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Senior Director, Procurement

Slalom designs and builds strategies and systems to help our clients solve some of their most complex and interesting business challenges.

Spend Analysis, Negotiations and Cost Savings – Relentless in pursuit of delivering cost savings to businesses. Consistently deliver between 10-20% in operational savings, within managed categories Sourcing/Category Management – Deep experience managing the sourcing process for all types of enterprise suppliers (RFx, negotiations, contract management, project management, supplier management). Categories include Wireless Infrastructure (site, switch, backhaul, professional services), IT Technology (telecom, hardware, software, maintenance), Marketing, Supply Chain, Facilities, Real Estate, Utilities, Consulting Services and all SG&A categories. Purchasing/Operations Management – Extensive business experience building/leading/improving the indirect sourcing function and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes, across a diverse set of company types and sizes. Using a collaborative, and continuous improvement approach, unique ability to deliver the right controls into an organization to drive value. This includes the implementation of purchasing/inventory systems (e.g. Oracle and Peoplesoft); expense and capital budget management process/controls; pcard program implementation; policy and procedure development, training development and delivery.