Darcy Dickson

10 years of experience in managing, awarding, and terminating contracts, I am a dedicated Supply Chain Manager. I bring expertise in negotiating terms, ensuring compliance, and mitigating risks, essential for optimizing procurement processes and achieving organizational goals effectively.

Supply Chain Manager

Connexa Energy

San Antonio, Texas  08/2021 to present

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills

Oversees procurement, logistics, and distribution processes, ensuring efficient operations from sourcing to delivery. Responsibilities include strategic planning, vendor management, inventory control, contract life cycle management, analyzing procurement requests and risk mitigation. Coordinates with other department heads to ensure our supply chain strategy meets company needs. While in this role I have overhauled the company’s inventory management processes. Transitioning the company’s inventory management philosophy to a lean, Just-In-Time model. The result was a 13% reduction in inventory carrying costs. I also created a new training program to ensure optimal onboarding of new personnel and ensure adherence to company process and procedures. Extensively used Microsoft Office, Salesforce, Asana and Slack software 

Account Manager 

WW Grainger

San Antonio, Texas  04/2019 to 07/2021

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills

Oversaw project management, responsibilities included: initiation, planning, direction, coordination, implementation. Monitored to ensure that projects remain within budget, scope and close on time. Ensures alignment with the overall organizational strategy, it’s commitments and goals. Assisted in defining the scope of the project, requirements and its objectives with all stakeholders. Managed changes to the project scope, schedule and costs using appropriate techniques. Worked directly with the project owners and leads or assists to ensure on time delivery to keep schedules and control budgets. Developed and maintained comprehensive project plans to share with stakeholders and monitor progress. Set deadlines, assigned responsibilities and monitored progress through completion. Accomplished budget reviews to ensure projects remain on budget. As well as to show pre/post budget cost comparisons and savings. Managed the relationship with and between all stakeholders. Responsible for communicating risks, issues or opportunities that cannot be resolved at the project level. Prepared reports and briefings for upper management regarding status of project and escalating issues as needed. Implemented a wide degree of creative autonomy to overcome obstacles and meet deadlines and goals.  Accountable and responsible for reading, interpreting, and applying technical data such as blueprints, engineering drawings, product specifications, or technical manuals. Oversaw the development and implementation of multiple ongoing projects in commercial, industrial and government sectors. Requiring the use of extensive communication skills, the ability to quickly adapt to overcome roadblocks and the building of effective relationships at all levels. Extensively used Microsoft Office, Excel, Salesforce and Smartbid to communicate with team and track project progress. 

Radwell International 

Area Sales Manager

San Antonio, Texas    03/2016 to 06/2018
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: 

Managed all contract activities in assigned territory. Spearheaded the development and launch of a procurement on demand program called “Fullfillment”. Requiring the compiling of statistics, production reports, cost estimates and creating relationships with peers and stakeholders over multiple professions and levels. Responsible for conducting initial contract review for the identification of customer requirements. Collected and analyzed supplier program delivery performance data at the line-item level according to company guidelines and assigns appropriate ratings to each item. Responsible for supporting contract close out activities by entering timely contractor production performance history information into automated systems after the final shipment has been made. Reviews the manufacturing portion of a contractor's cost and technical proposal. Identifies and reports problems to authorities for correction. Monitors contractor performance and ability to deliver products, services, and systems to contract schedule and within cost.  Responds to requests, inquires and complaints and ensures maximum good will from all transactions. Responsible for negotiating and implementing budgets and prepares reports for management and customers. Researched, analyzed and compiled statistical data to ensure contractor compliance with negotiated terms, codes and law. Investigated customer complaints and deficiency reports and providing identification of causes to appropriate authorities. Developed negotiation tactics and objectives, held conferences and conducted meetings and negotiations with contractors. Reading, interpreting, and applying technical data such as blueprints, engineering drawings, product specifications, or technical manuals.

Industrial Automation Program Director 

Brandon & Clark

Lubbock, Texas 08/2013 to 01/2016

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: 

Director of a multi-state industrial automation engineering department. Requiring the management of dozens of ongoing contract negotiations, getting and accepting proposals, award, termination and procurement. Creating and preparing solicitation documentation and drafting the final contract. Evaluation of vendor offers for both technical and price/cost factors to ensure best value. Negotiated contracts, orders and modifications with multiple clauses. Performed contract exercise of options, responded to contractor performance and delays and negotiated to settle contract claims according to established guidelines. Prepared cost estimates as well as monitored current contracts for compliance to terms. Evaluated acquisition program effectiveness and made recommendations for improvement. Developed negotiation tactics and objectives, held conferences and conducted discussions and negotiations with contractors. Specialized in the creation, implementation and management of industrial automation contracts. 

Account Manager 

Brandon & Clark 

Lubbock, Texas 01/2012 to 08/2013

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: 

Negotiated terms and conditions of contracts, utilize innovative techniques and ideas to develop contractual arrangements taking into consideration life cycle management and cost benefit analysis. Planned and carried out routine pre- and post-award acquisition actions. Evaluated vendor offers for both technical and price/cost factors to ensure best value to the organization.  Analyzed routine contracting issues and identified alternative courses of action. Prepared solicitation documentation and drafting the final contract. Monitored contractor performance to ensure fund status and ensure over-obligation does not occur on orders. Evaluated acquisition program effectiveness and made recommendations for improvement. Developed negotiation plans and tactics, held conferences and conducted discussions and negotiations with contracts for good and services. Received and accepted proposals as well as wrote sole source justifications as needed. Reviewed written quality or inspection procedures for adequacy and evaluated the implementation and effectiveness of quality/inspection systems, including sampling plans. Verified by test or inspection, using sampling inspection or intensive product inspection techniques, that products comply with requirements prior to acceptance. Identified inadequacies and requested corrective action, through appropriate channels. Computed data, summarizing results, and prepared reports depicting pertinent relationships using statistical methods. Investigated customer complaints/deficiency reports, then provide identification of causes to appropriate authorities. Proficient in reading, interpreting, and applying technical data such as blueprints, engineering drawings, product specifications, or technical manuals. Using the Scientific Method, I conducted research, compiled statistics, analyzed production reports and supplies to prepare cost estimates and recommend adjustments to contracts. As well as tracking contract expense in order to monitor and detect any potential problems with funding, taking corrective action as needed to ensure funding continued uninterrupted. 

I have a BS from Texas Tech University and am currently attending Oklahoma Universities Price School of Business. I will graduate in 2025 with an MS in Supply Chain Management.