Christy D. Willmon Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Rafael, California, United States

Greater San Diego Area

Helping companies spend wisely by providing strategic sourcing and procurement services.www.willmonconsulting.com

Business partner supporting the sourcing and procurement of goods and services across the organization through relationship building, spend analytics, long-term planning, competitive bidding and maintaining business continuity. Challenged suppliers to be innovative and high performers through transparent communication, growing spend, performance metrics, quarterly business reviews and senior leadership engagement.

Part-time adjunct faculty in the School of Business teaching the Global Environment of Business and Principles of Management.

• Led international cross-functional team to identify a source to perform a companion diagnostic test ex-US. Long-term project impact will increase sales by 100%+ on company’s highest revenue generating commercial pharmaceutical product.• Identified strategic partner to support the transfer and validation of an internally developed assay. Parallel-pathed key business decisions allowing the team to progress with evaluating supplier capabilities and making a selection. Executed contract to receive and analyze samples by project start date.• Delivered $2M cost savings through strategic sourcing initiative for comparator pharmaceuticals. Eliminated high risk sole source situation. Identified and qualified three sources creating flexibility in meeting requirements for product expiry, lot size and delivery timelines. • Transitioned $60M of supplier spend into a managed state. Ensured comprehensive supplier contracts, fair value cost analysis, risk mitigation plan and governance structure.

• Project manager for JIT material delivery program rollout. Streamlined reorder process with Kanban system, developed reliable supply chain to reduce excess inventory levels, improved lab space utilization due to decreased inventory and shared bulk purchases across departments. Achieved cost savings of $0.2M. Received prestigious Biogen Idec Bold Ideas Award for project completion.• Developed e-commerce strategy to maximize e-procurement solutions by increasing electronic purchase order transmissions from 50% to 70%. Implemented financial impact analysis to minimize risk to company. Created supplier preference ratings to direct spend and maximize supplier contracts. Improved accuracy of procure to pay process by decreasing requisition cycle time from 4 days to 1 day and invoice cycle time from 7 days to 1 day. • Established KPIs for supplier management program. Created cross-functional team to evaluate supplier warehouse inventory, logistics and forecasting methods. Improved delivery lead times from 5 days to 1 day, product availability from 92% to 99% and transportation costs by 10%.• Implemented value network management approach to sourcing that reduced international CRO lead times by 30%.

• Negotiated $2.5M multi-year agreement for Bioprocess platform standardization project applicable to all Biogen Idec US and Denmark sites. • Served on research and development steering committee to provide recommendations on supplier sourcing strategies, risk assessment, mitigation and selection process.• Supported process engineers on product redesign and improvements including drawings, prototypes, lead times and cost analysis.

Ms, Supply Chain Management

Bs, Finance

Activities and Societies: Finance and Investment Society

Specialized Certificate In Purchasing Management