Sandy Kiernan

Responsible for sourcing, purchasing, and managing spend for Real Estate, Business and HR services categories. Working with business unit/budget owner (internal stakeholders) on appropriate spending strategy, including industry best practices, category/market trend analysis, and supplier capabilities. Appropriately select supplier resources based on driving competitive sourcing activities; Forming contracts with selected Suppliers to help ensure deliverable and risk avoidance; Managed supplier performance via stakeholder feedback and performance based metrics; Ensure appropriate business controls are in place. Lenovo utilizes the Ariba tool. This was rolled out in January 2017. My experience has been actively working in the system to create sourcing projects, including RFPs, creating contract workspace to include completing contract terms, savings documentation, and uploading all contractual documents, getting approvals, and publishing the final workspace which allows PR/PO creation.

Provide sourcing and contract support for contingent staffing and professional services categories. Ensure compliance with government laws and regulations, and company internal processes and procedures; Ensure best practices in procurement and supply chain management are met; support the development, socialization, and delivery of category strategy to ensure faster cycle times and spend reduction; Lead the negotiation and business communications process with suppliers on projects; Report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and present cost reduction/strategic sourcing plans, activities and successes to company division and executive management teams; Drive innovation and focus on continuous procurement and supply chain improvement; Ensure suppliers are held accountable for meeting continuous improvement initiatives both from a strategic and tactical; Partner with the Contracts organization in the implementation and management of non-production contracts; Conduct RF(x)s; Skills: Strong organizational and project management skills; Experience with e-sourcing software specifically SAP & Ariba; Ability to operate independently in a dynamic environment; Strong communication skills with the proven ability to interact effectively with suppliers; Detail oriented with the keen ability deliver on client expectations, influencing others or escalating as needed to do so; Proven ability to build relationships and gain credibility; Strong independent problem solving skills.

Responsible for sourcing, purchasing, and managing spend for Business and HR services categories. Working with business unit/budget owner (internal stakeholders) on appropriate spending strategy, including industry best practices, category/market trend analysis, and supplier capabilities. Appropriately select supplier resources based on driving competitive sourcing activities; Forming contracts with selected Suppliers to help ensure deliverable and risk avoidance; Managed supplier performance via stakeholder feedback and performance based metrics; Ensure appropriate business controls are in place. Lenovo utilizes the Ariba tool. This was rolled out in January 2017. My experience has been actively working in the system to create sourcing projects, including RFPs, creating contract workspace to include completing contract terms, savings documentation, and uploading all contractual documents, getting approvals, and publishing the final workspace which allows PR/PO creation.

In role of Indirect Procurement Business Partner focused on contingent staffing for US & Canada by implementing new global procurement strategy. Experience with Ariba and EZProcure. Drove change management to the MSP model for contingent staffing, conducted RFP, and led cross-functional team in vendor selection. During knowledge gathering process obtained CCWP (Certified Contingent Workforce Professional by SIA). Responsibilities include supplier management, contract management and category strategy implementation. Additional experience includes categories of IT, cellular, business consulting & fleet. In role of Service Delivery Manager, managed both the on-site team and the service delivery of outsourced teams in India & Guatemala. Coordinated with AP & Procurement Desk outsourced service providers to ensure compliance with global service model, internal controls, agreed service level & KPI's; Proactively found areas of improvement and supported related change management initiatives; Monitor performance gap feedback, continuously evaluate measurements and use as input for continuous improvement actions; Build service relationships and engage with stakeholders to provide performance updates and identify performance improvement opportunities; Actively contribute to development and implementation of proper accounting procedures and controls to ensure legal compliance, achieve best practices and support sound financial structure according to global standards.

As part of global IT strategic procurement, managed IT requests for services, hardware & software. Managed procurement team. Experience includes implementing new global procurement strategies and e-tools to all divisions of GMAC in US (finance, mortgage & insurance); Procurement support for stakeholder on major IT project to unify financial platforms; Managed ordering and contract negotiations and compliance. GMAC utilized the Ariba tool for PO creation and the Procuri tool as a contract repository. Procuri was later bought by Ariba. I managed the project to scan and upload all paper contracts into the Procuri system. Additional experience includes managing purchasing team for print, fleet, office supplies & equipment; implementing procurement strategy and policies; identify and implement process improvements in all related procurement processes on an ongoing basis; build and develop relationships with key suppliers and customers; liaise with Accounts Payable Department to ensure accurate and timely payment of invoices, as necessary for the business with the supplier. Also, responsible for customer service, team communications, contract negotiations, budgets and financial analysis. Developed and implemented new purchasing and approval processes and continue to review for process improvement. Manage approval process. Prepared RFQ for new travel services provider, managed bid analysis, made recommendations to management, chose new vendor, managed implementation and vendor relationship.

(AT&T purchased Vanguard in 1999). Negotiation of Interconnection Agreements; Maintain relationships with Local Exchange Carriers and Independent Telephone Companies and mediating escalated issues.

(AT&T purchased Vanguard in 1999) Managed provisioning team. Responsible for end to end processes for telco provisioning including contract negotiation, budgeting, expense analysis, ordering and bill review; Annual budget preparation for telecommunications expenses; Perform cost/benefit analysis on various contracts and projects; Strategic planning for network optimization projects to reduce overall interconnection costs; Financial statement analysis and preparation of monthly variance reports for management; Preparation of executive summary reports; Annual budget preparation for all telecommunications expenses; Troubleshooting network outages related to phone companies; Originated RFP’s and negotiated agreements for cellular and landline long distance services.