Vincent Colaizzi
Senior Global Vave Manager @MSA - The Safety Company
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Global Vave Manager @MSA - The Safety Company
Cranberry Township, PA, US
Functional Manager responsible for overseeing MSA’s Global VAVE product portfolio achieving multimillion-dollar cost savings while focusing to improve product gross margins on legacy products.• Implemented a global VAVE process to “Follow the Money” by generating a pipeline of opportunities, validating project scope and financials, empowering project teams to develop and implement cost savings within a cross functional matrix style organization.• Designed and deployed a robust data driven VAVE workshop playbook to help guide subject matter experts to record highest level cost savings opportunities along with project costs and time duration for accurate project selection. • Partnered with the global sourcing director to implement system transformations to drive high-cost optimization and supply chain resiliency across polymers, metallic, electronic, textile, and packaging categories.• Orchestrated a global operations KPI dashboard to easily track carry over, current year and future year savings for a monthly report to executive leadership.
EDUCATION
Bowling Green State University
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology, Mechanical Design Technology
SKILLS
ABOUT VINCENT COLAIZZI
Global executive in value engineering, design for manufacturing and supply chain resiliency with 25+ years of experience leading strategic new product development, continuous improvement and cost transformation initiatives within PPE and safety manufacturing environments across NNA, EMEA, LAR, and APAC. Proven record of delivering multimillion- dollar cost savings and ability to integrate sourcing, engineering, and operations to reduce costs, mitigate global supply risk, and strengthen commercial discipline. Deep expertise in electromechanical designs, cost modeling/analytics, make vs buy, dual sourcing strategy, contract negotiation, and NPD cost integration.Excellent communication skills with CEO and executive management, both internal/external stakeholders, team members, customers base, as well standards and compliance governing agencies.
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