Stephen Wietecki Email & Phone Number

St Paul;, Mn

Providing strategic sourcing consulting services on an interim and project basis for companies of all sizes from start-ups to the Fortune 500 as well as BPOs and private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

St Paul

Traditional Residential Real Estate Services involving the Sourcing of properties, negotiation of contracts for buyers and sellers servicing the entire the Minneapolis/St Paul metropolitan area.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Strategic sourcing leader responsible for design, implementation and on-going delivery of sourcing best practices for all goods and services. Reported monthly departmental performance and initiatives to executive leadership and business partners. Partnered with senior leadership on cross-functional and company wide initiatives. Oversaw complete talent life-cycle for team of three people in Minneapolis.• Utilizing monthly collaborative planning with departmental Senior Leadership, identified spend opportunities where the use of Strategic Sourcing processes could lead to favorable contract terms and pricing. This initiative resulted in continued savings of 13% year over year.• Team Leader for the Design, Development and implementation of the Strategic Sourcing and Procurement program; including processes and procedures, resulting in the successful delivery of sourcing and operational services to support Corporate ECMC and 24 colleges throughout US.• Developed Vendor Management system to better track Risk, Financial and Vendor Performance through the use of Vendor tiering resulting in the prioritization of vendor contracting needs and reporting to Executive leadership.• Initiated Workday contracting methodology to better facilitate Workday planning at business level and drive total spend to budget ownership.

Minnesota

• Leader responsible for the strategic sourcing, delivery and negotiation of Global Real Estate contracts for facilities goods and services categories for a portfolio office space consisting of over 2 MM square feet of class A leased properties throughout the US.• Completed the transition of 150 contracts, from previous out-sourced provider, during a 4-month assignment involving the re-negotiation of terms and conditions resulting in a savings of 5% for goods and services purchased over the previous year’s spend. • Created a sourcing engagement and tracking process to track new, on-going and completed contract efforts for presentation to senior leadership.

Minneapolis, Mn

Strategic sourcing leader responsible for delivery of real estate facilities goods and services contracts for a portfolio consisting of 55,000,000 square feet of large campus and retail properties for one of the nation’s largest financial institutions. Developed and implemented sourcing business process, engagement and tracking programs.• Created and maintained culture of continuous improvement among staff and peers.• Conducted RFPs for HVAC, plumbing and electrical services for 7,500 retail banking locations throughout US, resulting in savings of 15%.• Led complete talent lifecycle for team of five people.

Minneapolis, Mn

Senior Strategic Sourcing leader responsible for the quarterly budget to actual financial reviews with executive leadership, including vender risk reviews, spend to budget and forecast review for three-year planning cycle. Led strategic sourcing of all marketing; including media related procurement across traditional media, digital and social media, digital marketing services, marketing agencies as well as printed materials, Real Estate, Facilities and Professional Services Directed monthly sourcing and financial plan review with functional business owners for real estate, facilities and marketing. Developed and implemented strategic sourcing process and governance for marketing, real estate and facility services. • Designed, developed and implemented rate card pricing into strategic contracts for greater flexibility and turnaround in scheduling maintenance/marketing services while maintaining detailed audit trail through creation of POs with tracking to negotiated contract rates, resulting in cost reduction of 8% and service delivery time; contract to services rendered, by 50%• Managed the completion of 400 sourcing and purchasing projects annually. These projects consisted of full Master Services agreement (MSA) and Statement of Work (SOW) creation and negotiation.• Directed team of five people in US and India, providing procurement services to internal business partners and managing 125 vendor relationships.• Led strategic planning and procurement of all real estate and facility-related goods/services for 2,000,000 square feet of office space in four states. • Developed and deployed standardized strategic sourcing/purchasing processes across organization, with accountability for contract development, negotiation and compliance.• Completed strategic sourcing initiatives, including outsourced real estate management services (realizing 9% savings), cafeteria services (realizing 15% savings) and outsourced mail-room services (realizing 15% savings).

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for the Strategic Planning, Procurement and contract negotiation of all Real Estate and Facility related goods and services contracts for 2 million square feet of office space in 4 states. Including but not limited to developing and deploying standardized Strategic Sourcing/Purchasing processes across the organization, full accountability for contract development, negotiation and compliance.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for the Strategic Planning, Procurement & contract negotiation of all Real Estate Facility related goods and services contracts for 25 million square feet of American Express office space in 7 states and 1 province of Canada and 2 million square feet of Ameriprise Financial space as an outsourced Procurement provider.

Bloomington, Mn

Responsible for conducting Client Spend Assessment and Development of Strategic sourcing programs for National Auto Dealership accounts, and managed the delivery of Sourcing programs and savings results to key senior client representatives and owners