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Frisco, Texas, Us

Responsible for leading the vendor sourcing team with a focus on helping the company meet enterprise-wide objectives, reduce risk and deliver substantial cost savings. Responsibilities include managing, supervising, planning and organizing the activities of the vendor sourcing staff. Additionally, this role is responsible for sourcing key business areas. A primary objective of this role is working collaboratively with internal business leaders to capture business requirements, provide market analysis, and develop sourcing strategies and plans to deliver best in class value to the organization.

Frisco, Texas, Us

Sourcing and Contracting across multiple Indirect sourcing categories, with a primary focus on IT, Professional Services and Consulting. Developing and Performing RFPs, RFIs and conducting direct contract negotiations, contract execution and vendor management.

Frisco, Texas, Us

Sourcing and Contracting across multiple Indirect sourcing categories, with a primary focus on IT, Professional Services and Consulting. Developing and Performing RFPs, RFIs and conducting direct contract negotiations, contract execution and vendor management.

Reykjavik, Iceland, Is

Hired to assist in establishing Össur’s Global Indirect Strategic Sourcing program, tasked to develop and implement sourcing strategies across Össur’s $XXXM annual indirect spend.- Developed category sourcing strategies for multiple categories, obtained stakeholder approval and established governance teams for monthly category and project reviews.- Competitively bid, or directly negotiated mobile services for multiple countries in which Össur has operations in, rightsizing plans to reduce overages and data costs as well as improve reporting.- Competitively bid Össur’s promotional items programs, saving XX%, consolidating country specific programs into a global program, improving reporting, brand management and item quality.- Competitively bid U.S. and European marketing print with savings ranging from XX% to XX%.- Led the development of Össur’s Sourcing & Purchasing Policy as well as assisted in the development of RFx documents, pricing files, score cards and other department documentation.

Estero, Fl, Us

Responsible for the development and management of the Strategic Sourcing Department for Herc Rentals, the equipment rental division of Hertz that spun off on 7/1/16, managing Indirect Purchasing categories totaling $XXXM in annual spend and the execution of approximately XXX contracts annually.- Built the Sourcing Department from a single direct report to that of a team of eight, plus contract employees, covering the sourcing of Corporate Services, IT, Operations and Travel categories- Led the major corporate initiative of separating Hertz Car Rental and Equipment Rental division’s shared supplier contracts, which was required as part of the corporate separation of Hertz and Herc Rentals- Focus the department and internal corporate stakeholders on areas of operational improvement and cost reduction opportunities while also meeting daily sourcing and contracting needs

Estero, Fl, Us

Responsible for the sourcing strategy and management of multiple Hertz Corporate Services categories (e.g. marketing, HR, sales, print services) with $XXXM+ in annual spend.- Established multiple category sourcing strategies through collaboration with internal stakeholders, soliciting vendor insight and conducting market research which resulted in cost and demand reductions while improving products/services and delivery and management there of- Conducted multiple sourcing activities, including competitively bidding Digital Media (which reduced agency commissions by up to XX%) and Social Media services (which reduced fees by up to XX%), completing more than xx contracts resulting in lower costs, improved terms and services- Advised, trained and mentored team members as Procurement Leadership relocated from NJ to FL

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for the sourcing strategy and management of the Print Production and Capital Equipment categories with $XXXM in annual spend - Established the category sourcing strategy and advanced international sourcing and collaboration - Leveraged sourcing activities to renegotiate current supplier agreements resulting in improved terms (extended payment terms, added favorable provisions and service levels with penalties, eliminated or limited the ability to increase pricing) and price reductions - Restructured contracted fee structures (ex. fixed fee structure to a fixed & variable structure) to better align with current and less known future demand reducing costs

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for the sourcing strategy and management of the Facility Interiors procurement category (office furniture, flooring, architectural services, signage) with $XXM in annual spend - Improved the category sourcing strategy through supply base rationalization, educating the internal business on product requirement cost drivers and participating in environment design - Implemented tiered pricing agreements to improve established price discounts - Expanded supply base to focus on sub-category product competitiveness savings - Established agreements with Tier 2 suppliers to improve product pricing and provide Tier 1 handling fee transparency with savings - Identified and contracted new lower-cost suppliers and solutions resulting in savings

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Sourced $1.5B in complex automotive systems and components globally for GM manufacturing locations around the world

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Managed GM’s Metal Fabrication Division’s logistics network, implementing an outsourced logistics model to reduce labor costs, consolidate and standardize services and reporting, and increase the carrier base. GM Certified Global Manufacturing Systems Coach.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Managed GM’s Personal Computer environment and outsourced Help Desk operations, standardizing PC configurations and negotiating the global PC contract reducing costs while improving delivery time. Consolidated internal help desks resulting in savings through headcount reductions and technology management

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Supervised 22 UAW employees responsible for delivering production material, increasing employee productivity while also having responsibility over the Central Material Area, managing the inventory and delivery of thousands of part numbers to the production line.

Masters, Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Management Information Systems