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Chicago, Illinois, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• Created, wrote, initiated, and implemented all vendor management standard operating procedures, policies, protocols, manuals, and directives.
• Developed monthly internal and external vendor scorecards with metrics, KPIs, and performance data evaluations.
• Distributes monthly vendor outlook based on transaction count, escalation count,
• Drafts, negotiates, executes, and administers all contracts, including but not limited to, master service agreements, request for proposals, statement of works, non-disclosure agreements, and closeout agreements.
• Point of contact for all client, company and vendor communications and leads company weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings.
• Processes, manages, mitigates, and resolves all client, company, and vendor escalations, issues, complaints, and problems.

Columbia, MD, US

• Managed all procurement activities in educational services for numerous customer accounts to maximize value, leverage vendors, and increase efficiency while exceeding stakeholder requirements and service level.
• Maintained vendor management database for all clients with all relevant vendor data, project data, KPIs, and past performance metrics.
• Conducted strategic sourcing events with market research, vendor analysis, proposal evaluation, negotiations, and vendor selection to drive continuous procurement improvement.
• Drafted, negotiated, executed, and administered all contracts, including but not limited to, master service agreements, training service agreements, request for proposals, statement of works, task orders, general data.
• Point of contact for all client, company and vendor communications and leads company weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings.
• Completed all data-entry, data-analysis, reporting, and data-management in Quickbase and Vendor Management Database.

Columbus, Mississippi, US

• Drafted, negotiated, executed, and administered all company contracts up to $1G, including but not limited to, teaming agreements, consultant agreements, contractor agreements, memorandums of understanding, blanket.
• Managed international agreements with numerous foreign customers and worked on global program teams with Israeli parent company.
• Created company-wide contract and procurement policy, creating clear guidelines for contract document review, negotiation, approval and execution policies and trained entire management staff yearly of its.
• Managed all data-entry and data-analysis in Microsoft General Dynamics ERP and Accounting System.
• Designed and maintained a new orders spreadsheet that assigned new revenues to appropriate business units in order to track revenues by date received, company, amount, relevant project/program name and company.
• Ensured compliance to quality standards ISO9001:2008/AS9100C.

Washington, DC, US

• Administered and oversaw acquisitions throughout the entire contract life cycle in order to meet customer needs for the procurement of supplies, non-personal services, and research and development through both.
• Negotiated and managed various types of contracts, ranging from micro-purchases to multi-million-dollar contracts, competitive to sole-source contracts, and Fixed Price to Cost-Reimbursable contracts, all in both the.
• Exceeded customer expectations while applying Federal procurement regulations and implementing best business practices during performance of duties such as proposal evaluation, contract management, and negotiations.
• Worked within tight deadlines with average contract signing turnaround process of 14 days and coordinated efforts of various suppliers for numerous projects.
• Coordinated procurement discussions for both domestic and foreign agreements between the Contracting Officer, Program Team, and Contractor to achieve program and contract goals in a co-located office environment.

Chicago, IL, US

• Covered international and national corporate sales market for room blocks of ten to fifty guest rooms and managed annual budget of $1,260,000.
• Oversaw contract process from the initial request for proposal, submitted bids and formal proposals to the client, received contract requests, under-went contract negotiations, and then signed of all required documents.
• Negotiated the Hyatt standard group contract against major national and international corporate addendums.
• Worked within tight deadlines with average contract signing turnaround process of two-to-three weeks.
• Prospected new business and accounts by market research, comparison site visits, and building client relationships.
• Worked with clients to create standard agreed upon contract templates and initiated contract negotiations.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

• Managed higher education retail dining facility that had annual revenues of approximately $660,000 and supervised fifty union employees.
• Coordinated all ordering, purchasing, receiving, and inventory for all dining operations and maintained all supplier relationships.
• Strategized, planned, negotiated, and administered all vendor and supplier agreements and performed analysis of costs to ensure best spending practices.
• Developed and executed value chain cost savings opportunities, efficiencies and process improvements.
• Calculated all weekly financials, food costs, labor costs and compiled weekly spreadsheets and reports for upper management and the Board of Visitors.

• Planned and coordinated private parties, corporate events and dinners, weddings, and wedding receptions for up to 300 guests with 10 different event space locations.
• Managed and supervised event staff of fifty people and organized all day-of event vendors.
• Conducted site visits and sales meetings with future clients and met with current clients to plan event details and itineraries.
• Drafted, negotiated, and administered both vendor and customer contracts.
• Compiled event files with event menus, bar sheets, equipment orders, decorations, linen rentals, and any other pertinent information.
• Worked with a dynamic team of event professionals to ensure event success and customer satisfaction.

• Assisted Department of Events and Conferences with conference projection and planning.
• Conducted market research to plan for university and enrollment increases.
• Revised billing statements and planned budget for future conferences.
• Planned, coordinated, and administered all summer camps and conferences held at JMU.
• Drafted and negotiated all contracts for internal JMU agreements as well as external agreements with conference/camp attendees.
• Coordinated all logistics with travel, housing, dining, and entertainment for both conference administers and attendees.

• Managed outdoor dining facility of approximately fifty guests and supervised, trained, and scheduled approximately ten employees
• Created monthly budget and managed weekly inventory for outdoor dining facility