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Burlington, North Carolina, US

Ontario, California, US

• Corporate supply chain, shared services and procurement officer for national health system with nearly 43,500 people and own and operate 46 acute care hospitals across 14 states. Recipient of the Supply Chain Process.
• Developed and executed strategy to reduce $60M (cumulative over 3 years) in operating expenses by restructuring contracts and standardizing processes, utilization and product across the system. Achieved $30M in.
• Responsible for supply chain operations at 46 sites and managed a national team of regional directors and corporate functions (8 direct reports and a total team size of 600 FTEs)
• Led supply chain covid response to ensure supply of PPE and other critical resources to support patient care.
• Developed and execute shared services strategy for procure to pay function to drive greater control and alignment across the 46 sites.
• Led post acquisition integration of 350+ bed hospital in Los Angeles by driving synergies through cost savings, contract compliance, standardization and centralization of key processes

Albuquerque, NM, US

• Enterprise-wide sourcing and contracting, value analysis team leadership, supply chain and distribution operations, negotiations with major suppliers across devices, patient care, drug purchases, cardiology, surgery.
• Responsible for enterprise wide spend management ($600M external spend and $240M supply chain budget) and productivity initiatives across patient care, peri-operative surgical services, pharmacy, oncology, cardiology.
• Lead contracting strategy and execution with third party providers in distribution, device and drug manufacturers, Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs), pharmacy, business services with annual contract value over $500M
• Achieved net expense reductions across supplies and services of $9.5M (target $8.0M)in 2015and $15M (target $11M) in 2016 using value analysis and category management to drive cost and process improvement

Thousand Oaks, CA, US

• Various sourcing leadership roles across R&D, Marketing, clinical trials, safety/ regulatory, distribution channel strategy, access and reimbursement call centers, IT, G&A and COE.Responsible for clinical trials and.
• Lead category management, productivity and globalization efforts and responsible to generate $30M in savings in 2013 spanning monitoring, CRO services, study management, central labs, data management and site.
• Business case development, account solicitation strategy for full line and specialty distributors, negotiation planning, risk mitigation and value capture. Delivered $31M in 2011 and $53 M in 2012
• Led multi-product access and reimbursement cost reduction strategy to consolidate call centers, standardize services, reduce costs and deliver stable service levels across multiple geographies. Led R&D Sourcing.
• Developed and executed ‘Make-Buy’ analysis framework to outsource non-core processes in R&D across data management, clinical trials and site initiation. As Head of Shared Services and Outsourcing Center of Excellence,
• Advised facility site leaders on strategic options for outsourcing facility operations across a large suite of functions with an annual savings potential of $10-15 million

Zurich, CH

• Identified, captured and realized savings of $147 million across IT (hardware, software, professional services & market data) and Non IT (Corporate Real Estate, Marketing, HR, Travel, & Brokerage Commissions)
• Developed commodity management strategies in collaboration with category managers to identify opportunities and execute cost savings strategieso Performed risk management and cost analysis on key shared services areas.
• Led e-sourcing waves (business case, supplier assessment, RFx development, contract award and execution) for IT services, facilities management, reprographics, print and mail services.
• Developed management reporting framework for capturing, allocating and reporting savings globally across various categories.
• Developed sourcing and supply strategies for global IT commodities such as professional services, software, hardware, telecom and market data services.
• Led global professional services LCC (Low Cost Country) global location CoE(Center of Excellence) to generate savings of $20 million

Iselin, New Jersey, US

• Led customer service change management initiative to reduce erosion of sales by using six sigma methodology and transformed an inbound call center to perform outbound customer contact functions to improve customer.
• Led sourcing initiative to improve Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for outsourced services including supplier benchmarking, contract re-negotiation and performance reporting with key service level metrics.

• Developed business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions for HR and Finance Shared Services functions (using SAP) including cost justification (ROI), detailed business process mapping, contract management and.
• Developed e-procurement best practices for optimizing indirect spend, rationalizing suppliers, designing preferred vendor agreements and procurement policies to enforce compliance and leveraged technology to aggregate.

• (A management consulting firm specializing in strategic sourcing, expense reduction and category management)Project Manager/ Management Consultant
• Performed due diligence, developed industry-specific process maps, build business cases and category sourcing strategies for CPG, biopharma, media and financial services industries.

Lawrence Township, NJ, US

• Customer profitability analysis for large retailers such as Target, Walmart and CostcoDeveloped financial models to rationalize pharmaceutical and consumer distribution networks, evaluate impact of outsourcing, and.
• Process mapped the new product development process to ‘go-to market’ cycle of the ‘Oncology Value Chain’ to evaluate the effectiveness of re-engineering the franchise across R&D, Operations, and Sales.
• Team member of ‘Global SKU Optimization Initiative’ that stemmed global SKU proliferation by optimizing actual sales with manufacturing capacities.

Mba(Honors), Finance

Ms, Instrumentation

Hsc