Responsible for a team of sourcing professionals to execute complex and strategic sourcing projects of categories/sub-categories, translating business requirements into clear statements of work, solicits bids, leads auctions.Capable to apply and translate business expertise to breakthrough thinking that significantly impacts the client’s long-term strategic position, thought leaders.Responsible to manage and optimize functional sourcing support activities while ensuring adherence to clients’ corporate standards and to provide necessary information input to enablement group, engaging with internal & external business partners to ensure that decisions are based on the broad scope of the organization and achieve optimum daily execution.

Responsible for a team of sourcing professionals to execute complex and strategic sourcing projects of categories/sub-categories, translating business requirements into clear statements of Work, solicits bids, leads auctions.Capable to apply and translate business expertise to breakthrough thinking that significantly impacts the clients long-term strategic position, thought leaders.Responsible to manage and optimize functional sourcing support activities while ensuring adherence to clients corporate standards and to provide necessary information input to enablement group, engaging with internal & external business partners to ensure that decisions are based on the broad scope of the organization and achieve optimum daily execution.

Lead clinical sourcing and/or specimen acquisition sourcing activities thru regional RFPs  of high-value and complexity. This includes oversight of competitive bids, cost negotiation with suppliers, and risk mitigation using eSourcing tools. Conduct stakeholder meetings to understand project requirements and identify cost reduction opportunities, run in depth analysis of current spend and identify opportunities to deliver savings, business partner with Clinical Operations and/or Specimen Acquisition functions to leverage the applicable category buying guides and sourcing knowledge to determine the best method for driving value in meeting the requirement, constantly meet with cross functional teams to perform bench-marking, tendering, process improvement, volume leverage, supplier consolidation and product substitution/ elimination to reduce cost and provide service improvements, conduct supplier commercial and contract negotiations.

HR Services Sourcing Manager: Refine stakeholder and supplier management skills with outstanding results, by understanding supplier market dynamics for Business requirements, run and facilitate e-Auctions and e-RFx. Also offline bidding events not managed by the e-Services team, prepare & facilitate project and contract approvals, renewals and extensions before expiration dates, I became a TPU (Third Party Utility) champion and became a focal point of information for my team members. My background in project management has positioned me as a process improvement SME where I have been awarded different recognition for projects that I have driven including teams across different geographic areas to completely change operating procedures, successfully migrated complex platforms i.e. Workday.ProfileEmployment HistoryDetails (506)70758363 josef4_86@hotmail.comLinks LinkedInSkills Assess/evaluate client requirements against scope of projectEnsure customer satisfaction through follow-up, client responsiveness Ability to manage multiple clients and projects/tasks simultaneouslyAbility to command a group of individual and be assertive in a public environmentStrong internal communication skills, ability to work with all levels of the organizationAbility to manage time and prioritize tasksLanguages EnglishSpanishPortuguesGlobal Recruitment Category Lead: Responsible for the development and execution of category sourcing strategies across regions, including day-to-day interaction with internal stakeholders and suppliers to ensure client satisfaction along with the organization savings goals.

Change Management: Providing support and expertise to deliver savings, standardization of processes, policies and controls specific to the implementation of projects also to provide efficiency, affecting positively the stakeholder relationship and projects on-time delivery. Ensuring performance standards are geared to business needs. Migrations: As a designated Project Manager I was responsible for the complete activities migration and process implementation of Accounts Payable, Sourcing, Procurement and GL Finance activities in: LATAM Countries,  infrastructure discovery to execution phase, along with data maintenance. Implementations: Responsible to lead implementations for the Procure to pay system (Oracle) for the Bahamas, also to coordinate and prioritize project tasks, timelines, maintaining project plans and communicating status to senior management and stakeholders periodically, capturing and tracking processes and mayor milestones.

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