SUMMARY:

• Strategic Sourcing Executive with over 20 years of diverse strategic sourcing and financial experience within leading global consumer and pharmaceutical companies.
• Results oriented consistently effective leader with a record of escalating proven accomplishments in the strategic category management field.
• Excellent analytical, presentation and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Oracle
• SAP
• Microsoft
• Excel
• Word
• Powerpoint
• Data Warehouse
• Access
• Bravo
• Aecsoft
• Zycus
• Ariba
• Business Warehouse

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Associate Director Global R&D Procurement

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Strategic Category Management process to create and implement strategy in R&D Operations and Services space(Some relevant projects include: Compound Management, Custom Bioreagents,Toxicology,Transporter Cells, Lab Consumables,Xenograft Studies) All included extensive leadership in leading teams to formulate collaborative strategy with stakeholders to create value added deliverables
• Led and motivated one manager, two senior sourcing associates and 3 coops in R&D Lab Operations
• Utilized Make versus Buy and In Source/Outsource analysis to create recommendations in services space
• Conducted reverse auctions in toxicology and custom bioreagents to realize savings of $6mm/year.
• Award recipient of Galaxy awards in Toxicology and Lab Consumables projects for outstanding achievement
• Proactive in Diversity Space extending and building relationship with Spectrix (a small woman owned FTE staffing service) whose model has been highly successful in Selective Integration SCP, HTS, LDO and Product Development
• Participated in and spoke at DA4S Diversity Clinical event in Newark in May 2012
• Attended and promoted small business ownership and diversity in multiple ISM and DA4 events
• Assisted in the Charles River supplier integration with the Amylyn acquisition of the diabetes franchise.
• Applied TVO and TCO analysis in creating strategic recommendations
• Mitigated supplier risk through quarterly SRM/KPI performance metric monitoring and contract SLA creation

Confidential

R&D Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

• Utilized a 6 step strategic sourcing process to establish a preferred supplier program in Toxicology, DMPK and Discovery.
• Led a discovery team in China and India to fully vette and evaluate the capabilities of 9 medicinal chemistry CRO’s. Applied an optimization model to select preferred suppliers.
• Established and helped automate a KPI program to evaluate performance of preferred suppliers within the R&D supply base.
• Mitigated risk in supplier performance through periodic business reviews and performance feedback sessions amongst preferred suppliers. Communicated end user expectations and feedback to preferred suppliers.
• Presented and gained consensus on Celgene Value’s program to all of finance. Additionally presented and gained consensus on strategic sourcing program with International Procurement in Boudry, Switzerland
• Assisted in the requirements, definition and choice selection of two strategic sourcing software tools.
• Utilized market benchmark research, trade shows and outside industry collaboration to maintain state of the art best practices approaches to R&D/CRO related projects and strategies.
• Led, motivated and developed two analysts and one lead analyst to greater responsibility levels.
• Collaborated with cross functional groups and senior management to gain consensus and implement supplier consolidation projects impacting many end users within the organization. Utilized change management skills.
• Assisted in creating process efficiencies via EDI, Catalog and Receiving system automation projects.
• Successfully aided in the integration, synergies and negotiated contracts of all R&D suppliers in the Abraxis acquisition.
• Applied partnering strategies to several large contracted Celgene suppliers to yield savings, process efficiencies and risk mitigation.

Confidential

Senior Global Purchasing Manager

• Responsible for strategic sourcing and procurement of $150mm/annually in packaging material for 10 plants in the US, 2 plants overseas and 47 co packers.
• Manage a staff of 5 purchasing and graphics managers.
• Driver of value analysis projects within R&D and packaging.
• Budget preparation, rationalization and presentation to executive management.
• Quarterly spend projections and variance analysis. Monthly presentation of savings initiatives.
• Monthly KPI Performance Ratio presentations for operations quality review.
• Negotiations of supply base on multi year contract agreements, and consignment inventory optimization.
• Participate in new product launch planning (volumes/timing/run outs).
• Preparation of capital expenditure requests.

Confidential, NY

Senior Purchasing Agent - Packaging

• Re-established a supplier base for a wide variety of injection molded, blow molded, and glass components.
• Generated bid solicitations and value analysis project savings amounting to $600m annually.
• Coordinated supplier partnership and vendor certification programs for several strategic suppliers.
• Utilized MRP to implement standardized releases, run requirements and lead times.
• Led seven Revolutionary Ideas Cost Reduction Teams to realize a $1mm savings goal over a 6 month period.
• Interfaced with International operations to implement an opportunity to source filled goods and components from Mexico. Savings were $500,000 annually.

Confidential, NY

Purchasing Manager-Packaging

• Responsible for procurement of $70mm of packaging materials including: labels bottles, closures, triggers, cartons, corrugated displays, cylinders, print plates and dies.
• Saved $2.5 mm annually through self initiated cost reduction programs.
• Implemented reduced lead time programs on labels and cartons.
• Developed computerized “should cost models” to simulate vendor costs of manufacturing.