Mark Stamidis Email & Phone Number

United States

Baltimore, MD, US

• Managing over $100MM USD annually in IT spend in categories such as IT software, hardware, & telecom for CareFirst commercial unit. Managing a team of up to four FTEs. Daily work in SAP Ariba in contracting module and.
• Bidding. Statement of work (SOW) | Requirements preparation | RFP/RFQ creation and administration for PCs, Servers, Storage Area Network (SAN), Call Center as a Service software, Cloud Services (AWS and MS Azure).
• Contract review and negotiation. Negotiated and managed 200+ contracts for the six-year period, including Microsoft, EMC/Dell, Amazon (AWS), CA/Broadcom, SHI & CDW. Also introduced three Minority/Women Owned businesses.
• Team management. Responsible for hiring, daily management and performance reviews of four employees (one hourly and three exempt).
• Process Improvement. Lead team that created Ariba usage guide and delivered training to rest of procurement staff on best practices for creating Contract workspaces in SAP Ariba. Was able to shorten cycle-time on CW.

Baltimore, MD, US

• Managed approximately $60MM USD annually in IT spend in categories such as IT software and hardware for CareFirst’s government subsidiary, SBP. Managed one professional FTE. Daily work in SAP Ariba contracting and.
• Bidding. Statement of work (SOW) | Requirements preparation | RFP/RFQ creation and administration for mainframe hardware and mainframe software, Storage/SAN, backup hardware, and Hadoop Big Data software. Delivered.
• Contract review and negotiation. Negotiated and managed 60+ contracts for the two-year period, including Cloudera, CA/Broadcom, EMC, Cisco and IBM. Also introduced one new Minority/Women Owned business into supplier.
• Team management. Responsible for hiring, daily management and performance management of one professional employee.
• Process Improvement. Lead team that created an RFP evaluation template/process to streamline RFP scoring with business owners. New process reduced calculation errors by 20%.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, US

Managing over 50MM USD in Global IT spend in categories such as IT software, hardware, telecom, and services spend. Responsible for setting procurement strategies in assigned categories and gaining consensus within units to execute against them. Have identified and delivered millions in cost savings and avoidance in these categories, while working with.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, US

Direct materials and services procurement for Contract Manufacturing module supporting McCormick Industrial, Food Service, Zatarain's, Seafood Brand, and Club Channel businesses. Contracted for cost-optimized commodities such as dry blends in various packaging formats, wet sauces in 'pillow pack' and bottle formats, spray dried/agglomerated compounds.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, US

Procured various commodities in the indirect materials area including: office supplies, lab supplies, information technology related materials, freight, as well as other duties as projects dictated. Responsible for buying and setting strategies in commodities to ensure delivery of projects on-time and within budget. Achieved multi-million dollar.

Statistical analysis of freight lanes and accessorial charges for several large manufacturers. Preparation of data for negotiations with truckload, LTL, and small parcel delivery services, including fuel surcharge schedules. Multi-year Czarlight base-rate analysis for clients to ensure optimal value for their freight dollar. Access database manipulation of.

Bs, Supply Chain Management

Bs, Business Information Systems

Diploma