Benjamin N Kirschner Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Procurement of professional services for Customer Energy Solutions, Central Engineering, Distribution Engineering, Gas Engineering, and ORU Electrical Engineering

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

• Established the Purchasing Department for one of the leading healthcare education and training institutions, comprised of Center for Allied Health Education located in Brooklyn, NY and City College located in 5 cities in Florida.

Jamaica, Ny, Us

Jamaica, Ny, Us

Purchasing and Project Management of the decorative items in hotels and restaurants, such as: Furniture, Window Treatments, Light Fixtures, Lamps, Bedding, Carpet, Wall Covering, Electronics, Art and Accessories

Manhattan, Ny, Us

Planning, Analysis, and Budgeting• Drafting of bid specifications and requesting bid proposals from vendors.• Negotiating of pricing for items with an annual purchase value of $40 million, including establishing blanket purchasing agreements and bulk commodity pricing agreements.• Sourcing and testing products and raw materials University-wide to establish standards based on quality, durability, level of service, health, safety, and pricing. • Establish and manage systems, procedures, and metrics to measure cost savings. In one year, reduced procurement costs by $9.4 million, or ~ 25%, while maintaining quality and safety standards.• Track all pricing and compare YU’s systems and benchmarks to those of other major universities and NGOs nationally and regionally.Operations, Project Management, and Cost Reduction• Establish and manage a performance-focused team of six on three Manhattan campuses. • Key member of team that implemented the University’s new purchasing system, which allowed transparency, cut costs, and reduced response time by 300%.• Develop long-term relationships with strategic suppliers and negotiate annual contracts. • Conduct bidders conferences. Improved YU’s reputation with bidders and increased number of people willing to bid.• Conduct investigations of bidders to ensure that bidders were capable of meeting environmental, health, safety, and legal standards. • In collaboration with others, wrote the Purchasing Department’s policy and procedures manual. Created and produced YU’s online product catalog.

Responsible for the procurement of goods and services for the Facilities Departments for the entire University including the medical school (The Albert Einstein College of Medicine), law school (The Cardozo School of Law), undergraduate schools (20), and high schools (2).

Responsible for supervision of construction and maintenance operations and for implementing and supervising preventative maintenance schedules. • Developed and implemented programs to ensure compliance with University standards and with local, state, and federal laws.• Created and managed new prevention maintenance schedule for the Manhattan campuses. Efforts reduced costs while increasing durability of physical plant. • Planned and implemented, in conjunction with outside vendors and designers, space allocations for several schools and departments.• Established and managed budgets for three campuses amounting to $20 million.

Bachelor Of Architecture (Barch), Architecture

Bachelor Of Science, Architecture

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