Leah Webber M.Ed., Cpp Email & Phone Number

Springfield, Massachusetts, Us

Established the first ever Purchasing Operations function, by building a multi-national team of Buyer Consultants and Supplier Onboarding Operations Specialists responsible for reducing risk and improving compliance with payments terms for company spend and purchases.Achievements: • Increased spend against PO and Contract Invoicing by 466% to reduce the risk of suppliers overcharging and improving compliance with payment terms. • Increased the number of suppliers transacting through the SAP Business Network by 303% through a Supplier Enablement Campaign to transition top spend/high invoice suppliers, streamlining payment processes, strengthening supplier relationships and making PO and Contract invoicing sustainable and efficient long term. • Implementation of Ariba Guided Buying including PR and Invoice Configurations and approval workflows for a Global Entity.• Transitioned Supplier Onboarding Operations from 3rd party Resources to in-house service including a new supplier enablement process. • Worked with robotic team to develop and implement a PO Invoice Match BOT to review invoices for PO Match – saving AP thousands of hours annually.

Springfield, Massachusetts, Us

- Operational procurement, supporting business partners/requesters, strategic sourcing/contracting activities and liaising with Accounts Payable to ensure a seamless end-to-end S2P process. - Support procurements' strategy to increase PO backed spend by engaging with cross functional requesters to redirect spend to preferred channels.- Perform daily monitoring of contracts, requisitions, purchase orders and invoices across S2P tools.Work with internal customers and suppliers to resolve issues related to POs, change orders, three-way matching, invoicing and returns.- Leverage Ariba reports to identify, and redirect spend through preferred suppliers.- Monitor/evaluate recurring activities to identify mitigation procedures and process enhancements.- Review purchase requisitions and convert them to purchase orders with commitment dates.- Partner with internal stakeholders as well as suppliers to identify process improvements.

Milton, Ma, Us

Responsible for the preparation, negotiation, and awarding of contracts, bids and/or requests for proposals; dispute resolution with vendors; capital budget reconciliations; college-wide employee training.

Newton, Ma, Us

Faciltate a class of first semester college students in a first year seminar class, utlizing e-learning methods and systems.

Newton, Ma, Us

Management, direction, and oversight of the College’s business support services including purchasing, business services, mail room operations, contracted bookstore, dining, vending services, campus ID card services, and photocopying services. Evaluated and selected most effective procurement method for goods and services, reviewing bids, quotes, RFPs, and contracts. Effectively prepared and maintained budgets in areas of responsibility and other duties as assigned. Provide recommendation on furniture purchases and renovation projects.Established the College’s first Online Purchase Requisition System, including the creation of associated College policies, procedures, and faculty and staff training for the new system. Established the College’s first contracted copy center and associated copier fleet support service agreement. Tap to release functionality and strategic unit placement resulted in a reduction of color printing by 40%.

Newton, Ma, Us

Support the mission, objectives and priorities of the Department of Finance and Administration through operations assigned by the Vice President for Finance and Administration. Provide overall staff, research and resource support for the Division of Finance and Administration. Assure analysis, research, support, and coordination of the increasing quality and service expectations of the college.Provide systems review service and support, review correspondence for action items and deadlines, draft and edit correspondence. Provide budget analysis and planning duties as required.Provide project management, conceptual planning, campus space planning recommendations and presentation services.Capital Project planning and coordination.

Newton, Ma, Us

Provided comprehensive counseling to students and parents regarding payment options to the prospective and enrolled students in the College's undergraduate program.Maintain financial policies and procedures as they relate to students, inclusive of student billing, collections, student customer service and cash handling.Acts as a liaison with other offices requiring Bursar services.Having continual, supportive contact with students to help insure timely payment, following up on all accounts, maintaining supporting documentation for collections, and reporting to Bursar on outstanding accounts and collection efforts.Processing refund requests, auditing credit balance reports/past due and collection reports, maintaining in-house payment contracts.

Peabody, Ma, Us

Provide leadership among peers by managing or assisting in managing the operations platform of the branch. Responsibilities include handling and resolving customer complaints, accepting deposits and other transactions exceeding the tellers’ limits, balancing the ATM machines and money from the vault, completing reports and certifications, training new tellers, ensuring that security, audit, reporting and performance standards are met.

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Fine/Studio Arts, General