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-Coordinate and manage the flow of contracts between Procurement, Legal, and Third-Party Risk Management departments.-Perform the initial review of all procurement contracts and provide edits/redlines, comments, add/modified provisions and clauses, and coordinate additional review with legal or approve based on the risk profile.-Provide support to the Procurement department for all contract related issues (participate in vendor negotiations, draft MD Exceptions Memos, draft provisions/clauses, provide feedback to stakeholder inquiries, managed/edit/update the contract template library, etc.).

-Manage spend for multiple Departments (Real Estate, Clearing, Global Assurance, Market Regulation, Legal, and the Document Processing Center. --Generated saving in excess of $1.573m and cost avoidances of $872k.-Manage a variety of projects for numerous business and Procurement stakeholders. --RFx, supplier transition, supplier negotiation, supplier onboarding, manage stakeholder renewals, perform data analysis, create reporting, and provide general procurement support.-Review, redline, and negotiate contracts and terms/conditions.-Responsible for creating and maintaining annual Procurement spend data.

-Perform strategic sourcing consultant work for multiple organizations within several varying industries.--Generated saving in excess of $526k-Conduct a variety of RFx events to drive greater cost savings in the indirect material space for multiple categories such as logistics, facility management, and professional services.-Plan and execute sourcing/contract management strategies by leveraging internal category expertise and coordinating projects with Proxima resources.

-Develop, monitor, and provide analysis for organization RFx events through P2P Professional tool.-Work with project teams to develop project criteria, and build events according to specifications. -Developed and maintain a reporting tool that reported a variety of metrics for organization leadership.

-Strategically manage $40m stamping spend across 57 suppliers.--Generated saving in excess of $5.060m and cost avoidances of $826k.-Strategically manage $8M electrical spend across 15 suppliers. --Generated saving in excess of $956k and cost avoidances of 559k. -Assisted in the development & implementation of commodity strategies for commercial vehicle spend.-Negotiating pricing, contracts and terms/conditions. -Lead VA/VE workshops with cross-functional teams to identify and develop saving opportunities.

-Managed small teams to achieve desired goals and objectives set by upper management -Led Force Support training / development classes-Squadron Safety Manager

- Prepared RFQs, price comparisons, task related excel spreadsheets- Responsible for transitioning suppliers for strategic resources and consolidation - Organized and conducted supplier performance reviews- Provided commodity analysis used to develop final strategy