting and price comparison, contract price compliance, expediting and backorder management, returns and credits

Supplier and Stakeholder

Supplier relationship management, negotiation on price and lead time, department requester support, group purchasing organisation contract use, invoice discrepancy resolution with accounts payable

Systems and Records

ERP purchasing module, item master maintenance, order tracking and reporting, spend analysis, documentation for audits, process improvement

Tools & Platforms

Oracle Cloud Procurement, GHX, Excel and Power Query, Workday, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Acrobat, Power BI, supplier portals

Experience

Purchasing Agent 05/2022 – Present

Narragansett Crown Health System Providence, RI

Place and manage about 4,800 purchase orders a year worth $28M across medical supplies, equipment, and services for 3 hospitals and 40 clinics.
Hold a 99.6% order accuracy rate at audit and cut average order cycle time from 5 days to 2 through a requisition review standard and supplier catalogue setup.
Negotiated $1.9M in savings across 3 years, including a $640,000 saving on a 2-year equipment maintenance agreement.

Purchasing Assistant 07/2020 – 04/2022

Blackstone Line Medical Center Providence, RI

Processed about 2,500 purchase orders a year worth $9M for a 300-bed hospital with a 99.2% accuracy rate.
Cut backorders 55% by building a weekly open order report and calling suppliers on every order past due.
Resolved about 60 invoice discrepancies a month with accounts payable, cutting the discrepancy backlog from 400 to 40.

Supply Chain Intern 05/2019 – 08/2019

Blackstone Line Medical Center Providence, RI

Cleaned 3,000 item master records with wrong units or prices during a 12-week internship.
Built a price comparison of 200 high-volume supplies against the group purchasing contract that found $80,000 in overpayments.
Received a full-time offer at the end of the 12-week internship based on the price comparison.

Projects

Order Cycle Time Reduction. Built a requisition review standard with a 10-item checklist, set up supplier catalogues for 1,200 high-volume items so requesters order at contract price without a quote, and moved 40 suppliers to electronic ordering, which cut order cycle time from 5 days to 2 and cut requester calls to purchasing by half.

Equipment Maintenance Agreement Negotiation. Consolidated 14 separate equipment maintenance contracts across 3 hospitals into 1 agreement, benchmarking rates against 3 suppliers and the group purchasing contract, which saved $640,000 over 2 years and gave the biomedical team a single point of contact.

Contract Price Compliance Check. Built a monthly check comparing invoiced prices against contract prices for 2,000 items, which found $120,000 in overcharges in the first year, all recovered, and cut price discrepancies from about 90 a month to 15.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of a healthcare supply chain association chapter, attending about 6 events a year.
Volunteer purchasing helper for a community free clinic, placing its supply orders monthly.
Fluent in English and Portuguese; volunteer interpreter at a community health fair once a year.

Leadership

Trained 3 purchasing assistants and 40 department requesters on the requisition standard and catalogue ordering.
Own the weekly open order review for a purchasing team of 8.
Serve as the purchasing point of contact for 3 hospital operating rooms and their 200 supply items.

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