Eric Pyle Email & Phone Number

Riyadh, Sa

• As a member of the Americas Procurement senior leadership team, lead the Americas Indirect Procurement and MRO/Warehousing team across a $1bn portfolio within one of the SABIC’s’ strategic growth regions. • Developing and executing category management strategies and source-to-contract plans to maximize value realization for my stakeholders, delivering over $60m in annual savings.• Delivering global procurement digitization and transformation programs, including SAP S4 Hana / SLM / CLM deployment, Robotic Process Automation of Sourcing, and Contracting Workflow initiatives.

London, England, Gb

• Served as member of Indirect Procurement leadership team, driving strategic solutions and effective/efficient delivery for globally dispersed organization with $6B annual spend. • Spearheaded procurement technology transformations across planning and source-to-pay processes, collaborating with stakeholders, technology providers, and support organizations to enhance, standardize, and automate operations.• Created, prioritized, and embedded core initiatives throughout operations, leveraging best practices and market trends to drive value, improve processes, and mitigate risk.• Owned the category management planning and sourcing processes, training/coaching category teams to develop highly effective category and strategic sourcing plans.Select Achievements: • Enabled $600M in annual savings and exceeded global benchmarks by transforming organizational focus from reactive to strategic. o Embedded strategy into category planning through challenge boards, coaching, and resources. o Recognized by Group Audit as surpassing world-class performance in risk and breach management.• Created and deployed standardized, simplified operation process, improving process flow, narratives, work instructions, criteria and systems enhancements. o Reduced 150+ process steps to 52, with 35% reduction in sourcing turnaround time o Identified critical management control points to resolve backlogs and reduce cycle time by 75%.• Designed and implemented IP sourcing operational model and controls, including creation of regional sourcing teams and third-party sourcing support• Deployed technology transformations in category management, planning, sourcing and procure-to-pay to deliver global, standardized, scalable solutions, including Ariba S2P and Guided Buying deployment.

London, England, Gb

As airline program lead, I spearheaded the development and execution of BP’s global airline strategy. • Completed 2010 global airline tender comprising ~30 airlines that generated 95% of spend. • Received BP Innovation Award for establishing process to identify and track stranded/delayed travelers, then coordinate rebooking with travel management company.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I guided procurement and supplier activities, serving as the single point of contact to Client Sponsor and Senior Leadership Teams.• Drove brand-aligned focus and management system across global category sourcing teams, including full brand and business unit systems integration. • Developed and implemented worldwide leveraged supplier sourcing strategy across categories to support brand offerings and delivery requirements. • Created financial interlock model to collaboratively identify/deliver both procurement and annual savings.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Directing the Global Talent Exchange Program, I partnered with the cross-functional executive talent team to drive supply chain skills and knowledge enhancement initiatives. • Enabled 400+ cross-functional moves per year.• Designed and launched Shadow Program with 1K+ hosts and shadow registrants in first year. • Developed communication plans for executive talent team programs to promote visibility and engagement.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Managed US Sourcing team developing non-Core strategy and deploying supplier strategies., with $2B in spend.• Exceeded annual metrics for cost savings, cost take out, payment terms, hands free, supplier reduction, invoice referral reduction, and business controls. Achieved savings of $216m in 2003 and $242m in 2004.• Participated in several cross-organizational efficiency teams, including Strategic Sourcing Efficiency, Operations Center Process Improvement, Process Alignment, Collaborative Team, Invoice Expedite Reduction, and Cycle Time Reduction.• Performed audit readiness reviews and addressed business controls exposures. Coordinated responses to RFIs, and negotiated datasheets with auditors. Achieved satisfactory rating in 2004 US Technical Services Audit.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Managed global sourcing team developing and executing corporate credit card strategies, including T&E cards, meetings cards, and Procurement cards.• Negotiated global merchant acquiring contracts and additional merchant fee contracts as part of IBM Treasury initiative to globalize aggregation of credit card sales.• Negotiated global migration to American Express corporate card and agency agreement, which resulted in IBM improving rebate structure and service levels.• Served as travel lead for 2002 corporate audit. Performed audit readiness reviews for all sub-commodities, coordinated responses to RFIs, and negotiated datasheets with auditors. Achieved satisfactory rating.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Reviewed and refined procurement strategy to ensure realization of benefits. • Managed cross-commodity teams reviewing, identifying, and deploying opportunities to leverage e-Marketplaces and efficiency projects in procurement strategies.• Improved cash flow and efficiency savings by performing analyses and developing policies that focused on invoice expedites, increasing invoice tolerances, and reducing blocked invoices.• Managed Project Teams for COLT, IBM Logo Merchandise website, blocked invoice reduction, reduction in invoice expedites, invoice tolerance review, and contract aging management.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Supply Chain, Finance

Master Of Science - Ms, Economics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

Graduate Certificate, Project Management