Dec 2018 – Jan 2025 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• Executed elements across all phases of consulting project lifecycles. Responsible for practice and program management. Served as the Procurement Cost and Productivity lead for Accenture’s high tech strategy practice while also serving as an advisor on procurement and supply management. Managed and developed over 50 individuals through project execution and career progressions.
• Supplier Management Transformation: Directed a team of 6 developing a procurement category management capability including supplier relationship management.
• Designed and implemented a data management and analytics capability that leveraged key industry metrics and supplier performance KPIs to develop real time insights in support of supplier engagement and cost optimization strategies.
• Designed and implemented supplier quarterly business review capability for key direct suppliers, increasing overall business stakeholder satisfaction and supplier performance.
• Procurement Transformation: Managed a team of 20+ global resources to implement a procurement cost transformation program.
• Designed category and supplier management models for key strategic labor and materials suppliers, as well as financial controls across all major categories driving $200M in savings.
• Implemented a gamification strategy and normalized savings targets for each regional CFO to bring visibility to spending trends and support supplier management practices.
• Sales Enablement: Managed a team of 10 resources in the development of an AI-driven proposal process.
• Led cross-functional team representing sales, finance, and customer success teams in conducting over 60 client interviews to assess challenges across sales and proposal development processes, formulating strategic hypotheses that drive customer engagement.
• Developed a stakeholder collaboration process and created a centralized data repository that uses GenAI to facilitate proposal development, shorten response time to customer RFPs, and improve win rates.

Dec 2014 – Dec 2018 · 4 yrs

• Created strategies to address client needs and improve enterprise value. Managed all components of project delivery, such as stakeholder engagement, resource assignment, budgeting, forecasting, and staff development. Supervised and provided guidance to more than 50 consultant professionals during this period.
• Strategic Sourcing & Operational Excellence: Developed award-winning procurement stakeholder engagement model and budget integration process as part of an overall source to pay operating model transformation.
• Led a team of 20 onshore and offshore staff responsible for cleansing and categorizing AP and GL spend data using an enhanced taxonomy; oversaw the execution of sourcing events managing $2B+ of enterprise spend.
• Held collaboration sessions with Procurement, Finance, and Business leadership to align on sourcing value generation and budget integration for institutionalizing over 80% of procurement savings.
• SG&A Cost Transformation: Performed data-driven, zero-based reviews of Finance, HR, IT, and Engineering functions, along with an enterprise-wide third-party spend analysis.
• Designed and implemented procurement category management models and strategic sourcing strategies to drive and maintain cost savings.
• Built a bespoke data visualization tool for real-time cost control that managed a 22% cost improvement across portfolio of indirect spends.

Sep 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Supervised cross-functional procurement teams, managed project budgets, conducted financial forecasting, and tracked critical delivery metrics to ensure the effective execution of high-value projects. Leveraged advanced project management skills and discipline to promote efficient project completion and close out.
• Procurement Cost Transformation: Managed a multi-national team of 30 across three geographies to conduct a procurement spend analysis, identifying $300M+ in operational expense savings.
• Created category playbooks grouped by functional and value areas detailing over 80 strategic sourcing opportunities across both direct and indirect spends areas.
• Supply Chain Operational Excellence: Headed a team of five to conduct external spend analysis following a cleansing and categorization exercise of GL and AP data identifying over $600M in reduction opportunities.
• Led client/partner sourcing teams from both Accenture and the client, implementing initiatives that resulted in an average 16% cost improvement across various strategic sourcing and cost transformation activities.
• Served as the IT category lead for strategic sourcing, collaborating with four client resources to achieve more than 30% cost savings through eight technical sourcing events.

Nov 2009 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos