Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing

Eugene Fernandez, B. Eng., NISCL-CSCL, CSCMP, CPSM, P.Log, ITIL, PMP

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Profile

EXPERT SUPPLY CHAIN and IT PROFESSIONAL with Global experience of over 20 years in Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, Contract Management, Vendor Management, Management Consulting (IBM-GBS 10 years US and Canada in Retail, IT, Telecom, Oil & Gas, Pharma, Manufacturing, etc.), Business Transformation, Corporate Strategy, Advanced Supply Chain and Procurement Transformations, Digitalization, Enterprise Solutions Assessments, Strategic Opportunity Assessments (SOA), Business Analysis, Business Cases and Roadmaps, Organization & Change Management, RFXs, Negotiation, Vendor Risk Management Mitigation and Residual Risk Reduction, Governance, Compliance, Policies & SOPs, Vendor Relationship & Performance Management, Program/Project Management, Finance, Accounting & Expense Management, Dynamic AP Payables, Invoice Governance Control & Audits, Budgeting & Budget Control, Forecasting & Financial Planning, SLA, KPI, SW, HW, S2P, P2P, O2C, 7-Step Strategic Sourcing Process, Spend Analysis and Saving, CLM, etc.

Delivered as EXPERT over $3 Billion savings value to date (including $800 million to Loblaw) to multi-national companies and Financial Institutions, and awarded Excellence in Indirect Categories (EPIC) Award, by ProcureCon Canada and Supply Professional.

PMP certified since Dec 2008, with Project/Program Management experience of over 10 years, with Teams of size 10 to 150. Federal Security Secret Level II clearance till Aug 2031 and a Canadian Citizen fully vaccinated for Covid and Canadian Citizen.

Financial Industry experience of over 9 years. Canadian and US Bank experience of over 2 years at TD (including Capital Markets) and BMO. One year at Dye & Durham (Real Estate and eConveyance) and Toyota Canada Credit Corporation (TCCI), both under Regulatory compliance. Earlier Financial Services and Banking Experience in UAE for 6 years at the largest IT organization in Dubai managing Professional Services to Banks, with IBM main frame and HP Data Centres, including as hot back up sites, for two major UAE banks, UBME and MEB. Senior Management Consultant in Canada and US at IBM - GBS for over 10 years providing Transformation Consulting in Canada and US including to Loblaws, Home Hardware, Halliburton, ALCOA, etc.

EXPERT Indirect Strategic Sourcing and Category Management experience in Tax (Excise Duty, HST, Customs Duty, SHRED Corporate Tax, etc.), Professional and BPO Services, Corporate Services, Benefits, Consulting, SOWs, Financial Services, HR, Corporate Marketing, Advertising, Warehousing and Distribution, Real Estate, Construction, Stores Renovation, Facilities, Courier, Translation, Insurance, Legal, Contact Centre, Travel and Entertainment Expenses, Merchandising, Payment Terms, Supplies, Utilities, Transport, Security, Telecom, Licenses, HVAC, Maintenance, Power, Manufacturing Services, etc.

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Led as Category Manager and Consultant, Teams at Supply Chain and Procurement Transformations of over $2 Billion global spend each, at organizations and initiated/ realized saving in 6 to 8 months of over 20% of Addressable Spend. Being an IT Professional and also a highly analytical Industrial Engineer, with paradigm shift of “out of box” thinking enabled in two to four months Quick Hits spend savings in tens of millions in areas like licenses, duty, support, taxes, quality, CX, banking charges, license ‘User’ definition, Invoice audit, AP, elimination of write offs/obsolescence, risk mitigation/transfer, etc., by finding gold/gems in spend not clearly visible to many earlier. Increased Revenue and Net Profit over 10%, by using Vendor Innovations first like at Compugen, Home Hardware and Dell.

