Brian Billingsley

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.

Promoted from Program Manager. Accountable for the category management of Security Services (~$4M), Engineering Services (~$100M), Underground Mining (~$25M), and Staffing Services (~$6M) for Kennecott Utah Copper. Developed fact base analyses that lead to category strategies. Those strategies leveraged our suppliers to provide favorable commercial outcomes for our business. The ending result being working partnerships memorialized through contractual agreements. • Analyzed market data to develop fact base analyses which included, but was not limited to, analyzing spend of the business, current break down of suppliers, current shortfalls, and potential risks to the business. • Developed a category strategy derived from the fact base analysis that included, but was not limited to, qualifying the supplier list, reviewing safety statistics, forecasting spend, awarding new contracts, and aligning with business priorities. • Drafted, negotiated, and executed contracts and amendments with both new and existing suppliers according to performance and internal business needs. This included working directly with Kennecott Utah Copper legal team to approve changes to standard language. • Leveraged supplier spend and partnerships to generate savings that ranged from 5% -20% per annum. One example being a 23% reduction in costs related to the underground mining category on a single scope after engaging with stakeholders on potential opportunities.

Promoted from Specialist of Off-Site Repair Support. Accountable for managing the commercial portion of Kennecott Utah Copper’s S2S (“Strength 2 Strength”) cost savings program. The program was designed to increase the companies free cash flow to drive shareholder value. • Influenced a team of ~50 people, with zero direct reports, to deliver $120M dollars of savings. • Designed, managed, and updated the ICB (“Information Center Board”) with relevant tracking statistics related to the program. • Held weekly drumbeat meeting to review programs overall progress as it related to the larger business goal ~$500M. Provided the opportunity to have open dialogue about project status and potential new projects to help meet goal. • Functioned as the face and voice of procurement. Accountable for attending senior leadership meetings related to cost and providing updates on past due projects along with communicating current and forecasted spend.

Promoted from Associate of Off-Site Repairs Support. Worked as part of a team to manage the repair of components (~10M annum) such as pumps, valves, motors, pulleys, etc. from site to the supplier. Actively engaged reliability team on abnormal repairs to investigate opportunities for longer life. Evaluated and qualified suppliers and their repair shops. • Managed the RFQ (“Request for Quotation”) process for all repairs for the Kennecott Utah Copper Smelter operation, including purchase order management. • Accountable for engaging both the supplier and stakeholders on abnormal repairs. Most times these were classified as opportunities to modify components to extend life, or as potential warranty consideration. Either way, potential cost savings opportunities were logged and tracked. • Helped drive contract negotiations and contracting of services. • Continued holding the volunteer role on the HSEQMS (“Health, Safety, Environmental, Quality Management System) team as a custodian for Element 7. Including drafting and documenting an emergency response plan for the warehouse, along with setting up fire extinguishers and emergency response kits.

Promoted from Warehouse Associate. Worked as part of a team to manage the repair of components (~10M annum) such as pumps, valves, motors, pulleys, etc. from site to the supplier. Responsible for the transactional aspect of the work. Such as reviewing and improving processes and procedures. Assist in the qualification of supplier repair shops. • Revised and implemented procedures for the completing the repair process within SAP. The procedures were outdated and spanned many documents. The new document was revised to reduce ambiguity in process, included process improvements, and ensured standardization of practices. • Developed and implemented a repair shop audit form to be able to rank suppliers uniformly. The form allowed for quick and easy scoring and reduced overall completion time. It allowed for fair market comparison of all shops. • Recommended potential safety and 5s improvements to help drive Kennecott Utah Copper safety culture. • Participated in contract negotiations and contracting of services. • Managed purchase orders from creation to completion for four different business units.

Worked as part of a team to manage all aspects of warehouse logistics. Including picking orders, scheduling trucks, putting items back in stock, engaging with stakeholders on lead times, and operating equipment. • Utilized SAP to generate list of items needing to be picked, loaded, and staged for the day. • Assisted stakeholders with rush orders. Involving picking items out of turn, scheduling trucks, and managing time windows to have parts delivered to site expediently. • Loaded staged components onto trucks, while building a manifest, for regularly scheduled deliveries.

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.