Bruce Wise Email & Phone Number

Prior Lake, Mn

Landscape and wildlife photography wherever my camera and the weather takes me. Check out WiseWoodImages.com starting March 1st and message me if you find a photo you want for your office, cabin or home.

St. Louis Park, Minnesota

• Develop business strategies, manage busness plans to achieve objectives and execute sourcing initiatives in the Audit, Advisory and Business Consulting areas.• Negotiations, contracting and vendor relationship management.• Mentor staff on process, approach and engagement of both internal clients and vendors.

Minneapolis, Mn

Created and managed a vendor contract team for in-sourcing of procurement processes.• Implemented common templates, processes, and controls across the organization.• Provided training to organization and customized support to individuals.• Held leaders and vendors accountable for financial obligations and mitigated risk to the company.• Resource management in the U.S. and India.

Minneapolis, Mn

Recruited to Create and manage a vendor relationship and contract processing team for a new company.• Managed vendor relationships for critical resource and software vendors. including goal setting, conflict resolution, and performance management.• Ensured throughput of Statements of Work related to India out-task vendors.• Educated leadership on vendor management principles and industry developments.• Identified cross-organizational gaps and opportunities; educated senior leadership; and implemented changes to close gaps.• Mentored vendor and company leaders on how to improve communications and interactions.

Minneapolis, Mn

Recruited to create and manage an operational support team in support of a global sourcing team.• Audit and compliance facilitation.• Implemented vendor dashboards.• Responsible for vendor performance management, conflict resolution and financial reconciliation.• Contract and rate negotiations ($150MM cost savings over a 5 year period).• Resource team located across U.S. and in England.

Minneapolis, Mn

Worked on a specially formed team that evaluated corporate-wide opportunities for efficiency improvements. Reviewed and recommended cross-organizational opportunities for improvement related to sourcing activities.• Knowledge Management.• Contracting process.• Connectivity between vendor and company sites.• Account Reviews and performance management.

Minneapolis, Mn

Managed production support and development agenda for Retirement Services with thirty direct reports consisting of programmers and business system analysts.• Implemented first India out-tasked team for company.• Consistently exceeded cost reduction goals year-over-year.• Re-aligned organization from business into technologies.• Implemented one recordkeeping system, 10 ancillary systems and acted as Subject Matter Expert for new business implementations.