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Nashville, TN, US

Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, US

Thousand Oaks, CA, US

Teddington, Middlesex, GB

• Produced $8.5m in cost reductions by leading a team of global category managers to build category management strategies for chemicals, single-use lab consumables, pharma packaging, and logistics.
• Directed category managers on regional RFP and VE efforts that consolidated fabricated and thermoform component suppliers from 20 down to 10 and generated $250K in savings opportunity.
• $1.2m in annual savings achieved for single-use laboratory consumables by initiating RFP’s and negotiating pricing with several manufacturers based in China, India & EMEA.
• Spearheaded effort to improve working capital by 15 days for over $75m in annual expenditure by holding accountable a team of 10 category managers to negotiate with their vendors extended payment terms.

Bloomington, Indiana, US

• Delivered construction project 15% under budget by facilitating RFP events and negotiating favorable contracts with engineering, IT infrastructure and contingent workforce providers.
• Decreased mobile rate plan charges for 4,000 employees that generated a $700K value by negotiating more favorable agreements with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.
• Reduced excess cost by 12% by evaluating hardware asset utilization across 20 offices and replacing these assets with lower-cost alternatives without sacrificing operational efficiency.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Implemented VE/VA effort to insource $15m of injection molded plastic components that reduced external supply risks across 5 critical vendors and generated a 5% cost benefit.
• Mitigated supply risks on $120m of raw materials by identifying and approving secondary competitive sources and transitioning freight to a bulk rail delivery network.
• Designed category management strategies for raw materials, resins, chemicals, and mined minerals that mitigated supply risks, removed price volatility, and consolidated supplier base of 100 vendors down to 50.
• Won agreement from VP of Procurement and President on plastic resin category strategy that recommend price hedging and approving of alternative sources on $100m of resins procured annually.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Identified $3m in COGs improvement value for nursing, surgery, medical device, and laboratory products by utilizing Tableau and MicroStrategy platform to create spend analytical reports.
• Improved time to contract execution by 50% by creating a custom Microsoft Excel report that automated review of expiring and new contracts.
• Yielded $1.5m in revenue for sales region by successfully influencing prospective clients to join GPO network by presenting favorable cost-benefit analysis reports.

Irving, Texas, US

• Achieved Six Sigma Green Belt certification by working cross-functionally with engineering design team to eliminate excess machining waste, netting a $250K cost improvement benefit.
• Executed strategic sourcing plans to drive supplier quality improvement activity by identifying new vendor partnerships for fabricated and machined components that improved PPM score by 50%.
• Improved On-Time Delivery performance from 40% to 90% by coaching material planning team on supply planning best practices and meeting with key vendors weekly to address shipping and delivery issues.