Brendan Emmel
Procurement & Sourcing Transformation Leader
- Role
- Director - Strategic Sourcing & Procurement at Genesys
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brendan Emmel
Experienced procurement and sourcing professional with years of experience leading and developing a technology procurement program at a Fortune 1 company and a global procurement and sourcing organization at a Fortune 500 company. Proven leader who has implemented strategies to drive business value and introduce technologies and data driven decisions which enable a multi-market business model while reducing overall Total Cost of Ownership within the business that led to a 5% increase to company operating margins off an annual addressable speed of more than $2 billion.Member of enterprise steering committees and led organizational transformation projects that drove outcomes through continuous process improvement and simplification to enhance our customer experience while redefining the expectations we have of our existing supplier base to enable a modern and integrated procurement model that is rooted in analytics and automation throughout the lifecycle.Key Skills• Enterprise Category and Sourcing Design and Execution• Enterprise Procurement Governance and Execution• Process Automation & Simplification• Annual and Multi-Year Strategic Financial Planning• Corporate Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Design & Implementation• Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions Integration and Process Alignment
Experience
Director - Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
Jan 2024 — Present · Kansas City, MO, US
Oversee organizational transformation initiatives across all global procurement and sourcing functions to enable cross functional collaboration and allow for a modern organization that is agile and enabled for acceleration efforts that align to strategic goals of the company.Established a Center of Excellence to allow organization to quickly scale up to meet stakeholder initiatives and timelines while standardizing our approach to capturing and ingesting multiple data sources and producing simplified actionable reporting and analytics platforms that gave end user relevant data on demand. Review existing relationships with supplier base and implement a new program to align suppliers to future state go to market products and services while establishing agreements to accelerate this transition. Lead corporate retirement of suppliers that align to divested products or entities and ensure company does not see audit exposure.Develop an automation program to shift existing manual tasks from both end user and procurement stakeholders to a systematic robotic based platform that eliminates lag time during the request to procure process and allows for a lean organization focused on high opportunity value tasks.
Education
Benedictine College
BA, Business Administration (Management concentration)
Benedictine College
MBA, Business Administration
Helias High School
General Diploma
2000 — 2004
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