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Direct reports and management of field operations procurement personnel, lead for cost reduction initiatives throughout the hemisphere, mentor to supply chain management professionals, process improvement specialist with a strong focus on employee development and coaching.

• Draft, negotiate and manage drilling rig, stimulation and drilling and completions services contracts across North America • Liaise with Category Management, Legal, HSE, and Procurement functions. • Drafting of scopes of work and rate schedules related to a specific service. • Developed and managed a library of scopes of work for D&C services• Developed the filing structure, contract data management guidelines, master service agreement drafting guidelines, and eCommerce contract requirement guidelines for Contract Advisors across North America.• Developed contracting guidelines for the eCommerce pilot program as it related to rate validation, eProcurement and eInvoicing as it related to contracting. • Conducted RFx (RFI, RFP and RFQ) as required by management.Contract Management System Regional Coordinator (in addition to the above)• Provide training and guidance related to contract scope drafting, onboarding new employees, contract management system requirements/protocols, and SAP outline agreementsSAP Super User (Contracting and Procurement (in addition to the above)• Provide training, knowledge transfer session in addition to any necessary guidance related to contracting, purchase order creation, vendor master setup, and eCommerce implementation/onboarding of new vendors to company’s systems.

• Create and manage master purchase agreements for onsite/offsite services, materials, capital equipment, rentals and consignment. • Contract negotiations related standard terms and conditions, vendor quality, availability, and pricing. • Liaise with Legal, F&A, Logistics, risk management, end user stakeholders and SCM (Central Supply Chain Management)• Established contracting and procurement best practices• Contract data management using SAP/BW • Developed a new central procurement and contracting team consisting of 5 employees. • Developed and implemented new/revised processes and procedures for procurement and contracting functions.• Provided training, mentoring, career and skill development for the central procurement and contracting team (including SAP POs, invoices resolution (GR/IR and blocked invoices), contract negotiations. • Conducted formal Contract Management training sessions for field personnel per company policy and procedures. Sr. Contract Specialist (Global Baroid Category Management) • Created and managed master purchase agreements for onsite/offsite services, materials, capital equipment, rentals, chemicals and consignment. • Contract negotiations related standard terms and conditions, vendor quality, availability, and pricing.• Liaised with Legal, F&A, Logistics, end user stakeholders as well as SCM (Supply Chain Management).• Established contract best practices for various groups while keeping audit in focus. • Performed data cleansing using SAP/BW spend data to develop a strategic prospective with contract management. Sr. Procurement Specialist (Global Baroid Category Management) (Skills similiar to the above.)

Various positions throughout 2003 - 2007 (work history with Marathon was intermittant with the longest tenure being 2 years consecutively). SAP training, drafting of procurement best practices and work methods (P2P), etc.

SAP Data Manipulation (SAP PM) - Functional Role Consultant• Inventory data needing to be transferred into SAP MM system and Data needing to be transformed• Scrubbed and uploaded massive amounts of data for migration from legacy system to SAP. • Supported data migration plans, processes and functional teams. • Maintained the custom MRP master data and compiled MS Access reports for merge operations. • Coordinated training classes, scheduled instructors and assisted with training personnel within Valero with MM/PM SAP modules.