Amanda Kivett Email & Phone Number

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Developing and executing tactical sourcing in support of organizational initiatives. • Sourcing and evaluating product and suppliers in accordance with stakeholder requirements and baseline.• Developing, publishing, and maintaining spend reports for cross-functional department stakeholders. • Issuing purchase orders• Evaluating and recommending changes in product or suppliers to attain expense reduction or better supplier service.• Developed and executed procurement strategy for client’s organization-wide labor engineering program• Supporting direct negotiations, proposals/market analyses.• Management of client supplier ecosystem.• Ongoing client consultancy in relation to sourcing, purchasing and P2P system (Coupa)

Greensboro, Nc

•Administrator for the Procure-to-Pay system, Coupa •Created and implemented policies for the P2P software•Analyzed data and prepared reports and presentations to various functional areas within the Organization •Consulted with functional business owners to improve usability of procure to pay platform•Created/maintained spend analysis to understand indirect spend and provided insight to organization on expenditures that are not being actively managed or could be collaboratively managed better.•Solicited quotes for small wares and supplies, communication with Supplier and members of the TFM organization and selecting the best items for the company needs

•Issued Purchase Orders for new store construction•Created OFI budgets, OFI spend reports and pricing requests for capital expenditures•Added new suppliers and catalog items into the Coupa platform