Sue Nelson Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Senior Manager Strategic Sourcing Responsibilities:
• Manage end to end strategic sourcing and procurement process for global categories including but not limited to: Facilities Real Estate and Furniture, Global Security, Global Travel Management/Services, Global.
• Lead cross-functional teams made up of business owners, contract management, legal, compliance and finance in RFP/RFI issuance and program implementation.
• Draft and develop complex statements of work and commercial contracts.
• Drive change management winning the buy in of employees and senior leaders globally.
• Oversee a global supplier base of 90+ vendors to manage risk and strategically manage spend. Direct ownership of key global suppliers.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Working with outside legal counsel, MoneyGram’s Facilities Director, and IT representatives contracted with major data center specialist to provide redundant power to Enterprise Data Center ensuring 100% uptime..
• Led RFP and implementation of MoneyGram’s global corporate card programs (Travel & Entertainment, Purchasing Card, and Ghost Card) for 1,100 employees in 35 countries.
• Managed transition of small package freight program from UPS to FedEx resulting in 19% annual cost savings.
• Led cross functional global teams through RFP efforts in the selection of a global real estate management company and a physical security company. Contract and pricing negotiation.
• Responsible for regional RFP effort contracting with major armored car vendor to service corporate owned retail stores and high performing agent locations. Achieved 14% cost savings.
• Partner with Global Contracts Manager to ensure expedient and compliant implementation of new contracts throughout the organization.

St Louis Park, MN

• Through comprehensive spend analysis negotiated new small package freight contract returning an annual cost savings of $720,000.
• Reduced offsite storage/document retention cost by 17%. Moved document shredding services to a new vendor resulting in a savings of 60% annually.
• Managed corporate world wide teams to analyze demand, establish specifications, process, policies and procedures to manage demand for indirect categories.
• Monitor vendor and internal performance against contracts, industry benchmarks, and previous baselines on a quarterly basis. Developed insights for senior management.

Minneapolis, MN

• Partnered with IT Analysts to develop standards for hardware and software purchases.
• Issued RFP/RPQ’s for special projects including Stock Ticket install/Lobby.
• Responsible for vendor management, contract management, service level agreements.

Twin Cities

Retail Buying. Purchasing Manager, Senior Buyer and Buyer for television, catalog, e-commerce and retail stores.

Bs, Marketing

Certificate Of Completion, Project Management