Julie Ouimet
Hudson,QC
Summary
In my current and previous employment, I have made significant accomplishments in my positions and work environment. I am results-oriented, I have a strong ability to manage and bring projects to completion with a very good sense of organization. I also possess excellent judgment combined with careful planning and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Price Management & Marketing Specialist
Cadel Div. de UAP Inc.
01.2018 - Current
- Manage daily requests for price management, such as price updates, promotions, contract prices nationwide
- Ensure to maintain and establish new price structures based on customer groups
- Work with the salesforce nationwide to determine better pricing to be competitive
- Price analysis on all new price lists received from suppliers on a monthly and annual basis based on either factors or MSRP
- Product promotion;
- Analyze new product requests for our industry;
- Work on various projects such as the implementation of new systems;
- Responsible for the ISO program (quality assurance program)
- Achievements: Implementation of the ISO program with certification
- Implementation of a new company in a new system module
- Improved price management process
- Establish rebate programs with suppliers
- Prepare, configure and maintain prices in various systems
Rates & Terms Manager
Cantrex Group Inc.
08.2002 - 12.2017
- Manage more than 600 provider agreements: upon receipt of legal documents, adequately code the central billing allowance, payment terms, volume rebate, coop, marketing, and business development fund in Unix system and renewal of these agreements on an annual basis;
- Oversee banking information codification for electronic payment for providers;
- Analyze general ledgers on a monthly basis for volume rebate and coop;
- Issue advanced volume rebate and coop payments to various merchants or networks on a monthly or quarterly basis
- At the beginning of each year, complete management of the volume rebate process: volume rebate and coop calculation in order to generate a summary to each of the providers from agreements codified in the system; forward these summaries to each of the providers to begin the volume rebate and coop reconciliation with approximately 400 providers
- Reconciliations to be performed with the period from January to March in order to redistribute the volume rebate and coop (between $10M and $12M per year) for approximately 1200 merchants (advance of 70% in February and final payment, end of March);
- Any discrepancies between the discounts deducted throughout the year and reconciled summaries, result in either a deduction and/or reimbursement;
- Prepare and submit volume rebate forecast to the Vice-presidents or merchants
- Accomplishments: Integral participation in Due diligence project when company was acquired in 2006;
- Upon the acquisition, put in charge of a project reconciling accounts payables between the buyer and providers for all accounts in default for a value of approximately $2M
- Objective achieved within the 6 month period required by management;
- Upon the acquisition, startup of the central billing system on Unix and coding of all provider agreements;
- For the past 3 years, the volume rebates were reconciled in record time, almost 100% reconciled for the advance in February
Operations Manager
Cantrex Nationwide Grp.
06.2008 - 12.2017
- Manage merchant agreements: Opening of account in CRM and Unix (upon receipt of legal documents); interpretation and coding of the special terms negotiated between Cantrex, providers, merchants, and the third financing party; codification of the regular terms
- If necessary, produce debit and credit to correct discrepancies in the accounts; oversee payment application and online payments (EIPP); if necessary, account reconciliation
- Ensure appropriate codification of the merchant agreements in Unix system: Interpretation of the agreements signed between Cantrex and merchants to ensure an adequate codification of the terms negotiated, the association to the network or banner for sources of income;
- Head of portfolio of accounts receivable for accounts financed internally: generate the aging of internal accounts on a daily basis and contact merchants to keep accounts current and within their credit limit; and reconcile all differences in the accounts
- For accounts in default, requires a change of status (under approval or credit line suspended), and a notice is issued to suppliers by email and via 'faxmain' to reduce company risk
- If applicable, answer all inquiries by suppliers or other concerned parties
- Internal account under approval management: manage all requests authorization from suppliers and generate an approval allowing shipment and invoice authorization
- Head of receivables financed externally: liaison between the third financing party, merchants and business development managers; then responsible for the change of status of these accounts on receipt of notice of the financing third party, notice issued to providers indicating this change, on the same day
- Management Review: organize, prepare and participate on a monthly basis to the Management Review (includes VP, Credit Director) for accounts in default;
- Research the Registre des Entreprises du Quebec to verify the legal names and operating names of merchants;
- Analyze general ledger on a monthly basis
- Achievements: Given a task to take charge of the receivable accounts with the objective of bringing these accounts at 95% current, objective achieved in the timeframe given by management which resulted in a permanent change of position
Quality Assurance Manager
Duquesne Refractories Ltd.
01.1993 - 01.2002
- ISO 9002: responsible for implementation and management of the system within the company; write work instructions, procedures and forms (and translation thereof) for each of the production chains; documentation coordination and ISO training and maintain the system with annual internal audits and the collaboration of the external auditors (KPMG and BSI); prepare management review within the company and external auditors to maintain certification; receive and respond to non-conformance reports, produce corrective action reports during internal audits; and then produce on a regular basis statistical techniques;
- Inside Sales: prepare and submit tenders; daily communication with clients for production orders; coordinate with production and shipping; billing the clients, maintain the consignment (client inventory); update and provide material safety data sheets and technical data sheets to clients upon demand
- Update and revise company formulas (recipes);
- Maintaining environmental program;
- Executive-assistant to the President
- Achievements: Given the task to implement ISO 9002 system; objective achieved within the timeframe given by management, resulting in permanent position, Quality Assurance Manager
Inside Sales Representative
Dural Div. Of Multibond Inc.
01.1991 - 01.1993
- Order entry and billing;
- Consignment and inventories;
- Prepare and submit tenders to clients;
- Accounts receivables
Education
Certificate - Law
University Of Ottawa
Ottawa, On01.1992
Paralegal -
Cegep Ahuntsic
Montréal, Qc01.1991
High School Diploma -
College Ste-Anne
Montréal, Qc01.1989
Skills
- Vendor Relations
- Pricing Structures
- Pricing structures knowledge
- Microsoft Office
- Team Leadership
- Relationship Building
- Data collection processes
- Strategic Planning
- Product Management
- Contract Management
- Effective Communication
Accomplishments
- Reorganized the pricing department
- Set in place a process to be able to meet the deadlines for new price lists and price structures
- Achieved the implementation of a new division with accurate pricing, price structures, customers discounts and price contracts.
- Achieved the implementation of the ISO program (quality insurance program)
- Achieved objectives provided through the years
Careeraccomplishments
- In my current and previous employment, I have made significant accomplishments in my positions and work environment.
- I am results-oriented, I have a strong ability to manage and bring projects to completion with a very good sense of organization.
- I also possess excellent judgment combined with careful planning and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
French
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Price Management & Marketing Specialist
Cadel Div. de UAP Inc.
01.2018 - Current
Operations Manager
Cantrex Nationwide Grp.
06.2008 - 12.2017
Rates & Terms Manager
Cantrex Group Inc.
08.2002 - 12.2017
Quality Assurance Manager
Duquesne Refractories Ltd.
01.1993 - 01.2002
Inside Sales Representative
Dural Div. Of Multibond Inc.
01.1991 - 01.1993
Paralegal -
Cegep Ahuntsic
High School Diploma -
College Ste-Anne
Certificate - Law
University Of Ottawa
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