Sana Ali
Services Procurement (Sow) Sme, Emea @Talent Solutions TAPFIN
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WORK HISTORY
Services Procurement (Sow) Sme, Emea @Talent Solutions TAPFIN
SoW SME responsible for providing strategic direction for our SoW Solutions and Operational delivery within EMEA - Involvement with Global Strategy alignment also.Involvement with Global Strategy alignment and growing technology partnerships and innovationsLed the newly formed partnership with a third-party technology partner as the Product owner of a co-created workforce guidance tool, from creation of the minimal viable product to Marketing collateral and promotion, and deployment with our first client within the yearSupporting Global Sales teams as the SOW SME with existing expansion opportunities and new prospective client sales opportunities, bids and presentations Leveraging my Operational experience to lead SOW discussions and pre/assessment workshops with existing and prospective clients Creating and delivering Consultative pre-assessment workshops on a project basis to existing and prospective clients, with a catalogue of different consulting services and objectives to choose fromResponsible for creating and conducting internal training for EMEA shared Service Centres, Operational teams and Sales teams, with a view to launch official internal upskilling training In addition to my Global SME role, from November 2020 to September 2023 I was seconded as the Global Operational Delivery Director for an Enterprise Client expansion from the securing of the expansion award through to the Solution design, Implementation, Supplier Enrolment & Contract Negotiations, and the formation and training of the Operational teams into hypercare post implementation – this role later evolved to support with further expansion projects across the current Spend Categories and new Spend Category opportunities, as well as supporting with Cost Saving Strategies.
EDUCATION
The International School of Choueifat
Maths O-Level & French GCSE
Whitmore High School
GCSE's
SIG University
Certified Sourcing Professional (CSP)
Whitmore Sixth Form
Maths, Business Studies & IT A-Level's
Middlesex University
Bachelor of Arts - BA (Hons), Accounting and Finance
SKILLS
ABOUT SANA ALI
I am a Certified Sourcing Professional (CSP) accredited in 2016, Client facing (and Customer Service driven) MSP and Services Procurement (SoW) professional with 14+ years industry experience working with Professional Services, Global Investment Banking and Hedge Fund Clients – I have acquired the ability to understand and work effectively with Clients based in Global work locations along with the skills and attributes including the ability to network in order to create and maintain Client relationships, negotiating costing, strategic resource planning, analysing business processes and practices and change management. Since 2014 I have established and evolved my career and expertise within the Services Procurement (SoW) space within the solutions industry, having managed sizeable outsourced Procurement solutions and end-to-end SoW management programmes. With the assistance of my Accounting & Finance studies background along with my professional experience of working and operating in the MSP/SoW industry, I have been able to acquire insight with various areas of business practice: Budgeting & Forecasting, Payroll and Invoicing processes, HR and Legal/Compliance Resourcing requirements and obligations, Marketing, Operations and IT Solutions.
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