Lesley Ermalinski

About Lesley Ermalinski

CARRIER MANAGEMENT and WORLDWIDE PURCHASING Manage and maintain complex relationships…

Experience

1. Carrier Management - Americas

   Lumen Technologies

   Oct 2014 — Present

   Manage CenturyLink’s relationships and purchasing of access and long distance services in United States, Canada, and Latin America for all CenturyLink customers. o Cost savings and customer focused mindset. Meet or exceed both internal and external customer experiences.o Purchase an average of $60M annually via multiple carrierso Achieved over $1M in savings, exceeding annual targets, via renewals, cost avoidance, and cost reduction. o Turned high probability bids into wins over 60% of the time.o Oversee end to end relationship with carriers. Manage communications, Agreements, cost, quoting, provisioning, and escalations. Research and onboard new carriers that best fit CenturyLink and customer needs.o Research and analyze markets to maintain leading or competitive rates. Perform complex analysis of data to ensure CenturyLink profit, and to make recommendations to management and other organizations. Create numerous complex reports for personal use, peer use, and management use. Continuously looking for new ways to monitor carrier performance; and or to streamline complex datao Maintain carrier scorecards to track and monitor key performance metrics. Ensure carriers performing within contractual SLA’so Primary facilitator between internal groups and carriers

Education

• George Mason University

  Bachelor's Degree

Skills

• • Coordination/Planning Skills
• • Problem Solving Skills
• Supply Management
• • Supplier Relations Manager
• • Strategic Alliances and Relationship Builder
• Product Research/Comparison/Selection/Analysis
• • Strategic Pricing
• Contract Negotiation
• • International Voice
• • Destination Manager
• Sourcing and Procurement
• • Trader: Leveraging Overall Buy and Sell
• Customer Service
• Telecommunications
• Supply Chain Optimization
• Supply Chain
• • Traffic Management
• Performance Measurement
• • Contract Negotiation and Editing
• Supply Chain Management
• • Virtual / Remote / Telecommute
• Champions Change and Efficiency
• • Carrier Relations Manager
• Effective Communication
• Sourcing
• • Purchasing Specialist / Buyer
• • Global Buyer
• • Vendor Relations Manager
• • Detail Oriented
• • Cost and Margin Management