Chelsea Larson
Richland,WA
Summary
Strategic procurement leader with 10+ years’ experience driving end-to-end sourcing initiatives. Trusted advisor with deep expertise in governance, analytics, and stakeholder engagement, delivering complex outcomes in cross-functional environments.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Procurement Manager, Corporate & Analytic Services
Lamb Weston
01.2025 - Current
- Senior procurement leader managing end-to-end sourcing strategy and execution across Corporate Services, IT, Fleet, Legal categories, with accountability for supplier selection, contracting, negotiations, risk management, and commercial outcomes.
- Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing lifecycle for corporate services, including market analysis, RFP/RFQ development, supplier selection, contract negotiations, onboarding, project management, while partnering with Legal, Finance, Marketing, IT, Supply Chain, and ELT.
- As a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, aligning sourcing strategies to business objectives through budget ownership, defined service levels, KPIs, governance models, and supplier management.
- Leverage procurement systems, analytics, and digital tools to drive sourcing decisions, support AI-enabled data analysis, improve workflow efficiency, and enable stakeholder adoption through targeted training and change management.
- Oversee spend analytics, savings, SRM, delivering executive-ready insights on cost, demand trends, pricing movements, and category performance to inform data-driven decisions.
- Drive sourcing discipline across Corporate Services, including real estate, office operations, SG&A, IT, Fleet, and Operations.
- Partner closely with Legal to support contract reviews, risk mitigation, and negotiation strategies, ensuring contracts align with commercial objectives, and governance standards.
- Manage supplier performance through scorecards, business reviews, and issue resolution, driving continuous improvement, service excellence, and long-term supplier value.
- Lead and develop a team of 5 providing coaching on strategic sourcing, negotiation, analytics, and stakeholder engagement while owning sourcing systems and data governance.
- Accountable for $260M+ in annual managed spend across Corporate Services, HR, IT, Marketing, Legal, and Workplace/Facilities services, balancing cost, risk, quality, and stakeholder experience.
- Review, negotiate, and approve 200+ contracts annually, ensuring alignment with internal policies, commercial best practices, in partnership with legal business leaders.
Procurement Manager, Warehousing
Lamb Weston
01.2024 - 01.2025
- As a dual function leader responsible for managing $500m in category sourcing, owning strategic execution and sourcing systems, tools and analytics. In addition to category ownership, I manage priorities, critical communications and support companywide initiatives.
- Strategic planning and execution, coordinating across Legal, Finance, Engineering, Quality, IT, Supply Chain and ELT.
- Partner with corporate stakeholders to align strategies to business needs, including budgeting, service level expectations and initiatives.
- Manage systems and tools to ensure accurate data, clean workflows, and user enablement across company, develop and implement training.
- Oversee analytics, reporting processes, provide insight on spend, savings, supplier performance, KPIs for use in decision making and ELT updates.
Sr Procurement Specialist, Capital Expenditures
Lamb Weston
01.2019 - 01.2024
- Manage $180M in capital expenditures and strategic projects across North America.
- Lead vendor negotiations, post-award evaluations, develop reporting and presentations for leadership.
- Manage multiple projects concurrently. Develop category strategies, procedures, and supplier risk protocols, execute sourcing events.
- Problem solving skills, offering solutions, and working in a changing environment with good judgement.
- Knowledge of internal and external market drivers, mitigate risks and strategies.
- Develop and lead sourcing events that drive value to the department and company as a trusted resource.
- Support and lead the development of presentations, supplier reviews, processes, and procedures within procurement.
Licensing & Compliance Manager / Tasting Room Manager
Fidelitas Wines
01.2014 - 01.2019
- Managed compliance, operations, and business development activities within a regulated, customer-facing environment.
- Led compliance reporting and regulatory coordination with governmental agencies
- Developed and implemented policies, procedures, and operational frameworks to support growth initiatives
- Partnered with leadership to assess opportunities, develop strategies, and improve service delivery
- Prepared analyses and recommendations to support business decisions
- Designed and delivered communication and training initiatives for staff and leadership audiences
- Managed and developed teams, supporting performance and continuous improvement
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Eastern Oregon University
Skills
- Corporate Services
- HR, Marketing, Benefits, IT
- Real Estate & Facilities
- MRO & Operations
- Warehousing
- Strategic sourcing
- Category development
- Cross-functional leadership
- Financial & risk mitigation
- Change management
- Governance & compliance
- Performance tracking, KPIs
- Leadership & organizational skills to drive results
- Operate in high pressure work environments
- Natural influencer, effective communicator & self-starter
- Provide technical & consulting expertise to manage teams
- 15 years in supplier management and category development
Timeline
Sr Procurement Manager, Corporate & Analytic Services
Lamb Weston
01.2025 - Current
Procurement Manager, Warehousing
Lamb Weston
01.2024 - 01.2025
Sr Procurement Specialist, Capital Expenditures
Lamb Weston
01.2019 - 01.2024
Licensing & Compliance Manager / Tasting Room Manager
Fidelitas Wines
01.2014 - 01.2019
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Eastern Oregon University