Pricing Manager, North America
• Managed team of 20 finance professionals accountable for pricing and structuring of all North America Transactions at IBM Global Financing, including both full payout loans and fair market value leases. • Updated Americas Pricing Delegation guidelines and reviewed and approved complex transactions. • Oversaw all recruiting, staffing and centralization of pricing jobs to IGF Atlanta Center of Excellence.• Earned IGF's highest award, IGF Teammate of the Year, for building, transitioning, staffing and training a new pricing department at new Atlanta Center of Excellence.• Achieved IBM's highest rating for job performance by exceeding profit and revenue objectives, and effectively training and managing team of finance professionals.• Teamed with IGF Global Asset Recovery maximizing end of lease / inventory profit margins, driving increased revenue.• Drove $7B lease and loan contracts annually in US and Canada by providing sound business direction to GM, VP, business unit executives and deal architects.• Maintained business service levels through Center of Excellence transition despite replacing 21 senior deal structurers with greater experience with 21 deal structurers with less by having open-door management policy, providing hands-on training and support, and holding weekly department training sessions and deal review boards.• Managed America’s Executive Deal Approval Board for IGF's largest transactions which included leaders from Finance, Pricing, Executive Management, Legal, and Administrative departments by producing approval / disapproval document.