Tom Brancato, Cpa, Mba Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

I’m excited to return to Hyatt and to work again with my Colleagues in IT and Procurement.

Lake Forest, Il, Us

I'm excited to have joined the team at Reynolds. Lots to learn. Lots to do.

Chicago, Il, Us

Partnership Skills• Led Cross-functional teams of IT and Business owners through RFP’s and negotiations to save over $20M in Software, SaaS, Hardware, Professional Services, and Contingent Labor costs. • Collaborated with Cyber Security to realize over $4M in savings across vendors including Proofpoint, Mimecast, Protiviti, Akamai, Anomali, CISCO, Rapid7, KnowBe4, and HackerOne.Negotiation Skills• Led complex negotiations under aggressive time demands with major vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Iron Mountain, and Hyatt’s multiple resellers, reporting to senior executive team.• Achieved over $3M in savings related to COVID-19 business downturn.• Reached $1.6M Telecom savings with vendors including AT&T, T-Mobile, Ring Central, and Verizon.• Reduced cost by more than $1.2M for cloud-based file backup/storage services.• Saved $2.5M for Finance and Digital Marketing with vendors including IBM, Workiva, and Medallia.• Reduced Contingent Staffing vendors by 70% using Fieldglass, and Supplier Management techniques including KPI’s, performance metrics, and rate comparisons.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Established and managed the global Supplier Management and Governance process for a $28M+ relationship with Microsoft. • Led Cross-Functional teams through Strategic Sourcing process for Indirect categories including IT Software (Perpetual, Subscription, and SaaS), Consulting, Global Networking, Employee Services, Creative Services, and Learning & Development. • Managed external expert resources to gather market benchmark information.• Negotiated savings of $11.7M in 2014, including license upgrade purchases as well as custom support agreements.• Achieved $6M in savings in each of the last three years in position.• Received the McDonald’s Circle of Excellence Award for sourcing an ePay card to reduce costs and increase efficiency of payroll for more than 50 thousand US restaurant employees.

Carmel, Indiana, Us

Conducted sourcing projects with significant improvements in costs and contract terms across the following categories: IT (hardware, software and consulting), Telecom, Legal Services, Disaster Recovery, Database Administration, Lead Generation, Help Desk, Office Equipment, Printing, Cafeteria Operation and Janitorial Service. • Achieved $5,000,000 in hard dollar cost reductions in each of the last three years in position. • Consolidated the Print, Policy Assembly and Mailroom Services at an annual savings of $500,000.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accountancy

Mba, Finance & Marketing