Walter Wolf Email & Phone Number

Simi Valley, Ca, Us

Burbank, California, United States

Sherman Oaks, California

• Developed from scratch the Vendor Management Program at Genesis Capital • Implemented Vendor Management software program • Provided reporting of Vendor Management activities back to parent company Goldman Sachs and consistently ranked in the top 3 of reporting divisions. • Successfully implemented the Vendor Management system to track contract expiration dates ensuring adequate time to collaborate with lines of business and introduce competition and engage in contract negotiations resulting in cost savings.• Significantly reduced risk and improved audit controls by storing all vendor information including contracts electronically in a single place with controlled access rights.• Responsible for overseeing and coaching vendor managers working on Critical Vendor deliverables on behalf of the Lines of Business. • Ensured that Vendor Management deliverables were completed accurately and on time by all Vendor Managers within the Vendor Management system to fulfill documentation requirements for Goldman Sachs and Regulatory compliance.• Developed and monitored vendor management deliverables for Vendor Managers to routinely complete resulting in clean audits with parent company Goldman Sachs.• Developed periodic Vendor Performance Scorecard Reviews that were completed annually, semi-annually or quarterly depending on the Risk Level. • Responsible for assisting and coaching vendor managers with negotiation strategy, issue resolution, problem solving, incident reporting and performance oversight of vendors including review of performance scorecards.• Responsible for assisting and coaching vendor managers in the oversight of Risk Assessments and Vendor Information Security reviews of vendors. • Provide Contract oversight, review, analysis and guidance in order to create competitive advantage through contract negotiations with vendors.• Worked with Legal Department to ensure that contracts had acceptable terms in order to lower Risks.

Pasadena, Ca

• Provide Contract oversight, review, analysis and guidance in order to create competitive advantage through contract negotiations with vendors.• Improved and cut turnaround time for Contract Reviews by 60% by streamlining the process and focusing on key contract components that reduce risk.• Oversaw and managed Contract Review and Negotiation with one of Bank’s largest outsourced vendors for complete back office products and services. Successful in convincing incumbent vendor to keep their services the same and decrease their costs to the Bank rather than increasing them 10% saving the Bank $750,000.• Significantly reduced risk and improved audit controls by successfully implementing a Contracts Repository system Bank wide storing all contracts electronically in a single place with controlled access rights.• Responsible to oversee, develop and manage the Contract Review process and Vendor Management Program at Community Bank. • Helped formulate and implement Vendor Risk software program which is a fully electronic Vendor Management and Contract Repository system.• Responsible to oversee and coach vendor managers working on Critical Vendor deliverables on behalf of the Lines of Business using the Vendor Risk software. • Ensure that Vendor Management deliverables are completed accurately and on time by all Vendor Managers within the Vendor Risk software system to fulfill documentation requirements and Regulatory compliance.• Developed and monitored vendor management deliverables for Vendor Managers to routinely complete resulting in clean audits with FDIC, DBO, Compliance and internal audits over the last three years.• Responsible for assisting and coaching vendor managers with negotiation strategy, issue resolution, problem solving and performance oversight of vendors including review of performance scorecards.• Responsible for assisting and coaching vendor managers in the oversight and GLBA Risk Assessment of vendors.

Simi Valley, Ca

• Managed the oversight of large complex vendor relationship (ServiceLink) that involved working with six lines of business within the Bank and several smaller vendor relationships.• Managed the oversight of and worked in coordination with six separate vendor managers working on behalf of the six lines of business using the vendor for various mortgage services including title, closing, valuation and flood.• Responsible to coordinate and collaborate with six vendor managers to ensure that Global Vendor Management Program deliverables were completed accurately and on time.• Coordinated, planned, and facilitated Quarterly Business Review meetings with the six lines of business Executives and Vendor Executives.• Responsible for the annual Vendor Onsite Assessment at Servicelink. • Responsible for issue resolution, problem solving and performance oversight of ServiceLink including monthly scorecard management.• Responsible to oversee and assess Risk Management as it relates to ServiceLink.

Simi Valley, Ca

• Volunteered to work on Project Team as Global Sourcing Manager Subject Matter Expert for Bank of America’s #1 Priority Project to combine three teller platforms across the Bank.• Developed Global Sourcing reporting routines and documentation to provide the California Northwest (CANW) Executive Leadership Project team visibility into the impacts of Global Sourcing on the overall project deliverables.• Developed and implemented a proactive tracking system to monitor risk related to CANW Critical Suppliers to ensure successful completion of work in a timely manner without risk to the project deadlines. • Reviewed Quarterly Performance Scorecards, Monthly Financial Viability Risk Rating scores and reviewed special Risk reports on high risk suppliers.• Developed and implemented a proactive tracking system designed to track all outstanding Statements of Work being worked on by 13 sourcing managers across Bank of America Business Lines in order to coordinate all sourcing activities related to the project and ensure no deadlines were missed.• Oversaw and mediated several problematic supplier interactions and brought the right parties together to resolve supplier issues in a timely manner while ensuring that there was no impact to project timelines.• Provided documentation to the Audit team on all Project Sourcing activities to eliminate risk and demonstrate the various risk mitigation activities taken to minimize risk to the project.

Simi Valley, Ca

• Managed the sourcing activities and participated on a team that worked on a complex Request for Proposal for ATM switching software for Bank ATMs which in the end resulted in the lowering of our costs by 20% while staying with the incumbent provider.• Negotiated terms, conditions and pricing for software contracts ensuring that risk was minimized in all contracts.• Consistently contributed significant savings to the team from negotiation and contract work. • Consistently maintained one of the highest productivity and workload levels in the department while managing multiple priorities. • Developed routines to improve poor supplier relationships with two large complex problematic vendors to ensure a good working relationship by opening up new lines of communication and cooperation with vendors. • Established and maintained a focus on strong customer-oriented service to the various Lines of Business and consistently received commendations from internal customers.