Julie Del Grande MBA

Currently serving as the Senior VP of Global Sourcing and Supply Chain. I shape dynamic sourcing and supply chain policies, standards, and targets, establishing strategic plan and leadership vision to cultivate a robust, sustainable, unified organization. Leading in the execution of strategic global sourcing, supply planning, quality, regulatory (FDA & ISO), trade compliance and logistics operations. I continuously evaluate operations and processes, analyzing productivity data to identify key performance improvement opportunities and transform business process flow. • Coordinated the operations and collaborations of an international (U.S. and Asia) team to ensure streamlined sourcing and supply chain support. • Forged and strengthened robust vendor relationships, facilitating win-win contract and agreement negotiations to secure optimal pricing, quality, regulatory compliance, and service. • Partnered with leadership and stakeholders to resolve critical contract-manufacturing issues, building strategic solutions for production, workforce, and material sourcing challenges in alignment with business need. • Delivers year over year cost reductions through strategic planning. • Championed the implementation of leading-edge information technologies, supply chain systems and analytical tools to propel competitive advancement.

In this capacity, I captained a supply chain team overseeing end-to-end sourcing, supply planning, quality, and logistics to ensure optimal efficiency and comprehensive regulatory and policy compliance. • Defined sourcing and purchasing targets, establishing benchmarks and KPIs to propel milestone achievement. • Conducted high-value negotiations with carriers and drayage companies, establishing annual contract rates and managing inbound transportation for winning outcomes. • Drove dynamic business development, partnering with sales and marketing teams to steer impactful business process and strategy implementations in support of central business growth objectives. • Monitored operations to ensure adherence to social compliance, product specification, and safety requirements, building custom quality inspection and testing processes to mitigate regulatory risk. • Established and launched Asia-based offices, supporting international supply chain and business development needs to propel profit increases and global business reach. • Aggressively negotiated ocean freight rate reductions to align with cost targets. • Optimized productivity, delivering impactful training in key protocols and cultivating robust collaborative partnerships with sales and marketing to transform customer fill rate days inventory on hand (DIOH) rate.

Managing procurement division operations to support all purchasing, sourcing, supply planning, quality, and logistics needs. • Sourced and selected key suppliers, building robust partnerships to facilitate positive negotiations. • Provided critical insight for leadership and stakeholders, authoring reports on purchasing performance and shifting commodity pricing to empower strategic decision making. • Shaped custom productivity, cost, and performance improvement plans, building strategic procurement and process roadmaps to capture cost reduction and a DIOH reduction. • Investigated supply chain blockages and challenges, navigating complex, multi-source logistics and scheduling to develop impactful solutions.