1. Julia L. Cochran
1310 Lee Drive, Apt 273
Coraopolis PA 15108
Tel: 304-975-0864
Skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and team player
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Proficient in SAP, Business Warehouse (BW), Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Microsoft
InfoPath
• Creative problem solver and able to complete responsibilities with minimal direction
and supervision
• Flexible and eager for new opportunities and challenges
Work History
Bayer Material Science, LLC
Procurement Buyer 01/01/2010-present
• Local purchases of Raw Materials, Tolling and Pgh Services up to
an approval limit of 150.000 EUR per purchase order primarily for
all Bayer MaterialScience Texas locations & PUR tolling business, providing
primary back-up support to all BMS sites.
• Ensures the uninterrupted supply of materials for the production
unit through close communication with the suppliers and the
understanding of the requirements of the business.
• Creation of purchase orders based on received purchase
requisitions and information from the requisitioning community.
Check and document order confirmations, clarify deviations with suppliers and
internal customers or buyers.
• Front-office support for common day-to-day operational tasks in
communication with internal customers & suppliers.
• Ensure supplier and purchase order data maintenance (payment
terms, material numbers, etc.)
• Responsible for the implementation of and adherence to quality,
environmental, safety & corporate compliance measures to meet HSEQ and
other regulatory standards as well as internal process standards
• Lead sourcing projects as defined by Local Procurement Lead for
Raw Materials.
• Train new employees to Local Procurement – Raw Materials in SAP
P1P, PMD, and general procurement practices.
• Act as primary expert in raw material automation, creating PMD
contracts, inforecords, etc. and providing expertise to other sites.

2. Bayer Material Science, LLC
Payroll Associate 04-01-2009 – 01/01/2010
Responsibilities/Skills: Prepare processing of the hourly time cards for South
Charleston and New Martinsville. This includes auditing timecards, reviewing pay
situations, preparing input for weekly processing, administering negotiated pay practices
and resolving disagreements when the issues involve pay.
Audit hourly time cards on a daily basis for New Martinsville Union and bi-weekly basis
for New Martinsville lab techs and South Charleston hourly to ensure proper pay
entitlement and conformance to negotiated labor agreement and to maintain consistency
of pay practices.
Responsible for calculating disability claims for both Occupational and Non-
Occupational sick benefits and maintaining these files.
Distribute the weekly hourly payroll checks to supervision. Update and maintain the
check distribution list.
Responsible for producing a series of overtime lists for the Maintenance and Production
departments. Lists must be separated by primary skill classifications. All overtime
refused must additionally be charged and any discrepancies in overtime scheduling which
violate the negotiated contract agreement are communicated to the Maintenance
Overtime Clerks and Supervision.
Provide information to customers, such as employees, Human Resources, management,
etc., regarding absence and overtime reporting, maintenance overtime job analyses, etc.
Review history of pay situations and prepare reports for grievances and arbitration cases.
Sometimes attendance is required at these hearings.
Assist the Supervisor with cost studies and wage analyses prepared for Plant
Management, negotiations support, Labor Relations and Human Resources on an on-
going basis. Considerable time is spent during labor contract negotiation periods
preparing cost proposals and wage projections for bargaining purposes.
Maintain and update the EMS overtime list for Fire and Gas Brigade and CAER
coverage.
Reimbursement processing of monthly Union dues
The incumbent is responsible for headcount reporting for the Human Resources
Department during Plant emergencies and is coverage during Plant emergencies to
gather the headcount reporting for the entire plant. This information is reported to
the Emergency Team Headquarters to ensure the safety

3. Bayer Material Science, LLC
Procurement Buyer 01-04-1999 – 03-31-2009
Responsibilities/Skills: Buyer will procure all assigned technical goods and services,
including capital, maintenance, general expensed and storeroom stock items to maintain
continuous plant operations meeting or exceeding internal customer requirements using
good economic judgments and business practices that contribute the most to the operation
and profitability of the plant and the corporation.
Assist and support the raw material buyer to manage, negotiate and execute the
procurement of chemical raw materials for all Bayer Material Science needs within the
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Region.
Coordinates raw materials purchased consistent with department and corporate objectives
of quality, price, delivery and service.
Procure technical hard goods, including Maintenance Requirement Orders, Process
Control Systems, Storeroom spare parts, non-stock commodities, bottled gases and
services that result in the best quality, price and delivery.
Develop and implement short and long term procurement initiatives in concert with
Bayer Material Science Corporate Procurement and internal customers.
Implements and manage the Wilson-TMS outsourcing initiative for the New Martinsville
Storeroom. Evaluates and monitors the status based on agreed upon key performance
indicators.
Implement and manage the use of the Purchasing Card for Maintenance Work Orders or
low dollar spend for the entire New Martinsville site.
Provide coverage for Raw Material Buyer(s) for the South Charleston and New
Martinsville sites.
Lead and manage internal audits with Technical Goods Suppliers.
Monitors and evaluates suppliers for performance measures and opportunities for savings
to Bayer.
Interacts with Safety Department personnel to ensure the proper safety equipment is
purchased and upgrading and / or increasing the reliability of plant safety equipment.
Interacts with site Reliability Group to ensure the proper manufactured items are
purchased in accordance with safety regulations and global initiatives.
Participates in shutdown meetings to ensure material is delivered in a timely manner from
supplier to meet internal customer requirements.

4. Implements and utilizes appropriate computer systems for the processing of routine
commodity requirements resulting in department productivity gains.
Procures capital requirements for the South Charleston facility in assigned commodity
areas as needed.
Implement and participate in applicable Core Process Standards.
Utilize multiple computer programs to analyze proposals and track savings for
Purchasing Department
Mobay/Miles/Bayer Corporation
Purchasing assistant 06/04/1990-06/04/1993
Prepare daily purchase orders for white collar, blue collar and raw materials for
New Martinsville Plant site.
Daily interaction with plant personnel to ensure timely demand of materials
Bayer Material Science, LLC
Triax Operator Warehouse 06/04/1993-01/04/1999
Responsibilities/Skills: Manage and retrieve all daily outbound production to various
customers.
Cover vacancies in positions of Inventory Control, Bulk Shipping, Package Shipping, and
Daily Rail Switch/track of all incoming and outgoing raw materials and finished goods..
Manage and maintain empty production containers, drums, totes, cans. Provide
replenishment on a weekly basis from the supplier.
D.O.T. awareness required for all labeling of chemical products shipping to customers.
D.O.T. awareness required for labeling in-house production.
Schedule overtime and minor duties with Local Union.
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