Cesar Landa
Zion
Summary
To support the growth and profitability of an organization that provides challenges, encourages advancement and rewards achievement, with an opportunity to utilize my substantial experience, skills and proven leadership.
Energetic, Detailed Oriented, Positive Attitude, Self-motivated, Great Problem-Solving Skills and Leadership Abilities, Strong Team Player with great Customer Service Skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Purchasing Supervisor
Cardinal Health
Waukegan
09.2021 - 04.2025
- Responsible for the Inventory/Purchasing supplier relationships. Drive supplier accountability while maintaining a healthy pipeline of purchase orders, Provide leadership and direction to a team of buyers and senior buyers.
- Develop relationships with strategic suppliers, partnering with key supplier resources to find supply chain improvements and efficiencies.
- Act as a change agent, leading initiatives to improve team processes and increase the effectiveness of the work we do.
- Review purchase orders to correct any issues before they are sent to suppliers. Check POs outside of normal thresholds to ensure we’re ordering the right amount of inventory. Build POs to supplier defined minimum order quantities.
- Analyze data to make decisions and recommendations to suppliers and business partners while reducing backorder dollars.
- Manage vendor performance through regular scorecard reviews, ensuring that suppliers meet delivery metrics.
Supply Chain Supervisor
Cardinal Health
Waukegan
07.2013 - 09.2021
- Responsible for the execution of demand planning and customer forecasting; supply planning, product deployment and expediting processes, minimizing costs and inventory while delivering on service requirements.
- Coordinate and supervise the daily activities of business support, technical or production staff in an assigned area.
- Make decisions, often difficult and/or unpopular, by carefully weighing pros and cons and acting for the benefit of the work team; coaches/supports subordinates in their decision-making efforts.
- Provides direction in discussing and creating development plans.
- Builds confidence and respect of others through a positive and energizing style.
- Builds customer relationships, interprets customer needs and assesses their business requirements.
- Maintains positive employee relations. Ensures that the corporation’s management principles, policies, and procedures are consistently practiced. Ensures quality service is provided to customers.
SR Customer Order Management
Cardinal Health
Waukegan
04.2012 - 07.2013
- Responsible for expediting orders by acting as a liaison in problem solving, research and problem/dispute resolution.
- Works to understand complex functional situations by paying attention to the details of the tasks at hand.
- Demonstrates deep customer expertise; collaborates with appropriate parties to identify the drivers leading to business success.
- Provides comprehensive level of customer support in explaining products/services for alternatives and customer solutions.
- Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency while providing flawless transactions, services and products; manages monetary assets and other resources to optimize cost effectiveness.
Assistant Branch Manager
Waukegan Savings Bank
Waukegan
08.2010 - 04.2012
- Assist in developing the bank’s position in a defined market through profitable market share growth.
- Coordinate the weekly sales meetings, training and development, coaching and appraisal of branch staff.
- Promote, discuss, explain and cross-sell all types of accounts and services provided by the bank.
- Perform various operational tasks which include maintaining and balancing vault, verifying money sold to the vault processing cash order from the vault to tellers, ordering money from the Federal Reserve, balancing and adding money to ATM’s, ordering Bonds, processing Federal Tax deposits, coordinating CTR filling for the branch etc.
- Open and close the facility as assigned.
- Responsible for overall sales effort ensuring targets and sales results are achieved while maintaining polices and procedures within compliance.
Relationship Manager
Fifth Third Bank
Waukegan
09.2008 - 08.2010
- Promote grow through the development of deposits, assets, fee-based services and development and retention of new and existing customers.
- Maintain the sales environment and actively participate in regular sales and office staff meetings, the execution of sales contests, monthly Blitzes and other motivational activities.
- Maintain a well-developed working knowledge of the complete line of products and services offered, taking responsibility to keep up to date and request assistance for further development needs.
- Ensure that the financial center provides the public with banking services, credit decisions, and service for consumer and commercial loans.
- Collect appropriate documentation from each applicant deliver loan package in the time frames set by management.
Education
High School Diploma -
Waukegan High School
Waukegan, IL06-1992
Skills
- Supplier relationship management
- Inventory management
- Data analysis
- Purchase order processing
- Vendor performance management
- Demand planning
- Customer relationship management
- Team leadership
- Process improvement
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Project management
- Vendor relationship management
- Demand forecasting
- Supplier relations
- Account management
- Purchase order management
- Supply chain management
Professional Developments
- Total Quality Management system
- S.T.A.R Seminar
- Strength Finders
- Mortgage
- Securities License Series 6, 26, & 63
- Supply Chain Fundamentals
- 5S training
- LSS Yellow Belt
- LSS Sponsor
- SAP/ECC
- Kinaxis
- Gallery/Alteryx
- Celonis
- Tableau Server
- Workday
- Kronos
Timeline
Purchasing Supervisor
Cardinal Health
09.2021 - 04.2025
Supply Chain Supervisor
Cardinal Health
07.2013 - 09.2021
SR Customer Order Management
Cardinal Health
04.2012 - 07.2013
Assistant Branch Manager
Waukegan Savings Bank
08.2010 - 04.2012
Relationship Manager
Fifth Third Bank
09.2008 - 08.2010
High School Diploma -
Waukegan High School