A data driven in-depth data gathering and analysis self-motivated person and detail-oriented professional with positive and helpful attitude. A creative problem-solving skilled person with critical thinking, negotiation, and decision-making skills. Strong qualitative Research skills with Data Analysis agility. Highly organized with clear and concise written communication skills, and excellent documentation skills, including power point presentations including in confidence to influence CIO/SVP level at TD, BMO, Loblaw, Halliburton, TELUS, etc. in US and Canada, including from remote. Excellent at relationship building and managed relationships in highly structured dynamic working virtual environment. Work independently with minimum supervision, and have good time management skills to meet deadlines, and so realized results over double the average team targets, and worked well with the team guiding team mates too with knowledge transfer and setting up knowledge data bases.

An EXPERT and confident Master in Orchestration, and Leadership, with Organization & Change Management training and skills of internal (including SVP-Level) and external Stakeholders Management. Drive often through ‘Out of the Box Thinking’ Sales Growth, first use of Vendor Innovations, Risk Management and Mitigation, and Spend Savings (over 20% Cost Take Out annually), through development of Procurement Strategy aligned to Corporate and Business Units Strategy, accelerated motivated Team Development, and enhancement of Customer Experience and Stakeholders Satisfaction.

Successful experience in companies across many industries in:

· Category Management · Strategic Sourcing · Vendor Management

· Expert Indirect Souring · Management Consulting · Contract Management

· Finance & Budgeting · Performance/SLA Management · Procurement Management

· Global Strategic Sourcing · Enterprise Business Strategy · Bank, Retail, IT Solutions

· Supply Chain Transformation · Risk Governance, Policies, SOP · Project Management

Experience

Eugene Fernandez & Associates, Canada Feb 2020 – Present

Provide Consulting Contract Services in Management Consulting, IT Assessments, Procurement/Supply Chain Transformations, Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, IT Vendor/Contract/Risk Management, Project Management, etc. Saved over $3 Billion at over 50 Companies by 'Out of Box Thinking'. Won ProcureCon EPIC award.

Relevant assignments:

Dye & Durham, Toronto - Financial, Real Estate, and Legal Services provider in Canada, UK, Australia and Ireland

IT Vendor Management Consultant (Contract Kyndryl Canada)

Analysis for the first time in organization for CIO and CEO, which in the year acquired 11 companies, Global Enterprise IT Vendor Management, Risk Assessment, Performance/SLA Management, Contracts Assessment, Spend A-B-C Classification, and Categorization, for Risk Control and Spend Savings Opportunities

Gathered centrally global contracts to enable negotiations with global Vendors of Cloud (AWS, Private Cloud DC, Microsoft Azure), Professional Services, Staffing, SaaS/Application Solutions, SW, HW, etc.

Identified in three major Categories of Cloud, Professional Services and Staffing, that are the major IT spend, Quick Hit Opportunities in two months of over $6 million

Developed Global Enterprise IT Vendor Risk Management Framework, and Tools for IT Vendor Financial & Operational Risk Management, Vendor Infosec/Privacy Risk Management, Vendor Performance Management, Vendor Relationship Management, and Vendor Contract Management, for Financial Regulatory Requirements, Compliance, using Vendor Risk Management tools like Prevalent, and for future ESG

Identified Quick Hit Opportunities of over $6 million (24%) in 2 months from start.

TCCI (Toyota Credit Canada Services Inc.), Toronto - Financial Services providing leases and loans to Consumers and Dealers

Senior IT Vendor Management Consultant (Contract)

Set up IT Vendor Risk Management for using new OneTrust Tool for IT Risk Management

Trained IT Team Members on Vendor Contracts Risk identification for Financial, Operational, Security, Relationship, Performance Risks (and mitigation), and Contract Management

Advised Senior Executives like VPs, CIO and CEO on IT Vendor Risk Management, TPRM Risks, including internal Risks

Market Research for global PII breach costs, and created awareness and risk mitigation strategy for TCCI

Develop IT Vendor Management Policy/SOP, and future Swim Lane Process, developed templates for Risk Tracking, Contract Management, Vendor Dossier, and QBR

IBM Canada, Toronto- Provides Global Cloud, AI, Security, Management Consulting and Infrastructure Services

