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Bellevue, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Lead Marketing and Supply Chain Category teams—managing team leaders and influencing $6B of spend. Primary focus on strategic sourcing and driving value to support T-Mobile’s long-term growth objectives.● Build & maintain outstanding cross-group relationships and exert senior-level influence across various BU verticals.●Lead complex, high-visibility sourcing engagements, conduct annual budget planning, and partner closely with a wide range of cross-functional business and leaders to identify opportunities and goals.● Craft and present procurement sourcing strategies to top internal leaders, provide strategic recommendations, and secure executive sponsorship.● Continuously improve internal operations and efficiency, leading organizational design, culture-building, member development, and succession planning efforts for the procurement group.● Recruit, mentor, motivate, and develop team members—with numerous direct reports receiving promotions to more senior IC roles and/or management positions.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Lead multiple Category teams, as well as lead Procurement Operations. Category focus includes Products, Marketing, Corporate Services, Finance, Retail, Sales and Customer Care—managing team leaders and influencing billions of dollars in spend. Primary focus on strategic sourcing and driving value to support T-Mobile’s long-term growth objectives. ● Lead complex, high-visibility sourcing engagements, conduct annual budget planning, and partner closely with a wide range of cross-functional business and leaders to identify opportunities and goals.● Build outstanding cross-group relationships and exert senior-level influence across various BU verticals.● Craft and present procurement sourcing strategies to top internal leaders, provide strategic recommendations, and secure executive sponsorship.● Continuously improve internal operations and efficiency, leading organizational design, culture-building, member development, and succession planning efforts for the procurement group.● Recruit, mentor, motivate, and develop team members—with numerous direct reports receiving promotions to more senior IC roles and/or management positions.● Supported integration and synergy identification efforts following T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint, centered on the analysis, integration, of Marketing and Corporate Services functions across the two companies.● Accountable for the T-Mobile Procurement systems roadmap, tool governance, and Procure to Pay environment, along with additional oversight of the contingent workforce program, ensuring approx. 17k external workers are onboarded, tracked, and managed within company policies and labor laws

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Managed a team of 8 in strategically sourcing all services purchased by T-Mobile’s marketing organization. ● Responsible for assessing talent, establishing development plans, creating category strategies, and rebuilding a relationship with the Marketing group—communicating the team’s value as an analytical SME consultant and partner able to drive significant spend out of various marketing activities.● Built superior working relationships with Marketing leadership in both T-Mobile and MetroPCS brands, successfully gaining procurement a seat at the table in terms of the strategic business planning process.● Stood up a new insourced production supply chain to support a New internal T-Mobile Design Studio, in addition to completing a major supplier ecosystem effort that increased transparency into deliverables-based costing, allowed more visibility into cost centers, and enabled better investment decisions.● Stood up a new Internal Operations team to manage the supplier ecosystem in partnership with sourcing, leading to holistic project tracking via software solution; these efforts have improved tracking, streamlined workflow, reduced waste, and improved project prioritization—and have also become the baseline for agency relationship management, informing all investment decisions.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Re-positioned and grew a commodity sourcing team of 7 people, implementing new procurement excellence principles and delivering substantial savings to T-Mobile and its network of business partners.● Mentored and grew key team members, 4 of which were later promoted to team leaders and influencers.● Developed and implemented multi-year projects that led to 30% savings in construction and facilities, managing change and overcoming resistance in terms of numerous historical “sacred cow” practices.● Built a strong partnership with leadership to bring procurement into the strategic business planning process and leverage the group in strategic fashion.● Built a supply chain to help T-Mobile scale up 4000 new locations in 15 months.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led a first-of-its-kind eBay external agency review as part of a new strategic global marketing initiative. Directed a successful cross-functional, multi-regional team of 5 people to develop campaign objectives, agency research and selection methods, contract negotiations, and performance metrics. ● Served as key liaison to North America teams, driving complex sourcing/purchasing activities and opportunity identification with eBay companies and the Global Procurement team.● Led and built a procurement vendor risk monitoring program encompassing 350+ key global vendors. ● Functioned as North American lead for an integration vendor management performance program that measured, evaluated, and drove continuous improvement with regard to vendor operations.● Delivered cost savings targets on spend in the global media market through the development/execution of a global consolidation and savings opportunities plan. Improved global alignment with media partners and gained C-level leadership support for program implementation across all eBay Inc. companies.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Served as Interim head of EMEA Marketing Procurement, working in Zurich, Switzerland.● Led a strategic marketplace media consolidation effort and pay-for-performance model that improved buying leverage and captured 20% in savings, consolidating seven agencies into a single source.● Drove contract standardization and template development, creating a global best practices toolkit for agency management which included measurement, evaluation, pricing, and management approaches.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Supported Global Procurement operations and category management for finance, legal, and shared services. ● Developed and delivered a new Global Vendor Management Program for all eBay Inc. global business, centered around a 360-degree cradle-to-grave global vendor management and monitoring program.● Built a new structured strategic sourcing process while enhancing team skills related to category profiling, sourcing strategy, and supplier identification, negotiation, integration, monitoring, and management.

Brentwood, Tn, Us

Manager of 3 direct reports for Energy and Corporate Services. Led department strategic projects.● Headed Brookdale Green Living Sustainability programs. Developed and implemented sustainability measures and strategies while driving greater awareness of green initiatives and demand reduction.● Led development of company contract templates, key terms, and risk profiles—and served as Services Category Manager for IT, Travel, Office Supplies, Courier, MFD Devices, and Telecomm/Mobile.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for sourcing support,strategy and negoitations of: Social Marketing Solutions, Mobile/App development as well software supporting our Sears and Kmart ecommerce business.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for entire sourcing and contract management process to including terms & conditions, pricing analysis; decision, project management and issue resolution for a broad range of indirect services.

Chicago, Il, Us

Monitor worldwide supply chain for human rights compliance Issues and remediation

Mba, International Business, Marketing

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration, Marketing & Finance