Quoting Specialist

Quoting Specialist — Apex Distribution Partners

Atlanta, GA | January 2024 – Present

• Evaluated over 180 commercial quoting requests annually, collaborating with procurement to secure unit cost reductions of 12% across 4 primary product lines.
• Generated 340+ technical cost estimates for custom machinery parts using SAP ERP, maintaining a 99% accuracy rate against final production invoices while reducing calculation errors.
• Designed a centralized pricing spreadsheet template in Microsoft Excel, decreasing the average RFQ response turnaround time from 5 days to 2 days across all departments.
• Negotiated pricing agreements with 15 key suppliers, reducing direct material procurement costs by 8% and increasing average deal margins by 4% on high-volume products.

Associate Quoting Specialist — Summit Manufacturing Group

Savannah, GA | August 2021 – December 2023

• Reviewed 250+ inbound RFQ documents per year, identifying potential material cost variances to protect project margins by an average of 9% for the sales team.
• Coordinated with 8 engineering and logistics team members to draft complex multi-year service contracts valued at up to $1.5M per project under tight timelines.
• Maintained the Salesforce CRM database for all price quotes, resolving over 120 tracking discrepancies and improving data retrieval speeds by 30% for marketing.
• Compiled monthly gross margin reports for senior leadership, highlighting 14 cost-saving opportunities that recovered $45,000 in leaked revenue for the division.

Cost estimation, Proposal writing, RFQ analysis, Contract negotiation, Vendor relations, Bill of Materials (BOM), Pricing strategy, SAP ERP, Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Excel, QuickBooks, Margin analysis, Supply chain coordination, Commercial bidding

BOM Standardization Initiative

Role: Lead Quoting Specialist

Tools: SAP, Microsoft Excel, SharePoint

Led the consolidation of Bill of Materials for 400 components, reducing estimation error rates by 18% and cutting quote preparation time by 3 days.

CRM Pricing Integration

Role: Pricing Specialist

Tools: Salesforce, SAP, Power BI

Integrated pricing databases with Salesforce for 12 sales regions, accelerating quote retrieval times by 40% and eliminating 100% of data entry errors.

• Certified Cost Professional (CCP) (2022)
• Certified Cost Estimator/Analyst (CCEA) (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Career mentor for local high school business classes (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice