Greater Houston
As the Americas Digital Procurement Manager, Procurement Data & Tools, my role is centered around providing efficient and effective procurement data processes, tools, and analytics to enhance access and quality. I am responsible for supporting the Americas Digital Procurement team in both operational and procedural capacities, ensuring organizational effectiveness and efficiency within the Americas Procurement Center leadership team. -Global Digital Procurement Support: I lead and support local activities to facilitate the analysis of spend using our global digital procurement tool. Working closely with the Project Manager, I oversee the implementation of the tool across 7 ERPs in the Americas, covering 13 countries (4 ERPs in North America, 3 ERPs in South America). This involves data testing, quality assurance, and training users on the tool's functionalities. -Conduct data testing and ensure quality of data for ingestion into the data lake, followed by training users across the Americas on utilizing the tool. -Support Power BI dashboards across the Americas, enforcing guidelines for dashboard publication and data integrity. -Take the lead in improving spend classification to enhance visibility into procurement spend. -Define and maintain processes for procurement master data management, including suppliers, items, catalogs, and contracts, in collaboration with Finance and IT teams across 7 ERPs and 14 countries. -Manage and support the Digital Procurement Team in driving transformational changes and continuous improvement of the Americas digital procurement platform, including training on AI technologies and ongoing maintenance. -Maintain and optimize procurement tools, including incident and evolution management, release management, user management, and evolution of reporting capabilities. -Familiarity with IT tools, digital technologies Zycus, Graphite, Power B, and ERP systems, particularly Oracle, SAP, D365, Totvs and Source-to-Pay tools/P2P applications
Responsible for supporting Americas Digital and Information Technology Procurement, both in an operations and procedures capacity in order to ensure organizational effectiveness and efficiency of Americas Procurement Center leadership team.
• Manage 1,250 Fast Moving Parts (PACE) that is consumed by 9 Business Units within Singapore, California and Austin. • Aided the Section 301 Tariff Buy Ahead of increase which achieved $4 million in savings. • Monthly Generate Supplier on-time delivery metrics for 118 suppliers that are on special programs. • Work with On-Site-Supplier-Reps on improving unhealthy part by establishing a recovery plan to support manufacturing schedule. • Weekly coordinate with contracting, BU management and Lead Time Reduction Team for parts transitioning to PACE. • During a line down situation, I found an alternative source of suppler that accommodated demand and cost by locating parts in the global market.
• Supported restaurant goals to become first Michelin 3-Star restaurant in Houston. • Selected to lead team of 5 at the Escoffier 2017 dinner. • Lead FOH new hire trainer. • Forbes Customer service Training
• Managed a Team of 30 employees (Front of House, Maintenance, Managers) and Partner with Kitchen Manager on back of house activities. • Rationalized supplier base of wine and spirits to leverage spend strategically in order to impact bottom line. Bringing in small and competitor vendors can provided lower prices in order to stock their product exclusively at the same time maintaining quality at the highest. • Generate and analyze cost models to assess restaurant performance and identify areas of improvement. • Managed and replenished $28,000 of inventory in wine and spirits from various suppliers. • Forecast restaurant guest walk-in to ensure adequate amount of staff on duty, to meet customer demand • Managed the logistics of floor set up daily, to deliver exceptional customer service.