Joe Cottam
Purchasing Manager/Financial Analyst
- Role
- Purchasing Manager at General Mills
- Location
- Decatur, GA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Joe Cottam
Finance and Purchasing Professional with 18+ years experience with General Mills Inc.with a broad range of experience working in a manufacturing environment.
Experience
Purchasing Manager
Aug 2011 — Present · Covington, GA, US
Contract negotiations, vendor resolutionsSupplier Diversity and Minority RecruitmentSourcing materials, services, goods, e.t.c.Support Finance Manager with capital investments, budget, forecasting, reporting, financial analysisSupervise staff
Education
Kansas State University
Bachelor of Scinece, Milling Science and Management
1989 — 1994
University of Alabama at Birmingham
MBA, Business
1997 — 1998
University of California, Davis
Professional Brewing Certificate, Fermentation Science
Institute of Brewing and Distillation
Diploma-Brewing, Brewing Science
Skills
- Consumer Products
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Sap
- Purchasing
- Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Operations Management
- 5s
- Manufacturing
- Capital Budgeting
- Management
- Strategic Planning
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Leadership
- Lean Manufacturing
- Supply Chain
- Haccp
- Forecasting
- Continuous Improvement
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