This document provides a summary of Anna Bell's work experience and qualifications. She has over 15 years of experience in procurement, purchasing, and administrative roles. Her most recent role was as a Senior Buyer for a multinational defense contractor where she developed sourcing strategies and identified cost savings opportunities.

1. Anna Bell
• New Baltimore, MI 48047 • (586) 854-3111 seeyamia@yahoo.com
SUMMARY
A highly motivated, self-starting team member with excellent organizational, planning, and
execution skills developed in purchasing, administrative management and customer service
EXPERIENCE
9/2013 - Present Senior Buyer, Multinational Defense Contractor
Platforms and Services Sector, Weapons Systems Division
Commodity Specialist Principle with lead role developing and implementing commodity
sourcing strategies based on existing spend, demand and supply challenges, marketplace
conditions, and ensuring alignment with the product sector objectives
• Assist the formulation and implementation of sourcing strategies, participate on cross-
functional teams to ensure that company is leveraging its spend, effectively utilize
resources, drive to best value and improve overall supplier performance management
across value chain
• Conduct spend analysis, needs assessment and business case development
Identify and implement cost savings, spend reduction, supplier consolidation, lead time
reduction, and standardization opportunities while maintaining/increasing quality, service
and mitigating risk
• Supports supplier development and improvement including small business initiatives,
implement second source initiatives via maintaining, reporting on, and providing
performance recommendations to BU
• Conduct proposal negotiations, all purchase administration and communication, supplier
audits, management request for information to support evaluation for production
development, implement second source initiatives via maintaining, reporting on, and
providing performance recommendations to BU
• Monitor, update and reconcile POs and delivery issues to help resolve blocked invoices
9/2008-3/2013 Senior Buyer, Multinational Defense Contractor
Land and Armaments Sector, Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Division
Prototype and MRO Purchase Specialist, single buyer for a customer driven research and
development center of tactical wheeled vehicle systems for a multi-national defense contractor
• Plan and procure materials, services and all MRO needs for 2 buildings, over 70 prototype
project managers, engineers, designers and vehicle build staff
• Liaison with project managers, engineers, designers, buyers, and cost analysts nationwide
to ensure excellent customer satisfaction throughout lifecycle of contract
• Manage all aspects of RFQ, incorporate contractual, technical, quality and schedule
requirements in the competitive bidding process, negotiation and award of contracts
• Perform all pre and post award administrative and audit activities in accordance with line
of business policies, procedures, and applicable government regulations
• Exercise discretion and independent judgement to maintain strict security protocols for
facility and IP export or import
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2. EXPERIENCE
1/2004 - 9/2008 Senior Buyer, General Purpose Vehicles, New Haven, MI 48048
Sole buyer for a prototype company developing a family of 5 military vehicles and 4
simultaneous platforms including commercial municipal trucks
• Procured $6 million inventory parts and $500,000 MRO annually
• Managed $25.8 million in raw materials, outside services, and in house fabrication needs,
assuring proper flow from engineering drawing releases, to indented BOM through MRP
and vendor delivery
• Launched first production buying program for 90 exportable fire and rescue vehicles
• Trained additional associates
• Developed defective parts procedure and vendor return policy
• Established and implemented expediting procedures
• Interfaced with all departments to ensure product, sales and business goals were met
1998-2004 Buyer / Office Manager, Jesco Products Company, Inc., Sterling Heights, MI
Started as a Purchase Assistant / Job Costing Specialist, promoted to Material and Inventory
Analyst, prior to final promotion to Buyer / Office Manager Role.
• Managed human resources and payroll for 15 to 20 employees
• Responsible for 100 receivables and 200 payable accounts, collected $3 to $4 million
annually in receivables and $50,000.00 on 2 year plus delinquent accounts; balanced
checking, payroll and savings accounts of $3.5 million in annual cash flow.
• Forecasted sales, commissions, payroll, receivables, payables, savings, and loan
payments for business planning; followed-up and verified each departments status on
weekly and monthly business goals, analyzed projected cash flow goals to actual,
synergized with management for future financial organizational goals
• Provided sales quotes for machinery, installation projects, and spare parts; processed up
to 40 customer call-in, internet and fax orders daily, used Chrysler and General Motors
electronic release and payment system to extract orders, submit invoices and receive
payment
1994-1997 Customer Service Coordinator, Ti-Coating, Inc., Utica, MI 48315
EDUCATION
2013 A.B.A., Macomb Community College, Clinton Township, MI 48038
TRAINING
(FAR) Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 15, Intellectual Property, (SSA) Special Security
Agreement, ISO Refresher, Ethics, Red Cross CPR/AEDT, (TQS) Training Quality Standard,
Basic (SPC) Statistical Process Control, Team Building and QSG Quality Support Group
AFFILIATIONS
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3. Membership Committee for Women In Defense Michigan Chapter, Sponsors of Fallen and
Wounded Soldier Charity, and S.T.E.M. Michigan Initiatives
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