Independent consultant providing services to clients in the areas of Strategic Sourcing, Cost Reduction and Procurement Transformation.
• Served as a procurement excellence advisor to the COO of a leading auction/broker of fine art, jewelry and collectibles. Developed a spend categorization hierarchy, identified opportunities for cost reduction, renegotiated a contract extension for security services, and executed a competitive RFP for a 3PL brokerage model
• Led a sourcing assessment for a provincial government health agency in Canada. Identified over $600M in annual clinical and non-clinical spend annually targeted for spend optimization by leveraging with the broader core provincial government operations spend.
• Led the corporate Strategic Sourcing function for a global not-for-profit organization based in Baltimore, MD. Key projects completed included payroll services in South Africa, accounting services in South Sudan, multiple clinic construction projects in Tanzania, health

Global practice leader with annual revenue goals and P&L responsibility. Key responsibilities include presales and prequalifying opportunities, developing proposal and driving consulting engagement sale, driving revenue growth at existing and new clients, ideating and developing offerings, practice building (training, hiring, employee mentoring and performance evaluation), leading and delivering engagements, C-level client relationship management, developing 3rd party partnerships to sell joint offerings and assisting in GTM efforts to increase Bristlecone's visibility.
• Grew annual procurement practice revenue by ~$2.5M across multiple clients and generated opportunities for other supply chain practice areas
• Developed two new offerings, Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Comprehensive Procurement Excellence, and successfully delivered client engagements
• Led several live webinars in partnership with Bristlecone clients to market thought leadership and create business development

Global lead with responsibility for
● $400M in annual facilities spend, namely HVAC, Elevator and Water Treatment Services, Uniforms, and Janitorial Services with additional SME support for Landscaping & Snow Removal and Building Automation
• Instituted several procurement excellence initiatives including preferred vendor programs, annual spend rebates with preferred vendors, RFP tools and templates, bundled bidding (across multiple clients), and quarterly business reviews (QBRs) for vendors
• Identified and negotiated preferred vendor agreements with 7 diversity vendors, including 2 service aggregators
• Delivered over $5M in annual savings for a hi-tech client with 200 properties through competitive bidding of janitorial services

Part of the Sourcing and Procurement practice providing consulting services to Fortune 500 clients
• Led the sourcing efforts for stainless steel nozzles, castings and metal works straps comprising total spend of $50 Million at a nuclear energy company based in Pittsburgh, PA. Developed category strategies and identified initiatives to reduce total cost of ownership by $5.0M through external strategic sourcing, in-house manufacturing, inventory reduction, and design standardization.
• Completed a strategic sourcing project at an oil field services company based in Houston, TX. The project was focused on sourcing of direct (Carbides) and MRO (Mill Supplies, Fasteners, Packaging, Paints, Fuels & Coolants and Forklift Services) categories with a total spend of $63 Million. Annual savings achieved were approximately $13 Million or 21% thus exceeding preliminary targets by 100%.
• Led the sourcing for white glove transportation (TL, LTL, Ocean and Air Freight), Janitorial Services, Fleet

Successfully completed several strategic sourcing and procurement transformation initiatives at multiple clients:
• Designed optimal procure to pay (P2P) processes and policies for an insurance company based in Seattle, WA to maximize working capital by leveraging early payment discounts, eliminating duplicate payments, earning accrued interest on refunds through a centralized refund and recommending process improvements to the telephony invoice verification process.
• Played the role of MRO Global Category Manager responsible for $150 Million and led a global team of 5 category managers for a consumer products/beverage company based in New York, NY. Implemented an MRO integrator for North America and Europe for annual savings greater than $1 Million, conducted negotiations to convert existing regional contracts to global contracts for Lab Supplies and Adhesives and generated annual savings was greater than $0.5 Million.
• Served as an Operational Excellence program manager for a le