Manager Supply Chain

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Andrew Gander

Summary

Procurement professional with 15 years of experience that produces cost reductions of over 15% per year, provides governance to company expenditures, and develops processes that can be replicated globally to simplify and streamline the supply chain. People manager with a record of hiring, developing and promoting employees.

Skills

Process Reengineering • Change Management

Contract Negotiation • Procurement Strategy

Global Supplier Management • Contract Management

Employee Development • Process Automation

Experience

8/2017 - Present

Red Hat

Raleigh, NC

Senior Global Procurement Manager

Accountable for $11 million in savings in initial 12 months of employment. Cost reductions were from pricing negotiations, RFP development, and implementation of better software asset management procedures.

Created and implemented a contract management tool that consisted of a contract management database, dashboards and reporting capabilities. The implementation allowed staff to proactively negotiate renewals and work with stakeholders to develop and plan for budgeting.

Developed a scoring model for strategic supplier selection. Model was used by the procurement staff to identify strategic suppliers across the organization and to implement a strategic supplier management program.

Sourced and negotiated the agreement and pricing for data visualization software that had C level visibility. Procurement consisted of an RFP, SaaS and on premise licensing agreements and an implementation SOW. The project reduced the number of data visualization tools from six to one, cut licensing and administration costs by 50% and became the enterprise dashboard for all managers within the company.

Developed a supplier contract risk model to gauge the risk associated with each agreement. The model was used to bypass legal review where the risk profile of the agreement allowed. This enhancement to the process was used to improve the source to contract lead time and realize savings from associated projects earlier.

Received seven peer recognition awards in first year of employment. Awards were given for Focus on the Team, Go Above and Beyond, Collaboration and Be Transparent. Was nominated for the +1 award by the IT executive leadership team for contributions to the IT organization over the previous year.

9/2007 – 8/2017

Convergys

Raleigh, NC

Senior Manager, Global Procurement

Negotiated global rate agreements with the top 3 telecom providers in North America in 2015 that resulted in annual savings of $3.3 million from a spend base of $27 million. Developed a rate benchmark to model the proposals and used best in class rates to optimize costs during the negotiation.

Developed RFP for call recording software. Process included market analysis, RFP development, competitive analysis, negotiation of pricing, licensing agreement and professional services agreement. Project resulted in $5 million in annual savings, a cost reduction of 71%. Total value of the agreement was $25 million.

Negotiated annual and multi-year maintenance agreements with the two largest voice and data networking suppliers in North America. Leveraged third party maintenance providers to drive discounts that were independently verified to be in the top 5 of any company in North America.

Project Manager for a global ERP implementation. Implementation included: e commerce, contract management and strategic sourcing across the procurement organization. Project resulted in a 99% contract expiration adherence, an improvement of 25% over the previous benchmark.

Managed a staff of 2 who were responsible for contract administration, the global corporate wireless program, and the SG&A commodity. Direct reports made quarterly presentations to the CFO and Controller on departmental metrics.

Promoted in 2010.

7/2004 – 9/2007

Avon Products

Cincinnati, OH

Senior Supply Chain Analyst

Worked with Asian, European, Indian, and South American markets to improve supply chain efficiency across the organization. Proposed and implemented a solution that would split the responsibilities in the supply chain organization into a deployment function and a planning function. Wrote processes, customized system tools, and developed new system tools. Used the new procedures and system tools to automate the deployment responsibility, cut costs, and move to a just in time inventory model. Was able to transfer 4 of 8 employees from the group and cut 15 days out of inventory. The total cost savings for this project was $1,250,000.

Received “Strongest Link of the Supply Chain” award for work on a supplier Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) project. Prior to this project, Avon had no experience with EDI. We were able to take the results of this project and develop EDI transactions with other suppliers, allowing us to get real time data on global shipments and to use that information to plan inventory movements more efficiently. This project resulted in faster and more accurate purchase orders and the elimination of a previously manual process.

Education

University of Cincinnati

MBA

Dual concentration of Finance and Marketing

Indiana University

BS, Marketing

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