Tanya N. Anderson

Manalapan, New Jersey ***** • ioixma@r.postjobfree.com • 917-***-****

Professional Overview

Successful professional in project management, contract management, supplier management, and analytics with operational success to meet business objectives of increased efficiency and cost savings. Innate ability to build solid relationships (business acumen) with people creating collaborative thinking, solution identification which delivers improvement of operations and productivity. Solid knowledge of spend analysis, trending and forecasting.

Professional Experience

Pfizer Incorporated – New York, NY

Manager, Global Operations, Travel 2008-Present

Led company’s $800M global corporate card program of 68K cards in 57 countries. Accountability for leading global, multi-divisional implementation and technology alignment for cross-divisional/regional roll-outs of commercial card programs to secure global data collection to leverage negotiation power and enforce compliance. Provided global spend analysis and created measureable compliance metrics. Managed alignment with internal stakeholders and strategic card provider to manage global reporting capabilities, reducing company’s cash audit risk and maximizing incentive from provider. Identified opportunities and created efficiencies in process workflow to spearhead best practices across regions and business units.

• Developed strategic corporate card strategy to drive spend consolidation to card program, resulting in improved expense report productivity for colleagues as well as provided increased T&E spend visibility to senior management.

• Effectively negotiated and executed global American Express contract which delivered, incrementally, $2M in incentives back to the company.

• Developed and managed the commercial card integration plan, transitioning Wyeth colleagues into Pfizer’s global program. Engaged multi divisional stakeholders such as legal, privacy and technology through the transition of 15k colleagues in 49 markets.

• Led six sigma initiatives that streamlined the delinquency notification process and improved cardholder communications. This resulted in a 7% reduction in delinquencies fee which generated a $200K annual savings to the company.

• Engaged senior management quarterly and annually with supplier enterprise wide meeting, providing YTD progress of global strategic strategy and progress of contact agreements.

Business Analyst, Global Travel 2006-2008

Analyzed business spends and performance to identify, capture and report incremental savings and cost avoidance: whether direct savings captured through negotiating and/or operational improvement with suppliers and or internal stakeholders to support global saving initiatives.

• Led global teams, representing 70 markets to negotiate best in class rates for global hotel spend of $160 million, resulted in 5% reduction in negotiated rates. Approximately six months in length, implementation and management of online hotel directory portal, and developed internal communications to support global travel saving initiatives. Managed preferred suppliers for optimal performance of negotiated agreements.

• Improved the booking and expense system. Engaged internal technology and strategic technology provider to indentify process improvements to spearhead the new design, definition and implementation of identified improvement. Effectively worked with various internal stakeholders in Finance, Shared Services, to implement and manage compliance with Pfizer’s Global Policy in the Travel areas.

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• Led a cross-functional team with internal technology group and third party to redesign and re-launch the online travel booking tool. Developed and conducted quarterly departmental performance reviews of travel activity with finance managers highlighting the possible saving opportunity through increased use of the booking tool and advance ticket purchase. Through effective communications, focus groups and training sessions there was a 15% increase in online tool adoption, resulting in an annual cost savings of $2.5M.

• Effectively, managed department’s business performance results using ‘hyperion’ scorecard. Managed key performance indicators for department’s $8M budget and cost saving Initiatives. Provided category analysis and developed category action plan for saving opportunities. Responsible to reconcile and approved monthly agency, travel security and online portal invoice. Collaborated with internal audit, legal and accounts payable to manage operation metric. Prepared quarterly and bi-annual category reviews with key internal clients to review policy compliance, achieved savings, lost savings and forecast measures for improvement.

Senior Administrator Fleet 2001-2006

Managed annual fleet car ordering process of 12k sales forces colleagues. This involved collaboration with key external vendor ensuring detailed audit of vehicle selection availability and accurate selection of car replacement. Managed, approved and audited collision repairs. Developed and executed annual communication plan for ordering cycle to educate colleagues of process and criteria.

Education

MBA, Accounting - Long Island University - 2007

Graduate School of Business

BS, Health Science - SUNY College at Brockport 1999

Certifications

Six Sigma Certification- Green Belt 2010

Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Suite, HTML, E-Computron, Ariba, Cognos, GCE, Concur, Hyperion

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