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Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States

• Working closely with Project Managers and technical staff to support project needs, while simultaneously ensuring compliance with contract requirements and applicable laws and regulations related to commercial, state, and federal (FAR & DFARS) contracting. • Properly maintaining highest ethical standards.• Fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.• Mentoring early career Procurement team members. • Identifying, mitigating, and tackling complex and high-risk procurement actions.• Being an expert resource on the Procurement Policy.• Training others on procurement related topics.• Staying up to date with changes in laws and regulations that may affect procurement activities and sharing any changes with the team.• Finding efficiencies, cost-saving opportunities, and process improvements.• Conducting audits.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

• Update and implement effective Global Procurement systems, business processes, policies, and procedures. • Mentor and provide capacity building activities/trainings to staff. • Make recommendations to enhance procurement performance and accomplish strategic objectives.• Collaborate directly with staff in - and across - supply chain planning, sourcing, contracting, transactional purchasing, supplier management, logistics operations, to ensure that procurement activities are fulfilled with the utmost professionalism.• Supervise a team of Procurement Managers and Specialists responsible for the execution of sourcing events and the completion of procurement contracts to improve the delivery of goods and services.• Lead the development of standards operating procedures and policies.• Ensure that best practices, ethics, industry standards, as well as relevant compliance requirements are understood and adhered to by all staff undertaking procurement activities.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States

• Ensure the efficient execution of EA’s procurement needs, including identifying appropriate vendors, solicitation of statements of work/bid package, evaluation of proposals/bids, and issuing purchase orders• Hands on involvement in large, complex procurements will be necessary• Work closely with Project Managers and technical staff to support project needs, while simultaneously ensuring compliance with contract requirements and applicable laws and regulations related to commercial, state and federal (FAR & DFARS) contracting.

Baltimore, Md

• Update and implement effective Global Procurement systems, business processes, policies, and procedures. • Mentor and provide capacity building activities/trainings to staff. • Make recommendations to enhance procurement performance and accomplish strategic objectives.• Collaborate directly with staff in - and across - supply chain planning, sourcing, contracting, transactional purchasing, supplier management, logistics operations, to ensure that procurement activities are fulfilled with the utmost professionalism.• Supervise a team of Procurement Managers and Specialists responsible for the execution of sourcing events and the completion of procurement contracts to improve the delivery of goods and services.• Lead the development of standards operating procedures and policies.• Ensure that best practices, ethics, industry standards, as well as relevant compliance requirements are understood and adhered to by all staff undertaking procurement activities.

Baltimore, Md

• Responsible for providing management and oversight to the Humanitarian and Health Supply Chain team.• Lead the global Health SCM transformation strategy, including the development of standards, guidelines, policies / procedures.• Promote the professionalization and excellence of field-level humanitarian and health product planning, and supply chain.• Represent the Global Supply Chain Management Unit on the Malaria Elimination Roadmap team, in support of the agency strategy.• Manage the development and maintenance of relationships with other departments at CRS, particularly the Humanitarian Response and Health & Social Services departments. • Lead CRS’ humanitarian and health market intelligence and positioning for increased efficiency in humanitarian and health product sourcing.• Provide ad-hoc and ongoing robust technical support to CPs for relevant current activities and new initiatives.• Guided procurement staff in the development of CRS’ first global LTA for pharmaceutical testing services for antimalarials.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

• Increased field-staff and partner capacity by establishing communities of practice as well as developing and providing formal trainings and workshops. • Improved documentation systems through review of data and systems and application of best practices.• Collaborated with operations and programming leads in Country Programs on implementing and strengthening Supply Chain systems, procedures, and policies.• Provide guidance on the development, strengthening and standardization of procedures and tools for end-to-end planning.

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Supervised the compliance, capacity building and services team who performed procurements, completed capacity building exercises and achieved compliance standards. • Provided guidance to staff on the development of SMART and professional development goals. • Ensured proper training of Procurement staff to deepen understanding of procurementprocesses and procedures. Identified knowledge gaps and then supported the development of key procedures for a fully functioning procurement system.• Promoted and highlighted opportunities for improved collaboration between the Procurement Department and requesting departments / network members.• Provided leadership to field based Procurement Departments by disseminating the scope of strategic HQ procurements in partnership with the Global Commodities Team• Improved the consultant procurement process, with attention paid to Department of Labor rules and regulations as well as risk management when engaging internationally-based consultants. • Partnered with legal counsel to ensure procurement templates were regularly updated to align with changing donor and agency requirements.

