Lavetta Elliott

Develop and execute sourcing strategies, nurturing proficiencies within the team, to support corporate goals and vision. Facilitate project success, leveraging profitable relationships with suppliers and implementing cost effective tactics. Design and manage a scalable infrastructure, enhancing procurement processes and integrating cost savings strategies across all business lines. Mitigate risks promoting steady increases in revenue and gross margin goals. Manage and source a pipeline of procurement project, supporting all business units, and elevating service excellence by 80% through automation. Lead a cross-functional team, defining and coordinating training to improve proficiencies, streamlining workforce and optimizing product and resource governance while exceeding profitability targets.

Executed strategic project leadership, enhancing operational capacity, through effective work flow planning, and guidance of the service delivery process to ensure customer satisfaction. Coordinated the efforts of Purchasing Specialists, executing cost control activities and ensuring strict compliance with corporate procurement objectives. Tracked all lead times and mitigated all fulfillment issues. Enhanced business relationships with suppliers, ensuring best value and monitoring efforts between various departments to streamline the fulfillment process.

Promoted organizational readiness, improving procurement processes and collaboration between business units to promote proper alignment of project goals. Skillfully managed supply chain, positioning the company for increased growth and sustained profitability. Projected resource needs and managed vendors to ensure best pricing, timely shipping and fulfillment confirmation. Increased cost savings by means of strategic negotiation tactics with outsourced manufacturing partners.

Optimized the sourcing process and execution of contracts, defining client needs and ensuring that supplier capabilities adequately fulfilled those needs. Managed a monthly project schedule of 75-100 projects, ranging between $275,000 to $300,000, expertly negotiating priorities to ensure timely product delivery. Maintained communication with suppliers, clients and sales management team to establish congruence between client needs, market trends and supplier capabilities and ensure quality and timely fulfillment of client orders.

Provided client-centered support, collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team comprised of patient representatives, physicians, manufacturers, insurance companies and senior-level management staff. Optimized program outcomes, through comprehensive research of contract terms, resolution of claims issues and negotiation of service rates and fees to ensure timely reimbursement.

Engaged patients, healthcare providers and insurance companies to promote a clear understanding of treatment services and related service costs. Researched explanation of benefits to determine assignment of benefits and billing procedures. Managed a portfolio of 30-40 national accounts, across multiple service provider offices, with a caseload exceeding 60-90 claims. Ensured proper assignment of benefits, compliance with plan requirements and authorizations and timely remittance of payments.

Proactively contacted customers and caregivers to provide shipment confirmation for medications and ensure timely processing of all incoming orders. Provided front-line resolution of all order fulfillment issues and tracked orders to promote patient satisfaction.

Operated telephone lines for a 20 person office. Collected and organized information pamphlets for mass distribution. Greeted and accommodated clients. Maintained sufficient office supply inventory and placed orders when necessary. Sorted and distributed mail.

Entered new patient information and orders into computer system. Inputted patient insurance information, and ran test claims. Prepared departmental schedule. Compounded intravenous medication. Contacted long-term care facilities to confirm and verify orders. Entered new patients and new orders. Prepared TPNs using auto-mix 3x3 compounder. Compound morphine cassettes and program CADD pumps. Prepared emergency IV kits. Refilled continuing orders. Called facilities regarding medication errors. Filled oral medication in blister packages. Compounded oral and topical medications. Answered and directed telephone calls. Pre-packed medications.