Greater Chicago Area
I am a detail oriented global strategic sourcing, contract and category/vendor management professional with proficiency in the following: negotiations of complex IT and corporate services contracts, Led and managed outsourcing sourcing teams, outsourcing projects, M&A contract due diligence and negotiation. Category experience in the following: IT, Travel, HR, Marketing, Facilities and other indirect categories. With my functional expertise, business acumen, professional and contractual and procurement technical knowledge, I guide and support product/project managers and senior leadership. I pride myself with consistently maintaining timelines, managing resources, identifying risks and issues, creating long lasting vendor and internal relationships as well as ensuring that legal agreements or strategic sourcing projects are delivered on time, with savings and within budget.
• Managed over $100 Million in spend with 20-35% savings • Strategically led complex negotiations( pricing and contracting) across all Loews Family of companies to obtain aggregated volume discounts with “mega vendors” • Proficient in software compliance reviews and software transfers/assignments and contract negotiation
Co-Managed software category for the entire Walgreens organization and affiliates. • Led strategic negotiations in the following software categories: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Security, Human Resources, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Contract Lifecycle Management Solutions (CLM), Social Media, Marketing, desktop third party software • Created processes to streamline communications with the Business Partners • Managed purchasing personnel to ensure completion of projects
Led the Printer Category and Co-Led the Software Category for the entire Sears organization. • Created and led executives through the three-year roadmap for printer and software category for optimal cost reduction • Lead “mega vendor” software negotiations • Lead spend analysis to understand opportunities for savings and ensure no errors.
• High Visibility Project: Led, facilitated, analyzed and created the Global IT Spend Presentation for the Accenture CEO for four years in a row which included Spend Under Management (SUM) project to analyze data for sourcing opportunities • Detailed oriented contract negotiator specializing in complex contract including the following: outsourcing/IT/HR(Professional Services)/ Post M&A contract analysis and transfer/assignments • Managed and led the following: o 100 staff as Group Administrator o Outsourced sourcing team for all of Accenture. o Managed relationships with Data Center outsourcing team and the internal client to ensure both parties were on task with deliverables o Led the identification, and transition, of global IT procurement activities to Low Cost Delivery Centers which meant that over 30% on shore went offshore o Coached and led team members in all modules of the Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM), 90% pass rate achieved Categories: Indirect: IT/HR/Outsourcing/Direct: Alliance relationship/M&A/P-Card ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Accenture, Chicago, IL Consultant– CIO Supplier Management Organization, 2001 to 2003 Analyst - CIO Local Technology Support(LTS) Procurement Buyer, Asset Management and Group Administrator