Francisco Kiniklis

About Francisco Kiniklis

Strategic and tech-savvy Project Leader with over 17 years of experience aligning…

Experience

1. Senior Lead of Strategic Projects

   UPS

   Jul 2020 — Present

   Responsible for researching, recommending, developing, and implementing global improvements in end-to-end processes and programs. Build and sustain relationships with key domestic and international stakeholders throughout the organization and ensure Procurement Governance representation in relevant cross-functional meetings. Serves as the UPS subject matter expert in Customer Success, Operations Excellence, and Supplier Enablement. Support Executive Leadership Team as Project Manager in systems applications deployment. • Drive process optimization and reengineering to impact employees ordering uniforms. Create invoice against contract mapping that was then utilized across all 60k supplier relationships. • Manage North America Commodity Program with $1M/week spend. This includes the consolidation of an outstanding AP of up to $2.5M/quarter. Prevent duplicate spend of $160k/quarter. • Lead 140 queues and over 100 teams internationally, as General Manager for Solution Center platform, to resolve nearly 2k-5k tickets daily. Provide integration support and post integration support to major suppliers. • Deploy Coupa and Hypercare protocols US, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, United Kingdom, Ireland, Nordics, and other parts of Europe and Asia. • Drive $700k international resource allocation plans for deployments, user access testing, and systems migrations annually as Project Manager. • Serve as subject matter expert (SME) for $250M enterprise-wide request for proposal (RFP) pertaining to the domestic and international uniform programs. • Design approved process work transition to international teams for ongoing sustainability and a savings of $1.1M while creating Procurement Governance SOP and audit practices to drive customer success.