Award winning Purchasing Manager and Sourcing Manager with extensive excellence in negotiating multimillion dollar cost savings, leading strategic / tactical buying processes, and sourcing; as well as developing suppliers. Multilingual Expert in negotiation, purchasing, and cost reduction for Medical Devices, Consumer Electronics, and Technology Industries. Cross-functionally partners with various departments including Finance, Legal, R&D, QC (Quality Control) QA (Quality Assurance), Operations, Marketing, etc. Excels in development of suppliers (from prototype stage to production) while increasing productivity and improving quality. Identifies and eliminates non value added activities and obstacles to consistently meet and exceed goals.