Championed cross functional initiative to implement effective contract management and vendor life-cycle processes. • Modeled and implemented governance for strategic suppliers designed to motivate valuable behaviors, lower risk and sustain a competitive environment that motivates excellent performance.• Improved strategic supplier performance by establishing a regular communications cadence between internal and external stakeholders concerning hot topics, while introducing viable vendor competitors. • Gained funding and engaged outside council to create and implement a boilerplate IT agreement to more easily secure favorable business terms and conditions with prospective suppliers in the highly competitive evaluation stage of vendor selection.• Reduced time and cost associated with contract executions by promoting widespread use of a cross-functionally reviewed and approved Aramark boilerplate I.T. agreement. • Created a central repository of executed supplier agreements and vendor scorecard template to enable stake-holder visibility and timely contract enforcement.