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Working with companies in support of their Procurement and Strategic Sourcing organizations. Projects include transformation of procurement functions to be a value-added business partner with early involvement in procurement decisions, creation of a single front door to facilitate early involvement and coordination with other functions to ensure purchases are compliant with policies and procedures prior to contract execution.

Toronto, On, Ca

Director in Procurement Advisory Consulting Practice. Worked with various clients on procurement transformation including creation of a single front door to orchestrate Risk/Privacy/Legal/Quality for all purchases of goods and services. Led target operating model implementations across organization design, governance including policies and escalation processes, technology implementations, change management and training. Focus on Healthcare and Lifescience clients.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Responsible for all functional procurement for Consumer Health Division, including $1.6B in third party spending, generating 10% of financially validated value, and leading a global sourcing team of 40 professionals as well as a matrix relationship with 50 incremental global teams.• Executive Sponsor with Head of Marketing Services, driving media pitch to identify one global media partner, capable of providing communication planning, thought leadership and digital innovation while ensuring immediate and significant savings. Value generated equaled 18% of spending. Recognized as Best Pitch during Pitch Week at ProcureCon – 2013.• Executive Sponsor and key driver of an Advertising and Promotion Optimization program, which identified redeployment of funding to higher return programs, driving 10% improvement in ROI.• Integration lead for the procurement work stream, which identified procurement synergy savings and day one readiness plans as part of creation of the Consumer Health Joint Venture between Novartis and Glaxo Smith Kline, to form the largest global consumer health care company.• Drove change in value creation metrics from price savings to incremental business benefits.• Drove procurement simplification of all processes surrounding procurement of goods and services.

Munich, Bavaria, De

Established a Central Procurement Organization throughout North America, including $500M in third party spend.• Created a matrix procurement organization with 8 separate companies.• Drove outsourcing of travel, generating 20% in savings as well as improved service and quality.• Leveraged consortium buying with Corporate United for general and administrative expenses, generating 10-20% savings.

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

Reported directly to the Chief Procurement Officer. Led a sourcing team of 47 people supporting manufacturing, including Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), Biologics, Commodity Chemicals, Packaging, Logistics, Facilities, Capital and Engineering Projects and External (Third Party Contract) Manufacturing.• Achieved $57M in sourcing related benefits in 2008 cost of goods, and identified and launched projects to yield $100 million through 2011.• Led the transition from site based procurement to center led procurement in manufacturing facilities, including creation of roles and responsibilities for site based tactical organization and center-led strategic sourcing organization.• Actively managed risk mitigation projects on raw material supply including leading risk assessments for all key products in the pharmaceutical business and establishing risk mitigation plans for all medium/high risk ingredients.• Drove alignment with Research and Development organization to ensure alignment of supply base through product development including commercialization.

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

Responsible for leading a sourcing team in support of HR, Legal, Finance, Travel and Facilities ($1Billion in spend)- Completed Implementation of leased worker tool to control process surrounding temporary workforce- Gained alignment in legal services and launched first RFP surrounding law firms, achieved savings in excess of $10million- Completed outsourcing of Recruiting, Creation of Real Estate Subsidiary to complete relocation sourcing process $2million in savings.- Completed assessment and diagnostic to launch HR Outsourcing, implemented in 2008

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

Led a sourcing team to achieve over $100M in sourcing related savings, while improving supplier related processes and employee productivity. Led a team of 20 Global sourcing professionals focused on Sales and Marketing, Human Resources, Legal and Corporate Staff third party spend. • Aligned with marketing organization to achieve targeted savings and embed procurement into the marketing organization.• Reduced supply base in Medical Education from 132 to 20 over a three year period through competitive bidding and capabilities assessments • Implemented Agency of Record models in Advertising, Medical Education and Market Research.• Implemented Activity Based Costing and Agency Resource Modeling with creative advertising agencies, generating over 20% in savings.• Aligned with finance to integrate procurement into budget process, embedding savings into budgets and gaining early access to projects in the plan.

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

- Responsible for managing the overall finances for Global Strategic Sourcing including budgeting, planning and actual reporting- Ensuring the financial credibility of projected savings- Responsible for the evaluation of new opportunities through a category assessment process- Provide critical resource allocation to maximize benefit achievement- Management of interactions and quarterly meetings with business unit controllers to gain agreement on savings achieved and ensure targets are met or exceeded- Oversight of ongoing tracking/monitoring of metrics to drive performance- Coordinated all Internal Audit reviews of the organization

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

- Responsible for all financial aspects of the Corporate Purchasing initiative formed to reduce external purchase prices of the company through strategic sourcing and leverage of cross business unit purchases. Involved in the establishment of a permanent center-led purchasing function.- Collection and analysis of total company spending from 17 accounts payable sites to determine synergies.- Reengineering of purchasing process, team leader for implementing SAP and Ariba software for procurement in conjunction with Financial Shared Services. - Responsible for all financial presentations to upper management- Responsible for creating permanent financial organization which included 6 analysts

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

- Provided and directed all analytic financial support for the Worldwide Consumer Medicines Group including both domestic and international operations- Responsible for preparing financial presentations to corporate management such as Quarterly Reviews with Corporate Controller; Budget, Long Range Plan, Overhead Productivity, etc

Lawrence Township, Nj, Us

Manager, Finance – Health and Beauty Appliances, Professional Products, Duart and New Product Development- Senior finance person for these businesses with sales exceeding $100 million Manager, Plant Accounting- Analysis of plant spending for management for all Clairol facilities- Budgeting, forecasting and accounting for manufacturing variances- Audited physical inventories Manager, Special Projects and Audit- Responsible for coordinating all PWC and Internal Audit Reviews

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- Promoted to the level of Senior Accountant in the Audit Department- Clients included Bristol Myers Squibb, Emery Air Freight, Union Trust Corporation, Berol Corporation, Morgan Guaranty Trust