Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Leader within the procurement space with extensive esperience launching and leading procurement and sourcing teams in the aviation, insurance, finance, and construction industries.
● Lead Landmark's Sourcing and Procurement team, implementing the function into the organization.
● Led GEHA's large, complex negotiations, saving 20% on average compared to the budget while reducing contractual risk. ● Developed and implemented a comprehensive training program, leading multiple team members in mastering the latest procurement/sourcing best practices, including RFxs, negotiations, and stakeholder management. ● Performed gap analysis in critical processes, led cross-functional teams in RCCA analysis to close these gaps, and oversaw training, improving procurement efficiency within GEHA. ● Guided multiple cross-functional teams through sourcing activities, contract negotiations, contract oversight, and supplier landscaping, enhancing GEHA’s forecasting functions. ● Managed procurement strategy for multiple critical categories, including marketing, IT, sales, and clinical, achieving positive impacts within each business area through cost savings and improved turnaround times.
● Developed tools to forecast supplier contract expirations and led strategy initiatives to proactively address them, generating significant savings across high-spend contracts in multiple business categories. ● Established a new RFx process, addressing a previously unmet skill set at GEHA, and ensured compliance with applicable regulations and policies. ● Developed KPIs & dashboards to provide clear and direct spend profiles for suppliers, enabling Pareto analysis, and directed team in creating spend strategies for each business area, achieving significant savings that exceeded both budgets and targets. ● Led cross-functional teams that analyzed various sourcing, contracting, and procurement activities, improving various processes for better performance and reduced hours per process. ● Created a negotiation template that was used to better achieve cost savings during various Procurement activities. ● Expanded on GEHA's negotiation template, facilitating cost savings across various procurement RFxs I both oversaw and conducted.
● Led contract negotiations and product implementations, meeting aggressive delivery and budget timelines. ● Managed ERP, MRP, and client’s SAP systems.
● Managed outsourcing products within the Kansas City and Florida facilities, due to recent pandemic, achieving 24% direct savings against total cost. ● Managed the Tijuana, Mexico purchasing team by developing and measuring KPIs, on-site trainings, and proactive management, vastly improving the team's performance. ● Conducted supply chain mapping on high revenue items to identify possible improvements such as: VMI that reduced lead time, RFQs that reduced unit prices, and onsite audits that improved quality.
● Studied forecasting planning, data analytics for business benefits, and contract negotiation best practices. ● Implemented ERP/MRP systems, managed contracts and vendors, and developed cost-down initiatives across businesses.