Dan Bartek Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Responsible for building and managing executive relationships across Highmark’s Health Plan
• Plan, schedule, and monitor strategic initiatives in several verticals under the Health Plan and supporting business areas
• Developed a multi-year sourcing strategy for the Call Center category with key stakeholders and SMEs
• Negotiated $1.1MM in cost savings and $1.2MM in cost avoidance between incumbent BPOs in the call center category
• Executed negotiations with incumbent and new suppliers in the Payment Integrity space resulting in $2MM in administrative cost savings

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Worked with the corporate team, business units, and stakeholders to prioritize an evolving portfolio of high-value, process improvement and sourcing initiatives
• Created and implemented a sourcing strategy for the Contingent Labor space to improve cost structure, transparency, and centralize the process across the Highmark enterprise
• Developed a multi-phased strategy focused on Diversity inclusion within our Contingent Labor category targeted to increase spend with Diversity certified vendors
• Managed several departments’ needs and expectations through the initiation of the centralization of our Learning and Development program

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Conducted a payroll and benefits GAIN negotiation resulting in $4.7M (38%) in annual savings while maintaining existing service levels
• Served as a Lead in executing two Kaizen events in different Business Units (BCS, GRP) to identify efficiency gains, process improvements and cost savings ideas with existing suppliers
• Led 4 eAuctions across different commodities which resulted in $407K in cost savings (average % = 17.43%)
• Managed the onboarding of a temporary labor supplier across multiple locations after achieving $330k (14.2%) savings and improved service levels via a GAIN negotiation
• Executed 7 Supplier Summit negotiations which resulted in $205K in cost savings (average % = 7.03%)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Work with the corporate team, business units, and regional stakeholders to prioritize an evolving portfolio of high-value, process improvement and sourcing initiatives across approximately $100M annually
• Led Kaizen events for different business units to identify efficiency gains, process improvements and cost savings ideas with existing suppliers
• Execute various Negotiation strategies (F2F, Supplier Summits, Gain negotiations) to identify cost savings ideas
• Execute eAuctions and various e-sourcing events via the Ariba sourcing tool across different commodities, and serve as a Subject Matter Expert for the Company, advising multiple teams on strategies and options to.
• Managed a company split inclusive of negotiating and separating multiple high profile contracts

New York, NY, US

• Manage sourcing projects and processes for high profile Fortune 500 clients
• Perform research and collect market intelligence to create and deliver market landscapes to client inclusive of industry trends and competitor identification and analysis
• Oversee multiple Ariba sourcing events for clients inclusive of RFP’s, RFI’s, and auctions to ensure supplier understanding and response completion
• Educated and trained client sourcing team on Ariba sourcing events such as RFP’s and auctions (discount, total cost, index pricing, dutch, etc.) increasing number of events in the pipeline
• Implemented a streamlined Ariba contract management process for a client in order to improve user adoption and ensure appropriate contract visibility to key leaders in the organization
• Analyze supplier proposals to identify outliers, gaps and initial results in order to provide bid package summaries to client

Waldorf, DE

• The Expert Care Manager is a named contact within Ariba that acts as anAccount Manager for the customer.
• Conduct customer site visits to learn of their internal business processes and provide best practice solutions
• Provide day to day user support to assigned customers
• Assist customers with scoring & evaluating suppliers via RFP’s & auctions
• Prepare monthly customized reports for customers of their Ariba activity
• Create training materials and procedures to share internally and externally

Waldorf, DE

• As a Customer Support Senior Specialist, I supported Ariba applications for internal and external customers in the Sourcing Division.
• Served as a Certified Contract manager for Ariba Contract Management Pro
• Enabled site customizations as a Site Administrator & support hardware & software applications
• Interfaced with other Ariba teams to ensure customer satisfaction
• Reduced wait time and customer complaints as Queue Manager
• Supported event planning, quality management, and online auctions

Waldorf, DE

• Provided inbound application and functional support for all relevant Ariba applications, internally and externally
• Utilized strong problem solving skills to troubleshoot software issues
• Responded to customer inquiries with a 9.27 CSAT customer satisfaction

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Prepared a bid evaluation for PPE
• Analyzed proposals received from a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) RFP
• Created a bid evaluation methodology and presented results to management.Implemented a program to disposition excess inventory.
• Gathered data to determine inventory prices and material aging information
• Prepared spreadsheets with merchandise information for potential purchasers to review
• Communicated with clients and competitors to move non-performing items

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• While interning at TruFoodMFG, I assisted two MBA Interns in the implementation of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System.
• Gained a thorough understanding of Tsudis’ end-to-end supply chain
• Assisted in establishing an ABC Classification for inventory
• Redesigned the warehouse to increase visibility and accuracy of inventory systems
• Participated in Kaizen workshops to identify continuous improvement opportunities