Donald Conway

About Donald Conway

A seasoned procurement, logistics, and supply chain operations professional with over 18 years of technical and analytical experience, I am an expert in my field and have built an unmatched reputation around problem-solving, cost savings, negotiation, and leadership. With deep experience and knowledge of procurement, customer success, purchasing, operations, and logistics, I am regarded as a business asset and instrumental leader in my organizations. With profound experience gained and success within major enterprises that include Dell and Honeywell International, I offer a career history negotiating multimillion-dollar contracts, delivering impressive cost savings (upwards of $91.5M), and leading across complex roles and projects. With exposure to many different roles, I pride myself on my diverse background and ability to tackle the impossible. Much of my success stems from the relationships I build with my clients and suppliers. I strive to cultivate, from day one, a deep relationship that is built around trust and respect. This allows me to overcome changes in business operations with fluidity as I am confident my clients and suppliers will be on board and ready to do what is necessary for me to reach objectives. At my core, I am a natural leader. I take great pride in the teams I have built and problems we have over come together. As a subject matter expert in my roles, I continually mentor, train, and elevate my teams to ensure continued success and impact across all levels and functions. As I look toward my next career maneuver, I seek to enter into a challenging role where I can leverage my strong tenure and support of procurement and customer success. Open to networking, I can be reached directly at d••••••••@hotmail.com.

Experience

1. Procurement Consultant Ii

   Avanos Medical

   Apr 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Avanos Medical, Inc. is a medical technology company, headquartered in Alpharetta, GA which manufactures clinical medical devices. The company consists of two divisions – Pain Management and Chronic Care – that address reducing the use of opioids while helping patients recover faster and preventing infection. I currently manage the indirect procurement for Avanos Medical. This includes the source-to-pay program including Contract Development, Supplier Negotiations, RFx’s (RFI, RFP, and RFQ) across the following categories: Consulting, Contingent Workforce, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Information Technology, Insourced/Outsourced Laboratories, Learning & Development, Legal, Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Professional Services, Public Relations, Tax, and Translations (Language).

Education

• Dowling College

  BACHELOR OF SCIENCE – PROFESSIONAL & LIBERAL STUDIES, Concentration – TRANSPORTATION PLANNING