Ian Rumbolt

Highly motivated and analytically minded Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) graduate with nine years of Supply Chain Management experience as a Procurement Specialist in the Aerospace Industry, a Supply Chain Analyst and Buyer in the Manufacturing Industry and as a Procurement Officer for the Canadian Federal Government. Holds a double major in Supply Chain Management and Human Resource Management.

Experience managing professional supplier and client relationships with working knowledge of Oracle software systems. Strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills and possesses a strong work ethic and personal integrity.

Procurement Specialist at StandardAero (2023-04 – Present)

• Responsible for creation, management and delivery of vendor sub-contracts and parts inventory purchases based on forecasts and usage
• Worked successfully with other business unit functions to prioritize part backorder priorities in order to allocate parts to meet production build timelines and mitigate supply chain constraints
• Conducted weekly vendor and subcontractor meetings to communicate priorities, monitor delivery performance, and understand vendor supply issues to suggest creative solutions
• Expedited orders and escalated appropriately for timely delivery of purchases by verifying initial demands and analyzing backorder reports
• Carried out new and existing contract vendor development by sourcing new vendors, negotiating price/delivery terms, administering vendor qualification surveys

Buyer at New Flyer Industries (2021-03 – 2023-04)

• Knowledgeable on maintaining good business relationships with suppliers and other stakeholders despite various supply chain obstacles and can lead constructive supplier performance reviews
• Experience with successfully executing pricing negotiations, creating and managing contracts with suppliers, sourcing parts, solving accounting discrepancies, completing part warranty returns and expediting parts to meet deadlines
• Able to analyze data and provide recommendations on inventory stocking decisions and inventory forecasting
• Effectively able to train new team members in buyer role through use of strong communication skills and solid procurement understanding

Procurement Officer at Public Services Procurement Canada (2019-05 – 2021-03)

• Recipient of the 2019 Western Region, Regional Director General Client Service Award as part of the Furniture Acquisitions Material Management team, for providing clients with exceptional customer service through effective collaboration
• Finalist for the 2020 Client Service Award as a member of the Epost Outreach team
• Used critical thinking skills and discernment to evaluate multiple supplier bids in order to award contracts
• Effectively collaborated with a colleague in order to contribute to the development of an emerging e-procurement tool
• Communicated efficiently with project managers and clients in order to determine their goods and service requirements so that bids could be solicited from suppliers to meet requirements ahead of deadlines

Supply Chain Analyst at New Flyer Industries (2017-05 – 2017-09)

• Effectively communicated with hundreds of suppliers to gain information regarding country of origin for various bus parts
• Performed lead time analysis using multiple metrics on various suppliers and corresponded with suppliers to revise lead times on various bus parts
• Demonstrated strong public speaking skills by presenting projections and recommendations from lead time analysis to upper management

Director of Corporate Relations at U.M.S.C.O (2019-03 – 2020-04)

• Displayed effective communication skills to market University of Manitoba Supply Chain Organization events to businesses throughout Winnipeg and enter into partnerships
• Used organizational skills to ensure companies and students were well informed of events

Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Co-op Program in Supply Chain Management and Human Resource Management – Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba (2015-09 – 2020-04)