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Providing client facing procurement solutions

Greater Chicago Area

Roseland New Jersey USA

• In this capacity, I managed complex strategic business and vendor relationships in the IT & Network category to ensure achievement of ADP’s financial and operational objectives. I led negotiations for complex.
• Managed vendors including IBM, AWS, VMWare, RSA, EMC, Dell, and HP.
• Achieved savings of 10-50% on sourcing requirements.

Paris Area, France

• In this role, I managed an international team in a matrix organisation. I developed and implemented a global procurement strategy for $60M third party spend in EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. I optimised the business approach.
• Delivered team savings between $2M and $6M, meeting set targets.
• Individually contributed 20-40% savings on sourcing requirements.
• Slashed supply chain lead times by 10 to 20 days utilising strategic vendors.
• Transformed stakeholder engagement model and team leadership approach leading to increased customer satisfaction and team savings.
• Consistently delivered year on year cost savings in cost containment environment.

I led strategic sourcing initiatives and contract negotiations for EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regions with nearly $10M spend. I identified leading-edge technology for future enhancement and development of procurement processes, allowing the company to continually evolve. I steered teams through daily business activities in an effort to drive operational.

Reading, United Kingdom

• I served as category manager for IT, Professional Services, and EMEA/APAC bid support to include leading a team of eight direct reports accountable for $100M spend. I oversaw strategic planning for the re-launch of.
• Achieved commercial savings ranging from 20% to 47%.
• Established bid support and internal Verizon third party vendor requirements for data centres (co-location), hardware and servers such as Dell, HP, IBM, and EMC.