Heather Kinney

Enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, contract administration and procurement consulting; public and private sector

Clinical Projects, Information Technology Liaison among stakeholders, interpreting client needs, assessing requirements, and recommending solutions, using relationship building, communication, documentation, and requirements analysis skills. Provides input into strategy, workflows and project delivery. Projects: ARIA MO decommissioning Electronic Referral Solution

Microsoft Technologies program, Windows 11 upgrade project

Connect Care, Non-Medical Devices, Technical Dress Rehearsal Identity and Digital Access Program • Supports project team, through reporting, quantitative and qualitative analysis and decision making, issue resolution and escalation as applicable, communication of hardware and software testing activities, leading daily scrum, chairing team meetings, and minute taking • Scheduling and supporting hardware and software testers through consistent communication, feedback provision, issue resolution, escalation and coaching • Training and support of new coordinators, including students in co-op term positions • Supports and provides vacation coverage for Organizational Change Management Advisor

Digital map content and quality improvement: research and evaluation, by verifying and comparing data, determining relevance and accuracy of information

- Provide ERP upgrade project support, cleansing and optimizing ~47,000 item master records, prior to new system migration - Develop and test work instructions for distribution sales, warehousing, purchasing, inventory, and finance areas for current and new system, in collaboration with management and end users - Review of Accounts Payable processes: identified numerous opportunities to streamline current processes; drafted and implemented new procedures, providing training and ongoing support, using continuous improvement and change management strategies, resulting in significant business efficiencies, including reducing headcount by half - Draft lesson plans, create training data and scenarios, recording of training sessions; coordinate, schedule and deliver training, both in person as well as remotely

- Led and managed client’s activities related to developing procurement strategy and execution - Balanced client’s business needs, while ensuring compliance to organization’s policies, trade legislation, and contract law - Collaborated with clients to detail business requirements, to develop sound solicitation documents and resulting contracts and amendments - Facilitated consensus meetings, negotiated resulting contracts with suppliers, working in conjunction with legal and risk management teams - Maintained complete and accurate records of procurement activities to meet legislative obligations

- Purchased goods and services comprising various commodities, supporting all aspects of pharmaceutical manufacturing - Sourced specialty chemicals, to meet stringent quality requirements; ensuring compliance to Good Manufacturing Practice guidelines - Coordinated and tracked international shipments, including dangerous goods - Strategic and effective end user and supplier relationship development and management - Generation of financial and operational reports for end users, purchasing, supply chain and management - Initiated blanket orders for repetitive, low risk purchases, to minimize administrative load and improve compliance with financial policy

- Purchased goods and services comprising various commodities, supporting all aspects of pharmaceutical manufacturing - Sourced specialty chemicals, to meet stringent quality requirements; ensuring compliance to Good Manufacturing Practice guidelines - Coordinated and tracked international shipments, including dangerous goods - Strategic and effective end user and supplier relationship development and management - Generation of financial and operational reports for end users, purchasing, supply chain and management - Initiated blanket orders for repetitive, low risk purchases, to minimize administrative load and improve compliance with financial policy

- Advised departments on purchasing policy, ensuring compliance with trade legislation - Drafted requests for quotations, based upon specifications developed in collaboration with end users - Verified specifications through the evaluation of suppliers' responses - Developed contracts, amendments, and related internal documents summarizing various processes

- Primary end user contact, advising on corporate purchasing policy and procedures; - Managed Request for Proposal process; - Purchase order creation, applying commodity specific terms and conditions; and - Contract development, negotiation, and execution, adhering to corporate policy.

- Purchased various bulk chemicals, coordinated logistics, scheduling of outgoing orders and stock transfers; - Inventory management for multiple warehouse locations; - Accounts payable and receivable processing, including verification, approval and entry; and -Customer service, inside sales, and account maintenance.