As the Senior Director/GM of Materials Manufacturing, I lead a global team of over 100 supply chain professionals responsible for materials across footwear, apparel, accessories, and equipment product. My role focuses on strategic oversight of partner relationship management, materials manufacturing, and materials development teams. Key Responsibilities: Global Leadership: Inspire a diverse team, foster a culture of growth and innovation, coach and mentor diverse talent and develop future leaders for Nike's Supply Chain organization. Strategic Partnerships: Build strong partnerships with 500+ global suppliers, ensure supplier performance meets Nike's needs, and drive sustainability initiatives and compliance. Materials Manufacturing: Ensure on-time delivery and quality through proactive seasonal risk and readiness processes, negotiate competitive material costs that beat market indicators, and focus on driving speed to market through process improvement. Financial/GM Oversight: As GM of Nike's Taipei office, responsible for managing the office budget and ensuring strategic resource allocation. Lead annual engagement roadmap of team activities to foster strong relationships and connection to the brand. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with design, innovation, engineering, manufacturing and development teams to drive end-to-end integration and alignment of Nike's materials strategies and bring incredible product to life for the consumer!

(1 year 2 months) Set the strategic vision and lead the teams responsible for Materials Costing and Global Packaging at Nike. Materials Costing: Focused on Negotiations Strategy, Governance, Tools, Raw Materials Commodity Market Intelligence and Materials Pricing standards. Our team's scope is to drive cost productivity for Nike's entire Footwear, Apparel, Accessories, and Equipment Materials Supply Chain representing multi-billions annually in raw materials cost. Global Packaging: Focused on optimizing packaging operations, sourcing, and driving packaging development and engineering excellence across Nike's consumer and transportation packaging.

(2 years 9 months) Lead a diverse, global team of 20+ employees responsible for Materials Costing and Negotiations Strategy, Governance, Tools, Raw Materials Commodity Market Intelligence and Materials Pricing standards. Our team's scope is to drive cost productivity for Nike's entire Footwear, Apparel, Accessories, and Equipment Materials Supply Chain representing multi-billions annually in raw materials cost.

(2 years 2 months) Lead a diverse team of Footwear Cost Engineers that drive sustainable product value for Nike's consumer by informing, driving and facilitating decisions throughout the product creation process to deliver design vision, athlete performance and Nike’s profitability expectations. Collaborate with Design, Development, Marketing, Engineering, Planning, and Factory teams to actively manage cost drivers and create solutions that achieve product cost targets. Build relationships with divisional leadership team and help set the direction on functional cost engineering leadership team. Responsible for recruiting, training, managing and developing cost engineering talent for the division.

Envision, develop, and lead team to execute sourcing strategies for $800M+ of footwear textiles (knit & woven) and yarns, exceeding value creation/savings goals for 3 years running. Lead cross functional, global team in end-to­-end sourcing process; including identifying new opportunities, spend analysis, market analysis, strategy development, risk management, competitive bidding (RFx) and negotiations, supplier selection, contracting, supplier management, cost savings methodology, and performance reporting. Engage both internal and external stakeholders in strategy development and process change to balance quality, delivery, and supplier performance while reducing cost. Manage and coach global team of 6+ employees to exceed performance goals and develop skills to fuel the talent pipeline. Skilled with data analysis and presentation tools such as Tableau, Advanced Excel & Powerpoint, Thinkcell. Comfortable working with SAP/ERP systems, Sourcing & Procurement systems (Ariba, Coupa), and Product Development Systems (PTC Windchill, FlexPLM, PDM).

(2 years 6 months) Responsible for developing and executing global textile sourcing strategy and coaching sourcing analysts. Developed and executed textiles Biannual Pricing Process including creating tools and templates, partnering with stakeholders to gain alignment, training global team of internal partners and vendors, analyzing cost driver data, and strategically allocating business. Received Procurement Leadership Award and successfully rolled out process to entire Materials Procurement team. Led Development, Design, and Sustainability teams in creation of Vendor Balanced Scorecard to gain holistic insights to drive vendor performance, business allocation, and deliver a world class vendor matrix to product teams. Selected for Executive Leadership Development program to prepare for future leadership roles; incl. mentorship by VP/CFO. 7 years 10 months

(1 year 1 month) Lead $2B+ division in developing an optimal vendor and fabric supplier matrix across all woven product categories. Develop strategic vendor and country of production plans to optimize duty savings and balance product quality and cost. Provide recommendations to business facing product managers on most advantageous woven supply chain for business needs.

(1 year 8 months) Achieve strategic sourcing goals and financial objectives for +$100M Girls fashion apparel department by managing a world-class vendor matrix and working with a global, cross-functional team to develop competitively priced, high quality products delivered on time. Developed, sourced, and beat profit goals for an exclusive collection of elevated product for the successful “Annie for Target” collection. Utilize project management and problem solving skills to manage all aspects of knit, woven, and sweater program execution from development to delivery. Apply expertise in global trade regulations, lean manufacturing, and raw materials to guide team in business placement and garment engineering. Lead and develop sourcing analysts and specialists and participate in top talent recruitment.

(1 year 11 months) Support Target owned-brand apparel by building a world-class supplier matrix and sourcing competitively priced French Terry, Fleece, Microfleece, Interlock, Swim fabric, and Sweater Yarns. Collaborate with fabric development team and engineers to develop high quality fabrics and yarns. Monitor and analyze raw materials market trends and government regulations for optimal pricing. Manage and continuously improve supplier relationships in collaboration with overseas offices in Asia. Create and manage supplier plans to improve production planning. Lead my team in elevating our suppliers' performance through a comprehensive evaluation and coaching process. Manage and motivate a team of analysts and specialists by providing clear guidance, developmental opportunities, and coaching.

(1 year 3 months) Manage strategic partnerships with Target's business partners and use negotiation, cross-cultural communication, problem solving, and project management skills to deliver high-quality, profitable product to Target's floor. Collaborate with overseas sourcing offices and cross-functional team of designers and buyers to develop product from concept to delivery in-store.

(1 year 9 months) knit tops, activewear, denim, woven bottoms, and boys and girls school uniforms.