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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Lead for strategic and business transformation initiatives for the World Bank Group corporate purchasing team. Lead the team that is responsible for all strategy formulation and implementation, automation, technology, communication, change management, capacity building and program management activities for our global procurement centers in Washington DC, Chennai India, and Sofia Bulgaria.

92866 Issy Les Moulineaux Cedex 9, Fr

Transformed and provided leadership and strategic direction to the Food Service Supplies & Equipment, Facility Services & Supplies and Indirect Teams. Responsible for team and process design to manage all non-food products and services to ensure timely and cost effective availability for the Sodexo onsite services business and Entegra group purchasing organization with a spend basis of approximately $2.4 billion. Specific achievements:- Built and transformed the non-food supply team to meet and surpass client needs- Tripled the non-food cost efficiency annual delivery over 3 years- Developed import strategy from Asia to support onsite business- Directed the Covid pandemic supply response to source and distribute critical supplies directly from manufacturers- Collaborate with all 8 segments across Sodexo and Entegra GPO to exceed business results- Develop supply chain strategy to ensure supply and service availability

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Responsible for directing the global Indirect category team, as well as the global strategic direction and delivery for the McCormick Indirect Procurement organization. Chief responsibilities and achievement highlights include:- Directing global category managers responsible for over $350MM in direct spend responsibility- Development of global standards and strategy for Indirect procurement, including creation and implementation of Procurement Engagement Policy.- Delivery of value creation to exceed industry benchmarks in savings and cash release; cost savings increased by 50% and cash release by 300% vs. 2017.- Procure to Pay (P2P) process development for Indirect spend.- Ariba & SAP sourcing strategy development and implementation.- Advisement for transformation of EMEA and Americas Indirect team structure and creation of APZ and China Indirect teams to achieve total Indirect value proposition delivery.- Category strategy communication to key business stakeholders.- Senior stakeholder engagement.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Led the transformation of the EMEA Indirect organization from a local, country based sourcing team to a regional team focused on category management and value realization. Managed team of 7 located in the UK, France and Poland and developed new organizational roadmap to set the team up for ongoing success. Specific responsibilities and achievements:- Doubled annual hard cost savings delivery from 2017 to 2018- Reorganized team from a tactical country support model to a strategic regional team to support growth and business partner needs- Developed new McCormick Indirect operating model consisting of global and regional category segmentation and implemented globally in 2018.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Managed the regional ingredients and commodities portfolio and team for the America’s region as well as functioned as main business liaison to drive strategic initiatives for procurement.Chief initiatives included:- Developed organic, natural and non-GMO agenda: Oversight and leadership for organic herb and spice supply chain transformation to drive revenue and business growth for corporate procurement. Also sourcing lead to transform targeted recipes to non GMO and / or all natural status.- Achieved service goals: point contact to drive raw material service improvement (OTD and quality conformance). Close collaboration with demand planning to ensure agricultural product availability.- Drove cost savings: drive cost savings to achieve targets for America’s zone- Customer and unit collaboration: Responsible for external customer and internal unit facing interactions representing McCormick procurement and supply chain.- Product specification optimization: Collaborated with manufacturing and product development to ensure fit for purpose specifications that maximized manufacturing efficiency, minimized cost and met final product quality needs.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Global sourcing lead for assigned categories: dehydrated vegetables, seeds, commodities, herbs/spices, tomato products and parsley; as well as a direct report.Developed and maintained international (EMEA, Asia, Central America) grower and processor relationships to ensure supply of agricultural products.Exceeded annual cost savings targets for assigned categories. Developed global sourcing and supply strategy for tomato products category as part of first wave of global ingredient sourcing category strategies.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Categories include: domestic spices & herbs, seeds, fruits & vegetables, meat products, organic products and coffee / cocoa/ tea / nuts. Responsible for cross functional category leadership, global sourcing, cost optimization (TCO), supply continuity, supplier segmentation and internal & external customer alignment.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Lead for non-inventory sourcing categories for all North American manufacturing locations. Developed corporate strategies for MRO, Capital Assets, Services and other manufacturing supplies. Responsible for hard dollar savings of over $2MM. Led team for daily management of Hunt Valley Plant (largest operations location for McCormick) and responsible for alignment with and service to North American Operations leadership. Managed two direct reports and indirectly led 7 operations locations.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Led the operational Indirect procurement function at the Hunt Valley Plant, McCormick’s largest manufacturing facility. Supervised 2 direct reports responsible for the transactional execution of the procurement process. Served on the facility’s extended leadership team.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Procurement lead for IT categories at McCormick. During this time, I developed and implemented supplier segmentation strategy in association with the CIO and his direct team. Achieved cost savings of 4% of IT spend, and additional cost avoidance impacts of 5%.

University Park, Pa, Us

Research lead for Center for Supply Chain Research

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Responsible for product selection, inventory distribution and gross margin management for regional chain of 80+ department stores

Mba, Supply Chain Management & Strategic Leadership

Bs, Meteorology

Diploma