I manage a team responsible for delivering value in the categories of Travel, Expense, Meetings & Events, Corporate Hospitality, Corporate Card, & Vendor Purchasing Card.

Entrepreneurial project - leveraging mobility, automation, renewable power, and other innovative technologies to operate a full service coffee shop on wheels while leveraging 21st century tech. Fast-casual service with an emphasis on quality branding, consistent quality and staff engagement as differentiator in a competitive market

-Lead team in executing sourcing strategy in the categories of Corporate Travel, Tickets, Meetings and Events-Led transformational Initiative in the design, development, delivery, testing, and business rollout of enterprise-wide Procure to Pay (P2P) solution-Executed conversion to new T&E Corporate Card product for 4,000 cardholders-Managed integration of commercial payment product into Accounts Payable process, allowing Key to issue supplier payments via virtual credit card-Optimized and matured corporate travel program, including the transition to a new Travel Management Company, delivering $3MM in savings over 3 years-Prior to 2013, managed Human Resources, Finance and Audit categories

-Provide analytics on marketing, travel, entertainment, general and administrative spend, savings opportunity development, and partner with finance directors to ensure savings initiatives are accounted for by the receiving lines of business.-Designed savings tracking program and deliver regular training to procurement staff. Maintain subject matter expertise for company savings methodology of over $35MM and a 400% ROI annually.-Support Supplier Diversity annual planning effort to align enterprise targets based on historical trends, while coordinating multiple stakeholders to build a strategic plan.-Ensure regulatory compliance & risk management through quarterly control audits and as subject matter expert on TARP expenditure policies to support annual certification to the Board of Directors in partnership with internal audit.-Delivered numerous training seminars to improve department skills in Excel, PowerPoint, and Chart design, ultimately driving improved business and analytical accumen across the team.-Create semi annual presentation to CEO and executive team reporting high dollar and luxury entertainment expenditures.-Partnered with consultants and company executives in data mining and analysis for a corporate initiative that successfully implemented over $90MM in savings opportunities.

Finance rotational program building skills on leadership, organizational agility, relationship building, financial modeling and analysis, accounting, and credit analysis. Training was followed by short term rotations:-Activity Based Costing--Applied activity based costing models to break down operational activities charged as intercompany expenses.-Reallocated $300MM expenses by performing time studies on retail branch transactions across 980 branches-Strategic Planning--Prepared economic, industry, and financial analysis for strategic plan presented to board of directors by Executive Management.-Created dashboard for CFO summarizing line of business profitability, supplementing capital allocation decisions at the executive level.-Corporate Tax--Prepared annual state income tax returns for multiple legal entities.-Reduced preparation time of 200 Grantor Trust tax returns from over two months to one week by creating a user input application.-Corporate Procurement--Prepared cell phone expenditure recommendation that ultimately resulted in corporate wide policy change and $0.7MM in estimated savings.-Consolidated courier supplier bids into financial model that projected future spend and estimated $0.3MM in savings.-Prepared executive presentation that demonstrated year over year performance of supplier diversity strategic initiatives.

-Effectively coordinated product managers, domestic engineers, and engineers in Hong Kong to develop and execute sourcing strategy for finished goods (Infant Toys and Trucks) manufactured overseas.-Coordinated the replenishment and delivery of raw materials.-Partnered with chemical engineering staff to develop savings initiatives for resin and pigment through competitive bidding.-Matured an alternative and recyclable materials supply program, driving sustainability initiatives while simultaneously reducing direct material costs.-Sourced strategic suppliers for alternative and recyclable materials with market supply constraints, while maintaining equitable pricing and efficient delivery.-Developed a dashboard database that rationalized the vendor base, provided sourcing category taxonomy on third party payments, and streamlined internal sourcing metrics.