Ashleigh Matthews Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

· Established global partnerships with immense suppliers and managed IT SaaS and Software contract negotiations that have maximized value and innovation whilst minimizing risk.· Negotiated multimillion-dollar contracts with large tech companies to deploy technology to Pharmacies along with Cencora’s subsidiaries globally, which resulted in lumpsums of hard dollar savings and cost avoidance.· Lead cross functional groups through the RFx processes to achieve targeted cost reductions, enhance supplier performance, and liaise legal/infosec mitigations through ServiceNow.· Utilized Smartsheet as a reporting tool to log fiscal year savings metrics and RFP data.· Created Microsoft Teams sites to manage/facilitate RFP projects, to collaborate with stakeholders/business leads in order to keep them abreast on action items and key milestones, and to maintain a repository to house supporting proposals/documentation.· Used Microsoft Excel to develop an organized RFP template to assist with documenting IT solution requirements and questions, along with using Pivot tables and VLOOKUP formulas to present supplier score metrics and data to key stakeholders.· Leveraged Microsoft Power BI to design dashboards and retrieve purchasing analytics for market analysis.· Developed sourcing strategies to improve procuring operations by the use of strong tactical negotiations, consolidating suppliers through incumbent solutions, improve working capital, and RFx processes.

· Employed SAP Ariba to manage 20+ procurement requests pipeline weekly, initiate risk assessments, and to create sourcing events to vet solutions and services for the commodities of IT, marketing, contingent labor, HR, and facilities.· Utilized Gartner as a market research tool to discover new suppliers globally to participate in RFPs.· Served as a contract manager to facilitate legal and commercial negotiations whilst leveraging Morgan Stanley’s PADU to perform an initial markup to master agreements, statements of work, framework, and sales order forms prior to legal review. · Negotiated multi-year, stand alone, renewal, time and materials, and tiered or fixed price agreements to achieve competitive pricing, extended payment terms, and establish CPIs no greater than company standard term.· Project and Category Managed the Eaton Vance acquisition by spearheading the “Marketing Commodities Supplier Synergies Project” tasked to consolidate and establish enterprise agreements which resulted in million-dollar savings.

· Utilized SAP ERP and Ariba to refresh supplier profiles, process procure to pay, generate WBS projects, manage outline agreements/import orders, develop punchout catalogs, and create dashboards/spend reports for forecasting.· Manage IT Telecom monthly recurring cost and billing.· Maintained a repository of IT SaaS and Software inventory within Microsoft Excel and Access to forecast true-up cost and calculate qty requirements for term renewals.· Developed project proposals for Axalta’s CIO to gain financial sponsors for million-dollar IT projects that was anticipated to rollout within the next business quarter or fiscal year.· Designed a SharePoint site for Axalta’s IT Finance team to streamline and record funding request and approval flows that includes DOA authorizers to sponsor IT projects.· Used Microsoft Visio to create swim lane charts to map out an implementation plan and build logic for IT programmers to create a vendor management system within ServiceNow.· Coordinated debriefs with IT Stakeholders to build scope requirements and implementation plans for framework whilst presenting financial budget, burndown rates, and exhausted funds to track spend availability.· Oversaw procure to pay process within various ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics, SAP ERP, and Ariba while supporting Axalta’s procurement department direct/indirect category managers.· Leveraged Salesforce for material requirements planning to maintain inventory within Axalta’s manufacturing facilities.· Developed standard operating procedures and training documents for purchasing/invoice reconciliation on procurement systems such as SAP ERP, Ariba, ReadSoft, and Microsoft Dynamics.