Procurement Expert Mike Glass and His Journey to Spend Optimization
Seasoned procurement leader with over two decades of experience
MEET MIKE GLASS
Mike is a procurement leader with experience working in senior procurement management positions that includes NVIDIA, Google, Meta, Fitbit, Delta Dental, and Flextronics. Each of these companies were at different phases in their procurement maturity.
Mike resides in Woodside, California, with his wife, Kathy. They have two children with successful careers: a daughter at a Fintech startup and a son at a Healthcare startup. Mike swims a mile nearly every day with his goal to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco. Also, he is an avid photographer who enjoys doing photo shoots for relatives and friends.
TRANSFORMATION AND SUCCESS STORIES
Key Contributions and Accomplishments of Mike Glass in the Procurement Industry
Built very strong partnerships with the business to lead key strategic sourcing events
Built a strong relationship with FP&A (Finance) to drive spend optimization
Created procurement policies in partnership with Finance to enhance governance/compliance
Leveraged on India for low cost procurement resources both thru shared services and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) models
Created a strategic sourcing process to make it an objective process by ranking all key sourcing criteria
Built spend analytics from scratch & then enhanced by using data normalization and reportwriters
Developed many sourcing category strategies in partnership with the affected business units
Implemented many procurement tools (P2P, contract, esig, RFX) including Coupa and SAP
Implemented CB (Competitive Bids) for the business for non-managed spend
GPC'S COMMITMENT TO GIVING BACK
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