Jamie Skogstad

Experience

1. Sr Supply Chain Manager

   F5

   Aug 2015 — Present

   Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies. • Develop the sourcing strategy for category through cross-functional group collaboration. Once a sourcing strategy has been developed, the incumbent will communicate, monitor and aggressively manage the process from concept through to fruition. To be successful the Manager must establish working relationships within F5 Networks and external partners across multiple functions bringing a strategic sourcing perspective to all key processes. • Develop and enhance the expertise within F5 Networks that identifies requirements, current capabilities and future needs to manage sourcing relationships and executing against sourcing strategy. On an ongoing basis, the Manager will remain current on supply market trends, supplier economics, and best practice sourcing. • Aggressively manage cost through best practice techniques such as clean sheet modeling and structured negotiations. The Manager will identify and implement cost reduction opportunities for commodities under their span of control. • Identify and evangelize sourcing best practices to the Manufacturing, Product Development and Supply Chain organization.

Education

• Eastern Washington University

  Bachelors of Business Management

  1985 — 1990

• Eastern Washington University

  Minor, Communications

  1985 — 1990

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Software Documentation
• Strategic Partnerships
• Strategy
• Sales
• Lean Manufacturing
• Solution Selling
• Operations Management
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Product Management
• Electronics
• Team Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Wireless
• Six Sigma
• Team Building
• Management
• Process Engineering
• Contract Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Project Planning
• Supply Chain
• Process Improvement
• Crm
• Leadership
• Product Development
• Vendor Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Integration
• Procurement Contracts
• International Sales
• Contract Negotiation
• Budgets
• Business Process Improvement
• Project Management
• Business Strategy
• Testing
• New Business Development
• Manufacturing Cost