Wendy Murtagh Email & Phone Number

Livonia, Michigan, United States

• Global facility management, including negotiating terms and procurement of shared and dedicated workspaces and sublease opportunities.
• Responsible for all aspects of global HQ office management.
• Supervise mailroom research staff.
• Implement and oversee company-wide, global engagement activities and events; in-person and virtual.

Livonia, Michigan, United States

• Manage corporate facility and remote/shared workspaces, ensuring organizational consistency and efficiency
• Establish and implement office operations and procedures
• Supervise and cross train administrative staff
• Maintain and track facility budget and expenses
• Procure and approve suppliers and requisitions
• Oversee mailroom operations, including mail survey administration, procedural updates and security

Livonia, MI

• Consult project teams with bidding best practices, vendor selection, and complex bidding requests across all industry groups
• Support domestic and international partner vetting efforts to increase competitive position
• Assist in researching and introducing latest technologies to bolster research capabilities
• Leverage relationships with key partners to negotiate margin improvement
• Mediate and resolve vendor-related fieldwork issues
• Bolster efforts on partner quality initiatives including more robust vendor feedback and deeper evaluation of service/data quality

Livonia, MI

• Collaborate and strategize with research partners, recommending best approach and methodologies to optimize client’s research goals.
• Negotiate fixed and fluid costs in order to deliver a research plan and budget that best suits the client’s research objective.
• Work within strict timelines, while still maximizing profit and ensuring quality through project completion.
• Utilize expert knowledge of partner capabilities and limitations in order to ensure clear expectations of both internal colleagues and end clients.
• Maintain a domestic and global partner database across all internal industry groups, including Energy, Consumer/Retail, Financial Services (Wealth Management and Banking), Tech/Telecom and Healthcare (Insureds and.
• Continue to build and enhance existing and new partner relationships to meet internal and external client needs and expectations for quantitative and qualitative research among numerous methodologies.

• Managed high-volume Contracts requests from internal and external clients as well as vendors.
• Coordinated RFP input from various departments, ensuring deadlines were met by all parties.
• Audited revenue recognition and assisted in auditing and maintaining ISO 20252 and SOC 2, Type II certifications.
• Facilitated annual vendor audits through Third Party Controls Questionnaires.
• Conducted annual and monthly client required audits of internal team members.
• Backed up Accounts Payable and Receivable tasks.