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Rahway, New Jersey, Us

- Lead cross-functional teams in evaluating and selecting Functional Service Provision (FSP) solutions by conducting market research and developing and executing strategic sourcing initiatives that align with organizational goals.- Leverage digital procurement tools to drive innovative procurement strategies, streamline RFx events, reduce project timelines, and improve process transparency.- Conduct in-depth spend assessments and cost analyses to identify savings opportunities and lead comprehensive contract negotiations to optimize procurement spend.- Cultivate long-term, strategic partnerships with essential suppliers to secure access to FSP resources, support a collaborative partnership, and foster mutual investment in shared business goals and objectives.- Prepare reports, insights, and recommendations for senior management to support strategic decision-making.

Amherst, New York, Us

- Cultivated internal and external stakeholder relationships at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, leading a cross-functional team through an aggressive timeline of complex procurement projects. - Planned and managed operational readiness activities, launching a web-based purchasing card (P-Card) reconciliation tool and improving the efficiency of P-Card business practices.- Organized a campus-wide campaign to drive P-Card adoption, effecting policy updates and increasing cardholder accountability, resulting in a 75% surge in active accounts.- Extracted historical spend data to produce management reports in support of converting low-value transactions from campus vouchers to P-Card, exposing a $6.5MM transactional savings opportunity. - Collaborated with University stakeholders to manage the configurations, testing, troubleshooting, and communications for onboarding an Amazon Business punchout.

New York, New York, Us

- Implemented Electronic Auction (eAuction) process in support of digitization initiative: transformed negotiation strategies across 13 categories, as team lead in the US and subject-matter expert for subsequent deployments in Mexico, Brazil, EMEA, and APAC.- Analyzed category spend and influenced negotiations of major sourcing events, utilizing eAuction to achieve first-year savings of 42%, increasing to 65% in year two.- Trained staff to identify strategic bid opportunities, establishing a pipeline of eAuction and RFx sourcing projects to contribute to Procurement’s $880MM savings target. - Established best practices for transparent competitive bidding, managing setups, hosting bid events, evaluating responses, and facilitating post-bid reviews.- Awarded “Employee of the Month”, in recognition of demonstrated commitment to shared business objectives and overall achievements in digital transformation.

New York, New York, Us

- Managed regularly shifting priorities of global Procure-to-Pay (P2P) implementations to satisfy business requirements, ensure compliance, and meet aggressive project timelines.- Administered daily operations of Oracle P2P module, advocating system enhancements for improved efficiency and performing UAT testing for quality assurance.- Provided leadership to regional counterparts to assure global process standardization.

Master Of Science - Ms, Management/Organizational Leadership

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services