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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

• Optum Supplier Risk Analyst building collaborative relationships with business owners across the enterprise.• Specifically engaged during acquisitions and business development, while onboarding suppliers & mitigating risk. • Overseeing evolving supplier management practices of the organization, managing centralized risk and performance services for all strategic clinical and financial suppliers across Optum.• Facilitate the drafting and execution of segment legal contracts for new suppliers.• Actively engaged in the design of digital/software developments to help Optum achieve infrastructure goals.• Implementing solutions for process challenges within a highly matrixed corporate environment.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

• Manage, maintain, & administer various compensation-related and data management systems. Implement & design solutions for processes involving pay, long term strategies and programs. • Lead compensation projects and programs, including design, communication, training, and implementation of project/program changes. • Collaborates with Human Resources, Payroll, Line of Business Management, and Leadership for assigned areas to include job evaluation, and competitive pay analysis. • 2021 Leading Edge Award received - With Tennants Leadshare Program: 17 opportunities for streamlining were identified, resulting in 20% productivity (300+ hours) annually. Additional projects were streamlined resulting in significant time savings and productivity.

United States

• Main POC and workflow administrator for customer documentation requests including sales and service agreements, purchase orders, terms and conditions, NDAs, COIs, EHS safety forms, and other required documents. Legal contracts liaison for obtaining sales director approvals, credit approvals and other stakeholders required. Maintain third party vendor agreement compliance, renewals & payments.• Responsible for all central electronic repositories (portals) to maintain 3rd party required certifications, classification updates and all other governance contingencies. These include ensuring Tennant’s maintenance of Safety Rating services, such as ISNetworld, Browz, and Avetta are current.• Achievements include the implementation of Docusign, Adobe signature roll-out, streamlining of workflows for Insurance and Portal Management.

Eden Prairie, Mn

• Oversee contracting process for ~25 enterprise and mid-market salespeople across North America by managing related territorial accounts in Salesforce.com and guide the team through the contracting process.• Draft master agreements including automobile and equipment leasing and services agreements, addenda, amendments, obligor/guaranty, letter agreements, and other common document requests for prospect implementation. • Obtain business approvals and mitigate risk through daily collaboration with Sales, Pricing, Risk, Insurance, and Billing teams throughout the contract proposal and negotiation process. • Setup billing attributes to implement services/lease rates to invoicing schedule. • Review negotiated contracts for accuracy and kick-start internal auditing process prior to and after signing contracts. • Complete contract research projects to confirm billing accuracy and to track contract terms.• Initiate SimpLean projects to streamline standard processes and reduce contracting cycle time.• Provide input and oversight on company-wide contracting process strategy.• Mentor/mentee cross-collaboration with attorney team member to streamline contracting workflows.• Continual recognitions for due diligence, work ethic and deliverable commitments• Resolved data migration issues during Element/GE merger and was named a leader with responsibility for the migration of contractual fees.

Eden Prairie, Mn

• Acted as single point of contact for multiple strategic national accounts. • Administered driving sales plans and strategies, implemented services and provided reporting based on client needs.• Provided unwavering commitment to customer service while adding new customers to an existing set of accounts.• Managed executive dashboard summarizing direct costs, overall customer spend, and benchmarked savings.• Enforced operational improvements while meeting expectations, and ensuring the security of a fleet vehicle driver• Acted as key stakeholder in managing/tracking cost savings projects resulting in 4.2M savings in 2015 and 3.8M in 2016.• Created instructional toolkits for fleet managers and field contacts.• Implemented Newsletters - Journaling fleet trends and savings opportunities.• Received a rating of 10/10 for client surveys for relationship management and services penetration.• Obtained top talent recognition in meeting department metrics for issue resolution and high priority initiatives.

Minnetonka, Mn

• Performed all tasks involved as a probation officer such as client interviews, misdemeanor investigations, pre-sentence investigations, bail evaluations, conditional release, case management, sentencing, program referrals and court participation.• Completed an Internship with Hennepin County as a Probation Officer. (Summer of 2003, completion of 400 hours)• Acted as Drug Court Probation Officer – Hennepin County, volunteered 6 hours/week for 8 weeks.

Plymouth, Mn

Plymouth, Mn

Golden Valley

Managing defendants which are placed on EHM or Breathalyzers to ensure they are maintaining court orders during their conditional release or serving their sentence. Duties include caseload management, monitoring technician, and active communication with probation officers.

Chanhassen

Temporary Position for 2 summers supporting Human Resources and Purchasing. *Expediting purchase orders *Inventory Mgmt*Reviewing/Editing HR Policy renewals, training materials, etc.