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JOHN T. DALEY

Cumming

Summary

Supply Chain Professional with 12 years of experience. In-depth knowledge of strategic sourcing and vendor management. Experienced in utilizing leadership skills from the military to lead projects, sourcing events, or sourcing teams.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Supplier Development Specialist

Eaton
01.2023 - Current
  • Support sourcing teams at both plant and division levels, managing over 1,500 direct and indirect suppliers across five plants in the US and Mexico. Division spend exceeds $400M and contributed to division sales exceeding $1B by helping stabilize the supply chain. Assisted in helping manage vendors in a variety of commodities.
  • Developed tools to help identify and manage risk to include Vendor Assessments and Risks. This process was used to analyze over 400 vendors and $395M worth of spend.
  • Created vendor assessment form to help identify areas of risks. This assessment was used on over 100 vendor visits. Assessments included reviewing quality, operations, supply chain, and financials with vendors.
  • Participated and led multiple projects for multiple commodities. Some commodities include castings, fabrication, and Projects covered $30M in spend with a focus on reducing risk, achieving cost savings, and establishing resiliency.
  • Led the escalation process for the division. This process identified 180+ escalations and over $300M in sales risk since April 2025. Responsibilities included identifying new escalations and driving open escalations to resolution.

Procurement Manager

Eaton
01.2022 - 01.2023
  • Led a team with five direct reports and managed annual spend of over $178M. Oversaw over 500 vendors across four plants. This helped support sales over $800M, mostly for data center customers.
  • Developed a strategic plan for the procurement team by creating KPIs, new Standards and Processes, and prioritizing projects.
  • Collaborate with the Materials Team to reduce inventory levels by over $1M in 2024 through negotiations, PO Pushouts, PO optimization, and Inventory Optimization.
  • Achieved and surpassed cost-out targets through vendor negotiations, RFQs, price breaks, and product redesigns.
  • Team managed over 50,000 annual POs.

Senior Buyer

Eaton
01.2017 - 01.2021
  • Management of purchase orders, invoices, plant-level contract negotiations, and supplier relationships. Commodities managed include Indirect, Distribution, MRO, Electronics, Transformers, Fabrication, Metal Forming, Plastic Molding, and Raw Material.
  • Handled three senior buyer roles simultaneously due to a shortage of buyers.
  • Created strategic commodity plans for managed commodities.
  • Realized over $340K of cost savings each year as a Senior Buyer.
  • Enhanced vendor collaboration by working with engineers to introduce new vendors, conduct testing, and add vendors to UL file.

Company Commander

United States Army
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Company Commander for Headquarters Company of over 150 personnel from 2018 to 2020, including during a deployment to Iraq. Unit was deployed to three separate bases. Served as Base Mayor and Assistant Emergency Management during deployment to Iraq.
  • Coordinated Emergency Management activity for the base.
  • Developed and Implemented COVID-19 Base Plan to include the creation of isolation and quarantine protocols, researching each COVID case, and coordinating base response to COVID.
  • Processed over 300 Letters of Technical Direction in support of 57 Coalition Units. This includes managing contracts and assisting in $30M in repairs.
  • Worked with over 50 units to help develop and executed emergency response plans and drills.

Planning Operations Officer

United States Army
01.2014 - 01.2018
  • Assisted in the planning and executing of both short term and long-term events. Compiled data into reports and briefed data to senior leadership.
  • Developed data tracking tools in excel and army-provided software to track and report overall proficiencies and assigned tasks of three companies to the commander.
  • Created and implemented annual unit competition involving over 150 personnel from four companies in a weeklong event.
  • Worked daily with peers and senior leadership to plan and execute various events, including weapons ranges, field training exercises, training events, and briefings.

Area Supervisor

Home Depot
01.2016 - 01.2017
  • Oversaw outbound operations in distribution center for 141 Home Depot Stores.
  • Managed team of 60 employees.
  • Facilitated transition from pallet loading to manual floor loading which increased cubic footprint of product in a trailer from 1,600 cubic feet to 3,000 cubic feet.
  • Enhanced documentation of outbound efficiencies by creating tools to help monitor and document performance, work levels, and boxes loaded.

Education

Master of Arts - Transportation and Logistics Management

AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY
01.2016

Bachelor’s Degree - Political Science

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA
01.2013

Skills

  • Category management
  • Global sourcing
  • Performance improvement
  • Supplier relationship management
  • Strategic sourcing
  • ERP systems
  • MS office
  • Performance metrics
  • Strategic planning
  • Procurement process

Certification

  • APICS – CPIM (October, 2022)
  • APICS – CTSC (January, 2025)
  • APICS – Procurement Certificate (2024)
  • APICS – Resiliency Certificate (2024)

Timeline

Supplier Development Specialist

Eaton
01.2023 - Current

Procurement Manager

Eaton
01.2022 - 01.2023

Company Commander

United States Army
01.2018 - 01.2020

Senior Buyer

Eaton
01.2017 - 01.2021

Area Supervisor

Home Depot
01.2016 - 01.2017

Planning Operations Officer

United States Army
01.2014 - 01.2018

Bachelor’s Degree - Political Science

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA

Master of Arts - Transportation and Logistics Management

AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY

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