Danielle Okafor

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Senior Procurement Specialist with 9 years of experience managing direct and indirect spend across manufacturing and logistics sectors. Deep expertise in supplier negotiation, contract lifecycle management, and SAP Ariba-driven sourcing workflows. Delivered $4.2M in annualized savings over the past three years while reducing supplier lead times by 18% across a 200-vendor portfolio.

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Senior Procurement SpecialistMar 2020 - Present

Hartwell Industrial Group, Charlotte, NC

Negotiated 34 multi-year supply agreements across MRO, packaging, and raw materials categories, achieving a blended 11% unit cost reduction and $2.1M in first-year savings.
Implemented a supplier scorecard program covering 120 vendors, cutting non-conformance incidents by 27% and improving on-time delivery from 81% to 94% within 18 months.
Led cross-functional sourcing team of 6 during a plant expansion project, consolidating the approved vendor list by 22% and compressing procurement cycle time from 38 to 24 days.

Procurement SpecialistJun 2016 - Feb 2020

Vantage Logistics Solutions, Raleigh, NC

Managed $18M annual indirect spend portfolio spanning fleet, facilities, and IT hardware, renegotiating 19 contracts to yield $1.4M in cumulative savings over three years.
Deployed SAP Ariba purchase order module for a 400-user rollout, reducing maverick spend by 31% and cutting invoice processing time from 12 days to 4 days.
Developed and issued 60+ RFPs and RFQs annually, evaluating bids against total cost of ownership models that consistently identified 8–15% savings versus incumbent pricing.

Procurement AnalystAug 2014 - May 2016

Meridian Consumer Goods, Durham, NC

Supported category managers in analyzing $9M of direct material spend, building spend-cube dashboards in Excel and Power BI that identified $620K in consolidation opportunities.
Tracked supplier performance KPIs for 45 active vendors, producing monthly scorecards that informed quarterly business reviews and two strategic supplier terminations.
Processed and reconciled 300+ purchase orders per month in Oracle ERP with a 99.6% accuracy rate, reducing month-end accrual adjustments by 40%.

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