Develop and nurture strategic relationships, Lead the sourcing, inventory management and value analysis functions across the organizational, including strategies and operations. Grow strategic partnership with key vendors, negotiate contracts and monitor contract compliance as it relates to supplies, equipment, and services in alignment with organizational goals and objectives.

Champion the supply chain, strategic sourcing and value analysis functions system-wide, including strategies and operations. Lead Group Purchasing (GPO) partnership, sourcing contracts and contract compliance as it relates to supplies, equipment, construction and services in alignment with system goals and objectives. - Lead the selection and implementation of procure-to-pay solution.- Ownership of job roles, specific assignments/goals and development of purchasing team.- Foster a success-oriented, accountable environment. Ensure efficient, economic, and quality performance of assigned areas of contract negotiations, procurement and inventory management. - Champion the development and maintenance of all strategic sourcing/value analysis processes and controls in alignment with departmental and organizational goals

Supervise all purchases and contracts for organization’s expanding group facilitating +50 centers and offices in 7 states. Manage and train team overseeing cost and quality controls, ensuring continual supply and YOY cost reductions. Coordinate all negotiations on organization’s behalf for goods and services. - Championed strategic sourcing process to attain savings of $1.5M in 2017 and $1.9M in 2018. - Attained better monitoring and auditing of spend and usage by creating effective sourcing protocols. - Reduced spending and enabled better accountability of assets by producing controls to manage assets and inventory. - Fueled continuous quality improvement by introducing contract management process supporting procurement system.

Actively interacted with CFO and controlled $30M annual budget for purchase of medical supplies encompassing all 24 Pediatric locations. - Captured 15% savings across all purchases versus previous year spend by augmenting clinical buyer’s performance and contract negotiation. - Introduced sound purchasing policies and procedures, yielding additional savings through use of GPO contracts. - Pioneered savings for organization by enhancing solicitation process and contract management.

Crafted and supervised supplier diversify program from no inclusion. Controlled review of proposed solicitations for consistency and post-approval. Cultivated diversity spend opportunities within hospital and reported on program’s accomplishments quarterly to board of directors and executive team. - Attained 12% increase in utilization of minority and small vendors. - Active member of Strategic Sourcing Negotiation Team on multi-million dollar contracts, including ERP, GPO, and distributor contracts. - Secured average of 8% savings by promoting use of cooperative purchasing agreements and GPO contracts. - Won $3M revenue contract for hospital by delivering structured management of various related projects focused on completing business objectives.

Administered procurement functions for diversified range of commodities and services of university. Brainstormed, implemented, and led new procedures, policies, and software solutions. Orchestrated planning and launch of cross-functional implementation of organization-wide Peoplesoft Financial Module. Performed and awarded ITVs, RFPs, and ITN solicitations in alignment with state law, university rules, regulations, and policies. - Received promotion to Assistant Director within three years. - Slashed IT vendor base from 30 to 5 suppliers, which resulted in reduced requisition to purchase processing time from 5 days to within 48 hours as well as produced 20% decrease in reconciliation process. - Finetuned professionalism of Senior Purchasing Agents Team to produce turnaround time for purchase orders to under 72 hours from average of 5 days. - Controlled $50M+ of state-funded assets for university.