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Denver, CO, US

The Hague, South Holland, NL

• Lead, define, develop, optimize a global team and capability to deliver products and services enabling the business to grow, adapt and reduce cost in a compliant and risk adverse manner. Strategic oversight to $325M.
• Define, implement and manage sourcing strategies, vendor relationships, contracting, and license compliance in a global environment. This includes negotiation strategy and execution, category management and tooling.
• Establish and grow working relationships with peers, business partners, stakeholders and vendors to achieve maximum results and priority-based actions in a global environment.
• Improve supplier relationships while maximizing value.
• Lead a global team to contribute and align to corporate strategy while integrating and aligning multiple internal functions.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies related to procurement activities and KPI’s.

Omaha, NE, US

• Define, implement and manage sourcing strategies, vendor relationships, contracting, and license compliance. This includes negotiation strategy and execution, category management and strategy using tools such as ROI.
• Establish working relationships with peers, business partners, stakeholders and vendors to achieve maximum results and priority based actions. Continuously leveraging industry practices such as RFx and scorecards.
• Negotiate, define, and implement cost structure and contractual terms. Work with and ensure legal elements are in order and addressed along with business requirements, deliverables, mutual compliance and SLA’s.
• Manage activities of financial analysis functions to ensure the proper approvals for billing and purchasing are obtained according to the assigned business segment's policies and procedures and monitor billing for.
• Process definition to ensure elements of Business, architecture, engineering, operations, finance and legal are accounted for within procurement/contracting
• Providing a comprehensive view of vendor activities to ensure license compliance and consolidated purchasing/pricing leverage where possible while ensuring adherence to established department and corporate policies and.

Broomfield, CO, US

• Directed, defined and managed all aspects globally relative to global indirect (IT, HR and Finance) procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor relationships, contracting, asset management.
• Led a global team tasked with identifying and negotiating cost savings, risk mitigation and operational efficiencies through managing working relationships of global teams from IT, Legal and Risk.
• Managed procurement operations, strategic partnerships as they relate to products, services or outsourcing needs
• Managed global IT asset management program and oversaw compliance to corporate IT standards
• Implemented global vendor management program to ensure vendor performance and acknowledgement of deliverables as defined by contracts
• Defined, implemented and supported corporate, global policies

Broomfield, CO, US

• Implemented and managed IT Customer Support Desk infrastructure, including three regional Service Desks performing 1st level customer support, user administration, and service reporting, utilizing a follow-the-sun.
• Implemented and managed the process, maintenance and auditing of ITIL-based Incident Management Process.
• Assisted with the implementation of other ITIL based programs, including Change Management
• Managed the Global Desktop Systems model, which included hardware and software selection and configuration, along with establishment and promotion of global corporate standards

• Managed the design, implementation of business processes for outsourcing IT-managed services to clients.
• Managed IT Operations and Services. This included full oversight of the following: helpdesk, field staff, systems and network management, asset management, project management, standards management and contract.
• Served as Project Director, covering contract services, managing and supporting all aspects of IT (including designing budget and business process alignment) for an engineering firm with 15 locations throughout the.
• For another customer, had oversight responsibility for IT infrastructure design, implementation of a WAN, definition of staffing requirements, staff hiring, management of migration of disparate email systems to a.

Steamboat Springs, CO, US

Broomfield, CO, US

Golden, CO, US