Strategic Sourcing for Professional Services, Marketing, HR and Travel as well as vendor managment

• Founding member of new IMI Indirect Procurement team in the Americas, Europe and Asia and at UK HQs.• Manage $100M global spend for professional / consulting contracts including Finance, Legal/Advisory, Consulting, HR and Marketing. Conduct benchmarking for professional rates in each category. Create savings strategy by implementing volume / sole source discounts. Consolidate preferred supplier list.• Work with over 150 global offices to harmonize contracts and initiate agreements.• Create Master Services Agreement, accompanying documents and Indirect policies/procedures.• Leading implementation for content management system and contract repository.

• Manage $25M spend for professional / consulting contracts including Finance and Legal/Advisory. Conduct benchmarking for professional rates in each category. Create savings strategy by implementing volume / sole source discounts. Consolidate preferred supplier list.• Work with new global offices establishing suppliers in region including Russia and China.• Successfully lead change management projects including Source to Settle for office products and translations.• Handle $150M category agreements for Human Resources, Health, Training and Wellness programs for reduction in cost of 10 – 50%.• Managed $20M U.S. travel contracts spend and consulted on travel policy. Benchmarked agency verifying competitiveness and negotiated long-term savings. Achieved 10 – 20% cost savings for bidding rental car and airline contracts.• Led 3-company bid with Meritor and Con-Way to source office supplies saving Navistar $635K for $3.9M spend.• Collaborated with HR creating corporate-wide agreements and standard rates for $10M. Negotiated $500K HR leadership training program contracts resulting in 10 – 30% savings. Garnered 10 – 30% savings for Software as a Service contracts through negotiations. Obtained $1M savings by supplier reduction and changing scope.• Created global translations strategy and vision for entire organization. Improved workflow and economies of scale yielding 50% savings in first year for the $2M per year category spend.• Accomplished $3M Marketing savings by devising sourcing strategy and negotiating new rate cards, benchmarking, standardizing invoicing and leading change management for the $40M category spend.• Conducted Purchasing policies / procedures training sessions with internal clients.• Exceeded diversity spend goal by 35% while acting as Supplier Diversity Coordinator.