Angie Branco

• In collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders, developed and implemented innovative global sourcing strategies for complex categories within human resources category, balancing competing priorities and addressing unique global needs, while maintaining exceptional service levels, leading to 10x annual savings increase and increased efficiency.
• Categories managed included employee health and benefits, pharmacy benefit management, talent acquisition, learning and development, mobility, recognition, employee relations, human capital insights, foundation/philanthropy, employee resource groups, recruitment process outsourcing, contingent labor and consulting.
• Lead cross-functional teams to develop highly complex, global requests for proposals (RFP’s) and managed full lifecycle of sourcing event. Proactively conducted thorough market research to identify trends, opportunities, and potential new suppliers, staying ahead of industry changes.
• Drafted and negotiated complex, multi-million dollar master services agreements, statements of work, software as a service agreement, and license agreements, ensuring company requirements are addressed and risks are mitigated. Collaborating with legal department, served as sourcing contract SME in development and updating of various contract templates.
• Developed strong supplier relationships, fostering environment of innovation, which lead to implementing multiple initiatives resulting in process efficiencies, program enhancements and/or cost savings. Monitored supplier performance against contractual obligations, holding suppliers accountable for delivering on commitments by implementing structured performance reviews and targeted improvement plans to bridge identified gaps.
• Successfully led procurement projects with tight deadlines and executive visibility, delivering significant savings and optimized procurement processes to the organization.
• Served as Supplier Diversity Champion for supply management organization, promoting responsible sourcing practices aligned with corporate values.
• Onboarded and trained new staff to keep team efficient and prepare team members to effectively handle demands of simultaneous and large-scale contracts and mentored junior team members on best practices, fostering culture of continuous improvement.

• Through positive relationships with stakeholder teams at all levels of the organization, responsible for procurement of corporate services-related purchases across Expedia brands globally; categories included human resources, contingent labor, finance, tax, treasury and legal.
• Developed and delivered on effective category strategies; activities involved detailed category analysis, monitoring of key spending trends, cost drivers, market factors and geographic considerations, risk analysis and risk mitigation strategy, alignment with business owners and cross-functional partners, and leading a range of transactional to complex projects. balancing competing priorities while maintaining exceptional service levels.
• Act as a trusted adviser and procurement subject matter expert to stakeholders throughout the sourcing process and afterwards.
• Built moderate to complex service requirements and scopes, vendor identification, managed RFx processes, provided vendor evaluation framework and recommendations on vendor selection; built, communicated, and implemented work plans and timelines including required supporting efforts, dependencies or barriers, as well as track and report on progress/issues.
• Lead vendor negotiations on MSA’s, scopes of work, commercial terms, and other contractual documents resulting in sustainable value to the organization.
• Fostered vendor relationships and administered vendor management activities (i.e., SLA/KPI tracking, quarterly business reviews, issue management, etc.), maximizing value to the organization with continuous savings, performance, and process improvements.

Senior Contracts Manager

• Leadership role in key procurement activities including strategic sourcing efforts (RFx, competitive analysis), supplier and spend management (benchmarking, supplier score carding, implementation of KPI’s, and quarterly business reviews) and contract management (drafting, negotiating national contracts, executing contractual documents and ensuring ongoing contract compliance with business owners and suppliers).
• Managed professional services category spend (~$175M annually), resulting in over $20M in cost savings.
• Conducted comprehensive reviews of existing contracts, identifying opportunities for cost reduction, negotiation of contractual terms, and/or sourcing event (i.e, RFx).
• Reduced organizational exposure to potential liabilities by conducting thorough due diligence on prospective partners and suppliers, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and ethical standards, mitigating business risks through contract analysis, avoiding unfavorable terms, and interpreting contract terms and coordinating solutions to resolve disputes with service providers.

Program Manager

• Lead program management efforts to transform procurement operations into a best-in-class procurement department including identifying and implementing best-in-class practices and creating a department-wide procurement playbook including policies, procedures, metrics, templates, reporting, and executive-level dashboards.
• Cultivated a culture of continuous improvement within the procurement department by soliciting feedback from leadership, Contract Managers and stakeholders and implementing best practices tailored to the unique needs of the organization.

Senior Business Analyst

• Supported contract management teams with reporting on an array of data parameters (spend, supplier categorization relevant industry indicators, supplier KPIs), maintenance of supplier database, RFx scorecard and pricing analysis, and supplier SLA/KPI recommendations.
• Perform data analysis and reporting for procurement leadership surrounding department and company goals, savings objectives and identification of new projects and opportunities, and execution/reporting of customer satisfaction surveys.