Kenneth Bennett

About Kenneth Bennett

Motivated, strategic Operations Manager with demonstrated ability to drive revenue growth…

Experience

1. Senior Contract Specialist

   Con Edison

   Aug 2022 — Present

   As a Senior Procurement Specialist I am the key interface between vendors and all internal customers within Con Edison and Orange & Rockland. I enable corporate-wide cost savings and serve as the primary line of support for internal Operations for gas, steam, and electric and transmission and generating facilities. I am responsible for complex procurements and key supplier negotiations for material, services, and construction and maintenance of underground and overhead gas, steam and electric transmission facilities, electric and steam generating facilities, and associated corporate and environmental services that ensures high availability and quality at the lowest possible total cost to the company. I achieve corporate cost-savings targets, strategic business objectives and supplier diversity and sustainability goals. I work closely with business users, engineers, and EH & S to satisfy the pending requests. I conduct complex procurements by utilizing the Procurement Operations sourcing processes and operating policies & procedures; including developing RFQs, Supplier Bid Evaluations, Negotiations, and Supplier Relationship Management. I supports category management activities by providing supplier data, spend information, and to assist with the optimization and strategic sourcing of managed spend category. Liaise with internal customers of respective purchasing categories to ensure minimal disruption to customer service due. I manage customer expectations and communicate with customer groups regarding procurement policies as these relate to customer notice provision, requests. I identify Procurement processes and technology improvement initiatives and work with Projects & Analytics function to develop initiative proposals and documentation for review. I conduct need / requisition planning with internal customers and manage service delivery by: supporting transactional processes (e.g. invoice questions, etc.), auditing processes, training users.