Tim Sheehan

• Direct team of 5 purchasing managers and 20 buyers of direct and indirect purchasing groups in North and South America (United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Paraguay) • Achieved 6.25% annual savings on $400 million annual spend by developing and implementing effective negotiations, global sourcing, and value engineering strategies. • Global Purchasing Leader for two customer business units (GM and Commercial Vehicle). Exceeded savings target for both business units by aggressive negotiations and strategic global sourcing. • Increased synergies and savings by rebuilding the Americas purchasing team to align with our global project and commodity organization. • Improved supplier quality by 20%, by ensuring delivery, ppm, and launch targets were achieved. • Established purchasing KPI’s for team and consistently achieved 120% to targets. • Consolidated and improved purchasing and ERP systems by working cross functionally

• Directed team of 5 commodity managers and 20 buyers globally (United States, China, Europe, and Mexico). • Exceeded savings targets every year on annual spend of $700 Million. • Consistently generated annual savings of 5% on purchases through early supplier involvement, commodity strategies, global sourcing, cost analysis software, and thorough negotiations. • Developed and implemented advanced purchasing process for new product launch to support the company APQP process. This includes metric implementation and achievement of 100% on-time deliverables to budget costs, quality, and internal customer timing. • Led global stamping and plastics commodity teams which consistently delivered 5% cost savings. • Improved performance of our Chinese and Asian suppliers through frequent cross functional team meetings. • Created sourcing board process for North America which included commodity strategies that significantly rationalized the supply base while reducing costs and increasing quality. • Responsible for global commodities of Electronics, Plastics, Resins, Stampings, Steel, Die-Castings, Machined Parts, Fasteners, Paints and Raw Material. • Implemented a new global purchasing organization with AlixPartners. • Directed the VA/VE Purchasing cross functional team, which delivered $7 million in annual savings. • Successful in retaining staff during challenging business climate.

• Managed multi-plant purchasing and materials organization with an annual purchase value of $140 million. • Developed and implemented clear priorities for staff and team, and set long-range stretch targets which were achieved that led to savings and increased profitability. • Supervised supplier negotiations and achieved significant savings for various commodities; plastics, resins, steel, stainless steel, chemicals, and capital equipment

• Sourced $40 million international BMW E-70 module chassis program. • Managed MRO and production purchasing teams with approximate purchase value of $80 million and achieved savings of 4% annually. • Commodity manager for steel, stampings, plastic, rubber, machined parts, and fasteners. • Responsible for executing commodity strategy, sourcing new business, coordinating cross-functional teams and negotiating yearly cost savings. • Negotiated significant savings every year with over 30 suppliers through aggressive negotiations, online auctions, e-bids, and global sourcing activities.

• Responsible for delegating and sourcing future chassis stamping programs for Saturn car group. • Purchased $85 million worth of complex components annually from 20 suppliers. • Built and maintained effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders