Shared Services West

Lead regional hospital teams through the RFx process, from start to contract execution.
Liaison with affiliates representing SSW region members and customers on the affiliation or provincial projects to achieve better outcomes and greater value. 
Work with SSW affiliates to utilize standardized, effective and scalable processes to bring additional value to supply chain services available to health care providers.
Facilitate outcome/value-based solutions with affiliates, vendors and suppliers, a direct impact on value and patient care. 
Negotiate, execute, and manage contracts. 
Analyze market opportunities and vendor qualifications. 
Facilitate vendor performance reviews in conjunction with hospital teams. 
Arrange equipment trials, site visits, and presentations based on qualification criteria. 
Facilitate equipment, product and service issue resolution with hospital teams and vendors, as required. 
Facilitate and lead meetings and presentations with senior hospital and vendor leadership. 
Work with the hospital end users, vendors, and legal counsel to finalize agreements.

Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Lead hospital contacts through the RFX process, from start to contract execution, ensuring completion in a timely manner. 
Monitor contract timelines and meet with the stakeholders to follow up and ensure they are satisfied with the service and work with them to renew and request new service agreements   
Prepare, mediate contract negotiations, amendments, and extensions in a timely manner. 
Collaborate with the hospital contacts and vendors to ensure the sourcing process is conducted according to the ethical guidelines and BPSPD directives. 
Provide timely communication of project status with internal and external customers and escalate issues as appropriate.  
Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Facilitate and lead meetings with senior hospital and vendor leadership on sourcing. 
Collaborate with the stakeholders to ensure the procurement process is followed according to existing hospital policies and procedures 
Work SSW affiliates to leverage their agreements  
Responsible for maintaining accurate records for my initiatives in the ITS Tracking files and ensuring documents are filed in the dockets

Strategic Sourcing Associate

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•	Investigated and shortlisted potential personal protective equipment vendors during COVID to ensure stores opened safely
•	Maintained vendor and client relationships to ensure adherence to policies and to address issues related to supply, contracts and product prices 
•	Collaborated with stakeholders, used Ariba/SAP spend reports, to determine current, historical and future purchases to target vendors and transition their spend in Ariba catalogs for the purpose of conducting spend analytics 
•	Responsible for investigating and resolving issues with purchase order, invoice, and receiving variances
•	Collaborated with business partners on compliance issues to mitigate risks, understand current process and recommend updates. Successfully completed and promoted compliance and standardization 
•	Improved compliance of company policies, maximized purchasing value by developing and running monthly SAP Ariba reports and addressing issues 
•	Increased spend compliance by 94% by partnering with stakeholders to successful prepare and maintain 35 Ariba SAP catalogs within 4 months 
•	Developed and documented catalog best practices, created user guides to standardize the procurement practices for the organization

Specialist Strategic Sourcing

•	Ensure users receive timely and efficient support
•	Maintain user profiles on the COUPA tool to ensure accurate global purchases and invoicing
•	Investigated and updated the status of payments using the SAP tool and COUPA
•	Operated as a liaison between technical personnel and the appropriate end-user department 
•	Evaluated and translated end user needs and problems to technical associates and vendors 
•	Maintained supplier catalogues to promote an accurate and timely procure to pay process

Source to Pay (S2P)  Analyst

•Investigated status of expense report payments to ensure timely payments
•Trained end users to submit and correct expense reports; consistently received positive feedback
•Added and maintained the user profiles on the CONCUR system to ensure employees have access to the system to claim expenses 
•Evaluated and translated end user needs and problems to technical associates and vendors where appropriate

Procure to Pay (P2P) Analyst

•Performed detailed spend and other analysis to support the sourcing process
•Conducted market and industry research required for RFXs and made recommendations to the current end to end sourcing process
•Applied knowledge of the category embracing best practices and industry trends
•Acted as subject matter expert and facilitated in research, development and implementation of RFx's and related contracts
•Expert knowledge of the eSourcing tool SAP, assist in supporting users in strategizing the best approach through the eSourcing process
•Conducted training on the SAP tool for the internal team and external suppliers
•Assisted the Procurement Sourcing Managers in the negotiation of contracts including pricing and service warranties for specific categories

eSourcing Project Manager	

•Prepared training material and conducted sessions to encourage users to use the electronic purchasing system
•Maintained the electronic contract data base for vendors to ensure consolidation of records to allow us to better negotiate supplier spend 
•Maintain a set of spreadsheets to capture and maintain the spend analysis for specific categories
•Prepared daily and m

eContract Support / Client and Vendor Support	

I am a dedicated Sourcing Professional with over 10 years’ experience. I have successfully managed the Request for Proposal process globally in various categories with budgets of 100 million dollars. My experience includes working with large companies in the banking and retail sector and health sector in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Contract Administration and Customer Service roles. My strong communication skills, adaptability and time management skills has allowed me to work successfully with stakeholders.

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