Owning indirect procurement Managing company's procurement and strategic sourcing with over millions in spend. Negotiating with suppliers, built and led teams and ensured consolidation and leverage of purchases throughout the company.Bring leadership to the procurement department and motivated staff to achieve maximum performance and efficiency

· Responsible for all league offices’ procurement needs and day-to-day operations. · Source a spectrum of goods and services, including but not limited to: Information Technology -Software and Hardware, Audio Equipment, Furniture and Building Equipment, Office Supplies, Printing, Records Management, Transportation and Specialty Items.· Reduce project cost by average 20% through negotiated initial purchases, renewal, and subscriptions while maintaining quality of product and services. Collaborated with project owners in identifying requirements and business needs resulted in reduced spend by 15%· Primary lead on bid proposal solicitation: Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Information (RFI), and Request for Quotes (RFQ), vendor’s scorecard and selection.· Develop and define cost-effective solutions for the business with management, department heads and clubs. · Maintain and grow Supplier Diversity program presence across club affiliated cities and tapping into ex-players/legends business and interfacing with minority-own, women’s own, LGBT networking enterprises.· Create visual process maps and existing workflow to define bottlenecks, pain-points, controls, and solutions for brainstorm sessions for new system solutions. · Work with rotational associates and interns to manage sourcing documentation in Database Management System (Peoplesoft) to ensure data integrity and vendor selection in accordance with corporate policies. Business Connect is the NFL's special event supplier diversity initiative. An integral component of the NFL’s effort to build direct links between the League and local, diverse businesses in key special event markets. The program works to create opportunities for experienced event qualified minority, women, LGBT and veteran-owned enterprises to compete for contracts with Super Bowl contractors. It also works to grow member companies for future success through its networking, education and professional development programming.

Experienced Business Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the retail (Consumer Product Category) industry. Skilled in Trend Analysis, Strategy, Sales, Retail, and Multi-channel Retail. Strong sales professional.

Managed international licensing and retail business. Worked with all regional offices to drive new business opportunities and implement retail marketing initiatives. Developed private label collections launched in NBA branded retail doors.· Created and executed assortment strategies for the NBA branded private label roll-out, resulting in 60% higher profitability while increased sales volume of 66% and 90% in-store and website traffic in 2016.· Negotiated and assisted contract renewals.· Assisted Director, Senior Vice President of Licensing in communications to licensees with regards to all aspect of business.· Managed relationships between NBA and over 50+ licensed retail partners and held bi-weekly meetings with retail-marketing and retail operations teams to ensure brand cohesion across retail channels.· Reviewed licensees’ product submissions for quality assurance and league compliance and standards prior to manufacture and sell-in.· Managed the lines of communications between licensees’ design teams and manufacturer.· Traveled the country and internationally to monitor the representation of all licensed business in store openings, and various department and specialty stores.· Increased co-branded footwear sales by $3 million by introducing design elements and additional sizing to the collection.

· Met and exceeded business goals by 7% in 2013, 12% in 2014, and 19% in 2015.· Strategized, planned, managed elements of opening of 25,000 sq. ft. retail store including financial & strategic planning, store design, product creation and procurement, visual displays, staff recruitment and training. · Defined and executed high-level merchandising assortment strategies across all channels of distribution for NBA, team and player branded products at assigned accounts.· Sourced men’s women’s and children’s (inf-10) apparel, footwear, headwear, novelties, and other miscellaneous hard and soft goods.· Spear headed logo development and brand guidelines.· Responsible for the setup of visual merchandising and initial buying for all apparel and non-apparel product.· Achieved budgeted per caps in retail store and NBAStore.com and greatly exceeded budget during athlete appearances, book signings and other retail promotions. · Oversee the Product creation and development spends for large-scale execution for NBA All-Star, NBA Playoffs, NBA Finals and other NBA events.· Work in partnership with the NBA Licensing team and external vendor partners to drive traffic in-store and purchase via traditional, digital, and mobile platforms. National account list includes: Target, Kohl’s, JC Penney, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Old Navy, and NBA team retail level.· Effectively managed and supervised a team of 2 assistant buyer and seasonal intern.· Managed and monitored $10 million e-commerce business.· Developed and implemented merchandising strategies with online business partner and marketing for product launches around league events to support merchandise sales, resulting in revenues of +$15MM in two years, 2013-2015.· Partnered with Creative Director on overall look and feel of NBAStore.com; improved navigation and user interface by decrease number of clicks.

· Supported Merchandising Team and DMM in driving and managing the core vendor business, including rebuys to deliver sales and margin results. · Complied review of customer (division) performance on department, class, item and color basis.· Prepared, analyzed and distributed best-seller reports.· Created, maintained, and analyzed weekly/monthly/seasonal reporting to support sales and planning.Maintained samples and product inventory for marketing purposes.Worked with various departments on developing promotional ideas to integrate merchandise and & highlight products.· Held interim managerial position at Store level. And acted as Merchandise Allocator for licensed apparel.