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Bellevue Wa

Develop customer engagement program terms and deliverables for Samsung to drive significant business impact via T-Mobile on all new promotional programs. Proactively identify opportunities, strategize and drive issues to resolution on T-Mobile partnership. Leading a six sigma program involving multiple stakeholders throughout Samsung designed to improve the efficiency of the trade spend review process by 10%, eliminate redundancy and increase efficiency by working closely in collaboration with marketing, sales and operations. Regular interaction with Senior Vice President and his direct reports to provide recommendations on new programs as well as the overall status of the account teams budget. Train new sales team members on how to develop a trade spend program and drive it through completion. Participate in strategic planning for 2015 and 2016 focusing on increasing sales and maximizing return on investment of investment opportunities.

Senior program manager and lead for developing North American inbound transportation initiatives and provide guidance to operations team and senior management. Led the development and submission of the North American inbound transportation full year operations budget worth an estimated $1.1 Billion. Trained team members and new personnel in an efficient, complete and thorough manner amidst a 100% team turnover rate every 3 months. Collaborated by working closely with cross-org operation partners to develop and approve yearly savings initiatives of $85M. Created and presented weekly and monthly reports to various organizational leaders and executives tracking Amazon’s transportation performance against targets. As the lead, owned financial approval for all invoicing issues between transportation carriers and Amazon. Implemented thorough and rigorous process to enable payments and cost allocation during closing of the monthly books by working closely with Accounting teams. Managed the end-to-end coordination across legal (LCA) and operations teams on the submission and retrieval of outstanding damage claims in the order of millions of dollars (~ $3M). Led special projects requiring detailed modeling to drive decision-making of executive leadership team. Talent acquisition representative for the organization.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Overall owner and fiscal responsibility for the entire P&L for the Worldwide Workstation business unit including US, Western Europe and China with a net worth of over $330M US Dollars. Provide financial approval as the Lenovo corporate officer for all new products developed in the workstation business unit by assessing and evaluating business cases with a keen focus on financial analysis for new product launches. Forward-thinking and mission oriented to increase profitability by initiating operational efficiency proposals and discussions on an on-going basis. Initiate and lead operational plans to achieve budgetary challenges and goals as business climate dictates. Key accomplishments include – Innovator and creator of a global growth funds process that allows efficient tracking and distribution of funds across the geographies based on contribution models; Initiator of a worldwide seed unit program to provide evaluation units for large customers as a means to grow the workstation business. On-going, daily responsibilities include developing and managing monthly, quarterly and yearly budgets including control over the workstation travel program; representing the workstation unit to the larger business; preparing and managing business cases for future investments based on global growth plan and positioning for all geographies; preparing and allocating yearly budgets for the various workstation organizations globally; bridging revenue, expense and profit issues; and working with Geo sales teams to develop sales target and growth plans to grow the Workstation business.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Managed a $24M quarterly accrual for the entire North American shipping activities for Lenovo Group Ltd. Forecasted monthly, quarterly and yearly shipping charges for all of North America. Spearheaded the transition from the IBM legacy management systems into the SAP accounting system. Created a user friendly forecasting model for the end-users which enabled seamless perusal of all input and straightforward modeling with one-click buttons for changing key assumptions and decision points. Introduction of this model significantly reduced forecast modeling by reducing forecast planning time from hours to minutes. Prepared the North American Global Logistics yearly budget for all shipping and headcount expenses. Calculated and prepared monthly closing journal entries for shipping expense accrual and Global Logistics overhead. Analyzed and approved all financial aspects of shipping savings programs. Managed Mode of Transit requests for quotes and acted as Liaison between Sales team and Global Supply Chain business unit. Acted as the North American Liaison to China for all North American Global Logistics concerns.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Worked directly with the Mid Market Executive Director of Sales as her primary financial approver to achieve revenue and profitability targets. Final approver on pricing strategy on all small market business in North America. Created and presented frequently to the North America Senior Executive team the monthly performance metrics for all product series for the entire NA geography that showed monthly margins and pricing trends to help identify areas of concern and focus areas for the executive team. Instrumental in helping the business win some of the largest accounts in the market segment by working diligently with the sales representatives to identify cost-benefit for the business and translating opportunities into business win. Key client wins include MetLife, BlueCross & BlueShield of Tennessee and Bank of America. Played the role of the principle contact for all RFP’s and bid requests by providing financial guidance and strategic pricing direction for RFP submissions. Led and performed quarterly audit and account reviews. Created and implemented a new financial measurement database for monthly analysis improving reporting tools and efficiencies for monthly analysis

Raleigh Nc

.Acting controller and purchasing manager overlooking all Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables. Managed the company’s monthly and quarterly closing process. Ran all internal audits. Provided direction to the company’s accounting staff. Approved all payroll for the company. Handled purchasing for the research company worth $30M annually. Managed the procurement of goods and services for support of operational and financial accounting requirements for 120 employees. Negotiated all vendor contracts for cost and service optimization, developed RFQs, selected all principle vendors and developed RFQ process for vendors to follow. Developed and maintained a purchasing system that provides on-line ordering capabilities for staff. Optimized purchasing, delivery, inventory control and cost efficiencies. Realized a 10% Y-Y purchasing budget savings.

Henderson Nc

Performed margin management activities including contract reviews and renewals, substitution reviews, request for proposals (RFP), and cost quotes. Supervised the development of bid proposals and pricing scenarios for customers including quarterly savings analysis for larger clients actively looking for ways for the company to gain higher gross profits via substitution, rearrangement of contracts etc. Facilitated divisional executive reviews to identify and prioritize margin initiatives and address key issues. Prepared all new business bid proposals starting from selection of products to bid to coming up with a pricing strategy, factoring in company margin levels, business size, industry and other purchasing group contracts. Spearheaded and setup the business unit for a $26M office products bid opportunity – the largest account in company and a huge opportunity in the office products space. Creatively modeled bid based on multiple computations on client purchasing history to draw a balance between profit margins that senior business leaders were comfortable with and a pricing that led to a client win.Ran daily metrics that was sent to regional executive staff showing division performance from revenue, margin and budget target perspectives. Developed and ran ad hoc reports and assisted users in accessing system. Analyzed and provided data in support of divisional strategic objectives to facilitate business improvements. Built Microsoft Access database for sales operations and accounting across eight different departments throughout the division. Key accomplishment included the development of a school product catalog to help expand the company into the education industry that was piloted in the region to a great success. The program’s success led to eventually launching the program nationally.

Master, Business Administration; Supply Chain Management And Services

B.S, Business Management � Finance

B.S, Accounting