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Huntsville, Al, Us

Responsible for sourcing team that manages indirect categories including IT/Telecom, Customer Service, HR, Fleet, and Facilities. Sets goals, manages, evaluates, and develops team. Challenge employees while building an effective team through coaching, feedback, and development opportunities.Work across a global matrixed organization, sharing and learning best practices and balancing global and local needs and impacts.Oversee the development, responses, and implementation of policies, audits, and internal controls as required.Maintains an advanced and working knowledge of the US and Global Market for services and equipment.Oversee the negotiation and awards of multi-faceted, complex, business wide and affiliate specific enterprise contracts to minimize operational, legal, and financial risks. Collaborates with both internal and external legal counsel.Develop and maintain a high-performance culture, resulting in continued success meeting KPIs and improved levels of customer service to internal and external customers.Recommend and lead efforts to improve existing processes for enhanced contractual language/structure, increased savings, and departmental metrics.

Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Provided direct leadership of sourcing teams that managed $1.3B of annual spend for Direct and Indirect Categories by sourcing, negotiating, and contracting key agreements to support the execution of the respective capital and maintenance plans.Achieved $20M in savings by executing long term strategic contracts.Led, coached, and managed teams between 8 to 11 sourcing agents. Streamlined proposal template to establish a standardized pricing schedule for building construction firms resulting in eliminating mark-up for self-performed projects.Managed and motivated sourcing teams, by fostering collaboration, employee engagement, and increased productivity through SMART goals, coaching, and performance management to meet or exceed assigned objectives.Developed strategic category plan for Facility Construction Contractor Management of Choice program to competitively bid and award Master Service Agreements (MSAs).Worked closely with cross-functional teams (Material Logistics and Engineering) to identify needs, review forecast, and required sourcing activities.Served as escalation path for complex contract negotiations or disputes.

Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Direct oversight and leadership to team of analysts and supplier diversity specialist.Motivated team to foster collaboration, employee engagement, and increased productivity.Leveraged employees to develop cross-functional teams to create and/or update processes and procedures and strategic initiatives.Developed and monitored annual corporate performance metrics for Procurement department.Performed SOX Certifications on a quarterly basis, in addition to facilitating response to internal audit and Regulatory inquiries.Oversight of the execution of corporate Supplier Diversity program, including identification of annual metrics, program framework, partnership programs, and annual Small Business Subcontracting plan.Provided routine updates to Senior Leadership on corporate initiatives. Oversaw and approved the development and implementation of PowerBi reports used both internally in Procurement and externally (stakeholders) to track pertinent spend and contract information.

Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Strategic sourcing of telecom, civil construction, and gas engineering categoriesLed procurement activities to execute competitive bids to support a $400M telecom capital program. Restructured gas engineering contracts that introduced standardized Exhibits and Schedules resulting in $1M of savings, consistent contract administration, and streamlining onboarded engineering resources. Conducted market analysis for development of category strategy plan.Leveraged relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers to achieve favorable contract terms and pricing.Consistently met and/or exceeded annual savings metric of $1M.Co-led team to development requirements and implementation of new enterprise resource planning and e-sourcing tool.

Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Procurement lead for underground civil construction and electric operations categories.Negotiated $5M of savings for underground civil construction competitive bids.Mentored junior agents and trained new hires. Exceeded Supplier Diversity target by introducing diverse suppliers to business units for potential opportunities and inclusion on competitive sourcing events.

Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Consistently met and/or exceed annual savings metric of $250K.Led sourcing and procurement efforts for natural gas materials and IT/Telecom categories.Led and negotiated competitive bid to establish new Managed Service Provider (MSP) for cyber security services.Established long term agreements with suppliers to ensure continuity of materials and services.Provide oversight and training to colleagues as required.

Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Established long term blanket contracts with suppliers as required to meet business needs.Identified new suppliers, including diverse suppliers for introduction of new products to business units.Served as a working member on the Electric Utility Sustainability Alliance to identify best practices for increasing sustainable measures in the supply chain. Member of Electric and Gas Tool Committees to review, approve, and source MRO.

Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Supported procurement activities for Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution business units.Administered competitive bids resulting in contract award to achieve corporation savings.Developed and maintained report to track corporate credit card spend to monitor program compliance.

Performed quality assurance review of insurance documents prior to delivery of insurance documents to United Health Group customers.Knowledge of health insurance terms.Use of Microsoft Office products to track accuracy of insurance coverage information.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business, 3.5

MBA

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.47

Business Management

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Business Administration And Management, General

Business Administration