Washington, Dc

• Manage PSI’s largest ever procurement project which covers clients in over thirty-five countries, exceeding $650,000,000.00, working with partners that range from Ministries of Health, the Donor and other NGOs.• Directly supporting all Francophone countries' (11) procurement and logistics needs, as well as some other English speaking countries (6) involved in the project.• Coordinate and create custom reports supplied to senior leadership, clients and/or funding sources reflecting budgeted amount, amount spent, pricing achieved, estimated timelines, and other management information.• Manage a separate portfolio covering procurements of pharmaceutical and health commodities and services for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Eastern Europe and Asia, with diverse languages, shipping and customs requirements. .• Supervise two Procurement & Logistics Officers who provide procurement services for both in-house and third-party clients as well as a Procurement & Sourcing Specialist working remotely from an affiliate office in New Delhi, India.• Perform the entire procurement cycle, including receipt of requisition, solicitation, evaluation, contract award, contract management and close-out.• Ensure supplier adherence to terms and conditions set forth in the contract from inception to delivery of commodities including the review and approval of supplier produced artwork and packaging. • Maintain relationships and communications with suppliers to ensure quality and value by attending face-to-face meetings and phone conferences as well as through email communication. • Lead negotiations with suppliers when appropriate and as necessary.• Manage communications in both French and English with representatives of multiple funding sources as well as clients.

Washington, Dc

• Managed a procurement portfolio of in-house clients in nine countries, including eight throughout Africa as well as Haiti which receive funding from multiple funding sources, including but not limited to the United States Government, other governments, and tinternational financing institutions, such as the Global Fund and World Bark, and income generated by the agency itself.• Perform the entire procurement cycle, including receipt of requisition, solicitation, evaluation, contract award, contract management and close-out for pharmaceutical and health commodities.• Ensured supplier adherence to terms and conditions set forth in the contract from inception to delivery of commodities. • Maintained relationships and communications with suppliers to ensure quality and value. • Managed communications with clients to alert them to any delays or changes which may have arisen during production and delivery of commodities.• Created templates for contracts, letters, etc. in order to assist filling in gaps in capacity at the field level as well as to increase efficiency in the Washington, DC Office.• Developed and lead training sessions on the procurement process for new staff assigned to positions in international offices as well as for staff placed at headquarters.

• Collaborated with the Grants Specialist to manage the departmental financial processes and ascertain variances within the controls, policies and procedures that impacted efficiency and effectiveness and recommended process improvements.• Collaborated with the departmental budget managers to analyze and resolve budget problems and submit a roll-up budget comparison report to the director for review.• Managed consultant contracts and payments as well as issuing purchase orders, payment invoices, and check requests ensuring the use of correct account codes for reporting purposes. • Coordinated department travel both domestically and internationally for both non-emergency trips and emergency responses.• Technical writing for grant reports as well as monitoring and assisting in departmental strategy reporting • Managed the Emergency Community Sharepoint Site and developed both internal and external presentations.• Led the design, coordination, and logistics for Emergency Operations meetings and conferences and represented the department at external meetings as needed.• Facilitated reporting and management systems to assist with the flow of department activities.

• Assisted in the creation of contract proposals, requests for proposals and statements of work for large-scale international projects. • Participated in meetings with subcontractors to obtain bids and negotiate pricing and assisted in the evaluation process to award contracts.• Planned and estimated the costs of cultural events and excursions for international clients.• Created and forecasted budgets then tracked and maintained those budgets and provided cost analysis and regular updates. • Received recognition as part of a team which completed a high-value project on schedule and under budget.• Managed a small staff of support specialists.• Coordinated flight reservations to and from both domestic and international locations for groups of up to 50 foreign nationals and created spreadsheets to track housing records, arrivals and departures and all other necessary schedules.• Kept up-to-date records for international clients’ insurance and other personal affects and located transportation, housing, medical and dental facilities for clients.• Created presentations and briefed international clients on American culture, laws and opportunities.• Translated Official Documents, Contracts, Statements of Work and Power Point Presentations from English to French and French to English.• Interpreted French to English and English to French for informal presentations and meetings.