Category Manager IT Procurement responsible for global sourcing strategies that cover software and services category spend.

• Primary Category Leader for global IT professional services spend and category strategy • Manage strategic professional service and software partner relationships globally • Sourcing lead for the IT strategic supplier program that manages IT service partner relationships globally• Develop category assessment opportunities to drive business alignment and generate cost savings across large portfolios of spend, creating a multiyear savings pipeline• Liaison with IT executive management and business stakeholders to ensure Sourcing alignment with key initiatives• Continuously improve category strategies to maximize efficiencies, increase assurance of supply, create program KPIs and SLAs, and generate annual cost savings• IT sourcing integration lead for major company M&A to ensure IT and business alignment and drive synergy savings opportunities • Engage with Legal, Data Privacy, Information Security, and IT Finance teams to mitigate risk, ensure terms and conditions are incorporated into contracts, and safeguard the company security posture within supplier relationships• Benchmark cost structures and sourcing practices with comparable organizations to identify areas of improvement by leveraging the experience and insight of peers• Continuously achieve / exceed annual savings targets

• Managed $100MM+ of spend across all major categories of IT and Telecom• Led sourcing waves for managed print and desktop computing, driving over $500K of annual cost savings • Oversaw the wireless telecom expense management partnership to drive mobile device and critical barcode scanner data plan optimization• Negotiated perpetual license, Saas, and IT services agreements for the global IT organization• Promoted from Procurement Specialist to Senior Procurement Leader after 3 years with the company

• Managed the company wireless program• Worked with the IT infrastructure team and IT asset management to negotiate hardware, software, and services contract across the company• Reviewed statements of work and provided recommendations to the business• Oversaw the company’s PeopleSoft iProcurement tool for the procurement team

• Ran reverse auctions across the office supply category• Oversaw the tactical procurement operations within the Oracle iProcurement tool

• Conducted 50-year title searches for residential and commercial real estate properties• Reviewed real estate contract documents from deeds, mortgages, tax liens, to real estate trusts and probate court documentation • Acted as a liaison between registry officers, probate clerks, and the law firm partners within the various County Registry of Deeds throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts