Carrie Vaughan
IT Procurement Manager
- Role
- Information Technology Procurement Manager at Informa
- Location
- Overland Park, KS, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Carrie Vaughan
Highly skilled and seasoned purchasing manager with emphasis in Technology. Proven ability to meet business objectives and deliver lower overall costs to the organization through successfully negotiating. Works well across all lines of business to ensure that objects are meet in a proactive, dependable and collaborative manner. Specialties: Contract negotiations, Vendor management, Project Management.
Experience
Information Technology Procurement Manager
Aug 2010 — Present · Overland Park, KS, US
Promoted throughout my career within the company due to my adaptability to the constant changes, versatility, and ability to follow-through in the company’s best interests. A proven and skilled procurement manager, CORE STRENGTHS AND CAPABILITIES• Procurement – Specializing in Information Technology• Contract Negotiations – Hardware, Software, Infrastructure, Telecom, Accounting and Services• Licensing – Third-party vendors• Budgeting - Work with all business units for budgeting of capital, invoice reconciliation/approval. • Asset Management – Tracking of all hardware and softwareProcurement Manager:Added Contract negotiations, Vendor management, Invoicing, Budgeting, Asset Management, Capital Budget reconciliation/approval to my Procurement responsibilities:• Negotiated Microsoft Enterprise Agreement for parent company and all entities that reside under them at 1% under cost for savings of Negotiated aggressive Dell pricing• Adobe contract reduced from 4.5% to 1% above cost• Established requirements for developers to create request system for clients with routing capabilities for on-line management approval.• Track and maintain assets• Coordinate property consolidations and moves along with facilities Director• Renegotiate numerous contracts during a merger of Penton Media, inc and Prism Business Media, Inc.
Skills
- Enterprise Software
- Sla
- Budgets
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- B2b
- Outsourcing
- Forecasting
- Contract Management
- Logistics
- Purchasing
- Process Improvement
- Management
- Pricing
- Operations Management
- Business-to-Business (B2b)
- Telecommunications
- Product Development
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Business Process Improvement
- Strategy
- Budgeting
- Mergers
- Contract Negotiation
- Procurement
- Strategic Partnerships
- Negotiation
- Strategic Sourcing
- Vendor Management
Find verified contacts for anyone on LinkedIn
Unifers gives sales teams verified emails and direct dials, enriched profiles, and outreach that lands in the inbox.
Free plan included · No credit card required
This profile is compiled from publicly available professional sources. Unifers is not affiliated with or endorsed by LinkedIn. Request removal of this profile.