Nellie Soares Medeiros
New Bedford, MA – Poyant, a New Bedford sign manufacturer and branding specialist, has promoted Nellie Soares Medeiros to purchasing and Donna Travers to specialty buyer.
In her new role, Soares Medeiros supports and ensures the timely delivery of all production related materials and supplies, negotiations with vendors, and building partnership relations with key suppliers.
She joined Poyant in 2002 as a cost accountant and then moved to administrative support to be the production manager in 2014.
Donna Travers
In her new role, Donna Travers, with a strong background in manufacturing logistics, follow-up, and production expediting, will be responsible for streamlining, sourcing, negotiating, and managing on-time delivery and meeting quality standards for critical items, working closely with design, project management, estimating, and the director of operations.
Prior to her promotion, Travers was a project manager for Poyant, implementing rebranding programs for Shaw’s Supermarkets, Town Fair Tire, Digital Federal Credit Union, Sherwin Williams, Irving Oil, Cumberland Farms, and Rockland Trust.
Before joining Poyant in 2001, she was an assistant customer service manager with Acushnet Rubber Company in New Bedford.
