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Westport, Ct, Us

- Responsible for the execution of all direct/indirect spend for the organization including installation services, professional services and direct material for the client (Aventiv Technologies)- Engage with budget owners on business needs, conduct competitive bidding on individual scopes, and negotiate favorable outcomes.- Bid, negotiate, and present overall spend strategies to executive leadership for individual RFQ’s tied to fiscal year budget requirements.- Track project spend to budget and report on variances/ savings.- Review and negotiate contract terms to achieve business objectives

Dallas, Texas, Us

- Responsible for the execution of all indirect spend for the organization including installation services, IT infrastructure and maintenance, professional and HR services.- Engage with budget owners on business needs, conduct competitive bidding on individual scopes, and negotiate favorable outcomes.- Bid, negotiate, and present overall spend strategies to executive leadership for individual RFQ’s tied to fiscal year budget requirements.- Track project spend to budget and report on variances/ savings.- Review and negotiate contract terms to achieve business objectives- Direct reporting responsibility for four internal resources focused on order fulfillment, delivery and contract execution and one contracted support role based in China supporting with technology hardware sourcing.

Dallas, Texas, Us

- Responsible for the management of HR and professional services spend for the organization.- Bid, negotiate, and present overall spend strategies to executive leadership for individual RFQ’s tied to fiscal year budget requirements.- Direct reporting responsibility for one resource focused on centralization of all of our executed contracts.

London, England, Gb

- Responsible for maintaining a $50M steel and tube purchasing strategy within two U.S. facilities, and one Mexico facility.- Successfully negotiated a 1.8% cost reduction with a single steel source to achieve $60K in savings for 2021 volumes while market steel prices are inflating 3% comparably.- Currently leading a supplier shiftability project for existing customer programs to provide strategic negotiating leverage for steel bar purchasing.- Responsible for teaching purchasing best practices to shared services in Porto, Portugal.

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

- Procure ~$18.5M in PCBA’s, LED’s, drivers, ballasts, lamps, electrical material, casting, glass, and outside finishing for industrial lighting solutions.- Supported the negotiation, award, and delivery of $20K in specialized light bulbs for a unique customer project in Budapest, Hungary to meet site installation timeline.- Achieved a $150K cost productivity with a component kitting supplier to drive 19% deflation in annual spend.- Voluntarily trained and developed standard work instructions for contracted support in Pune, India for division wide purchasing administrative tasks.- Volunteered to support an impending vacancy in a separate business unit to capture site specific knowledge and allow time for the site to backfill the role.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Responsible for the negotiation and award of $55M in annual MRO capital funding to replenish 10% of our 6,000-vehicle fleet while achieving $800K in annualized cost savings or 1.4% deflationary spend within the job scope through supplier negotiations, bulk buy strategies, and internal negotiations to redefine vehicle specifications for certain roles.- Coordinate logistics of vehicle chassis and specialized upfit components, delivered to a network of approved third-party contractors for vehicle build and deployment across the Eastern U.S.- Manage the timely coordination of new vehicle delivery and asset retirement through the supervision of one direct and one indirect report.- Successfully converted the physical records of 6,000 active company vehicles to electronic files and implemented an electronic new vehicle receipt document to streamline the entry of specific vehicle data.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Analyzed, bid, and awarded orders against $160M in annual capital funding to support the organization’s standard electrical and communication MRO and Positive Train Control material requirements.- Successfully negotiated a 10% cost reduction on a $1.5M engineering project with a single source of supply.- Proactively update system price records to reduce daily administrative burden resulting in 90% reduction in goods receipt/ Invoice receipt imbalances for contracted material.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Management