AbbVie

Procurement Manager

* Responsible for managing vendors based on spend, risk, and enterprise relationships
* Benchmark and analyze vendor portfolios for better pricing and potential new solutions 
* Identify and negotiate opportunities for savings, contract consolidation, and simplification
* Review and analyze supplier performance, driving solutions and performance improvement
* Vendor and contract management

Vendor Manager

Salesforce

* Responsible for managing relationships, agreements, and spend with vendors providing support and services to Global Enablement
* Supported the creation of vendor strategies for forecasting, allocating , and securing vendor support and services within budget limits
* Partnered with Purchasing Category Managers to leverage vendor scale and implement vendor management best practices
* March 2023 Salesforce Accelerate Leadership Program graduate

Vendor & Contract Manager

Abbott

* Managed ~40 contract templates, partnering with Category Leads and Legal to edit and update templates
* Created and delivered trainings on contract language, negotiations, and tools aligned with Purchasing policies and Legal guidance
* Member of the Source to Pay Transformation Team with responsibilities for evaluating contracting functionality

Global Contract Manager

* Provide support for developing, updating and maintaining Abbott’s compliance program 
* Assist in the development, administration, and implementation of education and training
* Identify compliance risk areas and recommend action plans to Director

Senior Analyst, Office of Ethics & Compliance (ARDx)

Procurement, Sourcing Operations (NA Region) 
* Sourcing Contract Management & Compliance lead for Indirect Procurement responsible for:      
--- Development, implementation, and training of contract tools for the Sourcing Operations team       
--- Contract development, management, and compliance      
--- Supplier management       
--- Process improvements across the contracting process 
--- Collaboration with Procurement Legal on fundamentals of Contracts and Negotiations 
* Oversight and enforcement of Procurement policies 
* Managed and assisted with internal (Leadership) and external (Vendor / Supplier Leadership) business relationships

Procurement, Senior Specialist

Procter & Gamble

Post Market Surveillance & Pharmacovigilance - Global Product Stewardship (R&D) 
* Led a global team in the identification, collection, and organization of Post Market Safety Surveillance regulations, including creation and training on tools and key information 
* Responsible for developing and implementing strategies for:      
--- Monitoring and organizing global post market safety surveillance regulations      
--- Compliance with post market literature review regulations       
--- Operational supplier management and contract management/oversight       
--- Collecting and performing root cause analysis checks on team success metrics 
* Led projects cross functionally across the Consumer Complaints Management Organization
* (Regulatory Intelligence, Infolytics/Literature Review, and Metrics Management

Senior Manager / Scientist (Pharmacovigilance & Post Market Safety & Surveillance)

The CEO Award, which recognizes truly outstanding results and sustained excellence over the prior fiscal year, is limited to only 3% of eligible employees within the A&T through Band 2 population. These award winners are great examples of P&G people, a critical source of strength and competitive advantage for our Company.

2017 P&G CEO Award recipient 

Global Business Services (GBS) Purchasing (Product Supply) 
* Responsible for Purchasing Strategies for:       
--- Legal (Preferred Outside Counsel, Patents & Trademarks, eDiscovery, Legal IT)      
--- Financial Services (Treasury, Credit Card)      
--- Audit (External & Internal, Third Party Risks Assessment, Contract Compliance Program)      
--- Translations (Legal, R&D, Marketing/Transcreation, Training, Professional, Consumer Comments) 
* Development of contracting expertise  
* Policy & Stewardship oversight

Global Purchasing Manager (Indirect / Professional Services)

WilmerHale

* Electronically reviewed documents for relevancy, privilege, and confidentiality

eDiscovery Attorney

LexisNexis

* Expertise in creating legal search strategies and search strings to retrieve relevant information 
* Provided legal research support, training, and education to 30-40 clients daily  
* Exposed to a wide range of legal and regulatory topics through client legal inquiries  
* Development of probing and issue spotting skills that increased client efficiency and satisfaction

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