Kenneth Best
Sr. Sourcing Development Engineer at STERIS
- Role
- Sr Sourcing Development Engineer at STERIS
- Location
- Painesville, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kenneth Best
Proficiency in developing, implementing and achieving business operational performance…
Experience
Sr Sourcing Development Engineer
Jul 2004 — Present · Mentor, OH, US
Leading cross functional corporate commodity council activities for all plastics and non metallic fabrications, with an annual spend of $20 Million. Formerly managed fabricated metal commodity.•Accountable for new product development support for new product design, supply base analysis and development, cost reduction and productivity improvement initiatives, performing business and capability audits, and supply agreement negotiations.•Managing cross functional product development teams for capital equipment and consumable products. Directing sourcing decisions for projects beginning at exploratory phase thru product distribution. Have a strong record of achieving sales, product cost and availability and innovation objectives.•Developed and published new product development phase gate criteria. Continuing to counsel Sourcing team and to review and approve all management presentations.•Multi-year experience working directly with our largest European customer as the STERIS sourcing contact in the complete development of a significant new sterilization application. Fostered close relationship with both business and technical teams, and achieved timely launch and production startup.
Education
Brigham Young University
B.S, Design Engineering Technology
1982 — 1985
Skills
- Manufacturing
- Software Documentation
- Strategic Sourcing
- Process Improvement
- Lean Manufacturing
- Budgets
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Supply Management
- Six Sigma
- Supplier Negotiation
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