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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Milwaukee, WI

• Lead strategic sourcing and procurement of IT solutions and services to meet operational requirements and digital transformation goals. Manage supplier relationships, RFx development and execution, contract negotiation.
• Strategic Negotiation & Cost Reduction: Steered critical Supply Chain RFP negotiation from verbal commitments to securing partnership, delivering 30% cost reduction and enriched functionality while establishing.
• Global Licensing & Cost Management: Turned around mid-stream Supply Chain Optimization contract extension, achieving over 20% savings on a multi-million spend with no initial leverage, and deferring 15% of payments to.
• Commercial Contract Renewal & Technical Debt Reduction: Oversaw major SaaS renewal negotiation with major IT supplier involving multiple strategic components, coordinating with internal stakeholders and leveraging.
• Brewery Operations Project Revitalization & Team Development: Integrated new category and supplier outside normal realm of business, enhancing contract value and compliance, leading to policy coaching roles, and.
• Business Management License Compliance: Spearheaded complex compliance negotiation for software licensing, corrected user licensing from overage claim, securing over $2M in savings by leveraging supplier's new SaaS.

Milwaukee, WI

• Steered procurement strategy to ensure stable, cost-effective, and sustainable supply of aluminum cans, critical to product packaging operations. Leveraged market insights to build strong relationships with suppliers.
• Supplier Account Financial Revitalization: Overhauled financial reconciliation process for critical accounts, instituted tracker system to clear longstanding open items in Canada and the US, resulting in current.
• Savings Project Precision: Streamlined project list yielding $27M in total process value, including $9M direct savings, $9M working capital benefit, and $8M inflation mitigation, while developing $35M savings pipeline.
• Supplier Performance Amplification: Championed SRM, advancing capabilities and supply assurance via cross-functional teams and stakeholder alignment, culminating in crafted process that boosted supplier performance.

Milwaukee, WI

• Directed team of procurement professionals in acquisition of capital equipment, construction services, facilities, and engineering services to support brewing, packaging, infrastructure, and automation/control needs..
• Management & Process Optimization: Revitalized team performance by implementing strategic performance plan that enhanced stakeholder communication and innovation, streamlined CapEx SRM processes pre-reorganization, and.
• Capital Execution Triumph: Surpassed Total Procurement Financial Value (TPFV) goal, achieving over 10% in savings on $15M target for $11M in direct savings, $2M in enhanced working capital, and $2M in cost avoidance.
• Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) Development: Expanded MWBE spend to $24M, tripling previous years' figures, and strategically developed robust $26M TPFV pipeline for forthcoming three-year plan.
• CapEx SRM Process Champion: Redesigned and standardized CapEx SRM processes, enhancing eSourcing efficiency by 25% and integrating EHS compliance, which led to improved bid evaluations, unified procurement approach.

Milwaukee, WI

• Oversaw procurement activities associated with capital expenditures with particular focus on packaging equipment and engineering process standardization. Conducted thorough market analysis to identify potential.
• SAP Purchase Requisition (PR) Process Transformation: Overhauled CapEx manual requisition system through SAP PR implementation, trained over 50 employees across 20+ sessions, centralized training materials on.
• Spend Visibility & Tax Optimization: Guided CapEx tax integration project to revamp MillerCoors' tax compliance framework, increasing SAP material groups from 3 to 40 for enhanced spend analysis, reduced tax.
• Procurement Strategy: Transitioned company from ad-hoc purchasing to strategic buying, orchestrating shift culminating in 6% cost reduction on $1.2M in warmer purchases, $500K saving from packaging line conversion, and.
• OEM Standards & Value Engineering: Shifted from 'MC Way' to OEM standards, fostering more cost-effective approach with 20% savings on $13.9M line, reducing conveyor costs by $1M, and promoting future-ready processes.
• Spares Management & OEM Standardization: Transformed vendor-based transactions to strategic supplier relationships, integrating SRM principles with SLAs and scorecards, which streamlined major supplier inventory.