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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Murray Hill, New Jersey, Us

Formed the Business Transformation and Risk department in 2015 to better support the manufacturing operations within CR Bard. The department focuses on reducing supply chain risk and increasing supply assurance, creating standardized best practices for sourcing and procurement globally, and supporting metrics and analytics for the supplier management program.Designed strategic evaluation of material management team for four most strategically critical manufacturing facilities. Responsible for Strategic Purchasing, Vendor Management and Business Continuity workstream reporting to Enterprise Risk Steering Committee. Responsibilities included leading cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate risk, drive continuous improvement and perform root cause analsysis that achieve cost reductions, supply assurance and quality improvement.

Built supplier risk assessment program. Completed proactive risk assessment for 108 of 3800+ direct material suppliers in first year ($328M or 65% of direct material spend). Chaired cross functional team of quality, regulatory and operations management individuals from 15 global sites to address compliance risk in response to FDA Warning letter issued to CR Bard in 2015. Reported directly to President of Manufacturing Operations and Head of Quality/Regulatory.

Murray Hill, New Jersey, Us

Researched, designed and implemented the Conflict Minerals Program for the organization in alignment with Section 1502 of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Partnered with inside and outside counsel to ensure that the program was aligned with the most current understanding of the regulations and litigations as the requirements changed. Lead in the ongoing development of the company-wide procurement strategies and partner with all levels of leadership cross-functionally to build impactful, efficient and cost-effective business and vendor relationships.

Murray Hill, New Jersey, Us

System Administrator, project manager for installation and implementation of a strategic sourcing and procurement software that supports our sourcing professionals. Developed and documented user and departmental requirements, project implementation plan, operational processes and change management plan. Analyze business requirements, and translate needs into system, procedural, and process solution designs to maintain excellent relationships with stakeholder groups including executive management. Interface directly with clients to assess ongoing business needs to ensure high client satisfaction with change management planning, communication, execution, and service. Develop business case for risk management strategy that aligns Global Sourcing team with executive management's strategic plan for the organization. Created and manage intranet page to communicate initiatives, provide a central repository for documents (such as procedures, metrics, and trainings), and market the sourcing function to 26+ locations worldwide. Create internal training materials and provide in-class, web-based, or one-on-one training for sourcing systems, procedures, and metrics.

London, Gb

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Discover, analyze, and document client business requirements, and translate those needs into system, procedural, and process solution designs by maintaining excellent relationships with stakeholder groups including executive management.Explore barriers to success related to Procure to Pay (P2P), provide root cause analysis, identify and lead process improvement initiatives, projects or plans designed to reduce problems, increase understanding and compliance, and improve customer satisfaction ratings.Create and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to mitigate errors in the future, train as necessary. Interface directly with clients to assess ongoing business needs to ensure high client satisfaction with change management planning, communication, execution, and service. Prioritize and align projects with strategic objectives and identify opportunities to increase efficiencies, quality, and service.Develop and document operational processes and change management plans especially during roll-out of system enhancements (e.g. - 170 MarkView upgrade).Serve customer base of 2500+ US Employees. Provide P2P process recommendations, guidance to adhere to compliance policies, regular analysis of cost center P2P activity, and support for analyzing training and process shortfalls or issues. Expanded prior role by providing customers with single point of contact resulting in more efficient problem resolution and establishing the need for a dedicated resource.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Subject matter expert and trusted advisor to management team, customers, and Finance supporting business units. Performed regular evaluations of business processes to identify process improvement initiatives. Identified need for reapplying refunds properly, created and managed implementation of the process, properly refunding POs and cost centers in the amount of $3.9M over 2 years. Resulting in proper accounting of approximately $1.2 M year one and $2.7 M year two.Author and manager of all content on department's webpage on Biogen Idec's intranet. Documented technical and procedural guidance in SOPs, maintained documents as necessary and trained Finance Department on SOPs, policies, and systems on a regular basis.Provided operational support and training to business regarding policies, procedures, and systems via individual and group trainings, and online training guides.Created user guides based on questions. Guides were adopted by the entire department.Managed and evaluated customer service database ensuring data being recorded is sufficient for management reporting.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Performed root cause analysis of department invoice issues. Proposed actionable solutions. Recommendation resulted in job offer to lead the process improvement program in the P2P organization.Creation and management of purchase requisitions and service contracts for vendors and service providers of the Facilities department (approx. 75 major vendors, 300+ others). Department expert: Oracle, 170 Markview system, CapTrack, and iProcurement.Facilitator of group HR action items: requirements for promotion, goal setting, acted as group SME of company benefits, role definition, etc.Maintain budgets (capital and expense) for 4 cost centers: input, tracking, accruals

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Mba, Strategy And Implementation

Bachelor Of Arts, English

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