• Provide strategic consulting services, leveraging deep expertise in procurement, supply chain, and financial management to deliver transformative solutions for organizations across diverse industries.
• Partner with executive teams to design governance frameworks, implement innovative sourcing strategies, and enhance supplier relationships.
• Drive organizational efficiencies through advanced project management, operational streamlining, and risk mitigation.
• Offer tailored insights in category management, market trend analysis, and strategic cost optimization, empowering clients to achieve measurable growth.

• Executed innovative sourcing strategies for food and packaging categories, aligning with distributors, manufacturers, and franchisees to drive cost-effective procurement practices, resulting in cost reductions and enhanced supplier relationships across perishable, frozen, packaging, and shelf-stable product offerings.
• Championed Agile project management for cross-functional initiatives, driving the successful launch of new menu items and a brand relaunch. Created robust communication channels, fostering enhanced collaboration across teams and ensuring timely completion of project milestones.
• Architected distributor performance enhancement through performance scorecards, identifying improvement areas, and setting SLA benchmarks; which resulted in a 30% rise in on-time deliveries and 20% faster credit processing.
• Formulated and led pricing negotiations with suppliers, utilizing in-depth market trend analyses and implementing hedging strategies on key commodities such as grain,

• Spearheaded the strategic development and consolidation of comprehensive annual, quarterly, and monthly financial forecasts for the EMEA Sales and Services Organization, overseeing a P&L portfolio of $200 million. Acted as the consolidated lead for EMEA, enhancing financial accuracy and predictive planning capabilities.
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● • Transitioned the Emerging Markets Sales Hub to a co-location in Athens, indicating a strategic operational shift by moving from an outsourced to an insourced resource model, thereby optimizing Renewals and Digital Sales functions.
• Revolutionized sales operations by implementing a real-time sales headcount reporting process in Workday, replacing legacy quarterly reports from Callidus and Salesforce, ensuring precise sales role and commission classifications, and boosting reporting efficiency by 60%.
• Championed strategic initiatives through advanced financial modeling and analysis, el

• Led initiatives to collaborate with Procurement Category Leads and Senior Leadership for extracting value creation opportunities in 9 indirect spend categories like Information Technology (SaaS), Sales, Marketing, HR, and Professional Services, delivering $12.5 million in savings in spend rationalization.
• Collaborated with Facilities to successfully revamp the quick serve portfolio across US, guaranteeing uninterrupted service for employees. Directed selection and installation of breakroom equipment, replacing multiple regional suppliers with a single nationwide provider to simplify snack product offerings and standardize end user experience.
• Implemented a video content management solution, coordinating vendor selection and onboarding processes; established customizable pricing and tiered service options, enabling a transition to monthly global meetings from quarterly, enhancing communication efficiency and promoting global collaboration.
• Partnered with key stakeholders to d

• Oversee strategy development, strategic sourcing, vendor management, project development, and production services for Bacardi USA.
• Optimized leverage of spend, identifying operational efficiencies through savings and innovation, supplier relationship management, Agency spend, BTL events, sponsorships, market research, and digital.
• Established an agency evaluation and rewards process across all the preferred BUSA agencies that resulted in effective benchmarking and improved KPI's.
• Creation of category strategies, agency relationship management and negotiations, and standardized Statements of Work (SOWs)
• Managed supplier relationships for multiple brands and marketing categories, overseeing a significant $250 million spend pool; developed strategic cost-saving measures that led to a
● reduction in expenses and increased profitability across all sectors.

• Pioneered the development of a centralized Global Procurement Department to streamline regional purchases, optimize global volume, and implement competitive negotiation tactics.
• Oversaw Global Poultry ($400M) and Processed Cheese ($180M) categories, driving immediate 10% cost savings in cheese prices and enhancing pipeline efficiencies.
• Led the negotiation and implementation of a web-based Contract Management Software solution and
● Sourcing tools for all regions outside of North America, establishing a central repository of Franchisee
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● negotiated procurement contracts. Streamlined contract management processes and improved visibility and compliance.
• Directed the rollout of a comprehensive Global Supplier Relationship Management framework for 35+ vendors worldwide, navigating complex regulations and sourcing challenges across Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific. Enhance

• Controlled annual spend of $144 million for 17 manufacturing operations in retail, bakery, and food service sectors across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
• Led strategy development, contract negotiation, category management, supplier relationship management, budgeting, and inventory execution for the following categories, beef, pork, seafood, food-grade chemicals, spices and legumes
• Monitored 150+ items, including assessing market trends and conditions, developing annual operating plans, and reviewing commodity price projections. Provided insights on variance analysis to support effective decision-making.
• Successfully negotiated competitive contract prices, executed risk assessment audits, and monitored service level metrics with suppliers to ensure optimal performance and financial health.

• Organized the seamless execution of promotional events for iconic brands Chunky, Vfusion, Prego, and Pace. Ensured compliance with pricing policies, collaborated with cross-functional teams to address challenges, and conducted thorough post-event analysis for organizational growth.
• Exceeded expectations by flawlessly managing the execution of 7.4 million promotional cases, representing over 10% of Wal-Mart's total cases sold, while maintaining an exceptional Case Fill Rate of 99.38%
• Conducted post-mortem analysis to assess the success of promotional events, implementing data-driven insights that optimized event strategies.

• Chaired a nationwide pet food recall over a 4-month period, which involved the reverse logistics, sort segmentation and documentation of all products received, and the destruction of contaminated inventory
• Launched Forklift Feasibility Study, which evaluated the added cost of outside maintenance vs the utilization of union workforce. Increased forklift maintenance cycle time from monthly to 3 times per month, reducing downtime and increasing equipment reliability.
• Organized a warehouse transformation initiative, facilitating the adoption of the PosiCharge System for 25% of forklifts; achieved a 30% reduction in charging time and a 25% improvement in overall warehouse productivity.