Contracts Negotiator/ Advisor (Contract)

Global Team member on IBM Global Legal project, and working on urgent novation of IBM global ‘A’ class, $100+ billion contracts, between IBM and Kyndryl for IBM spin off in Nov 2021

Twice a week liaison with internal IBM, HQ Legal Counsel in US

Contracts and negotiation specifically of major IBM Canadian Clients of over $500 million customer contracts, into IBM and Kyndryl Canada

Analysis on ‘A’ class customers and working on Sirion Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool for contract assignment and novation for transfer and subsequent spin off

Assist Client Project Executive/Sales and Legal in identifying the contracts, terms, and drafting the separation Client Letters and Contracts.

Bank of Montreal, Toronto May 2019 – Jan 2020

Financial Service/Bank Canada, US, etc.

IT Vendor Manager (Contract – 9 months)

Vendor Management, Contract Management, Vendor Relationship Management, and Contract Administration of about 500 IT contracts in Canada and United States, RFP, negotiation, and renewals of over $300 million value for the Bank for CIOO, Finance Technology and Risk Management, heading 5 Business/Group Unit CIOs

IT Procurement including MSA, SOW, RFP, SaaS, License, Support, BPO, and T&M contracts, Bank Work Product source code IP rights, data security with negotiation skills

Managed contract renewal and change order for market data, fund services, and index data providers like Modis

Managed offshore and onshore contracts for about 1,000 resources/contractors

Managed SAP Hana contracts reconciliation, and over $10 million SAS SaaS contract including site licenses, milestones, payments, staffing, roles, etc. Used SAP BI Reporting.

Used Clarity for Project Budget, cost tracking and reporting

Design processes and used JIRA (for Contract Life Cycle Management) and over 1,000 contractors renewal tracking

Used Coupa, and other tools for Invoice work flow, Invoice checking and Audit

Researched Gartner best practices, gathered bench marks, rate cards and market trends

Reviewed Licenses, Support and Contract clauses including roles, on-shore, near-shore and off-shore in BPO contracts, project ramp up/down, and advised CIOO before signing

Used SAP BI reports for Spend Analysis, Contractor work hours and budget tracking, and Coupa for Invoice Audits and License renewals information.

Negotiated $1 million savings in SAS Support, and Ab Initio Licenses, in 6 months

Identified by Contract clauses and Spend Analysis, for Procurement Transformation and by Strategic thinking, Sourcing IT opportunities of over $50 million per year savings for BMO, on over $1 billion IT spend, like taxation, contract work hours, project ramp up/down, rate cards bench marking, change orders, project roles, and contractor location on/near/off shore.

CSA Group, Toronto Apr 2017 – Aug 2018

$500 million National Standards, Testing, Inspection & Certification of global products

Category Manager Strategic Sourcing (Contract – 17 months) (Reported to Director Strategic Sourcing). Managed 3 staff.

Strategic Sourcing Management, Vendor Management, Contract Management, Purchasing and Spend Analysis of $150 million at 36 global labs in 16 countries in NA and Mexico, UK, Europe, and Asia

Defined Categories and all Category Strategies, and identified Opportunities for over 20% savings on $150 million spend with key contract clause changes viewed by Legal

Leads Contract Drafting, Negotiating, Design Processes, Process Flows, Process Improvements, Budget Management, Vendor Relationship Management, Risk Management, Project Management, and Contract Management of over 2,000 contracts with in-depth understanding of business group

Initiated Quick Hits with Category Strategies aligned to Corporate and Business Unit current strategies by quickly identifying relevant Business Management Team key business insights and translate with C-Level Stakeholders requirements into medium and long-term category strategies

Reduced spend by 15% to 40% for Quick Hit opportunities in 4 months for sub-Categories, like Translation Services, Insurance, Courier, Subscriptions, Supplies and IT Professional Services

Manage Capital Equipment Category, and equipment sourcing for up to $10 million projects each, with IT software and maintenance support, with extensive clauses for scope of services/specifications, in India, US, Germany and Canada and execution of the projects

Projects were in India, US, Germany and Canada, and included Real Estate building selection and assessments in India and Germany

Sourced Furniture and Equipment of about $2 million for the new CSA Training Academy

Assisted in P2P RFP (Coupa, Ariba, Basware), and ERP RFP (SAP/Workday/Oracle) RFPs, with interface to Salesforce including current process flow charts, demos, etc.

