Kenneth Best

Sr Sourcing Development Engineer @STERIS

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.

Brigham Young University

B.S, Design Engineering Technology