Patrick Strizki
Flemington,NJ
Summary
Driven, resilient and respected leader within Procurement/Vendor Management with a past record of success proven through job advancement, project assignment, and company excellence awards. Seeking a position which will enable me to grow personally and professionally in a challenging, supportive, and impactful environment.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, Vendor Management and Strategic Sourcing
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.
05.2018 - 12.2023
- Ensure a common supplier engagement and risk assessment approach is taken with regards to the management of key suppliers by building relationships with category or business area leads
- Develop, formalize, and maintain collaborative relationships with strategic suppliers, including interfacing with senior leaders and business operations to drive business outcomes
- Establish actionable goals between suppliers and internal operations and drive communication between both sides to ensure transparency and satisfaction for internal stakeholders
- Work with suppliers and key stakeholders in drafting and implementing measurable SLAs and KPIs throughout the RFP, contracting, and project execution phases
- Review SOW for strategic/preferred suppliers with key stakeholders to ensure favorable financial terms and appropriate SLAs included in contract
- Implement governance with key suppliers and drive the rhythm of Operational Support Team and Executive Support Team meetings, which includes drafting agendas, capturing key actions and takeaways, conducting gap analyses using surveys, and driving continuous improvement via performance improvement plans and risk mitigation planning
- Develop and maintain supplier performance and relationship summary overviews, including dashboards, presentations, meeting minutes, action item logs, performance improvement plans, and risk mitigation plans
- Develop, conduct, and analyze internal and external surveys to evaluate supplier performance, trends, and gap identification to drive supplier performance reviews and business planning with suppliers and create supplier and category scorecards based on this information
- Lead the collation and management of supplier performance metrics by creating and maintaining supplier scorecards through Powerbi
- Lead MSA/SOW negotiations between supplier and internal stakeholders
- Review SOW for strategic/preferred suppliers with key stakeholders to ensure favorable financial terms and appropriate SLAs included in contract
- Lead execution of RFI/RFP on behalf of business owners
- Collaborate with team leads to develop and implement sourcing strategies for specific categories (MSP, call center, marketing, IT, etc.)
- Develop category refresh and implementation plans for key stakeholders and department leads
- Develop and maintain spend analysis and savings dashboards (by VP, cost center, category, etc.) within Powerbi and provide insights back to category leads and senior leaders
- Lead SAP discovery project to identify system capabilities for sourcing implementation within SAP and guided buying.
Manager, Vendor Management
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.
08.2019 - 04.2022
- Provide SME support for Ariba SAP/SLP implementation to create safer and more efficient Supplier onboarding/purchasing practices
- Implement Vendor Management owned governance for the key strategic Call Center and IT MSP suppliers to drive standardization, create transparent communication practices and increase supplier efficiency
- Developed and maintain VM Supplier risk and category dashboards in PowerBi to provide insight to Executive Leadership regarding their highest risk suppliers, by category, and their corresponding supplier relationships (performance, governance, metrics, etc.)
- Develop and maintain Diversity and Inclusion Dashboards (PowerBi) to provide insight into and expand upon the current D&I Supplier landscape as part of the Corporate Goal Initiative
- Collaborated with Process Excellence team to evaluate internal process and implement change management to create efficiencies throughout Sourcing and Vendor Management processes.
Senior Associate, Vendor Management
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.
05.2018 - 08.2019
- Responsible for creating and maintaining VMO Risk Assessment Portal as a way of segmenting the supplier base into Risk Tiers to better prioritize efforts to provide high level focus on the most risk critical vendors
- Consolidate multiple data sources and risk domains to create VM Risk based Dashboards for supplier performance and governance implementation
- Created, organized, and consolidated internal supplier performance surveys to create supplier performance scorecards for presentation to key business stakeholders and Executive Leadership
- Conducted external research and applied best practices for supplier vetting and risk mitigation
- Recognize and reallocate 'tactical' workload to offshore team to allow VM team to become more strategic and efficient.
Finance Project Analytics, Financial Analyst
Covance Inc.
07.2017 - 05.2018
- Provide analytical support to department management on all financial matters including budgets, forecasts, performance metrics, financial analysis for capital requests, and process improvement initiatives
- Meet with key study team members including project managers and directors monthly to discuss study achievement and financial projections
- Report financial figures and projections to upper management
- Utilize systems to develop a deeper insight into business performance used to support future decision-making processes
- Build and maintain close relationships and partner with key business leaders to ensure that they have a good understanding of their financial performance
- Recognize and recommend action to take when the study is under/over performance.
Grants Payments, Associate Manager/Subject Matter Expert
Covance Inc.
02.2016 - 07.2017
Senior Associate/Subject Matter Expert
Covance Inc.
09.2014 - 02.2016
Associate, Global Site Services
Covance Inc.
10.2012 - 09.2014
Subcontractor Administrator
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
02.2012 - 08.2012
Education
Executive Mini-MBA Certification Program -
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ12.2013
Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice -
The University of Maryland
College Park, MD12.2011
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word and PowerPoint, PowerBi, Ariba SAP/SLP
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, teamwork ability, management and leadership experience
Rewards Recognition
- Recipient of “Propel” and “Accelerate” SOAR Award for role in Project Elevate
- Recipient of “Boost” SOAR Award for Project Excellence Initiative
- Recipient of “Boost” SOAR Award for VMO Dashboard creation (PowerBi)
Timeline
Manager, Vendor Management
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.
08.2019 - 04.2022
Senior Manager, Vendor Management and Strategic Sourcing
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.
05.2018 - 12.2023
Senior Associate, Vendor Management
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.
05.2018 - 08.2019
Finance Project Analytics, Financial Analyst
Covance Inc.
07.2017 - 05.2018
Grants Payments, Associate Manager/Subject Matter Expert
Covance Inc.
02.2016 - 07.2017
Senior Associate/Subject Matter Expert
Covance Inc.
09.2014 - 02.2016
Associate, Global Site Services
Covance Inc.
10.2012 - 09.2014
Subcontractor Administrator
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
02.2012 - 08.2012
Executive Mini-MBA Certification Program -
Rutgers University
Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice -
The University of Maryland
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