Saphineia's 'mission' is to help clients achieve substantial improvement in the way they operate with the goal of enhancing and sustaining their profitability. My role in supporting this is to create focus in the procurement areas of clients, improving capabilities there so that relationships with 3rd parties yield similar opportunities in enhancing and sustaining the profitability of the clients.

Open to helping companies interested in successfully advancing procurement's impact on their business

October, 2016 to September, 2019 July, 2023 to June, 2024Confidential work with the firm's clients as well as leadership in Procurement content development for the firm

Reimaged Procurement from a transactional, tactical partner to a key participant in all company strategy development and execution.Created a procurement purpose and strategy and developed an operating model roadmap for the permanent CPO to follow. Led the company through the trying post-COVID supply chain disruption and inflationary time by employing current state risk management thinking and tools.Played a formal 'role model role' for the new company executive leadership team… Show more Reimaged Procurement from a transactional, tactical partner to a key participant in all company strategy development and execution.Created a procurement purpose and strategy and developed an operating model roadmap for the permanent CPO to follow. Led the company through the trying post-COVID supply chain disruption and inflationary time by employing current state risk management thinking and tools.Played a formal 'role model role' for the new company executive leadership team, stressing transparency and accountability, with an overarching bent to making tough choices together. Show less

Led the framing and development for Mars' procurement operating model of the future

Transformed Mars' global and decentralized Indirect spend matrix through the development and activation of a centrally led Indirect sourcing operating model. The operating model, while centrally led, was developed with a global footprint to assure business inclusiveness and effective management of ~$10B in spend

Transformed a decentralized, transactionally oriented procurement effort into a strategic, centrally led global operating enterprise. Supported the operating model with an internally developed category management framework and capabilities. Introduced leading edge sourcing approaches and tools which enabled measureable advantage for Wrigley in the marketplace

Completed the installation of leading strategic sourcing approaches while creating the operating model and capabiliy framework to enable. Transformed the Company's commodity risk management model, leveraging my deep experience in analytics and trading. Initiated the expansion of formal sourcing approaches and governance to Indirect spend