Mark Freeman

About Mark Freeman

Design and deliver best-in-class supply strategies that add significant value to the bottom line”Well-rounded SENIOR COMMODITY MANAGER who combines a strong business and technical background with a 20-year track record of developing and implementing commodity and supply strategies that consistently deliver millions of dollars’ worth of cost savings.Key contributor in creating and maintaining complex “end-to-end” supply chain systems and leading projects for small to large-scale environments that drive continuous improvement and ensure operational excellence, often in the face of conflicting agendas, disruptive change, and rapid organizational expansion.Proficient in building-out large scale hardware infrastructures by leveraging skills in sourcing, contracts and pricing negotiations, quantitative data analysis, cost modeling and ongoing establishment and management of key component and equipment Suppliers, all of which provide viable solutions and tools to meet commodity strategy goals and objectives.Key competencies include: CONTRACTS: Negotiate complex and comprehensive supplier agreements that secure the most favorable terms and pricing. BOM SCRUB & COST REDUCTIONS: Identify opportunities to achieve cost savings by reviewing bills of materials. SUPPLIER RELATIONS: Identify, develop and maintain productive partnerships with “best-in-class” suppliers including tracking, analyzing and managing vendor performance. Enabled a key account to win Semiconductor Supplier of the Year by leading an improvement initiative that took a problem supplier from potential disqualification to a preferred partner. TECHNOLOGY ROADMAPS: Ensure that business needs are strategically aligned with available and future technology from the supply base. IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES: Led and contributed to numerous projects and programs that generated millions of dollars\' worth of cost savings including an Executive Management Group award from Google.

Experience

1. Sr Staff Procurement Manager

   Lightmatter

   Jan 2024 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

Education

• Western Suffolk BOCES

  Certificate, Technical Electronics

• National University

  MBA

• DeVry University

  BSEET, Electronics Engineering

Skills

• Management
• Dram
• Product Management
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Global Sourcing
• Materials Management
• Supply Management
• Electronics
• Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (Asic)
• Networking
• Microprocessors
• Supplier Negotiation
• Manufacturing
• Consumer Electronics
• Ic
• Contract Negotiation
• Start-Ups
• Supply Chain
• Supplier Development
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Processors
• Procurement
• Mrp
• Contract Manufacturing
• Product Development
• Procurement Outsourcing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Data Center
• Supplier Sourcing
• Semiconductors
• Leadership
• Component Engineering
• Value Engineering
• Nand Flash
• Semiconductor Industry
• Storage
• Supply Chain Management
• Strategic Sourcing