Jake Maas: Sr. Corporate Social Responsibility & Digital Tools Analyst in Henrietta, NY

• Support sourcing initiatives for assigned categories including RFP / bid development, analysis, and presentation of results with business unit leaders and functional category managers. • Central coordination of pricing and contract management updates in the ERP systems for strategic or category specific suppliers. • PO management and coordination centrally or across sites for central or shared suppliers. • Support for key functions in the purchasing operations process including the vendor setup, maintenance and payment process. • SME (subject matter expert) for Saint Gobain North America Responsible Purchasing initiatives coordination with purchasing groups in Paris and Malvern headquarters Coordinate with external organizations for CSR and sustainability benchmarking and compliance. • Responsible for achievement of targets (supplier charter compliance, supplier compliance with risk/audit requirements for CSR). • Manages the tracking and reporting update processes for our North America teams for all CSR analytics (Over $15 billion annual spend). • Data management, improvements, and cleansing.

Work with regional and national sales manager to set up new face of invoice discounts, end of month/quarter/year rebates, and other customer incentive programs in SAP. (This includes running impact analysis' on all prospective programs and product price changes) Reconcile payout/invoice queries for customers and territory sales managers. Ad hoc reporting and analysis across various departments and platforms as needed; for both internal purposes and customer pricing disputes. (I.E. SAP, salesforce, Qlikview, Excel) Process and complete salesforce customer service cases, large job quotes, and reports as needed. Daily invoicing, crediting and debiting for retroactive sales programs and sales requests in SAP. Manage accrual and processing of monthly/quarterly contractor rebate programs paid out via check in IOL. (This includes verifying and analyzing usage reports from distributors)

Senior Pricing Specialist II job encompasses duties of pricing specialist position. Oversee national (apx $3 million per month pay out) Invoice Verification process. Including: receiving and processing usage reports from largest customers, developing standard operating guidelines, reports, templates, and continuous improvements both internally and with customer. Work with transportation department to update and re-evaluate customer pick up allowance discount rates quarterly. Maintain and process all national builder rebate programs/payout submission.

Responsible for financial profitability and all operational/managerial aspects of a dedicated trucking fleet which work as a third party contracted hauler to Pittsburgh Paints (PPG) distribution center to deliver product to their retail stores and customers. As of February 2016 I was relocated due to the closure of the previous two accounts and previously held the same responsibilities for two dedicated trucking fleets out of Northern NY and VT hauling animal feed for Cargill which housed 18 employees and 28 tractors and 14 trailers.