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St Louis, Missouri, US

Stamford, CT, US

Managed advisory practice lines focused on supporting the C-Suite of Global Fortune 500 and Large Public Sector entities to create long-term action plans that enable achieving organizational goals with measurable links to the corporate business strategy. Responsible for the growth and retention of $17M Americas Public Sector Security and Risk Management.

Stamford, CT, US

• Leveraged experience and knowledge from past procurement and supplier management positions to:
• Provide advice and counsel to executives responsible for IT Procurement Strategy, IT Sourcing, IT Supplier Management, and IT Financial Management
• Design customized strategic plans for each client to achieve their goals and their company goals, such as reduced supplier costs, upskilled talent, and improved supplier performance, by utilizing my own experience.
• Improve client’s departmental performance in strategic sourcing, category management, cost reduction, contract negotiations, cross-functional relationships with IT, supplier innovation, and development of a long-term.

Dublin, Ireland, IE

• Developed strategy to expand IT supplier management and coalesced executives around a supplier management strategy.
• Negotiated contract amendments with the top 50 vendors to ensure HIPAA, PCI and PII data was protected. Negotiations included reviews of vendor technologies and standards.
• Aligned 14 different departments on framework for vendor management, including segmentation, performance management and governance.
• Developed and implemented comprehensive outsourcing strategy, engaging 10 different departmental leaders to review approach and opportunities in their functions.
• Managed project to source off shore application development, quality assurance and testing. Sourcing project included supplier identification, requirements creation, RFP development, supplier response review, selection.

Troy, Michigan, US

Designed and implemented an innovative approach to talent sourcing that utilized Supply Chain processes of Plan, Source, Make, Deliver. Kelly marketed this concept as a consulting service:* Plan - Collaborate with internal customers/departments to forecast their needs for temporary labor, including specific skill sets, timing and budgets into a rolling 12.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Created and Launched Supplier Management Office applying innovative approaches to building supplier partnerships that resulted in lower costs, higher quality, on-time delivery and supplier-generated ideas aligned with.
• Negotiated $420M in annual contracts with project-based and contingent IT suppliers and outsourced operations, such as call centers and claims processing. 75% of outsourced services were located offshore.
• Developed supplier scorecards measuring the quality of their service/product and the quality of their relationship with Express Scripts. Covered 25 vendors quarterly.
• Segmented 30 vendors based on their risk to Express Scripts and engagement in future strategy and utilized segmentation to incent retention and long-term relationships.
• Implemented unique approach to contracted service level agreements by minimizing the number of SLAs and focusing on business, not operational metrics.
• Held annual supplier appreciation event limited to the most strategic suppliers and used the event to generate additional innovative ideas.

St. Louis, MO, US

Managed the Program Management Office that coordinated activities required to launch an Express Scripts operation in China. The effort was ultimately unsuccessful.

St. Louis, MO, US

Implemented programs that leveraged behavioral economics to influence drug utilization and reduce the cost of prescriptions. Focused on three primary concepts:* Social norming: We showed consumers how their generics use compared to others like them. This increased use because no one wants to be behind their peers.* Loss Aversion: Instead of telling people.

St. Louis, MO, US

Directed team of 110 people to deliver IT services including local technology support, system monitoring, print capabilities, and help desk.Created IT vendor management office. Introduced vendor evaluations, best practice sharing, vendor manager training, and reporting on vendor service level agreements.

St. Louis, MO, US

Led a range of cross-functional strategic initiatives to increase profits for ESI and increase savings on drug costs for our clients:* Led $6.5M implementation of a Siebel sales force automation system.* Managed $18M gross margin unit delivering PBM services.* Analyzed and captured $20M of profit improvement across organization.

Led efforts to engage new clients in the emerging market for custom mobile applications. Focus was on the media and entertainment industry.

US

Collaborated with clients on their nascent e-business strategies. Engagements often started with "Have you registered your domain name?" Assisted clients in overcoming internal roadblocks to investment in critical technology required by showcasing conservative financials and highlighting possible competitive advantage.

Dallas, TX, US

Worked with Fortune 500 clients to implement strategies to take advantage of the then emerging e-commerce technologies and businesses.

Provided strategy consulting services to global corporations interested in the emerging markets in Russia. Clients included Baxter Healthcare, Hewlett Packard Test & Measurement (Agilent) and Colgate Palmolive.

Completed primary research for Fortune 500 clients to gather competitive intelligence used to design improved business strategies and assess benefits of potential acquisitions.

Mba, Multinational Management

Ma, International Relations

Ba, Russian, Political Economy