Provide Corporate Sourcing and Procurement expertise to manage and influence spend while minimizing costs and risk. Lead high value strategic sourcing initiatives through effective sourcing, negotiation, and contracting to deliver cost savings of $1.5M and cost avoidance of $1.1M in 2021. Implemented opportunities for volume and vendor consolidation, cost reduction and driving contract compliance to achieve a competitive advantage. • Completed the review, negotiation and separation of global contracts mandated by the U.S. Government in compliance with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. Led communications and negotiations with vendors and European counterparts for IT, Legal, Commercial, Finance, Operations and HR contract splits and assignments. Completed separation of 1000+ contracts on time and under budget resulting in $1.7M in overall savings. • Manage RFPs and negotiations of Preferred Supplier Agreements in maximizing leverage and value through supplier partnerships. New agreements resulted in lower negotiated rates, annual conference commitments, quarterly rebate revenue, and estimated savings of $1.24M. • Led the contracting and negotiations with multiple vendors for the fast-track delivery of the products and services for the Technology Renewal and Cybersecurity initiatives. Negotiated new security and compliance agreements for Incident Response, Cybersecurity Testing and Consultation, and Phishing Programs to enhance overall security and compliance. • Implemented a self-procure process for HR contingent workers while maintaining government compliance. Streamlined the complexities of the existing process and established Preferred Suppliers saving onboarding and resource time while maintaining accountability and protection from risk.

Led a diverse global team of sourcing experts to develop and implement sourcing strategies for contracts to minimize risk and maximize value. • Collaborated with business partners to define requirements, develop sourcing strategies, and support procurement process (proposals, supplier negotiations and selection, service level agreements, contract administration). • Collaborated cross-functionally (legal, audit, tax, insurance, security, enterprise vendor management) to develop master services agreements, master purchasing agreements, and non-disclosure agreements supporting sub-agreements. • Handled requests to vendor for request for purchase, request for bid, and requests for information for business partners, including delivering qualitative and quantitative response analysis for informed decision making for supplier selection.

Headed team that supported telecommunications portfolio, including end-to-end sourcing project completion. Collaborated with business partners to define requirements, develop sourcing strategies, and support procurement process (proposals, supplier negotiations and selection, service level agreement / contract administration).

Managed 5 key relationships with technology business partners and key strategic supplier partners. Established formal governance structure, procedures, and vendor relations processes. Supported contracted services execution (SLA adherence, problems, escalations) and supplier performance evaluation. Identified improvement opportunities; tracked performance metrics to ensure critical expectations met (performance, on-time delivery, quality, issue resolution).

Developed, tested, and supported tools, processes, and procedures; led sourcing projects; and fostered relationships with technology, legal, risk, and vendor management teams for new global enterprise procurement department.

Functioned as project leader and subject matter expert for AT&T Global Network Managed Services Contract separation and spin-off of Ameriprise from American Express. Established framework to ensure seamless network managed services transition for new company. Built and implemented Ameriprise / AT&T governance model, defining vendor relationship, business, and performance management; operational policies and procedures; and project engagement.