Joanne Dias

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ABOUT JOANNE DIAS

Driven professional thought leader of direct and indirect procurement coupled with a strong materials and supply chain management background in procurement and business analysis. Background has incorporated training, education in Applied Economics, and firsthand experience in driving the strategic procurement vision with leaders and stakeholder community. Dynamic, thorough, and flexible professional with the aptitude to lead and coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously and at various levels. Communicate effectively with all levels of leadership and can easily explain complicated project details at a variety of levels. Works extremely well in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment and cross-functional areas.CORE COMPETENCIESLEADERSHIP Influential member of Global Procurement Operations (Direct & Indirect) teams responsible for setting strategies, initiatives, annual operating plans, MBO\'s, KPI\'s, in areas of networking capital, value delivery, cash savings goals, policies and procedures, productivity, report tracking, and analysis. Ability to adapt quickly and lead in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business. Provides management and guidance for direct reports, performance evaluation, and compensation calibration. A key member of integration leadership teams collaborating with cross-functional areas on projects with Procurement, Sourcing, Planning, R&D, Engineering, Operations, Product Management, Finance, Quality, Vendor Management, Human Resources, IT, Legal.PROCUREMENT International, regional, and local experience in management, purchasing, procurement, supply chain, sourcing, category management, contract management, negotiations, CAPEX, RFx, materials, planning, inventory, operations, forecasting, savings tracking, and monitoring, compliance to ISO and FDA regulations, compliance and governance; quality, regulatory, environmental, health, safety, and financial, optimized working capital, inventory & payment terms COLLABORATION Support for internal and external customers in Research, Development, Operations, Manufacturing, NPI, Facilities, Safety Health and Environment, Laboratories, Clinical, Biospecimens, Medical Affairs, Marketing, Consulting, Communications, Bioinformatics, IT, Human Resources, Legal.TECHNICAL PROGRAMS SAP, MS Manufacturing Dynamics AX, MS Great Plains, JD Edwards (Oracle). Coupa, SimpleBuy, xR2R, P2P, eSourcing, Ariba, GRACE (Global legal contract repository), Agiloft, Power BI, Tableau, SAP Analytics Cloud, Planview, Agile, Veeva, Advanced MS Office