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AISHA HOLMES

MBA
Whitehall,PA

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Desired Job Title

Project Manager- Northeast & North Central RegionDirector of Supplier Relationship ManagementDirector of Strategic SourcingProcurement ManagerSr. Supervisor of Operations

Work Type

Full TimeConsulting

Location Preference

On-SiteRemoteHybrid
Location: Whitehall, PA
Open to relocation: Yes

Summary

Diligent Leader with background in managing complex projects across various industries. Known for successfully leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within scope. Demonstrated ability to manage project lifecycles and implement process improvements. Strong focus on team collaboration, fostering results-driven environment, and adapting to changing needs. Known for reliability, leadership, and effective communication.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager- Northeast & North Central Region

AMI Expeditionary Healthcare
08.2023 - 05.2026
  • Regional manager of a federally funded grant with the total annual operating budget of over 5M for the regional clinical teams to support preventative and emergent assistance for long term care facilities. The RISE mission focuses on building resiliency through relationships by providing COVID-19 prevention and response support operations, consultations, assessments, conducting various quality improvement trainings and providing incident management coaching. The RISE mission is a partnership between the Department of Health, PA Department of Human Services, PA Emergency Management Agency and four healthcare organizations (Penn Medicine in partnership with Penn Temple, The Pennsylvania State University, LECOM Health & AMI Expeditionary Healthcare).
  • Developed comprehensive project plans, outlining scope, timelines, resources, and risk management strategies.

Director of Supplier Relationship Management

Lehigh Valley Health Network
01.2023 - 05.2023
  • Analyzed vendor data to identify trends and opportunities, leading to substantial improvements in cost-efficiency and service delivery timelines. Establish processes that streamline department goals to fully uphold the LVHN standard. Work collaboratively with logistics, analytics, operations, value analysis, strategic sourcing, and leadership to develop overall recommendations that fully support LVHN system wide. Reconstruct and re-align existing corporate agreements to mitigate any risks, assure accountability, and define growth with a foundation of excellence.
  • Collaborated with executive leadership to formulate long-term organizational goals and strategies.

Director of Strategic Sourcing

Lehigh Valley Health Network
08.2022 - 01.2023
  • Fostered partnerships with cross-functional teams, enhancing communications and aligning strategies to achieve overarching supply chain objectives. Create processes that streamline department goals to fully uphold the LVHN standard. Work collaboratively with logistics, analytics, operations, value analysis, and leadership to develop cross-functional teams that fully support LVHN system-wide. Reconstruct the current roles and functions of strategic sourcing to create category management which focuses on market analysis, contract utilization, strategy, and enterprise-wide savings.
  • Developed and implemented sourcing strategies to optimize supply chain efficiency.

Procurement Manager

Lehigh Valley Health Network
03.2022 - 08.2022
  • Fostered partnerships with vendor networks and internal stakeholders, ensuring seamless communication and alignment on procurement strategies that bolstered operational efficiency. Create processes that streamline departmental goals to fully uphold the LVHN standard. Work collaboratively with logistics, analytics, contracting, value analysis and leadership to develop cross-functional teams to fully support LVHN system-wide.
  • Led procurement strategies to optimize supply chain operations and reduce costs.

Sr. Supervisor of Operations

UGI
02.2021 - 03.2022
  • Spearheaded operational strategies across the Lehigh area, achieving substantial improvements in staff efficiency and process optimization through collaborative efforts with cross-functional teams.
  • System Integration: Understanding the functionality of all systems used within the company to assure tasks are streamlined, data integration, data updates and to also download analytics for reporting.
  • Developing Processes: Gathering historical and current information to understand the tasks, needs and how to further develop them in a timely and most accurate manner.
  • Task Reassignment: Reassigning tasks to appropriately fulfill the workday, align work ethic with organizational goals and create a full work process where the connectivity is understood.
  • Daily Operation Scheduling: Create daily scheduling for our field personnel. Scheduling also includes daily communication with dispatch and scheduling departments to assure efficiencies.
  • Coordinated scheduling and workflow, optimizing resource allocation across multiple teams.

Director of Purchasing

Acurity (formerly a GNYHA Services Co.) – for SJR
12.2013 - 02.2021
  • Spearheaded procurement strategies that resulted in year over year savings for Supply Chain, aligning purchasing initiatives with corporate financial goals.
  • Strategic Planning: Achieved company business objectives. Analyze financial impact of conversion opportunities, value analysis recommendations and on contract portfolio.
  • Leadership: Align supply chain with corporate goals. Redesigning department structure and overseeing various projects throughout the organization. Assess current business to strategize better ways to increase savings and assure that all pricing penetrated through the GPO, were accurate and aggressive.
  • Process Improvement: Pro-actively address root cause of problems by evaluating past performance.
  • Contract Negotiations: Develop improved sourcing strategies and increase staff education through training of the GPO contract, pricing, and sourcing modules.
  • Work diligently with Value Analysis Teams, Buyers and Project Managers on various analyses for savings and cost avoidance initiatives.
  • Maintain a real-time tracker of all savings initiatives and issues that may have occurred with the orders.
  • Instrumental in identifying over 800k in savings throughout the Supply Chain for SJR's 2015 end of year budgeting.
  • Worked collaboratively with Value Analysis to review Physician Preference Items. Together, along with our physicians we discussed cost, preference, associated date, quality and outcomes.
  • Negotiated contracts with key vendors, achieving favorable terms and conditions for the organization.

