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Madison, Wi, Us

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Mentor, lead and coach the Indirect Category Management Team to source, negotiate and contract with suppliers.• Collaborate with cross-functional business leaders to develop specific strategies for sourcing.• Oversee the use and continuous improvement of sourcing strategies and tools.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Direct the business processes for the Sourcing, Procurement, Buying, Vendor Management and Data Management functions.• Lead Enterprise Fleet Operations with oversight of personnel, systems, databases and processes to acquire and maintain vehicles.• Provide leadership, coaching and development to a team of 12 procurement professionals.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Manage various special projects to improve processes.• Led large request for proposal resulting in cost savings.

Lead, coach and inspire a team of 30 associates.Manage the processing of 900,000 payments per year. Responsible for maintaining supplier master file and issuing 5,500 IRS Form 1099s

Effectively manage all procurement activity including all buy decisions and related activities.Negotiate, review, renew and maintain vendor contracts and vendor relationships.Oversee software asset management and the maintenance of vendor accounts in ERP system.

Manage Vendor relationships, review vendor contracts and partner with TDS business units for contract and purchasing related projects.

• Member of enterprise-wide strategic team to develop and implement a new billing system, new data warehouse, new business intelligence tool and a new web platform.• Passionately represent the finance and accounting organization being a subject matter expert and provide real-time project decisions.

• Manage a high-caliber team in an extremely fast paced industry with a dynamic and strong culture and a focus on customer service.• Prepare a multi-line billion dollar revenue budget and forecast for executive leaders and Board of Directors with 99% accuracy.• Analyze cutting edge promotional offers resulting in strong business results and increased market share.• Report on monthly financial statement and sales results to executive leaders with high impact summary and action plans to produce business results.

• Managed and coached a team of 10 associates with varying skill levels.• Completed and tested Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) 404 controls timely accurately.• Approve cash transactions, multi-million dollar advances and journal entries.• Work collaboratively on various company projects including M&A initiatives.• Lead associates on a major culture transformation.• Implemented new software system that streamline cash reconciliations and removed manual processes.

• Prepared revenue forecasts and budgets.• Analyzed and reviewed quarterly promotions.• Lead company wide pricing project team resulting in new rate structure.• Partnered with sales team to analyze potential pricing opportunities.

• Project team lead for internal management reports, materials for board of director meetings and annual reports for TDS and U.S. Cellular. • Supervised, trained and coached employees for month, quarter, and year-end close activities. Executed SEC accelerated time lines for filings.• Member of enterprise wide process improvement team that streamlined monthly consolidations, external reporting and management reporting processes.

• Effectively and concisely restated prior years results and executed new controls.• Prepared, reviewed and published monthly and quarterly operational reports for senior management with accuracy and timeliness.• Prepared supporting schedules for consolidated results, provided support to internal and external auditors.• Project lead and subject matter expert for TDS and U.S. Cellular annual reports. Partner with internal and external teams to produce accurate and high quality reports on time.

Master’S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

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