Procurement & Sourcing Specialist
Christina Viola
Consultant
Operations Manager
Program Manager
Asana
G Suite
Microsoft Office 365
Miro
Accomplished Procurement Specialist with over 13 years of successful contract and full-time work solving internal performance and external supplier problems by implementing data-driven solutions across large Fortune 500 corporations. Expertise is complimented by soft skills including emotional intelligence, open communication, empathy, strategic thinking, and an outcomes-based mindset.
●Global Strategic Sourcing
●Global Procurement
●Vendor Management
●Process Improvement
●Program & Project Management
●People Training & Development
●Global Strategy & Operations
●Relationship Management
●Contract Negotiation
●ERP Implementation
●Data Driven Decision Making
●Cost Savings & Efficiency Initiatives
●SAP/Ariba Suite
●NetSuite, ScanMarket
●Zycus, Lawson, Decideware
●SpendHQ, Scout RFP
●Tableau, Cognos, Power BI
●MS Office, Google, AWS
My professional accomplishments for my clients Apple, Google, Facebook, Viacom, VICE, Morgan Stanley, Dow Jones, AIG, Alexis Networks, S&P Global, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Amgen and others:
●Yielded an average of 35% savingson $500M-$1B annual global spend.
●Created global governance and framework using Lean Six Sigma for enterprise-wide Vendor Management Office within 3 months resulting in 80% or more improvement in process efficiency and people productivity.
●Completely migrated 100% all global strategic sourcing project data and activities in less than 12 months resulting in significantly improved data quality, reporting, auditing, and employee productivity levels.
●Designed a centralized organization in less than 10 months by gathering, analyzing, cleansing & validating data across global entities & performing a gap analysis to create a phased approach to reach the future ’to-be’ state of operations in collaboration with CFO’s and cross functional partners of global entities.
●Achieved on average 25% reduction in total contract costs through reverse auctions and other eSourcing strategies, contract negotiation and vendor relationship management while maintaining service level standards and improving supplier innovation.
