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Peania, Attica, GR

• Manage and improve all procurement, project management and strategic sourcing initiatives while serving as Champion and Primary Process Leader. Lead multimillion-dollar contract negotiations and vendor agreements based.
• Saved significant net costs as well as identified and mitigated short-term risk by implementing global vendor management and sourcing strategies for major categories.
• Orchestrated aggressive process improvement initiative focusing on reducing transportation-related costs that aided in achieving $2.4M annual savings.
• Saved $1M+ costs annually by revamping travel/expense reimbursement systems and processes.
• Conducted detailed contract audit as well as risk assessment, mitigated risks in all procurement areas, and offered strategic advice to C-suite and executive leadership that resulted in saving $5M+ costs.

London, GB

• Spearheaded all phases of conferencing services projects from inception to completion. Fostered relationships with clients. Developed financial forecasts, benchmarking, and cost optimization procedures as well as.
• Developed global vendor management and continuous improvement methodologies in coordination with suppliers.
• Designed and implemented supplier management structure and processes.
• Delivered sourcing and procurement cost savings, risk mitigation projects, as well as supplier, enabled innovation.

Las Vegas, NV, US

• Drove value, cost, and quality-focused results through effective management of procurement initiatives. Developed and oversaw the strategic sourcing activities for assigned lines of business. Defined targeted.
• Formulated and communicated functional supply chain or sourcing strategy to diverse groups of managers and senior-level professionals.
• Identified and sourced potential suppliers and established best-in-class supply chain; cultivated relationships with best-in-class suppliers.
• Saved $2.4M of costs through effective contract negotiations related to carriers, transportation, hardware, software, buildings, maintenance, services, and systems.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Led the installation and optimization of new/existing enterprise platforms. Developed strategies, identified customer needs, and recommended replacements/upgrades to systems accordingly. Designed, standardized, and.
• Met with potential (incumbents and non-incumbents) participants, answered RFP related questions from vendors, and assessed RFP results that aided in achieving final vendor(s) awards.
• Generated and ensured the implementation of ideas to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for spend categories that resulted in achieving annual productivity improvements in each category of spend.
• Achieved significant savings by developing and enforcing new policies/procedures and leading organizational as well as operational change management within managed categories of spend.Additional Experience as Director.

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