Researched Strategic Plans and Strategic Initiatives with IT, Business Units and Vendors application of RPA, Bots, AI, Digitization, Virtual Reality, 3D Manufacturing, LP, Business Moments and Development of “Real Time Digital Twin Corporate strategy” for CSA/SMB sector

Strategic Sourcing savings of 15% to 45% achieved on each sub-category spend.

TD Bank, Toronto Jun 2015 – Oct 2016

Financial Services/Bank Canada, US, etc.

Senior Manager Strategic Sourcing Group-IT (Contract 6+6+3+2=17 Months) (Reported to AVP-SSG).

Strategic Sourcing of Bank IT, IT Professional Services and Business/Group Operations spend in US and Canada of over $1.5 billion, from about $6.5 billion Addressable Spend

Managed RFi/RFP and negotiated contracts (including SaaS) and clearly articulate clauses, for Canada and United States, interacting with 17 Stakeholders including IT Risk Management, BC, AML, Risk, SLAs, Compliance, Legal, Technology, etc., rarely need internal and external Legal assistance, in complex high value IT contracts up to $150 million each. Excellent licensing and support negotiation skills with minimum need for supervision by AVP-SSG

Sourcing projects with complex procurement documentation skills, with hundreds of questions and contract clauses for scope of services/specifications (for 17 Stakeholders Departments) with RFI, RFP for $1 million to $150 million spend, including using Emptoris eSourcing (and eAuction capability), and manage Risk and Regulatory requirements

Handled IT Sourcing projects like SAP BI Upgrade licensing, POS3 Fund Facts licensing of $5 to $15 million saving over 35% in licensing and support

Managed contract renewal and change orders for market data, fund services, and index data providers like Modi, Bloomberg, etc.

Market Analysis, Market Trends Research, RFI/RFP for aggregation of 18 Payment Hubs, a $150 million project with over 30% savings by innovative ideas for Vendor Market Research at the RFI

Market Analysis and Benchmarking with Gartner, RFP for SaaS HCM (HR) system for over 120,000 employees and pensioners to SAP, Oracle, Workday, a over $100 million project

Managed contract renewal and changes for market data, fund services, and index data providers like Modi, Bloomberg, etc.

Competitive Market Research with Gartner, RFI and Reverse Auction followed by Negotiated RFP for Marketing Data Analytics with IBM Multi-Channel Marketing with RTDE, and Markit Analytics. Performed cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking

Capital Project Procurement of over $50 million for Bank IT Cyber Security for licensing of Phishing, SSL, Application Security Testing SW to meet Regulatory requirements

Chaired complex negotiations with vendors regarding commercial, legal and technical issues, licensing, IP rights, Liabilities, Disaster Recovery location, GDPR, and privacy rights

Enabled and used Market Research, Gartner Analysts feedback, and Vendor RFIs to transfer knowledge to Business Units for two key major projects over $100 million with in-depth understanding of business group

Used IBM Emptoris system for eSourcing, eAuction, and Contract Life Cycle Management, and Coupa Procure-to-Pay (P2P) system

Provide guidance to colleagues on Sourcing, Contracting and Negotiation

Negotiated for Trade Finance and Professional Services implementation and used Lloyd’s analysis report for Risk Management, regulatory compliance and Liability value

Used IBM Emptoris for Sourcing and Contract Management and Coupa feedback for major Invoices value checks

Negotiated over 50% saving on over $10 million Reconciliation Management license for broker transactions reconciliation daily, monthly and year end.

Made a strong impact as enabled in IT SW Sourcing, of over $300 million with 32% savings, compared to 50% lower average, for SSG-IT SW.

Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto Nov 2014 - May 2015

City Transit and Subway Operation

Senior Contract Administrator (Contract – 6 months) (Reported to Head TTC Project Procurement)

Procurement Documentation, Documentation skills, Designs Processes, and RFI/RFP for Consultant Advisor SAP Program, and SAP Success Factors (HR) Implementation projects, Risk Management and IT Professional Services

Included evaluation criteria, weighting and submission requirements to enable selection in a fast-paced environment from hundreds of potential bidders for SAP professional services

Planned for Multi-Structured RFP process for SAP Systems Integrator, consistent with Commission’s Procurement policies and departmental procedures and guidelines

Developed in TTC for first time in its 70 years, with Osler PLC over four months, standard IT RFP and IT Agreements (RFP, MSA, SOW, CO) Templates, for operational Risk effectiveness, Contract Management, and Risk Management with in-depth understanding of business group

IT Capital Project Procurement RFI for Transit Buses for up to $100 million budget, for Consulting Services and CAD/AVL project, Included pre-bid meeting and minutes

For RFP used public advertisement (MERX) and organized information and Q&A meetings and issued Addenda

Assisted in Asset Management Study for Vehicle GPS Tracking (non revenue vehicles) being an Oracle Certified EAM Consultant

With excellent Negotiating skills, negotiated for free 126 fiber lines in tunnels at 69 subway stations valued at $10 million

Discovered and initiated changes in signed Subway Wireless Network contract to enable TTC additional revenue opportunity of 5%, and eliminated penalty payment at termination

TELUS (acquired Public Mobile), Toronto Jul 2010 – Sep 2014

New Mobile Wireless/Telecommunication Entrant.

Director Strategic Sourcing

(Reported to SVP, CFO)

Managed Strategic Sourcing, Vendor Management, Contract Management, Vendor Risk Management, Vendor Relationship and Performance/SLA Management, Risk Management, Purchasing and Vendor Relationships Management for all Categories. Managed 6 staff.

Strategic Sourcing/Business Analysis of $200 million spend per year in Wireless, IT SaaS SW & HW, Managed Services, AMS, Consulting/Professional Services, Contingent Labor, Wireless & Telecom, Contact Centre, Marketing & Advertising, Sales, Real Estate, Facilities, Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Warehousing, Logistics, Mobile Handsets, Returns, Services and Finance, etc.

Leads EXPERT Spend Analysis using Management Dynamics ERP Reports, Microstrategy for Reporting, and Advanced Excel, and Organized Categories, Strategic Plans, Initiatives and Sourcing Category Strategies for Global Procurement

Contract Drafting, Negotiation skills, Data Driven and Contract Management of over 1,000 contracts for the new wireless company and coordination of departments for spend controls

Initiated Change Management of CEO, EVPs and CTO, and employees for influencing transfer of knowledge, with collaborative thinking in a fast- paced organization

Identified Opportunities for Procurement Transformation and Quick Hits in 100 days

Strategic Sourcing, RFP, negotiations and execution generated 34% savings on $40 million spend for 1,000 cell sites backhaul fibre lines in Ontario and Quebec

Strategic Sourcing, Market Analysis, RFP and negotiations for $20 million terrestrial backhaul realized with Bell 15.2% savings, with IT Managed Services, real time reports, and enhanced SLOs and SLAs and Information Management

Strategic Sourcing and RFP for $3 million fibre conduits construction for 300 buildings enabled 53% savings

Corporate Stores Construction cost reduction of over 40% using Value Analysis

Project Management and RFP to Oracle ERP/OBIEE, SAP, NetSuite and Management Dynamics, and identified best practices for 25% savings in Business Case, to CEO

Procurement Documentation and global Negotiated RFP for IT Communications Contact Centre BPO located at Canada, Montreal, Philippines and Africa, with 20% savings

Chaired complex negotiations with Bell and ZTE regarding commercial and technical issues

Project Sourcing Team member for P2P Assessment for evaluating Coupa and Zycus

Identified TMI Real Estate expenses as 70% of Lease values, and reduction strategies

