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Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States

• Led largest project to date for Strongbow that resulted in significant savings to client, improved terms and conditions and yielded an incentive fee in excess of $3m
• Effectively managed client engagements such that greater than 80% signed additional SOWs (with 75% of them signing more than 2), given the effectiveness of the projects and the results achieved
• Contributed to Strongbow Group’s contract general terms, allowing for greater fees to Strongbow, based on terms and conditions parameters and what contributes to fee structure
• Ran multiple RFPs for clients including those ranging from SD-Wan network modernization across 4700+ retail stores, to renegotiation of Data Center space across clients 3 data centers, to Desktop / Laptop purchases for.
• Led paid assessments in which Strongbow assessed clients Commercial, Operational and Technical standing in their network. Clients hired us again to then modernize their network and negotiate terms

• Provided consultative support to entrepreneurs in goal establishment, strategic/tactical planning, transformation, and reporting. Shared insights into available tools and methods to identify root causes of issues.

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• Responsible for developing strategies, end-to-end process design, and overall day-to-day management of the Global Sourcing and Procurement across all Indirect Spend categories and Freight Logistics.
• Conducted a global spend analysis across all categories of Indirect Spend, and implemented a reporting package for the 4 regional CFOs, that identified cost reduction opportunities by region and spend category. The.
• Developed category strategy and management, including a process for managing expirations. In concert with IT, negotiated several agreements resulting in overall cost reduction/avoidance of ~28%.
• Global Real Estate Portfolio –Developed a process to manage the global real estate portfolio across 126 properties in 60+ countries. Earned my Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt certification on this project.
• Created and led a Global Freight Cost Reduction category strategy and program that drove > 35% cost reduction in Freight Logistics services→ Requested by CEO to oversee the global restructuring project - a.

• Responsible for developing strategies, processes, and overall day-to-day management of the sourcing and vendor management group, primarily spanning Technology, Facilities, and Marketing.
• Initiated Best-in-Class processes in support of new vendor management office focused on reducing risk and improving efficiency. Initiatives included: contract management, reporting, contract and RFP templates, vendor.
• Supported significant project that contracted for two new Data Centers resulting in expanded capacity and cost reduction by >$30M (2008-2009) through negotiating 202 contracts for products and services
• Developed/managed relationships with key strategic suppliers
• Led the team that negotiated 267 additional agreements saving > $25M (2010-2012)

• Oversaw Telecom Purchasing Program for 300+ subsidiaries. Established the strategic direction
• Developed contract negotiation strategy across three existing vendors and renegotiated agreements resulting in an aggregate $5.4M reduction annually and the elimination of a $9M commitment shortfall. Improved terms and.
• Brought market share of program from below 50% to an excess of 90%
• Negotiated incentives to Omnicom resulting in an increase of 300% each of the past four years

• AVAYA was spun-off from Lucent Technologies in 2000Senior Manager – Held 3 different leadership positions during this time, and a Staff Manager RoleManaged AVAYA’s $70M Telecom spend, AVAYA’s IT Helpdesk provider IBM.
• During this time, I managed the RFP processes and contract negotiations resulting in a collective reduced spend of $194M, increased flexibility in the contract, mitigated risk, and improved operational efficiencies. In.

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