Bruce Ritter

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Manager, Vendor Management
Bruce Ritter's Location
Barrington Hills, Illinois, United States, United States
About Bruce Ritter

Looking for opportunity to help an organization succeed having spent last several years caring for sick family members, and addressing several family matters.Seasoned professional with proven track record of driving and delivering results, as demonstrated by company awards listed below. Extensive experience across industries as diverse as electronics to retail to healthcare insurance, with seamless transitions, and in areas such as those listed in Core Competencies. Dedicated to and passionate about advancing an organizations goals and making things better.

Bruce Ritter's Current Company Details

Manager, Vendor Management
Bruce Ritter Work Experience Details
  • Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas
    Manager, Vendor Management
    Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas 2013 - 2018
    Chicago, Il
    • Awards: HCSC SPIRIT Award for performance (included monetary award) - 2015.• Managed as CFO of Retail Direct Sales; $90M in annual invoices reviewed, audited and approved, and developed enterprise best practices for invoice tracking and review; $500K in multiyear over-billing by a vendor uncovered soon after gaining responsibility; $1.5M+ of multiple vendors’s invoice mistakes identified and corrected.• Business Lead for Budget and Forecast Models, including $1M+ of improved spend efficiency from introducing marginal cost analysis of projected SLA performance.• Responsible for Vendor Service Agreements for Contact Centers, Marketing & Software; negotiated terms and managed SOWs for Sales, Healthcare Management, Member and Broker Service supporting over $5B in revenue and 2M members.• $500K+ annual savings from finding and negotiating rate reductions with vendor system integration; $1M+ annual savings from HCSC’s 1st offshore call center support.• Scaled vendor capacity in first 6 months by 15x helping to achieve 145% of sales goal.
  • Sears Holdings Corporation
    Product Engineering Manager For Cooking & Grills
    Sears Holdings Corporation 2011 - 2013
    Hoffman Estates, Il
    INCLUSIVE OF ALL ROLES• Awards: Home Services Power of Performance (included monetary award) - 2010.• Finance responsibilities included: for $400M+ in annual product and operational expenses taking over responsibility from Finance and creating much more accurate and comprehensive cost and operational metric forecasting, tracking and reporting.• Met or exceeded cost of quality and customer satisfaction targets for the most complex product category, with annual product sales of $1B+ and service sales of $200M+, in nation’s then largest channels for sales, delivery and installation, and repair.• Identified $2.7M in annual lost profit for Home Services business unit.• $174M in cost savings driven by managing a Cost of Quality project portfolio, creating business cases, reporting and managing projects.• Managed team of Analysts and Report Specialists, and SAS Warranty Analysis system to produce and from unit to C-level distribute reporting, including vendor scorecards, and developed strategy eliminating SAS system weeklong annual update downtime.• Managed multi-billion dollar business unit leadership’s monthly Management Metrics system for customer, operational and financial metrics, and reduced final report build effort from 8 to 2 hours.
  • Sears Holdings Corporation
    Manager, Data Analysis & Reporting
    Sears Holdings Corporation 2009 - 2011
    Hoffman Estates, Il
    please see above
  • Sears Holdings Corporation
    Portfolio Manager
    Sears Holdings Corporation 2007 - 2009
    Hoffman Estates, Il
    please see above
  • Sears Holdings Corporation
    Project Lead
    Sears Holdings Corporation 2006 - 2007
    Hoffman Estates, Il
    please see above
  • Motorola Inc
    Black Belt
    Motorola Inc 2005 - 2006
    Deer Park, Il
    INCLUSIVE OF ALL ROLES• Led project to insure quality and productivity of a technology new to Motorola, including working with and traveling to facilities and partners both in the US, Mexico and China.• $9.3M of cost savings opportunities from developing cost and process improvements.
  • Motorola
    Senior Electronics Engineer
    Motorola 2004 - 2005
    Deer Park, Il
    please see above
  • Illinois Institute Of Technology
    Graduate Student
    Illinois Institute Of Technology 2001 - 2003
    Chicago, Illinois, United States
    Finished MSEE, and earned MBA.
  • Champion Technologies, Inc.
    Senior Design Engineer
    Champion Technologies, Inc. 2000 - 2001
    Frankin Park, Il
    INCLUSIVE OF ALL ROLES• $15M+ of sales from products designed, meeting Six Sigma Quality standards, taking from concept to production, including designing production equipment and processes.• Process improvements; including up to 40% cutting total production time up to 1 day.
  • Champion Technologies, Inc.
    Design Engineer Ii
    Champion Technologies, Inc. 1998 - 2000
    Frankin Park, Il
    please see above
  • Champion Technologies, Inc.
    Design Engineer I
    Champion Technologies, Inc. 1996 - 1998
    Frankin Park, Il
    please see above

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Bruce Ritter attended Northwestern University, Illinois Institute Of Technology, Illinois Institute Of Technology.

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