Procurement Lead at Merck’s largest global Pkg site.Drive, execute YoY multi-million dollar savings targets.Collaborate Partnerships with local/global stakeholders.Optimize Supplier Perf. through KPIs & SCM analytics.Use Risk Analytics, Dual Sourcing to mitigate SC volatility.Support, Train, Direct Lab/Eng’g in compliant Sourcing.

Identified, supported implementation of over $600K savings.Organized, executed Procurement M&A plan with new ownership.

Lead facilities/utilities/real estate Strategic Sourcing for US and international markets. Bid, negotiate, manage, and contract providers for real estate and facilities stakeholders in a global Clinical Research Organization.

Led Start-up Global Procurement group managing $200M GMP spend in heavily regulated raw materials and CMO categories. Doubled output of my group with zero headcount increase, reduced PO cycle times by 2/3 using lean six-sigma. Re-engineered, improved, and executed global models on workload, drug substance capacity, and risk analytics. Developed and executed multivariate pricing model for drugs entering the EU market subject to the German pharmaceutical pricing regulations; worked with strategic pricing group to utilize this model and applied it over 20 EU markets.

Advanced through positions of increasing responsibility from engineering and tech transfer to leading global supply chain functions in cGMP materials to capital, facilities, and real estate. Highlights include:- Tech Transfer project manager for Wellbutrin and Valtrex manufacture for GSK. - Line Manager of Procurement Department of 9 with direct spend of over $50 million annually.- Directly contributed over $30M in cost reductions over a 6 years in direct & indirect procurement.- Led the implementation team for Procurement to install SAP for GSK's largest manufacturing site.- GSK Award for Sarbanes-Oxley Financial Audit Compliance top result.- #1 Savings delivery in 2006 among 80 Sourcing Group Managers globally.- Led the US Manufacturing team to implement Integrated Facilities Management for GSK.