Brian Billingsley

Lead a cross functional team of 8 direct reports and 40 indirect reports across 11 uniques sites in North America, with a focus of managing $370M of indirect goods and services. - Increased contracted spend under management by 21% in FY25, from FY24 baseline. - Reached stretch goal of reducing supplier tail spend by 10% in FY25, from FY24 baseline. - Exceeded FY25 cost saving goal of identifying and documenting cost reduction and cost avoidance to the tune of $5M. Responsibilities: - Change the way procurement is viewed in the organization, highlighting capabilities far above issuing purchase orders, and aligning more with sourcing, competitive tenders, contract negotiations, and delivering value. - Responsible for drafting, implementing, and communicating progress towards KPI’s. Including spend under management, cost savings, tail spend, and inventory reduction. - Draft and implement process flow improvements, examples including equipment leasing and contract management. - Conduct QBRs with internal SLT members on progress towards goals and objectives. - Update, draft, and streamline policies to reduce ambiguity and improve efficiency, while maintaining necessary controls to satisfy audit requirements.

Lead a team of professionals to achieve business goals and objectives on time and within budget. Actively engage with supply base to create partnerships that leverage economies of scale while building supply agreements to improve free cash flow and deliver cost savings. Provide opportunities for advancement inside of the organization to develop internal talent. • Draft supply chain strategy with short, medium, and long-term objectives with an emphasis on conducting quarterly reviews to measure success and modify strategy as needed for the business to be agile. • Mentor a team of professionals to actively find, negotiate, and obtain cost savings. One specific example resulting in a 21% reduction on a single raw material, or $148k annually. Another example being a $49K cost avoidance by challenging the norms. • Develop relationships with supply base to remove the transactional methodology while establishing deep value-adding partnerships that mitigate business risks and provide opportunities for improving free cash flow. • Own the onboarding of the new ERP system as it relates to purchasing and inventory management, including initial kickoff meetings, subsequent follow up meetings, sandbox testing, and rollout.

Promoted from Category Manager. Work as part of a team of procurement professionals that execute all procurement activities related to capital projects at Kennecott Copper. Actively engage with project managers, engineering managers, construction managers and controller teams to deliver cost effective and value adding procurement and supply chain outcomes. Take ownership in subsets of the larger project as the business and team demands. • Lead procurement team member for commissioning scope ~ $1M; responsible for developing meeting agenda, scheduling and leading supplier meetings, recording and tracking action items, reviewing and redlining proposals, negotiating pricing to fall in line with budget estimates, providing HSE requirements, and following requisitions to purchase order. • Lead procurement team member for demolition scope ~$8M; responsible for engaging with demo project manager to determine budget for scope, defining supplier bid list, developing award criteria, creating tender event through SAP Ariba tool, receiving and analyzing proposals, reviewing responses with stakeholders, awarding scope and documenting award per procurement group policy standard. • Draft, negotiate, and execute statements of work to mitigate business risks associated with cost, schedule, and scope creep. • Slashed pricing by 9% and reduced lead time by 12 weeks on a critical component to come in under budget and on schedule. • Honorary role as a mental health champion.

Supervised a team of three warehouse employees. Managed stock of 8,000 different SKU’s. Created Excel reports to track both out of code and short coded products Certified pallet truck, reach truck, stock picker, and forklift trainer. Member of the safety committee.