SUMMARY:

A procurement professional experienced with driving solutions to challenging issues, utilizing strong leadership and teamwork expertise supported by solid problem solving and business acumen. A skilled leader that possess the knowhow to drive cross functional teams and influence outcomes, with a track record of achieving goals and objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, and Word
• AMA Project Management - Basics
• Oracle iProcurement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Procurement Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Leading a category management team ( Confidential ) to outsource North American printer operations to a 3rd party service provider
• Acting Program and Project Manager for a major change management initiative driven to gain control and improve ROI on a multimillion dollar category
• Leading the total cost of ownership ( Confidential ) development and validation process with corporate Finance
• Driving change and program adoption through policy creation, communication, and process development to ensure cost savings goals are achieved
• Developing an organization wide transition strategy with implementation managers and business leadership that minimizes operational impact to over 600 sites in North America
• Managed $80M+ of indirect technology spend for a global 1000 company
• Launched category management teams to execute on sourcing strategies that led to over $500K in savings in 2012
• Created financial models and analyze spend to identify cost savings opportunities
• Presented recommendations to executive leadership and secured organizational stakeholder buy - in
• Developed relationships with process stakeholders in Corporate Finance, IT, Legal, and Security to build out business objectives and enlist point personnel into cross functional strategies team
• Formulated strategies, supplier market profiles, and sourcing roadmaps with the stakeholders to successfully execute on team goals and objectives
• Leveraged vendor partners to develop proof of concepts to illustrate best practices and demonstrate the solution’s overall value to the organization
• Led contract negotiations with a focus business and commercial terms, and to ensure aggressive market pricing was incorporated into the final contract
• Established vendor management processes to measure, monitor, and control critical suppliers
• Represented the technology procurement category in the business process outsourcing ( Confidential ) of tactical operations to IBM
• Acted as a category lead for the IBM tactical operations team to Confidential
• Worked with Confidential project team to understand current state processes and identify areas of improvement where 3rd party Confidential services can be leveraged
• Helped to shape future state workflow between the strategic sourcing team and tactical operations

Procurement Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Championed the creation of a cross-functional Global Desktop Steering Team, led the development of a PC roadmap, and successfully sourced an asset management tool to backbone the overarching PC strategy
• Successfully sourced numerous technology hardware resellers, enterprise software agreements, and professional services/SOW agreements via the RFx process
• Worked in concert with McKinsey & Company to adopt the formal six step sourcing process and clean sheet analytics tools into the standard operations of the Procurement organization
• Established standard RFx (Request for Proposal/Information/Quote) documentation and procedure for the technology sourcing team
• Managed the technology team’s intranet site and worked with process stakeholders (e.g. IT, Accounting, etc) to improve the procurement processes of standard IT equipment
• Worked with the procurement financial analyst and the Zycus iAnalyze (primary spend analytics tool) team to develop standard reporting dashboards, and ensured data quality within the database
• Utilized Oracle iProcurement as the primary source for IT transactions and the implementation of goods/services catalog strategies as needed

Confidential, Boston, MA

Associate IT Buyer

Responsibilities:

• Executed and drove multiple technology sourcing events to contract via the RFx process
• Worked with the IT Infrastructure team and the primary software reseller on annual software asset management true-ups
• Managed the corporate wireless telecom program and effected immediate cost reductions upon assuming oversight responsibilities
• Acted as the primary liaison for the Purchasing organization to navigate and integrate the company’s ERP system (PeopleSoft) into their day to day operations

Confidential, Boston, MA

Procurement Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the RFQ process for the Office Product category
• Oversaw the tactical procurement operations within the Oracle iProcurement tool
• Assisted in the winding down of Procurement operations and transitioning of functions to State Street Corp

Confidential, Boston, MA

Real Estate Title Examiner

Responsibilities:

• Researched and reported on title status for commercial and residential real estate properties
• Profiled government documents (tax liens, probate records) and real estate contracts (deeds, mortgages, easements, Confidential financing statements) to firm attorneys
• Worked with attorneys and title insurance companies to record official documents into various Commonwealth of Massachusetts county registries