Vetted Contract Negotiation Professionals

“Procurement/sourcing professional with deep end-to-end ownership of recurring program supply and services sourcing (materials plus logistics/fulfillment), focused on reducing unit and landed costs while improving OTIF and tightening SAP purchasing controls. Demonstrates structured supplier vetting (capability, capacity, execution reliability), strong negotiation on commercial terms and SLAs, and proactive mitigation of international trade/freight/duty volatility through risk-adjusted sourcing strategies.”

“Procurement/sourcing professional with hands-on experience selecting and rolling out an analytics dashboard vendor end-to-end—using stakeholder discovery, POCs, and a scoring matrix—then negotiating a ~26% cost reduction and waiving implementation fees. Also demonstrates strong trade compliance instincts by catching and correcting an incorrect tariff code that would have increased duties ~18%, and uses structured milestone/risk tracking (RAG) to keep OTD and approvals on track.”

“Operations leader at AWI who ran multiple high-impact initiatives in parallel, including a WMS implementation, fulfillment workflow redesign, and a company-wide cost optimization effort. Known for building KPI dashboards and exception-based reporting that improved data trust and saved executives ~4–6 hours per week, while standardizing warehouse processes and coaching supervisors to reduce escalations and stabilize day-to-day ops.”

“Transformation/PMO leader who launched the Bear Stearns program management office for a firm-wide business transformation, building governance (steering/ops committees), communications, and an issue-resolution system to align five parallel teams. Known as a highly discreet trusted advisor who improves executive effectiveness through delegation systems, and who can influence senior leaders via storytelling and ROI framing—while also advocating strongly for teams on deadlines and workload.”

“Sales development and event-sales professional currently at Yondr, blending inbound lead management with outbound prospecting to drive 8–10 meetings/week and ~50% inbound conversion. Helped lift department revenue 35% and built new sponsorship guidelines that secured strategic partnerships and referral-driven growth. Has experience supporting higher-value healthcare-sector deals ($125K–$750K) and managing longer sales cycles end-to-end.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience creating business plans and securing venture capital to accelerate a go-to-market strategy. Demonstrates a structured approach to new ventures: framing opportunities, validating/de-risking via market/competitive/external analysis and financial modeling, then building governance, sponsorship, and an execution plan with the right team.”

“Founder of an early-stage molecular diagnostics startup currently pursuing an MVP and awaiting NSF feedback on an SBIR/STTR grant. During COVID, assessed roughly a dozen diagnostic/PPE technologies and worked with interdisciplinary teams (engineering, legal, MBA, and clinical trainees) to repurpose and patent 2–3 for commercialization.”

“Former Chelsea youth academy player who moved to the U.S. on a soccer scholarship (University of Akron, later Cal Poly) before multiple ACL injuries ended his playing career. Transitioned into 6 years of coaching in the San Luis Obispo area across club (U12-U16), high school, and college environments, with demonstrated player evaluation/development success. Also brings relationship-building skills from sales and hands-on experience creating/filming music video content for social media.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered recruiting workflow that ranks resumes against job descriptions, generates evidence-based justifications, and finds "hidden fit" candidates using embeddings + RAG. Demonstrates strong production engineering around hallucination control, latency, and predictable LLM cost management (budget checks, top-K pruning, tenant caps), plus orchestration experience with Airflow/Prefect/Kubernetes and a structured evaluation/monitoring methodology for AI agents.”

“Procurement/supply chain leader at Boshi Pets supporting North America new product launches and building Vietnam/Taiwan supply chains. Uses KPI-based supplier scorecards, virtual audits, and commodity/FX/logistics indicators to manage cost and risk. Drove a systems-enabled forecasting/process change (IWM integration) that improved supplier on-time delivery to 95%+.”

“Operations leader/consultant for early-stage, VC-backed and fast-growth companies with hands-on experience spanning NetSuite finance ops, product prioritization, and People Ops/HR systems. Notably overhauled internal communications at a Bay Area home health company by centralizing to HIPAA-compliant Slack integrated with ClickUp, driving ~30% faster project completion and ~25% higher retention, using ADKAR-based change management and rigorous adoption tracking.”

“HubSpot BDR (nearly 2 years) and brief AE stint (5 months, moved countries) who delivered standout performance—12.6x qualified new client target and Rookie of the Quarter in 2023. Builds highly structured, multi-channel outbound sequences (phone, cold email, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Loom, webinars) including vertical-specific plays (real estate) and supports SMB/mid-market with some enterprise multi-threading and strong Salesforce hygiene.”

“TA/Recruiting Operations leader with 12+ years building and scaling end-to-end talent ecosystems across Celanese, Flex, Children’s Health, and Pierpoint RPO—managing teams up to 40+ and owning people/process/technology. Known for major transformations including iCIMS implementation, RPO integration with rapid 30-day go-live, and a Six Sigma-driven workflow redesign that improved throughput ~30%. Also designed high-volume global hiring programs using automation (hireEZ) and live client dashboards (Avature).”

“Senior Membership Manager at Chief who operated in a player/coach leadership role across US/UK teams. Partnered with CRO and RevOps to shift the business from a city-by-city model to a national GTM, scaling membership from 3,400 to 20,000+ and lifting conversion 10% through revamped workflows, enablement, and data-driven KPI dashboards.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional with end-to-end ownership of vendor selection, negotiation, and delivery for AI-enabled workflow automation products. Uses structured scorecards, SLA/KPI-driven supplier management, and dual-sourcing strategies to reduce risk—delivering measurable outcomes like 18% cost savings, OTD improvement from 82% to 96%, and 25% rework reduction while navigating data quality drift and trade/duty exposure.”

“Operations/product leader with experience integrating product organizations after acquisitions, standardizing Agile/PDLC and RACI to remove ambiguity and enable on-time launches. Hands-on in implementing Jira-based execution frameworks and mentoring exec teams on KPI/OKR operating cadence, including adopting a Product/Engineering/UX triad model to reduce rework and improve customer alignment.”

“Customer Success Manager with enterprise experience managing the Walgreens contract at EarnIn end-to-end, coordinating executives/legal/HR/marketing and technical teams through benefits-platform integration, adoption, and renewal. Delivered 85% annual retention (despite store closures) and maintained a positive NPS, supported by usage monitoring, benchmarking, and monthly executive reporting. Also drove expansion at Unison by rolling out new insurance products to homeowners using savings/ROI-based positioning.”

“IT leader with hands-on M&A integration experience (including day-one readiness) across notable brands (e.g., Billabong, Marucci Sports) and product-focused organizations (Oakley). Brings broad IT domain expertise (AI, business systems, digital sales technologies) and has worked with multiple startups; interested in joining an existing startup to help it scale rather than founding a new company.”

“Revenue/GTM leader with ~10 years of experience scaling companies from early stage through IPO, with unusually deep cross-functional exposure across risk, finance, product/tech, and DevOps. At Catapult, helped drive a pivot from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce and landed major enterprise customers (Lenovo and Wayfair) by navigating complex system integrations and enterprise delivery expectations. Previously ran a family business (2004–2008) and is committed to founding a company.”