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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Elko, Nevada, United States

Elko, Nevada

Woods Cross, Utah

South Jordan, Utah

· Responsible for the management and leadership of employees in the Americas, which includes: performance assessment, development, succession planning, motivating, coaching and training· Strategic responsibility to efficiently develop and leverage best practices across different functional groups to ensure strategy and value is delivered across geographic boundaries· Atlantic Region Emerging Markets Lead· Create and execute operational spend management strategies for over $400 Million spend serviced by the team· Responsible for working with a diverse team and customers to build and manage project pipelines and work to meet the business units Service Delivery Plan and ensure all relevant spend is competitively addressed and optimized· Engage with Business Units to build service delivery plans based upon needs, forecasted demand, procurement needs and services and capital equipment commodity plans· Responsible for the project management of sourcing project in service delivery plan and ad-hoc requirements· Liaise with Capital Procurement, Strategic Sourcing and Global Supply teams· Ensure proper workflow of all sourcing activities and alignment with other similar teams in the use of systems and processes by implementing measures to monitor for productivity and quality and periodically conducting internal audits

South Jordan, Utah

• Mentor and assist in management of a team of Category Specialists• Responsible for the development of regional sourcing strategies and management of drilling services, site security services, fixed wing and helicopters surveys, freight haul, and personnel transport for the Americas• Managed category spend over $100 Million• Provided complete procurement contingency plan for Kennecott Utah Copper on three separate occasions for possible work outages• Completed two month procurement secundment assignment in Argentina to assist with the business unit startup• Developed relationship with the exploration group in North America resulting in the group now using RTP for all contracted procurement of services

South Jordan, Utah

• Responsible for over 2 million dollars in annual cost savings• Negotiate goods and services agreements for business units throughout the Americas• Implement agreements for business units with suppliers ranging from $40,000 to multi-million dollar projects• Developed scorecard system to track supplier performance• Source new suppliers to create a more competitive bidding environment• Utilize multiple negotiating tactics such as on-line bidding/reverse auctions and standard negotiations• Create RFI’s, RFQ’s and RFP’s to fulfill company objectives and purchasing situations• Conduct quarterly supplier meetings to ensure optimal performance of service

South Jordan, Utah

• Supervised the bid group analysts to provide online bidding guidance to the overall procurement group• Analyzed bidding formats for potential improvements• Created tracking system to provide bidding feedback to other leaders with the procurement group