Senior Procurement Manager working multiple categories with high visibility global corporate impact. • Total portfolio of $92 million.• Senior Buyer/Procurement Category Manager for: Business Services, Consultants & Consultancies, Finance, IT Software, and Sales & Marketing.• Senior Buyer/Procurement Program Manager for: Travel, Legal Services & Law Firms, and specific vendors.• Program & Category Management work includes: Strategic Global Sourcing & Procurement, Contract and Pricing Negotiations, end-to-end Corporate Vendor Management, and Global Travel Program Management.• Approved to draft and review legal documents - contracts, SOW's, amendments, novation agreements, etc.• Regularly works within cross-functional teams including Finance, Legal, IT, HR, and Executive Leadership.• Created and Managed RFP's for a wide variety of global purchases.• Working daily in SAP. Helped reduce PR to PO time from eight days to one.• Fixer – Called in to negotiate delicate and difficult situations. 100% Successful Resolution Rate.

Primary Responsibilities: Travel Program Procurement & Management, Travel Operations Management, Travel Technology Sourcing and Administration, for a $20 million medical communications and meetings and events company - a division of Syneos Health, a BTN100 program. •Procurement Responsibilities Included: Sourced, administered, and negotiated contracts within category for new technology, reporting software, departmental virtual-card program, online tools, global distribution IT system, airlines, black car services, hotels, and meetings & events.•Implemented new processes and systems.•Re-engineered data flow to increase spend visibility and enhance reporting capability that resulted in 165% increase in spend recognition.•Managed merger transition with 418% increase in operational volume over two years.•Directly administered all travel technology. •Created Duty-of-Care risk management program where none had previously existed.•Responsible for business unit P&L.•Managed a staff of 6, both remote and on-site.

Responsibilities were in three primary areas: Travel Program Management, Meeting Planning, and Travel Technology Sourcing and Administration. Direct responsibilities included:•Directed corporate travel program with offices in multiple cities.•Operations Management and Administered of end-to-end program – from creation and accreditation to C Level reporting.•Negotiated global procurement contracts in Travel, IT SaaS Systems, and Sales & Marketing projects.•Sourced suppliers and managed Indirect Procurement contracts in category.•Designed and Created all departmental software systems and operational processes with significant cost savings and quality control improvements. •Drove process efficiencies through a variety of tools with interdepartmental responsibilities, saving hundreds of man-hours per year for travel and finance departments.•Negotiated contracts and managed meetings with up to 450 attendees – every event coming in under budget.•Created and maintained emergency preparedness system for NORAM offices, and administered first response Duty-of-Care process for global program. •Managed all areas of customer service and customer relations, with repeated departmental best-in-class internal survey results.•Managed all aspects of vendor relationship management on a planetary scale.•Directly lead a staff of 5 on-site contributors, with dotted-line responsibility to 8 globally scattered employees.

Mentored companies in CTD creation and accreditation. Aided with policy changes and creation. Assisted with annual meetings and events.

Various professional jobs dating as I began my life in the workforce.During this time, I managed a staff of as many as 12 individual contributors.

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Active duty and reserves. Assigned to TRACEN Alameda, 41' UTB's, USCGC Cape Wash (TDY - 1981), USCGC Morgenthau (TDY - 1981), and D11 P&C Detachment (TDY - 1984). BM3/E4, Boat Force.