• Procurement professional with a focus on Departmental Development, Strategic Sourcing, Contract Management and Supplier Management by increasing value through the enhancement of processes, measurements and a common goal of value creation with an extensive background in purchasing, contract review and writing.
• A professional who understands that the purchasing function must deliver cost effective goods/services at the proper quality and price, on time without regard to location of the supplier.
• Understands the business case and has an appreciation of financial/analytical issues and profit and loss implications.
• Expertise in the preparation, negotiation, acceptance and management of commercial contracts and subcontracts, including licensing agreements.

• Started department, writes policies and procedures.
• Review all policies to ensure consistency.
• Develop and execute purchasing and procurement strategies, plans, programs and systems, both short- and long-range, to ensure achievement of corporate objectives.
• Plan, develop and implement long-term strategic planning of purchasing goals, personnel development, and business objectives.
• Conduct comprehensive strategic spend analysis. Gather category / market intelligence to formulate strategic spend plans.
• Develop annual savings plan, execute, track and report. Profit/Loss analysis.
• Develop strategic supplier agreements to leverage Company's spending, cost controls and vendor performance management.
• Build and manage an effective and efficient end to-end purchasing process, including purchase requisition, goods / services receipting and vendor payment with appropriate internal controls.
• Supplier Management.
• Negotiate vendor pricing, terms and performance, and recommended strategic awarding of business to senior leaders.
• Direct and participate in the negotiation of purchase contracts, follow up, scheduling and expediting of deliveries.
• Setting up both electronic and physical repositories with online tracking for key clauses.

• Developed Strategic Sourcing processes, policies and parameters to support District goals and objectives.
• Led Strategic teams in indirect spend for IT, health care benefits, transportation, travel, real estate and utilities.
• Managed teams in facilities, operations and MRO.
• Managed team processing requisitions using PeopleSoft.
• Set up contract administration processes and procedures across Detroit Public Schools.
• Involved in supplier performance metrics development and review. Cost containment with supply base rationalization.
• Resolved contractual disputes and monitor supplier and internal performance.
• Wrote RFPs and managed writing contractual documents and preparing contract analysis.
• Posted electronic online quotes and RFPs.
• Responsible for writing policies and procedures and coordinating reviews among multiple departments.
• Set up standardized reports and departmental metrics.

• Directly coordinated with business units to develop and deliver sourcing strategies for IT Goods and Services to support internal customer's needs.
• Acted as Team Leader of strategic sourcing and new sourcing responsibilities included negotiating and writing software license and maintenance agreements. Secure executive approval and sponsorship for new opportunities with clearly identified stakeholders. PeopleSoft based.
• Supported Supplier management programs through quarterly reviews and continuous improvement programs. Knowledgeable of the current key suppliers, their respective contracts and procurement strategy initiatives.
• Managed relationships and directly coordinated with business units to understand their budget processes, total spend, market demands, customer needs and set budget targets.

While engaged as Senior Contracts Administrator Consultant:

• Served as a liaison between Project Manager, Corporate Procurement, and the Office of the General Counsel to facilitate efficient development and execution of RFP documents, IT master consulting/licensing agreements, and statements of work related to the acquisition of hardware, software, maintenance and supplier services for corporate projects.
• Acted as contract administrator during the project lifecycle, monitoring supplier work product delivery and processing associated supplier invoices. Provided contract-related consultative services to leadership.
• Engaged the Project Manager to define a project's contract needs early in the project lifecycle.
• Developed the RFP, master agreements, and statement of work documents reflecting the project's requirements.

Collaborated with the Project Manager and Corporate Procurement during contract negotiations acting in a Contract Administrator Consultant/Negotiator role.

• Developed, designed, and implemented RFP standards and templates in coordination with Office of the General Counsel.
• Directed standardization of all contractual policy, process and documentation. Control point for the 'how-to' of procurement policies, templates, and supplier research from all lines of business.
• Strategic Sourcing.
• Drove implementation of strategic contract opportunities with the most significant impact to the corporation with overall contract review of legacy as well as new contracts.
• Responsible for the administration of Request for Proposals, Request for Quotes and Request for Information for various commodities.
• Responsible for Contract Management database in excess of 8,000 contracts on web-based system featuring tickler, online contract approvals and abstracting capabilities. In conjunction with managing this system was responsible for developing, writing and implementing policies and procedures.

• Assigned to Kmart/Sears Corporate Transition Team as result of merger. Facilitator of Kmart/Sears team responsible for reviewing the integration of the HR and Logistics organizations.
• Responsible for wide variety of diverse procurement including Kmart's and Sears HR needs Health and Welfare, Pension, and Training to marketing print and media to contract labor to facilities to IT/Communications needs. Annual spend in excess of 1.2 billion. Required to research, prepare and negotiate contracts with suppliers research suppliers consults with business units and legal department personnel.
• Determined long and short-term goals and established a business strategy achieving goals related to strategic sourcing of all commodity categories purchased.
• Performed as procurement lead with business and finance for planning annual departmental budgets and participating as required in budgetary reviews and leading analytics into variances monitor contract performance. PeopleSoft based procurement systems.
• Responsible for Contract Management Group which compiled a database of all Kmart/Sears contracts and for preparing contract abstract, online information retrieval system, and document repository.

• Responsible for the Direction and Collection of all documents necessary to support the development of the response to an RFP.
• Gathered, compiled, categorized, and prepared from appropriate sources all content necessary for completing assigned segments of the RFP.
• Wrote any necessary contractual documentation to suppliers and subcontractors as well as reviewed contractual documentation received.
• Liaised with Finance for pricing.
• Created and managed Pricing Package, Program Schedules, and Proposal Schedule, conducted Daily Status Meetings, and identified Problems for Management Resolution as appropriate.

• Tier One Supplier, responsible for mainly services' purchasing for Divisions' American operations, over ten locations. Procurement areas ranged from labor to fulfillment, media production to merchandising, facilities to training and development with strong emphasis on IT/Communications.
• Set short and long-term goals which were aligned with the strategic business plan.
• Part of business development area responsible for responding to incoming Request for Proposals. Oracle based procurement systems.
• Used corporate strategic agreements, with savings estimated at 20 percent and furthermore negotiated strategic purchase agreements resulting in minimum 10 percent savings on such as product/such as quantity items in conjunction with business units. Consolidation of suppliers to achieve volume savings of a minimum of 8 percent.
• Reviewed procurement process and made recommendations which resulted in reducing cycle time by 40 percent and reducing number of signatures required by 50 percent.