Robert Gulick Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for the management of Emergency Response contracts for Shell in the Americas.

Houston, Texas Area

• Develop, implement and manage end to end Category Management solutions for onshore fabrication modules and offshore modules• Provide cross-category leadership leveraging other Category knowledge to deliver integrated supply chain solutions, with fabrication as the integrator, including other equipment categories and logistics• Proactively building a one-CP culture with peers in the CP organization• Implement strategic sourcing strategies with critical business and technical stakeholder teams to select and effectively manage primary supplier relationships in dynamic labor and materials markets

Houston, Texas Area

• Implemented Global Safety Equipment and Decommissioning commercial strategies across all lines of business with focus on Shell's Manufacturing Global business• Established Global Decommissioning CP network ensuring alignment with global strategy• Introduced contract management initiatives to extract year-on-year value delivery of $14mln against the bottom line• Shaped global decommissioning strategy delivering innovative asset monetization vs. traditional project spend

Houston, Texas Area

• Implemented strategic sourcing programs in support of Shell’s Manufacturing and Offshore production assets. Key categories of focus were Safety Equipment, Environmental Services and Waste. Total influenced spend exceeds $1 Billion.• Implemented strategic, performance-based, supplier relationship program with contract management teams designed to drive continuous improvement and productive supplier/Shell engagement• Implementation of delivery based supplier performance scorecard and contract management program

• Led a team of 7 staff that supported Shell’s environmental services initiatives with managed spend was $100mln annually• Implemented $1.5 billion tender of Shell’s Global Environmental Services Strategy (GESS) online reverse auction resulting in Service Recognition Award (SRA) monetary award• Implemented a recognized “world class” supplier management program with final 9 environmental firms, which streamlined the management of Shell’s downstream portfolio of 3,500 projects• Responsibilities included: individual performance reviews, supervision, exceeding team objectives, implementing Company best practices in contracting and procurement

Houston, Texas Usa

• Managed 40 contracts in support of large environmental projects with annual spend of $130 million• Led cross-functional teams of 15 people on regional strategy development resulting in a $13M annual savings • Introduced contract management initiatives to extract year-on-year value delivery of $7M by introduction of leading indicator KPIs that drove proactive behaviors and subsequent stretch goal targets• Introduced competitive marketplace discussions with the Remediation Effectiveness Technical Team and delivered a commercial best practices strategy

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed 90 contracts in support of Global Retail IT with annual spend of $98 million• Led cross-functional teams of 15 people on global strategy development resulting in a $6mln annual savings• Led $15mln negotiations in Belgium introducing the first performance bonus-malus contract based on software milestone resulting in an annual cost savings of $1mln• Led Global System Integrator $7mln RFI workshop in Rotterdam with a cross-functional team receiving final approval from Global IT Contract Board Global resulting in a cost savings of $1mln

Houston, Texas Area

• • Led negotiations aligned with Downstream business stakeholders utilizing TCO, NPV, life cycle and global contract strategy alignment resulting in $13mln in bottom line cost savings• Executed comprehensive contract negotiations in The Hague, resulting in $5mln annual cost savings• Led negotiations advocating new innovative technology resulted in $3mln annual savings • Successfully worked with Legal and Federal Trade Commission to head off a supplier monopoly in a strategic category

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for the Underground Storage Tank Compliance Program for 6400 retail locations • Accountable for an IT Design Team of 4 Staff Programmers that successfully developed and delivered a retail compliance-monitoring program • Led and implemented the rollout of a national retail monitoring system to manage environmental compliance and inventory management of underground storage tank systems from a central location • Provide HSE leadership coaching at all levels of the organization

• Reduced remedial system operating expenses 30% and expedited the cleanup of contaminated properties by implementing performance-based scopes of work into environmental contracts• Implemented "short fall” contract language to ensure environmental consultant’s charges were not to exceed agreed target• Led the technical scope of work and co-led the bidding of lab work resulting in a 30% savings on total spend

Orlando, Florida Area

• Led $6mln project consisting of design, permitting, bidding and contractor award processes • Led $9mln project consisting of bidding, contractor selection and managing remodeling of retail buildings • Developed ongoing detailed scope of work, managed tenders and supervised multiple maintenance contractors for a large geographic area

Bs, Design Engineering

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Mba, Business Administration And Management, General