Set up software system to monitor Lease payments for 1,000 call site roof locations

Researched and gathered wireless best practices. global rate cards and market trends

Savings of about 54% in Armoured Car Cash Carry Services from over 50 corporate Stores

Assisted in ZTE Core Network HW and SW contract negotiations with over 15% savings

Governance, Invoice Audit and Invoice Payment control

Category savings in IT HW/SW, Professional Services, Network/Telecommunication, Operations, Mobile Handsets, Global Outsourcing, Contingent Staff, Construction, Stores Operations, Marketing, Contract Staff, Distribution, Office Supplies, IT Managed Services, AMS, Professional Services, Contact Centre, Legal, FSO, Facilities, Real estate, Data Centre, Oracle Solution, General & Administration, etc.

Strategic Sourcing, Category/Contract/Vendor Management enabled 20% savings ($40 million) annually for each of the 4 years.

Shoppers Drug Mart, Toronto Nov 2009 – May 2010

Canada’s Largest Drug Stores, Retail Industry.

Director IT Vendor Management (Reported to VP, SC & Vendor Management)

About $150 million IT & Communication/Wireless spend Vendor Management, Risk Management, Contracting, and Contract Management, for Telecom, IT Professional Services, IT Hardware and Software, Vendor Performance and Relationships Management, Business Cases, RFX, MSA, SOW, Project Change Orders and Procurement. Managed 5 staff

Managed Contract for all IT SOWs and guiding all Project Managers on IT contract terms, KPI, SLA and Performance clauses.

Project RFPs, contracting and execution for $28 million Distribution Centres project with SaaS WMS License, Systems Integrator, and Negotiated RFP for HW selection (IBM Vs HP)

Negotiation skills saved $1 million (66%) on Microsoft IT SW support License renewal of $1.5 million

Eliminated Bell Telecommunication late payment charges of $500,000

Identified $1 million missed rebate for IBM IT-HW/SW and IT Services on $25 million spend

Formulated strategy and rationalization for 200 IT Vendors

Reduced IT HW and SW Maintenance Renewals 10% for EMC, Microsoft and Informatica

EXPERT Root Cause Analysis and Diagnostics of last 2 years Project cost/time Variance enabled adding SOW, Design Processes, and Contract clauses to eliminate 50% budget over runs in projects of $3 to $40 million value, including updating/training Contract Project Managers on Contract terms

Category savings in Telecommunication, IT HW/SW, IT Managed Services, Legal, Store Operations, Professional Services, IT Maintenance, Projects Management, Contract Staff (Project Managers/Contact Centre staff), Distribution, Intrusion Protection/Security, etc.

Identified major opportunities (9 of the top 10 opportunities finalized and selected by Special Committee were mine), for extraordinary cost reduction, of over $47 million (when need arose due to government reduction of generic drug prices SDM could charge, from 75% to 25% of brand name prices).

IBM - GBS, Canada & US Jan 1999 – Apr 2009

IBM Global Business Services provided Business/Management Consulting and IT Services.

Senior Managing Consultant (Reported to IBM Partner)

Provided in Canada, US and Globally to IBM Clients, Strategic Transformation initiatives, Executive Level Business Consulting, Business Analysis in Advanced Supply Chain (Retail, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, etc.), Strategic Opportunity Assessment (SOA), M&A Proposals, ERP and Enterprise IT Solutions & Risk Assessments with Business Cases and multiyear Road Maps. Final presentation up to C-Level Executives (CEO, CIO, SVPs & CFO). Led as Consultant and Program/Project Manager, Global Billion dollar Enterprise Supply Chian and Procurement Transformations with Strategic Sourcing spend savings. Had a strong impact as savings realization to Clients started in 4 to 8 months, and were 15% to 25% of spend targeted. Managed Teams from 3 to 150.

