Cost-Savvy Lead Procurement Specialist with 10 years professional experience in managing procurement processes, driving operational effectiveness, ensuring seamless process, and optimized business process. Maintains and manages healthy relationship with vendors and subcontractors. Identifies company spend needs, proffers cost effective sourcing of needed resources from reliable vendors, and ensuring product and material quality as well as compliance of vendors and third-parties to company policies. Efficiently plans and prioritizes purchasing activities, reviewing planned orders, creating requisitions for purchased items, and managing approval process. Leads finance and logistics staff in resolving reception and invoice discrepancies.