This document is a resume for Steve Vertefeuille, an experienced buyer/planner with over 20 years of experience in supply chain management roles within the medical device industry. He has extensive experience managing supplier relationships, negotiating contracts, and ensuring on-time delivery of components. His resume highlights his skills in areas such as business continuity planning, cost reduction, inventory management, and working cross-functionally. His work history includes senior buyer/planner roles at Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific, where he sourced components for new product development projects and production.
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Talented and accomplished manufacturing professional with dedicated work ethic, equipped with more than 25 years of comprehensive achievements in quality assurance, safety, training and development, purchasing, inventory, process development, and project management.
1. Steve Vertefeuille
• 1275 Santa Ana Valley Road, Hollister, Ca. 95023 • 408-726-4203 • stevevert@gmail.com •
www.linkedin.com/in/SteveVertefeuille
Energetic, experienced and professional buyer/planner with extensive network of medical device suppliers
including injection molders, tubing extruders and packaging manufacturers. Highly motivated with effective
problem solving, negotiation and communication skills.
Key Skills
❖ Business Continuity Planning
❖ Supplier Relations
❖ Price Negotiations
❖ Supplier Networking
❖ Vendor Identification
❖Inspection Prioritization
❖Inventory Level Management
❖Cross Functional Team Member
❖Cost Reductions
❖New Part Introduction
Expertise
❖ MS Office
❖ SAP
❖ QAD
❖ Arena
❖ iPurchase
Timeline
2012-CURRENT Johnson & Johnson - Acclarent, Menlo Park CA
Senior Buyer/Planner - R&D
● Simultaneously managing sourcing for five R&D projects with both new innovation and next
generation components
● Coordinate with Operations, Quality and R&D groups to assure seamless material flow, and on-
time delivery against aggressive timelines
● Report on part shortages, critical issues and delivery updates to Program Managers
● Identify critical components for risk planning and COGs reductions
● Participate in qualification activities for secondary suppliers
Senior Buyer/Planner - Production
● Provided Sales forecast to suppliers and managed Kanban delivery programs
● Issued purchase orders, change orders and maintained part specifications to current revision
2007-2012 Boston Scientific Corporation, San Jose, CA
Senior Buyer/Planner
● Communicated requirements for validation of supplier process and material changes
● Provided component costing information to Finance department for standard cost setting
● Reported on PPV, expiring materials, inventory levels and turns according to ABC strategy
1993-2006 LTX Corporation, Westwood, MA
Production Planner/Scheduler
● Released work orders and tracked component shortages for a 10k component semi-conductor test
system
● Worked cross-functionally with purchasing to ensure on timely delivery and expedited necessary
components.
MERITS ● Karrass - Effective Negotiation Training
● APICS - Basics of Supply Chain Management & Master Planning of Resources
● Community College of Rhode Island - Liberal Arts