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Durham, Nc, Us

Durham, Nc, Us

Leads a team providing strategic sourcing support for Operations, Healthcare, HR, Legal, Marketing, and Sales divisions. Achieved annual operations and medical savings targets in 2023 of ~ $80 Million in total savings/avoidance. Leads vendor onboarding task team and in 2024 introduced several key improvements to reduce total cycle time. Total cost impacts still under evaluation.Expertise in drafting bid proposals aimed at evaluating business process outsourcing arrangements, IT Services, Finance, Actuarial, HR support systems, and value-based healthcare arrangements. Trusted Advisor to business stakeholders and other contracting SME's.Able to draft coherent statements of work and lead negotiations on key business terms.Values communication, coaching and continuous iterative improvements.

Durham, Nc, Us

Manages category planning and spend for the sales and marketing division valued at $40-$60 Million annually. Identifies opportunities for savings through benchmarking research, competitive bidding, and ROI analyses. Leads complex negotiations to achieve optimal terms supporting balanced risk positions and savings targets. Experience in the following functional categories: Behavioral Health, Wellness/Rewards, Disease Management, Third Party Benefits Administration, Compensation Management, Cost Transparency, lead generation, campaign analytics, digital strategy, retail strategy. Work conducted for all lines of business: Commercial segments (fully-funded and ASO Groups,) Medicare and Medicaid. Provide governance/oversight of category suppliers.

Durham, Nc, Us

• Leads review and negotiation of SaaS, PaaS, and software licensing agreements. Expert understanding of licensing terminology, software support structure, licensing models, support fees and renewals. • Drafts complex Statements of Work to support IT implementations • Collaborates with attorneys, SME’s, IS managers, and requisite stakeholders to create low risk/high value procurement opportunities across the enterprise.

Morrisville, Nc, Us

Lenovo (United States,) Inc. business focal for the negotiation of global purchase agreements with total annual value of $100 million +• Support 200+ sales representatives in the negotiation of complex direct and indirect purchase agreements for the provision of enterprise hardware and services. • Manage the customer facing communications and internal consensus building to bring multimillion dollar contracts to closure. Implemented persuasive bargaining and incentives where applicable.• Key liaison to General Counsel’ s Office as well as global business leaders in the areas of risk and insurance management, global supply chain, global services, human resources, tax, quality, finance, and IT security. Built key relationships and managed the review and approval for all terms. • Develop risk analysis for concurrence to specific terms and conditions. (i.e. service level agreements, penalty assessments, delivery obligations, payment terms, warranties, terms of acceptance, returns, and other terms requiring a fundamental understanding of business, and in particular, technology terms.) • Interface with key C level executives and management with positive outcomes.• Experience with lease agreements, software license agreements, professional service agreements, MOU’s, teaming agreements, sales agreements, NDA’s.• Broker the agreements with Channel Partners for participation under Lenovo’s master sales agreements with State entities.

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Provide defense litigation support for large pharmaceutical client in the areas of product liability, FDA regulations, and federal 340B pricing.

J.D., Law

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