Carlos Reyes

Detail-oriented, hard-working, and highly motivated Buyer with experience in vendor negotiation and developing purchasing strategies to meet business targets. Good leadership and communication abilities. Passion for bottom-line savings for the organization of employment. Motivated through year-over-year performance and cost improvement. Fluent English and Native Spanish speaker.

Work Experience

Assistant Buyer  •  Carr Lane Manufacturing Co.

August 2021 - Present | St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

  • Support other buyers and managers with all procurement-related tasks such as managing purchase orders, monitoring inventory, and providing administrative support.
  • Works closely with suppliers, maintaining positive relationships while tracking orders, non-conformances and due dates.
  • Lead a project to highlight outside processing costs, reducing small lot costs.

Purchasing Agent  •  Paramount Drywall, Inc. 

April 2019 - July 2021 | Miami, FL, U.S.A.

  • Create purchasing orders, follow up on delivery, backorders, and returns. Assisting with following up overdue accounts for payments, managing materials for different projects.
  • Manage relationships with suppliers, maintain quality of goods, timely deliveries, and compliance with terms of contracts. Sourcing new suppliers and comparing prices/quality with current ones.
  • Organized and streamlined the purchasing process to allow a merge between Paramount Drywall and Paramount Stucco purchasing departments, lowering personnel and training costs.

Players Club Supervisor  •  Miccosukee Resort and Gaming

July 2018 - March 2019 | Miami, FL, U.S.A.

  • In charge of the training and schedules of the department. Inventory control. Manager on duty twice a month.
  • Organize and run the raffles for the players of the casino. Customer support, primarily for VIP customers.
  • Worked a Co-manager when my manager was on parental leave, being in charge of extra responsibilities for a few months.

Education

Master of Business Administration - International Trade  •  Feng-Chia University

2015 - 2018 | Taichung City, Taiwan


Industrial Engineer  •  Universidad Americana (UAM)

2009 - 2013 | Managua, Nicaragua

Skills

  • Decision Making 
  • Inventory Management 
  • Time Management 
  • Problem Solving 
  • Purchasing Management
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Google Spreadsheets
  • Infor ERP
  • Sage 300 ERP

Language


  • Spanish: Native
  • English: Professional