Baker Hughes

- Develop supplier partnerships and agreements with key suppliers
- Develop, plan, and manage Services projects and programs to meet customer commitments and project delivery through Services procurement delivery plan.
- Partner with business leadership and regional teams to drive OTD/Quality for key Services projects.
- Manage the complete purchasing and contract administration functions for Services Projects as required to meet Sourcing strategy program commitments.
- Execute Services sourcing strategy targets on price, delivery, quality and service necessary to meet requirements. Deliver and maintain key sourcing metrics

Global Procurement Leader - Services

EPC Operations Manager

Project Manager

Margin Expansion - Cost Productivity Leader - August 2017
Demonstrated ability in driving multiple simultaneous large scale productivity / transformation projects & efforts across business commercial deals resulting in ~$30m cost out.

Key Responsibilities:
•	Responsible for driving cross functional teams toward successful execution of cost productivity on commercial deals both in ITO & OTR for Subsea Production Systems and services

•	Manage ~30 stakeholders across 6 functions to deliver cost competitiveness and structure for key engineering procurement and construction projects; by leading and coordinating weekly operating reviews to track progress towards margin targets and to monitor risks and opportunities

•	Coordinate with the functional management for resources required to complete tasks to successfully deliver significant cost and productivity improvement programs aligned with the business priorities

•	Partner with project leads to assess  variances from the project plans, budgets and schedules, develop and implement changes as necessary to ensure that improvement efforts deliver results within time, cost, and quality objectives, and keep visible to management

•	Work closely with Operations leadership to drive a culture of Operational Excellence

•	Demonstrate thought leadership in bi-weekly updates to Vice President & leadership team

Business Operations Manager

GE Oil & Gas

Built experience in vendor management and strategic financial analysis using Big Data and Digital Tools to increase efficiency and reduce cost while maintaining solid rapport with business partners across Subsea and Drilling (business within the $12.9B Oil & Gas Division). Stakeholder engagement is key both internally and externally along with business case development, and program management skills to ensure strategic execution is successful.

Achievements and responsibilities: 
1. Devised KPIs used in Tableau dashboards for strategic vendor reviews across functions (Procurement, Product management, Engineering, Project management & Operations) to assess strategic supply base and further develop business relationship

2. Redesigned and implemented process improvements on how to measure deflation across 4 business units working across the finance, strategic and operational teams; reducing manual inputs by 45%

3. Established strategy to reduce parts proliferation and standardise classifications of commodities and part numbers across 7 critical platforms 

4. Developed centralized database of all Long-Term Agreements (LTA) ~250 contracts. Leveraged big data analytics to identify and prevent contract leakage

Strategic Sourcing Initiatives Manager

GE's Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) is an internal audit/consulting leadership program designed to expose high potential employees to intensive, on-the-job development across GE’s businesses. CAS members operate as part of a global team while performing comprehensive reviews of GE’s financial reporting, risk management, compliance and supporting enterprise-wide initiatives & acquisition integrations/dispositions.

Reviews/Projects (Period, Business - City, Country):
Pilot: GE Capital EMRG – Amsterdam (NL). Focus: Cash Operations
1) GE Capital HQ - Capital Planning & Adequacy – Stamford/Norwalk (US). Focus: Audit of GE Capital's Planning & Adequacy processes and identified process improvements related to building the annual submission to the FED.

2) GE Capital International - London (UK). Focus: Review included assisting the business with change management in order to streamline operations, increase profitability, and install a strong risk management culture across the functions.

3) GE Global Operations – Hungary Global Operations audit - Budapest (HU). Focus: Buy to Pay process audit to review work that has migrated from GE industrial businesses for the first time (namely Healthcare & O&G). The audit involved developing sustainable process improvements based on audit observations.

4) GE Corporate ERP Support – Fairfield (US). Focus: Supported Corporate Client Ledger go live assessment that was implemented across businesses and sites

5) GE Global Operations Finance – Transformation – Fairfield (US)/ Budapest (HU). Focus: Built prioritization framework that outlined cost and benefits for large projects that are executed across regions and functions.

6) GE Healthcare - Finance - HQ Global - Financial Audit – Milwaukee (US)/ Nairobi (KE). Focus: Validated revenue recognition processes across 4 regions for Healthcare systems

Corporate Audit Staff (CAS)

GE's Financial Management Program (FMP) is an intensive two-year graduate leadership program combining four job assignments in different countries/businesses and MBA-style classroom trainings to learn all areas of corporate finance, accounting, strategy and controls. 

FMP Assignments include product line profitability, short and long-term forecasting, financial reporting, pricing, manufacturing cost analysis, accounting, and business development.

4th Rotation: Subsea Services Financial Planning and Analysis - Aberdeen, Scotland
3rd Rotation: Global Services Income Statement Analyst - Florence, Italy
2nd Rotation: GE Wind Project Finance Analyst - Salzbergen, Germany 
1st Rotation: GE Measurement Controls - Commercial Finance Analyst - Bracknell, United Kingdom

Short term Assignment working with the Global Subsea Controller. July 2013 - December 2013

Financial Management Program

GE Energy

One year internship in commercial finance supporting the Europe sales force.
1. Co-ordinate weekly forecasting estimate process for orders/sales/margin

2. Supporting monthly and quarterly closing activities

3. Conduct weekly operating calls with sales team to gain information regarding order pipeline

4. Prepare weekly sales and CM estimates for the Europe team across all P&L’s, including backlog and convertible order detail, highlighting any risks to conversion for the quarter

Developed how to pay attention to detail, communicate with different levels of management, working under pressure but maintain high level quality

Commercial Finance Intern

A conscientious and professional change agent with experience in sourcing, financial audit, commercial operations and IT implementations. Proven track record in General Electric company with the ability to analyse issues, devise continuous process improvements and incorporate business process initiatives to increase efficiency, streamline operations and decrease aggregate expenses with limited resources. Consistently identifies and accelerates strategic measures to strengthen performance with sustained operational results. Forges long-lasting client and business partner relationships to mutually benefit all parties.

I am also the co-lead of the African Affinity Forum UK which aims to strengthen the employees through career management, professional development and mentoring.


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