Sara H. Email & Phone Number

Englewood, Colorado, Us

• Oversee and drive the strategic sourcing and real estate management function across the organization.• Develop and execute the sourcing strategy, optimizing the global supply chain, managing real estate portfolios, and ensuring alignment with corporate goals.• Collaborate with senior leadership to support business growth, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.

Englewood, Colorado, Us

• Responsible for developing and executing strategies to optimize vendor relationships.• Managing the full lifecycle of third-party vendors used globally.• Budget and cost center management.• Compliance and risk management.• Team leadership - manage a high-performing team, providing leadership, mentorship, and professional development opportunities.

Englewood, Colorado, Us

• Responsible for management of procurement analysts who are tasked with vendor onboarding and/or Tier 3 transaction types.• Overall responsibility for the outcome of the vendor onboarding process.• Manage software tools used to intake and store vendor onboarding requests • Interface with associated departments to ensure the overall process is responsive to the needs of CSG (Legal Department, Privacy, Compliance, Audit, Operations, Product Management).• Provide researched reporting on trends affecting the goods and services consumed by CSG in its business. Including but not limited to supply chain disruptions or supply chain improvement studies; the impact of open source software on commercial software providers; trends in public cloud usage or providers.• Assist with identifying risks in CSG’s supply chain and offer a plan for mitigation efforts.

Englewood, Colorado, Us

★ $50M annual revenue influencer.Chosen to lead buying negotiations for senior stakeholders – act as primary point-of-contact for customers and vendor partners providing industry insight, thought leadership, product roadmaps, and optimum collaboration. Lead cross-functional teams through sourcing process ensuring sourcing decisions are consistent with business unit strategy.• Regularly collaborate with executives to review and define cadence of top 20 strategic vendors with $1M+ spend—totaling $120M annually. • Conduct due diligence of security, financial health, and technical soundness and drive cross-departmental conversations to resolve contract issues and complete related financial analysis.• Drive revenue and increase account growth through executing US and Global vendor onboarding program—closing completion process average from 20 days down to 7 days.• Build global vendor relationships through Vendor Scorecard Management (SLAs, outages, uptime, spend and other KPIs.)• Boosted efficiency by exceeding team savings-and-avoid goal by 188%—producing over $26M in bottom-line savings (2017).• Designed enhanced Global Vendor Management Program to close gaps and map back to CSG standards, PCI, and ISO27001 requirements.

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

★Awarded highest honor for reducing spend with top suppliers by $6M ★Selected representative - Women’s Leadership Conference ICANConsistently promoted and assigned to increasingly challenging positions to drive performance, cost savings, and improve efficiency. Regularly recognized by management for exceptional performance. • Studied spend, success strategy, and trending to determine target objective at supplier level—built analysis presentations for senior executives.• Produced $9M in savings through maximum hustle—executed 23 contracts for new and renewal business 60 days prior to year-end.• Presented to C-suite executive team bimonthly with accounting and financial documentation. Delivered clear goals for cost savings, value creation, and supplier performance in conjunction with business unit operating plans.• Reviewed accuracy of contracts and remedied any deficiencies to prepare for attorney approval. • Refined category strategy through utilization of expertise in relevant categories/commodities.

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

★ Achieved 102% over 2013 goal through defining and conducting RFI, RFP, RFx actions• Conducted market analysis to develop supply market strategies.• Developed strategies through collaboration with technical authorities and business unit operational staff. • Led cross-functional teams through sourcing process to ensure sourcing decisions were in alignment with overall business unit strategy.• Created and modeled Total Cost of Ownership for categories and sourcing decisions.

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

★ Chosen by major client to be Client Executive as a result of expertise used in strategic messaging and negotiations• Led revenue-generating ideas to reduce incoming tickets resulting in knowledge transfer to clients (internal & external)—saving $250K and reducing need of 4 FTE.• Developed and executed annual sales plans and strategies for northeast territory.• Oversaw the development and launch of 2-way connect and SMS messaging. Identified inefficiencies and made recommendations for innovative process improvements.• Developed and shared best practices across the company, including building and cross training on operational procedures—mentored, coached, and train 8 team members. • Planned, created, and delivered product sales presentations to new and existing customers.

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

Promotion – Senior Account Manager | 2005–2010Account Manager | 2003-2005★ Relied on to identify source of multi-million dollar billing error and recoup costs across multiple clients—recouped $2M+ • Compiled and made presentations to executive staff on program value proposition, financials, schedules, customer feedback, and relationships. • Ensured 95% of Customer Operations Expectation guidelines and expectations were met within required periods.• Drove product revenue and achieved 10% increase in margin goals

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

• Prepared and delivered performance updates and quarterly business reviews through team collaboration. • Wrote, proofed, and edited sales proposals and correspondence.• Updated executive management and departmental peers on overall strategy.

Mba, Management

Food Science & Technology, Science