Allen Wells

About Allen Wells

Results driven & transformative, through collaboration and deliberate inclusion. Trusted advisor to leadership, peers, and team members, delivering strong stakeholder satisfaction and business value. Specializing in complex, enterprise-wide, strategic sourcing & vendor management programs. Confident, passionate, yet approachable and focused on helping organizations achieve their goals and perform at their best.Contact: a••••••••@gmail.comTogether, we can strategize and leverage synergies to identify new cost savings opportunities and efficiencies to produce world-class results for your firm.• Strategic Sourcing - Provide leadership for enterprise-wide strategic sourcing initiatives, capturing Business demand, identifying financial & operational risk• Cost Savings / Reductions - Recognize multi-millions in saving by re-evaluated WAN operational support model eliminating support redundancy in IT infrastructure costs, supplier & contract rationalization.• Supplier / Vendor Management - Provide leadership and set strategic direction, vision of vendor management.• Merger, Acquisition, Divestiture - Analyze IT assets, contractural agreements determining most favorable position for enterprise.• Category Management - Create and execute category management strategies, leverage industry methodology for procurement of goods and services across the Enterprise.• Cross-functional Team Leadership - Lead regional councils / teams devoted to best practice sharing, identifying cost savings opportunities, improving supplier performance, developing category learning programs.• Program Management - Championed rollout of IT infrastructure projects: converged network migration, CoS & GID implementation, AD migration.• Contract Negotiations - negotiate best in class contracts that delivery cost savings, enforce SLA adherence and meet business /. operational requirements.

Experience

1. Sr Manager IT - Professional Services Global Procurement

   Kenvue

   Sep 2023 — Present · Skillman, NJ, US

   Offer specialized knowledge in sourcing Consulting Services, IT & non-IT (ADM/AMS, Audit/Tax, M&S, Translations, Advisory, M&A, etc.) category *$400+M), including category strategy, spend data analysis, stakeholder engagement, supplier management. Coordinate with regional procurement organizations in developing global strategies/policies, facilitate supplier performance improvement. Develop & manage RFX process, negotiate MSA/SOWs contract terms & commercials.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh

  Master of Science - MS, Telecommunications

• University of Pittsburgh

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering

Skills

• Competitive Analysis
• Contract Negotiation
• Rfp
• Contract Negotiations
• Infrastructure
• Voip
• Data Center
• Project Planning
• Cisco Technologies
• Supply Management
• Unified Communications
• Management
• Contract Management
• Managed Services
• IT Management
• IT Outsourcing
• Saas
• Vendor Relations
• Telecommunications
• Telecom Expense Management
• Governance
• Service Management
• Systems Engineering
• Global Business Development
• Business Transformation
• Professional Services
• Service Delivery
• Cost Reduction
• Business Case
• Outsourcing
• Consultative Selling
• IT Strategy
• IT Governance
• Vendor Management
• Procurement
• R&D
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Partner Relationship Management
• IT Service Management