Relevant assignments at Clients:

Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada – Canada leading Grocery & General Merchandiser

As EXPERT Retail Supply Chain Advisor Identified and increased at Business/Group Consulting shareholder value by $800 million savings at Retail Supply Chain/IT Assessment, and in Roadmap proposed JDA (now Blue Yonder) and Manugistics, for Replenishment, Transportation Management, Sourcing, Imports, and WMS at 26 DCs, which when implemented actually realized $1 billion savings, confirmed by CEO in press

Home Hardware Limited, Canada – Hardware & Building Supplies Industry

Generated at the Supply Chain and Merchandising Business/Group Transformation assessment and RFI and RFP SAP, Oracle (Retail), i2/Retek, JDA strategic value opportunities at Business/Supply Chain Consulting with $100 million savings using i2/Retek Advanced Supply Chain software and Roadmap to enable Supply Chain and Merchandising Business Transformation of 1200 stores

Michaels Stores, US – Retail and Distribution Industry

Business/Group Transformation Consultant for transformation as directed by Board, for an IT Solution for 50,000 SKUs procurement comprising one third of company Revenue (US$680 million), to be sourced from Far East instead of US, in 2-year time frame with $160 million value to Client

Nortel, Canada and US – High Tech and Telecommunication Industry

Enabled a saving of $300 million at SAP IT Assessment and development of global ERP (SAP) and Supply Chain strategy by alignment to corporate strategy to facilitate international virtual plants, enabling global ATP and supplier collaboration, in a merger and acquisition environment.

As Project Manager (SDLC and Waterfall) and Organization & Change Management Manager leads 7 teams of 120 members at the i2 Advanced Supply Chain implementation at North Carolina

Merck Sharpe and Dohme, Puerto Rico, US (6 Months)– Pharmaceutical, Health Science

Led the Planning, Procurement, Warehouse and Logistics team and Project Manager for Lean Sigma Manufacturing implementation at plant. Eliminated 100 global planning resources at HQ. Implemented Rhythm Wheel, VMI, Kanban and Consignment.

Schneider Foods, Canada - Food Processing

Prepared Charter, Project Scope, Project Plan and Budget. Developed Finance, Manufacturing, Procurement and Sales processes incorporating best practices and value opportunities aligned to corporate strategy, harmonized across 11 Canadian plants. It also involved RFP and validation and pilot of AGILISYS (SCT) ERP and Supply Chain Planning. Risk Management expertise applied for WMS Project and saved over $25 million by Risk Mitigation

Halliburton, US – Oil, Energy and Chemicals Industry

Led Procurement Transformation & Project Management (Waterfall) for 10 months at $2.4 billion Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Transformation assignment as Procurement Consultant. Negotiated contracts for $250 million spend with $30 million savings (12%)

As EXPERT and Master in Leadership, coached and developed the 10 Team members to be Sourcing and Category Managers, with one becoming VP Procurement

Aligned Global Procurement Strategy to Corporate Strategy and Partners objectives

Initiated radical IT SAP Vendor Payment Terms with EVP-Supply Chain and CFO with $15 million annualized savings execution, and realized $3 million savings in 10 weeks with blast

Initiated new IT Vendor Web Portal for Vendors to log innovations, and Procurement R&D, Quality and finally Finance approvals of the guaranteed 10% Continuous Improvement savings per year new clause, embedded in all Vendor contracts

Initiated and executed economics for the first time in Halliburton $50 million Low-Cost Country sourcing from India, in six months, with 40% savings

United Rentals Inc., US – Retail, Service and Construction/Contractor Supplies

As EXPERT Procurement and Supply Chain Consultant Leads 7 Project manager (waterfall) led a 10 Member Team at the $2 billion Strategic Sourcing Assignment, and Project Management of Sourcing Process

Compiled Data and spend Analysis for Category Strategies, Global Procurement, and initiated Quick Hits and advised Team members on their allotted Categories

Achieved Quick Hits in 4 months with 20% saving on $40 million Courier Category in spite of 15% reduction of rates from UPS in RFP a month before

BPS Supply Chain Secretariat, Ontario Ministry of Finance (6 months) - Ontario Government (Public Sector)

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