Capital Project Lead/Senior Supply Chain Analyst

GNYHA Services – for Mt. Sinai
07.2012 - 12.2013
  • Lead of many initiatives which enhanced supply chain efficiency, achieving substantial cost savings through strategic vendor negotiations and tier optimization, positively impacting budget allocations.
  • Review all capital quotes to validate pricing.
  • Assure all items purchased through contract vendors are being priced at the correct tier.
  • Rectify all pricing/tiering issues to avoid discrepancies.
  • Drove contract tier optimization by analyzing purchasing volume through Premier Spend Advisor.
  • Work diligently with Value Analysis Teams, Contract Negotiators, Buyers and Project Managers on various analyses for savings and cost avoidance initiatives.
  • Serve as the financial manager to develop customized analytical reports to meet requests of internal and external customers and present actionable findings to senior management.
  • Maintain real time tracker of all capital quotes along with savings and issues that may have occurred with the orders.
  • Instrumental in identifying over 3 million in savings throughout the Supply Chain for Mount Sinai's 2012 Capital Project.

Value Analysis/Supply Chain Analyst

NEXERA Consulting (a GNYHA Services Co.) – for CHP
01.2011 - 06.2012
  • Enhanced supply chain efficiencies by developing and managing tailored Supply Chain Improvement Plans, achieving substantial reductions in supply expenditures across member institutions.
  • ERP Data Analyst for Continuum Health Partners.
  • Optimized annual spending of $6.4 M for med/surgical supplies CHP member facilities.
  • Perform centralized Oracle database maintenance and relational synchronization to restricted master database files (specifically item, vendor, contract product category, custom requisition, EDI/FAX communication and shipping/delivery locations)
  • Drove contract tier optimization by analyzing purchasing volume through Premier Spend Advisor.
  • Work diligently with Value Analysis Teams, Contract Negotiators and coordinators on various analyses for savings and cost avoidance initiatives.
  • Serve as the financial manager to develop customized analytical reports to meet requests of internal and external customers and present actionable findings to senior management.
  • Worked collaboratively with Value Analysis to review Physician Preference Items. Together, along with our physicians we discussed cost, preference, associated date, quality and outcomes.

Clinical Services Coordinator

GNYHA Services
09.2009 - 12.2010
  • Responsible for coordinating events and resources in support of technical projects that impact multiple departments within the organization. Creating educational documents that focused on the clinical aspects of products.
  • Develop and maintain a detailed project schedule which includes administrative tasks, scheduling events, organizing seminars and becoming the point of contact for suppliers and members.
  • Analyzing data reports with emphasis on clinical products.
  • Assisting the VP and Director of Clinical Services with educational publications that are distributed to both staff and member hospitals.
  • Promoting the use of Value Analysis software through webinars with the C suite of facilities.
  • Maintaining the calendars of the VP and Director.
  • Responsible for tracking changes and producing updates.

Financial Analyst

GNYHA Services
05.2006 - 08.2009
  • Interacted with SVP's, AVP's, VP's, Directors, Client Service Executives and Hospital Executives. Trained new analysts on processes and report modeling. Managed/maintained project queue and distributed projects to analysts accordingly and proof all reports for accuracy.
  • Update financial reporting package instruction manual and other processes to streamline workload.
  • Create extensive PowerPoint presentations for client meetings and Value Summary (Spend Advisor) reports for CEOs of hospitals.
  • Extract data from business/web-based database and export to Excel/Access to create financial reports/pivot tables.
  • Prepare extensive sales summary, market basket analyses, business review and active/inactive reports.
  • Export/Import data for CEO scorecards into Sales Logix, as well as ensure that data is being captured accurately.
  • Download tier pricing from database to comparative cost analysis, price activation and implementations.
  • Manage monthly forecast and prepare variance reports to compare actual vs. budget/forecast.

Education

MBA - Business Management

Monroe College
New Rochelle, NY

BS - Criminal Justice

Monroe College
New Rochelle, NY

Skills

  • Database Management Systems – Oracle, SAP, Meditech, Workday Lawson, Mondaycom & Access
  • Database Languages – SQL
  • Project Management Software – Jira, OnBase, Kaufman Hall, Discoverer, Sharepoint & Mentimeter
  • GPO Databases – Supply Chain Advisor, Spend Advisor, Attania
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
  • Project management
  • Project planning and development
  • Team collaboration
  • Project tracking
  • Strategic planning
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Scope management

Certification

Member: PMI

LANGUAGES

English, Fluent

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • ERP Planning/Implementation
  • RFI & RFP Processing
  • Negotiations and Contracts
  • Direct/Indirect Procurement
  • Analyzing Trends
  • Supplier Relationship Management
  • Demand and Supply Planning
  • Grant Management
  • Leading cross functional teams
  • Risk Management
  • Cost Reduction Strategies
  • Developing KPI's
  • Performance Reviews
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Supply Chain Distribution
  • GPO Alignment
  • Budget & Timeline Management
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Compliance with federal regulations
  • Knowledge of funding sources

Timeline

Project Manager- Northeast & North Central Region

AMI Expeditionary Healthcare
08.2023 - 05.2026

Director of Supplier Relationship Management

Lehigh Valley Health Network
01.2023 - 05.2023

Director of Strategic Sourcing

Lehigh Valley Health Network
08.2022 - 01.2023

Procurement Manager

Lehigh Valley Health Network
03.2022 - 08.2022

Sr. Supervisor of Operations

UGI
02.2021 - 03.2022

Director of Purchasing

Acurity (formerly a GNYHA Services Co.) – for SJR
12.2013 - 02.2021

Capital Project Lead/Senior Supply Chain Analyst

GNYHA Services – for Mt. Sinai
07.2012 - 12.2013

Value Analysis/Supply Chain Analyst

NEXERA Consulting (a GNYHA Services Co.) – for CHP
01.2011 - 06.2012

Clinical Services Coordinator

GNYHA Services
09.2009 - 12.2010

Financial Analyst

GNYHA Services
05.2006 - 08.2009

BS - Criminal Justice

Monroe College

MBA - Business Management

Monroe College

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