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JamfDirector, Global Procurement
Apr. 2022Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Cielo TalentDirector, Global Procurement
May. 2021 - Apr. 2022Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States- Analysis and Implementation of a full Source-to-Pay suite of services in order to streamline the P2P process
- Conducts ongoing analysis which translate into actionable strategies
- Manages day-to-day supplier relationship activities - Executes sourcing and product cycle plan projects - Generates procurement performance metrics, creates benchmarks, tracks KPIs - Negotiates for cost savings, cost avoidance and risk mitigation
- Partners with leadership and client teams to educate for best practices
- Development and implementation of procurement strategies, goals and savings
- Creation and promotion of vendor/supplier diversity initiative
- Consults on best practices for billing and financing
- Management of PO system, Authority and Budget approval matrices.
Cielo TalentManager, Global Procurement
Apr. 2020 - May. 2021Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States- Conducts ongoing analysis which translate into actionable strategies
- Manages day-to-day supplier relationship activities - Executes sourcing and product cycle plan projects - Generates procurement performance metrics, creates benchmarks, tracks KPIs - Negotiates for cost savings, cost avoidance and risk mitigation
- Partners with leadership and client teams to educate for best practices
- Development and implementation of procurement strategies, goals and savings
- Creation and promotion of vendor/supplier diversity initiative
- Consults on best practices for billing and financing
- Management of PO system, Authority and Budget approval matrices.
GMR MarketingStrategic Sourcing Manager
Mar. 2019 - Jan. 2020- Partner with stakeholders to lead supplier selection activities including RFIs, RFPs and renegotiations
- Perform benchmarking and drive market intelligence activities
- Lead contract and pricing negotiations and mentor buyers throughout the agency
- Ensure successful delivery of goods and services both on time and within budget
- Actively listen to and engage internal and external clients to uncover relevant information and ensure desired outcomes
- Implement and lead regular supplier business review meetings
- Build strong, productive and collaborative working relationships with stakeholders and business partners
- Manage, mentor, coach and provide feedback to direct reports
- Identify ways to reduce costs and provide additional value to agency clients and non-billable departments
- Research, summarize, and develop best practices that to help drive diversity awareness and metrics
- Communicate supply chain commitments per MSAs to internal stakeholders responsible for client engagements and non-billable spend to ensure compliance
- Educate client service and support teams on proper sourcing policies and procedures
- Initiate supplier MSAs or other time-saving legal agreements when appropriate
- Track and communicate aggregated spend and capture the spend targets and ensure they are met or exceeded
Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.Team Lead, Sourcing
Sep. 2017 - Mar. 2019Greater Milwaukee Area- Sourcing of meetings and events for a wide range of clients, ranging in size from 50-500+ attendees
- Facilitating kick off meetings, providing direction and launching RFPs in native or client’s preferred platform
- Negotiating, editing and finalizing contracts and addenda to ensure terms offer the least amount of financial risk, best concessions and highest ROI to the client
- Offering creative solutions and alternative options when initial cities/venues may not be available or financially viable
- Centralizing Sourcing and Procurement Departments for clients in order to streamline the RFP and contracting process
- Utilizing DOMO (aggregate data/business intelligence tool) data to determine best practices for creating preferred agreements with hotels within specific markets
- In cases where cancellation is necessary, working with hotel/venue partners to assuage the situation and reduce the fiscal burden to the client, or propose a rebook situation
- Creating training documents and facilitating internal training for colleagues to improve standardization in sourcing, negotiations across the department
- Arranging client site visits, participating in FAMs, webinars and other industry events, and scheduling site visits on personal time, in order to stay abreast of current hotel openings, updates and market trends
Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.Team Lead, Supplier Relations, Global Enterprise Solutions
May. 2017 - Sep. 2017
Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.Senior Buyer, Global Procurement - Hotels
Feb. 2012 - Sep. 2017
Executive DirectorCongress Meetings Director
Sep. 2008 - Feb. 2012- Planning and production of events with multiple clients for domestic and international conferences, with an average of 1200-1500 attendees per event
- Sourcing and conducting visits for hotel and conference center site selection
- Procure proposals and negotiate contracts, manage relationships with vendors for conference center, hotel(s), AV, exhibit management, logistics, off site entertainment/excursions
- Liaise between client and vendors to determine needs and maintain budgetary requirements
- Develop and track budgets up to $1m per event
- Coordinate creative content and develop marketing strategies with internal agency services to ensure consistency of branding across all media platforms; post updates to corporate and event websites, social media outlets
- Establish policies and procedures manuals for all domestic and international events
- Manage all aspects of onsite execution
Independant ConsultantCorporate Conference Consultant
Apr. 1999 - Sep. 2008- Generated topics and leads for conference production companies throughout the US - Trained new producers in research, topic generation and conference execution - Produced high-end, cutting edge IT events
- On-site coordinator and speaker liaison for conference - Worked within 20 to 30 day production cycle, depending on size of event
Commercial Graphic Printing CorporationSales and Marketing
Aug. 1996 - Apr. 1999- Initiated and maintained a rapport with purchasing representatives from various industries - Examined specific industries to create and execute individual marketing campaigns - Represented company at all trade shows and expositions
- Designed displays and managed booth for all shows
- Attended all commerce and industry association events
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