Matt Sawa

About Matt Sawa

Experienced Procurement and Sourcing leader. Skilled in Trend Analysis, Retail, Sales, Team Building, and Strategic Sourcing.

Experience

1. Asst Director - Sourcing & Procurement

   Northwestern Mutual

   Jul 2025 — Present · Milwaukee, WI, US

   Advisor to the Wealth, Investments, and Finance senior leadership and other key stakeholders in developing and managing strategic business plans for critical/high risk and strategic vendor relationships.Provide guidance as to strategic sourcing, procurement services, and vendor management; negotiate multi-million dollar agreements with strategic and key vendors, typically with a 3-5 year duration; oversee enterprise and shared vendor management programs; drive organizational change to move enterprise to a centralized vendor management methodology; leverage strategic vendor relationships to drive improvement and innovation across multiple business units/ functions; create and implement strategy for engaging vendors for corporate project portfolio initiatives within the Strategy Alignment and Execution process; apply best practices to ensure company meets regulatory and compliance standards.

Education

• Maranatha Baptist University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Education

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Merchandise Planning
• Project Management
• Construction
• Cpfr
• Visual Merchandising
• Apparel
• Store Management
• Strategic Sourcing
• Global Sourcing
• Procurement
• Sales
• Purchasing
• Forecasting
• Contract Management
• Management
• Team Building
• Retail
• Customer Service
• Merchandising
• Sourcing
• Vendor Management
• Trend Analysis
• Profit
• Product Development
• Inventory Management
• Inventory Control