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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Rahway, New Jersey, United States

Rahway, New Jersey, United States

- Accountable for the strategic oversight of $20M within the Veterinary Devices category, and $15M in the Software IT category; providing support to 87 markets globally and 125 legal entities.- Vigorous management of key supply partners to ensure performance, enhance product quality, mitigate risks, increase market profitability, and improve customer satisfaction; with a centralized focus on establishing multi-year supply contracts and service agreements, while fostering sustainability and innovation.- Lead the Commercial Services adoption of Ariba for all buying channels, using critical thinking to collaboratively provide novel ideas to leadership, identifying opportunities for process optimization and continuous improvement.

Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States

- Responsible for all aspects of order flow; from Purchase Order issuance, through product/ service delivery.- Support start-up of a new internal market initiative (compounding), by engaging potential suppliers, leading RFP/RFQ activities, and redlining contractual agreements/ amendments prior to consulting legal counsel.- Initiate projects to eliminate low-value activities by monitoring commodity market trends and executing on opportunities for cost reduction, quality improvement and service improvement.

Clark, New Jersey

*COVID induced reduction of workforce*- Assisted in implementing the company’s AI powered cloud hosted procurement system, specifically the P2P deployment process including: data collection, process configuration, user interface configuration, user and supplier set-up, electronic invoicing set-up, approval workflow set-up, catalog set-up, and purchase requisition to purchase order set-up.- Supported business development within GEP by creating curriculum to assist the onboarding of new Business Analysts.- Specialized emphasis on navigating large data sets with a focus on analyzing, updating, and migrating client data to match external client specifications and to build collaborative relationships.

West Point, Pennsylvania

- Meet internal demands for comparator blinding, including but not limited to de-printing and over-encapsulation on assigned projects.- Procure and provide comparator samples including photos as well as documentation for comparator, label and packaging component evaluation, comparator pricing information and information to support correctness of financial budget planning. This includes oversight on shipping activities and monitoring target delivery dates.- Created and maintained Material Masters and provide SAP Process Orders for de-packaging, pre-packaging, manipulation and placebo manufacturing packaging, in accordance with GMP policy.

Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

- Headed a pilot project to develop a master tracker for various supplier compliance and risk assessments with a goal of streamlining the process of gathering and reporting of assessment outcomes.- Interacted with Sourcing Managers as part of a targeted project to verify compliance of a new supplier assessment requirement for protecting Merck’s Intellectual Property.- Led the effort of compiling sourcing contracts from multiple data sources for Adobe E-Signature and to minimize risk of non- compliance with Merck’s records retention, information safeguarding and data protection policies.

West Chester University Of Pennsylvania

Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

- Led the refinement of the Procurement Savings Program by collaborating cross functionally across multiple regions resulting in enhanced savings data with departmental and regional breakdowns. - Played an integral role in a project to increase visibility of supplier records in the Third Party Risk Dashboard by matching supplier data from source data files to the corresponding unique supplier identifier DUNS number.- Communicated results of research and data analysis specific to DUNS numbers to dashboard IT team resulting in consolidated and concise supplier records.

Medford, New Jersey

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration And Management, General

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Soccer, Special Olympics, Alternate Activities Club