Joni Blauwet
Sioux Falls,SD
Summary
Dynamic professional with 25+ years of experience in program and contract management. Expertise in cultivating and driving business relationships while directing enterprise-wide, large scale, strategic initiatives. Excels in challenging and deadline-driven environments.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Contract Manager
Sanford Health
10.2019 - Current
- Manage complex portfolio of over 150 agreements with $80M in spend, identifying and negotiating highly complex strategic opportunities for enterprise savings and standardization. Cultivate potentially transformative relationships with stakeholders and suppliers to maximize value and performance.
- Spearheaded critical contract negotiations with medical nutritional supplier, resulting in annual savings of $1.4M. Advocated for additional optimization opportunity, saving extra $350k annually.
- Directed major pricing restructure of high profile IV contract to mitigate risk reducing potential financial burden by 25%.
- Orchestrated negotiations within drug-eluting stent space, advocating for standardization and potential annual savings of $1.3M.
- Led contract renegotiation for purchased services agreement for rug and uniform rentals, achieving annual cost reduction of 50%.
- Identified standardization opportunity within endomechanical contract to save $1.7M annually.
- Enhanced strategic partnership with major cardiovascular supplier, resulting in additional $700k in annual savings.
Senior Project Manager
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society
05.2016 - 10.2019
- Managed implementation and onboarding of Point Click Care EMR system in 5 senior living communities successfully transitioning 1000= patient records from paper to electronic.
- Led deployment of new Human Resource software systems to modernize and enhance enterprise total rewards system for 20k employees.
- Facilitated implementation of new Pharmacy Benefits Manager system to optimize pharmacy services for 132 acute care facilities by decreasing pricing and reducing drug variation to improve clinical care.
Senior Implementation Specialist
Sanford Health
10.2011 - 05.2016
- Led development and execution of large-scale innovation, process improvement, and technology initiatives to improve corporate travel company wide impacting 28K employees in 5 states.
- Reduced freight payments by over $900K through development and implementation of new freight management system.
- Decreased employee travel expenses by 25% through creation and deployment of new integrated corporate travel program.
- Transformed database management system to monitor maintenance of corporate vehicles logging over 3 million miles annually.
Revenue Management Resolution Leader
YRC
09.1996 - 09.2011
- Progressive promotion through series of increasingly responsible positions in account management, customer service, and collections, leading resolution of complex pricing, billing and service matters for team managing 1400 accounts.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SDSkills
Strategic Sourcing
Portfolio Management
Contract Negotiations
Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Market Analysis
Process Improvement
Accomplishments
Negotiated Major Savings Secured $1.4M annual savings from a nutritional supplier negotiation. Through additional optimization opportunity increased savings by additional $350k annually.
Strategic Partnership Partnered with leading cardiovascular supplier to refine contract structure, yielding an extra $700k in annual savings.
Launched Freight Management
Saved over $900K annually by overhauling freight processes.
Timeline
Senior Contract Manager
Sanford Health
10.2019 - Current
Senior Project Manager
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society
05.2016 - 10.2019
Senior Implementation Specialist
Sanford Health
10.2011 - 05.2016
Revenue Management Resolution Leader
YRC
09.1996 - 09.2011
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of South Dakota