Procurement & Sourcing Leader

LEE ANN BRALEY

**** ******* ***** *** *******, TX 78232

(m) 210-***-**** ********@******.***

Procurement & Sourcing Professional

Accomplished leader, with more than 10 years of global experience, able to rejuvenate departments and/or organizations to enhance procurement efforts.

Proven success in collaborating with leadership, defining and implementing a procurement strategy for all types of products and services. Experience managing a team of professionals in direct Procurement for corporate and government clients. An adaptable and change agile professional who is self-motivated and able to work equally well as part of a team or individually, on-site or off-site.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cost Reduction • Procurement • Sourcing • Global Experience • Account Management

Quotes & Proposals (RFIs, RFQs and RFPs) • Relationship Management • Forecasting

Leadership • Purchasing • Order Fulfillment • Process Flow

IT/Technology Knowledge • Negotiations • Vendor Relations • Collaboration

Contract Administration & Compliance • Reporting & Tracking Systems

Risk Mitigation • Government Sector •

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

PROCUREMENT EXPERTISE

In partnership with the Purchasing organization, defines and maintains processes required to ensure efficient, timely and effective fulfillment of orders.

In collaboration with leadership, designs and implements a vendor relationship management and governance structure to ensure understanding and alignment with Company objectives and expectations.

Deep understanding of vendor business practices, sales and marketing strategies and procurement processes and fundamentals .

Ability to maintain effective working relationships and collaborate with multiple internal stakeholders while effectively interacting at all levels of the organization.

Possesses the ability to concurrently manage the end-to-end process flows and requirements for multiple procurement projects and priorities .

PROCUREMENT REPORTING, TRACKING & ADMINISTRATION

Provides leadership with the support required to manage, track, measure and monitor the status of all procurement and contract negotiations.

Monitors open order reports on a daily basis, resolving any outstanding issues.

Creates weekly procurement reports with current status of requests/projects and meets with project management teams, weekly, to discuss.

Creates Capital Expenditure documents and follows up with approvers to meet critical deadlines.

Ability to research and prepare all quotes and proposals to Federal government customers for products and services.

Knowledgeable with GSA, NIH, 8a, and IT BPA contracts.

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ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

Successfully builds and maintains relationships with internal and external clients.

Consults to analyze, uncover needs, and deliver solutions via products and services that are appropriate to the internal or external clients’ time horizons and goals.

Known for maintaining communication with clients and overcoming any and all project and implementation issues.

Monitors open order reports, on a daily basis, resolving any outstanding client issues.

Communicates with clients on an on-going basis on needs assessments, order status, new products, availability issues, and shipment status.

Consults with internal and external buyers on constrained products and ETAs.

Initiates expediting activities between vendors and clients.

Maintains high ethical practices while providing the highest level of professional client services.

VENDOR NEGOTIATIONS & RELATIONS/ CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

In collaboration with others, leads and manages the negotiation of all Master License Agreements, Service Agreements, Statements of Work and related contractual documentation associated with this category of spend.

Ensures compliance with corporate standards, including consistent application of contractual structures driving quality, on-time and on-budget performance, and compliance with contract standards.

Proven experience and interaction with senior level executives within the vendor community and the ability to independently conduct business negotiations with senior leadership of product and service providers .

Ability to assess and mitigate risk from a company, project, business, financial and contractual perspective, including a working knowledge of legal terms and conditions and the long-term impacts of various business terms and conditions.

FORECASTING / ASSET & INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Collaborates with Vendors on monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting.

Manages assets utilizing Peregrine Systems Asset Center.

Manages customer inventory holding orders with the vendor, resulting in meeting the customer’s timeline and budgetary expectations.

TEAM LEADERSHIP / PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Leads and manages teams responsible for executing procurement of products and services.

Leads and manages cross-functional teams through complex procurement initiatives, including RFIs, RFQs and RFPs required to support critical business area initiatives. In addition, partners with business leadership to define and execute on category specific cost reduction initiatives.

Frequently honored for key contributions as both an individual and team performer.

Remains focused on long-term objectives; making sound decisions.

Highly experienced establishing priorities, meeting critical deadlines and coordinating functions that are vital in achieving company objectives.

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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

GLOBE LIFE 12/2024 – 4/2026

The focus is on offering dependable life and supplemental health insurance to lower and middle-income individuals.

Retention Specialist:

Customer Consultation & Sales: Assess

Inbound Cancellation Support

Customer Consultation & Sales

TATA CONSUTANCY SERVICES 6/2013 – 7/2024

Ensure the highest levels of certainty and satisfaction through a deep-set commitments to clients, comprehensive industry expertise and a global network of innovation and delivery centers. Build bespoke teams around your domain and technology requirements drawn from a talent pool of 592,195 global professionals.

Workflow Specialist

Client: TIAA (16,000 USD employees)

Senior Buyer

Client: USAA (Annual Revenue 35.62 Billion USD, Employees 36,000)

XEROX 2/2005 -12/2012

A global document management corporation that produces and sells a range of printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies. In 2010 Xerox acquired Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS), which provides information technology services, as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profits.

HP or Hewlett-Packard Company 01/2003 – 2/2005

A global information technology company.

Account Procurement Manager (Procurement Outsourcing)

Procured equipment, software, material and services resulting in increased value to the end user. Clients included:

Zachry Construction (Annual revenue: $3 Billion; Employees: 15,000+)

The Scotts Miracle-Grow Co. (Annual revenue: $2.85 Billion; Employees: 8,000+)

Jim Beam (Annual revenue: $2.8 Billion; Employees: 3,200+)

Everris (Annual revenue: $660 Million; Employees: 9,000+)

State of Texas (Employees: 266,00

HP or Hewlett-Packard Company is a global information technology company.

Account Executive

NCR – FSG, San Antonio, TX 2/1997 – 12/2001

FSG is a consulting firm specializing in strategy, evaluation, and research with many of the world’s leading corporations, nonprofit organizations, and charitable foundations.

Administration Analyst (1999 – 2001)

Marketing Analyst (1997 – 1999)

EDUCATION

LAMAR UNIVERSITY, Beaumont, TX

Bachelor of Business Administration

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