Lawrence Blumenthal

Relevant Experience

»          Industry Experience: oil and gas, retail/wholesale, engineering and construction, consulting, chemicals, food and grocery, real estate and property management, health care, consumer services

»          Functional Experience: strategic sourcing, contracts management, supplier relationship management, performance metrics/KPIs, spend analysis, supply chain policies and practices, Six Sigma, process reengineering, project and program management, program management office (PMO), change management office (CMO), systems selection and integration, organizational design

»          Systems Experience: SAP, Ariba, Excel Modeling, IBM WBI Modeler, PeopleSoft, Oracle, MS Project, MS Enterprise Project

Selected Accomplishments

»          Served as the program manager for a $4 billion commercial and retail services company, responsible for the oversight and coordination of an interstate headquarters’ transition; worked with client on multiple work streams that included human resources, facilities, knowledge transfer and transition logistics

»          Extensive strategic sourcing expertise, having forecasted, sourced and purchased categories that included travel, telecom, IT hardware and software, consulting, corporate housing, graphics, office supplies, facilities services, training, hotels/conference, recruiting/external labor, capital engineered equipment

»          Served as an IT subject matter expert for a global energy company, on a $100 plus million integrated facilities management outsourcing tender project; assisted with RFP development, evaluated vendors’ EDI capabilities and planned and led transition for new provider

»          Served as project leader on multiple implementations of SAP modules, which included FI/CO, HR, SD, PP and MM and PM

»          Assessed needs and led reengineering project for indirect procurement and supply chain in North America, England, Ireland, France and Germany; program included Ariba, PeopleSoft, American Express Procurement Card and Lotus Notes projects; assessed $1 billion spend and doubled supply chain savings to $140 million, 13% of spend