Robin A.

Sr Manager, Global Contracts Center of Excellence @Intuitive

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Lead and optimize contract operations through building high-performing teams, defining and maintaining KPIs, developing region-specific processes, policies, and templates, and driving change management initiatives in collaboration with regional executives.• Strategic Planning: Lead the development and execution of comprehensive strategic plans through aligning departmental goals with company initiatives, creating and implementing processes, policies, and tools to optimize contract management, improving team performance, resulting in cost efficiencies across multiple business functions.• Strategic Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Finance, Legal, IT Security, Regulatory, and other key departments to develop channel strategies, streamline the purchasing process, mitigate risks through revised policies and contract templates, and establish best contracting practices across the business.• High Risk Negotiations: Ensure long-lasting relationships with business-critical third-party vendors through developing risk analysis frameworks and creating mitigation strategies to achieve dispute resolutions in high-risk negotiations. • Process Optimization: Streamline operations through automating manual processes with in-house, no-cost solutions, implement a real-time dashboard to capture key contract data, and analyze data to identify areas for continuous improvement, resulting in efficiency gains that were 3x industry benchmarks.

Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business

Executive MBA

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Bachelor of Science - BS