Carrie L. Chamberlain

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Procurement/Strategic Sourcing/Category Management Leader

Procurement Strategic Sourcing Category Management Project Category Manager & Change Management

Contract & Relationship Management Cost & Expense Optimization & Control

Process Improvement Strong Communication & Negotiation Skills

Highly accomplished people manager, project coordinator, and procurement professional specializing in strategic sourcing/category management leadership, offering valuable experience and success in diverse industries, reducing costs, and improving operations through innovation and category/sourcing expertise. Creative and inventive problem solver with proven ability to analyze operations, implement effective time, and cost saving solutions quickly and accurately. Superior communication and negotiation skills with proven ability as a change agent consistently seeking opportunities for process improvement. Results driven leader with the innate ability to recruit and build high powered teams.

Selected Career Highlights:

Development of transportation category profile resulted in mitigating cost increases and robust supplier relationship management

Maintenance, Repair & Operations strategy, and competitive bid resulted in +$65M savings; 50% contract consolidation; $51M increased diversity and strategic work placement spend

Meetings & Events Program creation, including policy development, implementation; increased program compliance by 40%

Building enterprise taxonomy classification for indirect supply chain +1K categories

Professional Experience

BLACKLINE GROUP, A KAINOS COMPANY [Remote] HQ-Bainbridge Island, WA

Kainos is a digital technology company that acquired BLG, a spend management consulting company, January 2022

Senior Sourcing Manager 08/2020 to 10/2023

Managed four direct reports, providing, coaching, mentoring, performance evaluations, leading staff events. Assist and support client contract administrative needs as assigned.

Procurement Consulting Service Delivery- Customer facing experience:

Supporting pharmaceutical company’s supplier sustainability efforts, supplier risk management efforts and mergers and acquisitions from a procurement perspective. Main deliverables included project management lead, development of presentations, current state process mapping, development of mergers, acquisitions, and other business integrations playbook providing a living guidance document for the procurement organization.

Supporting electrical co-op group covering the U.S. from the procurement side of digital technology integration efforts. Deliverables include project management, development of communications, time management, current state mapping, and post state mapping, supportive of change management efforts, laying the foundation for employee training deployment.

Supporting pharmaceutical company’s category strategy plan for critical manufacturing equipment. Main deliverables included supplier stratification and supplier relationship management plan. Other assignments: ad hoc purchasing/sourcing events leader, and market and supplier analysis.

THE BOEING COMPANY Mesa, AZ and Seattle, WA 02/2013 to 08/2020

Leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space, and security systems – Revenues of $101 Billion

Moved to new enterprise sourcing group, supporting the alignment of internal procurement groups; selected to build a team of category management leaders supporting Capital Equipment & Tooling and Warehousing & Logistics. Development of category market and business intelligence which includes building a new enterprise taxonomy, a four-level classification for all indirect supply chain categories. Responsible for operational realignment internally (e.g., policies, procedures, resources, tools, and corporate governance. Provide leadership, mentoring, coaching and educational training to various supplier management staff.

Manager, Category Management, Strategy & Planning, Indirect Supply Chain

Managed eight indirect supply chain Category Leaders and Strategists supporting, Factory & Production, Global Services & Facilities, Transportation, Warehousing & Logistics, Information Technology & Data Analytics, and Integrated Services. Development of category market and business intelligence best practices. Lead community of practice where category leaders connect, encourage one another, share ideas and experiences. The team executed ~30 strategically lead projects.

Category Strategy Architect

Responsibilities include providing overall category purchasing strategy for Boeing’s maintenance, repair and operations category, including best practice methodology and compliance, lead sourcing strategies and events, provide contract and supplier management activities for electrical, hand and power tools, hand cutting tools, material handling, industrial gases and chemicals, packaging, lab supplies, office products, safety supplies, meetings/events, commercial print and meal/restaurant spend. Also responsible for additional strategy projects including freight and logistics, food services, transportation, and specific HR Services. Provide leadership, mentoring, coaching and educational training to various supplier management staff.

THE COCA-COLA COMPANY/COCA-COLA REFRESHMENTS Atlanta, GA 04/2001 to 02/2013

Total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories – Revenues of $80 Billion

National category lead for general chemicals, pallets, safety, and structural racking. Responsible for management of ~$100M domestic spend (end-to-end total cost of ownership, including 7-step strategic sourcing methodology). Also responsible for operational realignment internally (e.g., policies, procedures, resources, tools, and corporate governance).

Value Creation – Developed and maintained pallets and warehouse racking programs for company. Provided support to corporate safety, quality, facilities, and construction teams.

Senior Indirect Procurement Specialist – General and Administrative Procurement

Responsible for management of $74M domestic spend (end-to-end total cost of ownership, including operational realignment internally (e.g., policies, procedures, resources, tools, and corporate governance).

Value Creation – developed, implemented, and maintained Travel and Strategic Meetings Management programs. Responsible for Travel and Meetings compliance for all North America employees. Responsible for creating, implementing, and maintaining Subscriptions and Books, Floral, Hired Car, and Car Rental programs for company. Contracts administration for pay cards, health club, travel, meetings, hotels. Responsible for supplier relationship management growth and development. Designed and created communication programs, AdminLIVE! as a forum for all Administrative Assistants and SourceitLIVE! a platform to highlight all company preferred suppliers.

Professional Development

Bachelor of Science in Business Management: University of Phoenix

Technology Proficiencies

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook Visio SAP Ariba Workday HCM Workday Strategic Sourcing

Associations

Institute for Supply Management

ASCM (Association for Supply Chain Management)

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