Evan Tsoukanaras Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Position Overview: Drive innovation, cost savings, and continuous improvement initiatives; purchase items and supplies at prices consistent with quality, quantity, and delivery specifications; negotiate and approve purchase agreements; build and execute category strategy and assist in developing new sources of supply. Enterprise Procurement Indirect Procurement Lead for the following categories: Foundation, Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, Brand Communications, PR / Social Media, R&D, Brand Design, Pre-Press, Brand Design Photography, Foodservice Marketing, Fulfillment, International, Small Packages

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Position Overview: Manage 14 categories directly with key stakeholders cross departmentally. Ensure strategies are up to date for major areas. Participate on system update discussions that promote efficiency. Support team members in supplier negotiations, which include reading, drafting, and executing legal agreements. Provide and promote strategic sourcing solutions for assigned categories. Manage supplier set up process. Coordinate RFI and RFP processes with stakeholders to identify and select suppliers to ensure competitive market advantages while reducing costs.Company Overview: $16B packaged foods company with 16K+ employees across global operations. Working with iconic brands such as Angie’s BOOMCHICAPOP, Slim Jim, Duncan Hines, Vlassic, Healthy Choice, PAM, Reddi Wip and more.Member of: Young Professional Organization and LGBTQ + Ally Group

Chicago, Il, Us

Position Overview: Assigned to work for the wholesale side of daily business operations. Presented weekly progress of current projects to account managers and operations executives. Maintained thorough knowledge of pricing, products, and network capabilities of current and new vendors as well as changing industry trends. Acted as a liaison between vendors, sales, operations, and provisioning teams as needed to move daily business operations efficiently. Provided training to sales staff on internal system processes and procedures. Became proficient in using complex vendor database systems. Trained new hires on internal workflows and system operations. Assisted in the creation of a specialized automated solution tailored to meet the client’s specific needs on mass order requests and cancellations.Key Achievements: Assisted in process of building and transitioning CRM systems from Fusion to Salesforce. Worked closely with Salesforce development team on testing sandbox versions before live launch. Conducted extra research utilizing infrastructure database systems to source new cost-effective vendors than what originally sold from company API after receiving client SOFs- Over $300,000 in contract savings from September 2020 to December 2021.Company Overview: $400M telecommunications company with 100+ employees focused on complex enterprise level integrated network solutions.

Chicago, Il, Us

Position Overview: Source business to appropriate vendors to determine most cost effective solutions. Actively engage vendors in product and pricing solution discussions. Confirm all costs and vendor information to ensure correct orders and acceptable margins. Analyze and review data in support of pricing proposals. Assist preparations of large and complex pricing requests for sales proposals, database updates, and order documents. Troubleshoot corrupt data to help the team succeed quickly.

Chicago, Il, Us

Position Overview: Communicated directly with hundreds of vendors the company has a close relationship with. Contacted potential vendors with no relationship to the company to add to the large network. Consistently updated vendor information for sales team to complete their projects in an efficient manner. Key Achievements: Planned and executed 7 month project to consolidate over 1,700 line items in an organized pattern. Data was converted to access database to be accessed by specific teams to help fulfill quoting needs.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Marketing; Analytics Concentration

Minor, Industrial And Organizational Psychology