Bob Steinmetz
Senior Director of Category Management - Residential and Commercial Trade Plumbing at Ferguson Enterprises
- Role
- Senior Director, Category Management - Residential & Commercial Trade at Ferguson
- Location
- Newport News, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bob Steinmetz
Results-oriented executive with over 25 years of sourcing & category management experience with both indirect and direct categories. Experienced with domestic and international vendors, effective strategist and transformational leader within the Strategic Sourcing, Purchasing & Supply Chain. Successful within the framework of corporate, shared services and business unit environments, delivering increasing value and efficiencies to the bottom line in both centralized and decentralized operations.* Led complex and critical negotiations, contributing over $260 million in incremental value through enhanced price negotiations, finding and qualifying alternate sources of supply, improving contract terms & conditions, identifying process changes and raising demand management strategies with business partners.* Developed and implemented category strategies and sourcing plans to leverage volumes, drive economic value and position supplier relationships for success.* Multinational experience negotiating and renewing Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) agreements within India and the Philippines involving 450 positions spanning Financial Services, Customer Care, Programmers, Datacenter monitoring and Operational back office processing which reduced expenses on average by 40%.* Experienced in managing with ERP systems, P2P interdependencies.* Effective at utilizing lean/six sigma tools to analyze data/processes including the generation of statistical predictive models to provide objective process views of operations.• Successful in sourcing a vast array of products and service categories such as; corporate SaaS solutions, computer hardware & software, temporary labor, professional services, general office equipment & supplies, news content, maintenance support, research, paper, ink, real estate leases, e••••••••@cox.net
Experience
Senior Director, Category Management - Residential & Commercial Trade
Jan 2020 — Present · Newport News, VA, US
Education
University of South Florida
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology
University of South Florida
MBA, MBA Business
Michigan State University
Masters Certificate - Supply Chain & Logistics, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management
St. Petersburg College
Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies
University of South Florida
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General
Skills
- Contract Negotiation
- Innovation
- Mro Management
- Change Management
- Green Belt
- Six Sigma
- Long Range Planning
- Project Planning
- Supply Chain
- Business Process Improvement
- Business Strategy
- Business Analysis
- Global Sourcing
- Procurement
- Inventory Management
- Overseas Sourcing
- Leadership
- Shared Service Center
- Negotiation
- Program Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Purchasing
- Distribution
- Management
- Strategy
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Sourcing
- Bpo
- Vendor Management
- Team Leadership
- Strategic Partnerships
- Consulting
- Distribution Strategies
- Result Oriented
- Department Budgeting
- Outsourcing
- Vendor Relationship Management
- Logistics
- Forecasting
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