Lead team of 9 direct reports across 10 factories worldwide for $2.7B division within Thermo Fisher.Enable and accelerate industry-leading innovation & revenue in US factories, including Electron Microscopy & Spectroscopy. Support breakthrough NPIs for life science, material science, and semiconductor workflow applications at sub-atomic scale.Set sourcing strategy and deployment for US direct materials & worldwide indirect.Oversee supplier risk & performance, and cash flow improvement.Lead critical shortage and commercial escalations on behalf of functional VPs and GMs to protect revenue, secure first-pass innovation, and capture market share.

• Responsible for IT, R&D, Services, HR, Finance, Travel, Transportation, Facilities and Marketing, representing $120m global indirect spend (NPR). Oversee direct reports in US and EU. Report to VP of Global Sourcing & Supply Chain. • Drive additional $140m direct material spend optimization and product enablement across Oregon, Wisconsin, California and Massachusetts. • Drive indirect sourcing strategies that yield optimal mix of supplier performance, cost justification, speed-to-market enablement, IP considerations, PLM (serviceability) and TCO.• Plan, create and execute 3rd-party agreements related to new product or service offering, via extensive engagement with Advanced Technology (“never been built”) and Corporate Technology (“build for the first time”) teams.• Global SME on contract development, negotiation, commercial interpretation, and enforcement.• Concurrently serve as US Sourcing Manager, covering backoffice and dotted-line reporting of US Sourcing Account Managers.

• Lead a team of Sourcing Acct. Managers, SQE and Asst. Buyers covering $220m of direct and indirect N. American spend across multiple Electron Microscopy & Spectroscopy production facilities.• Drive resolution of direct material escalations, master data irregularities, vendor and contract disputes. • Coach, monitor and report US Sourcing team performance, including PO SLAs, negotiation strategy, value costing, and saving reports.• Represent Global Sourcing for US Operations, own responsibility to align activities with top corporate objectives.

As US representative for indirect commodity, I worked with departmental VPs and directors in the US, Europe and Asia to negotiate high-value, time-critical contracts in:• IT• R&D• Operations• Services• FinanceProven record of exceeding savings benchmarks during each year of service, with recognitions earned for outperforming core Sourcing objectives: exhaustive due diligence, demand planning, deal strategy, stakeholder coordination/counsel, budget navigation, multi-layered negotiations and steady-state vendor management.Large transactional partners include: IBM, Siemens, Microsoft, SAP, Astea, EMC, Box, Cisco, AT&T, HP, Dell.Key areas of subject expertise: RFx, fixed-bid contracts, scope creep mitigation, commercial terms evaluation, unilateral and joint-venture agreements, global supplier scorecards, governmental compliance, SW and developer SLAs, QBR and price-realignments. Lead and close vendor escalations on behalf of senior management.

Led a team of sourcing specialists and commodity manager reports to achieve high-performance targets in PPV, Low Cost Country production transfer, and vendor optimization activities (OTD, PPM, payment terms). Achieved 8% year-over-year cost-out and improved inventory turns from 4.6 to 6.5 during 2009-11.Supported sales and marketing objectives by executing outsourcing strategies that yielded competitive bids to customer. Completed NPI for $30m Airbus A350 autotransformers and fully transferred magnetics to Asia for Boeing Dreamliner 787 program, representing 30% of product portfolio.

Designed financial modeling tool deployed by company President to win $85MM program with Brazilian aerospace firm.Conducted market research and authored white paper on emerging power generator technology, utilized by platform M&A group on potential acquisition candidates.

Supervised operations, marketing and quality for a 10-person machine shop specializing in high-tolerance, computer-controlled machining for the medical device industry in New England.