Vendor Operations Manager - Service Project Manager
CurrentDuring 14 years at Smiths Detection I’ve assumed positions of increasing responsibility – building strong overall knowledge of Vendor Management and the Service business: Manage, develop, review technical staff involved with SAP processing and service repairs on equipment. Manage vendors, write SOWs, RFP, RFQ, oversee vendor operations, billing. Perform business process analyst project work to create service processes, for efficiency and fit to SAP system. Perform data collection - reporting for SLAs, create new metrics and charting to provide organized data feedback to upper management. Strong Vendor Management skills - Extensive RFP, RFQ, SOW experience and contract creation. Key Accomplishments: 2017 - Lead new Vendor portfolio strategy project to identify new Vendor criteria to align with long term business goals. Lead RFP RFQ project and wrote and delivered key SOW documents. 2016 - Lead Vendor Selection project. Lead RFP RFQ and SOW projects to identify, select and integrate new Service Vendor to improve Vendor portfolio. Delivered 10% costs savings on vendor services. 2014 - Selected to lead the process design and installation project for Singapore facility Service location, to establish key Vendor Operations processes. 2014 - Saved US Vendor operations costs over 10% via SAP process reengineering.2013 - Saved US Depot Vendor third party overhead costs over 15% by reorganizing processes. 2012 - Selected by VP to lead a major process transition project, and successfully lead the project to move, establish and set up new Service departments at new facility Service locations in CT and NJ. 2012 - Selected as Lead Business Process Analyst for Service & Vendor processes for fit with SAP (for Global Process Harmonization project - Germany). 2010 - Selected to be on the Smiths Strategy Team for Network & Subsystem Integration. Provided key Service input to strategy presentation delivered directly to CEO and the Executive Board.