Desire'e Doherty

Experience

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  California Society of CPAs/CalCPA Education Foundation

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

  Marketing Chapter Coordinator

  • Managed work and legal contracts to purchase tangible and intangible products.• Negotiated agreements with suppliers to reduce the total cost of operating.• Developed commodity strategies and market basket comparisons for purchasing by doing supply chain analysis to identify the best suppliers.

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  Aera Energy LLC

  Feb 2000 - Mar 2006

  • Relationship Building and business development with Internal and External customers resulting in successful project management for all new purchases in accordance with government regulatory codes and laws. • Manage strategic sourcing process for commodities with over $10 million yearly spend including the following: Market Assessments, RFPs, Strategy Development, Negotiation, and Contract Development.• Led cross business unit sourcing initiatives and facilitate executive and stakeholder buy in for business recommendations and result measurement.• Drove internal process improvements to reduce cost and provide savings internally and with suppliers.• Analyzed suppliers’ cost structures and total cost of operating to provide recommendations on supplier selection for operations. • Assisted on cross functional team to reduce internal waste emphasized on a service division of the organization. Show less • Relationship Building and business development with Internal and External customers resulting in successful project management for all new purchases in accordance with government regulatory codes and laws. • Manage strategic sourcing process for commodities with over $10 million yearly spend including the following: Market Assessments, RFPs, Strategy Development, Negotiation, and Contract Development.• Led cross business unit sourcing initiatives and facilitate executive and stakeholder buy in for business recommendations and result measurement.• Drove internal process improvements to reduce cost and provide savings internally and with suppliers.• Analyzed suppliers’ cost structures and total cost of operating to provide recommendations on supplier selection for operations. • Assisted on cross functional team to reduce internal waste emphasized on a service division of the organization. Show less

  • Strategic Purchasing

    Jul 2005 - Mar 2006

  • SAP E-Commerce Specialist

    May 2003 - Jul 2005

  • Purchasing Specialist Buyer

    Feb 2000 - May 2003
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  SAIC

  Mar 2006 - May 2008

  Procurement Analyst

  • Led and marketed E-business solutions focused primarily on the Procurement community, but integrated e solutions in SAP with Sales division.• Creation of Knowledge Management Strategy for Procurement to increase efficiency and collaboration and brand awareness. Creation of three stakeholder tools (Procurement Micro Portal, Internet and Supplier Extranet) to deliver information to customers and advertise services of the Procurement community company wide. • Directed stakeholder group consisting of directors from across the country for continued electronic strategy initiatives to improve Procurement efficiency.• Led process improvement project to create an electronic document management system for procurement agreements based on user feedback and industry best practices in e-business support. The Document Management System increases agreement visibility, leverage, ease of access for audit requests, and reduction of misplaced agreements. • Assisted with testing and troubleshooting related to Procurement for new ERP system Cost point and advertised new solution throughout the organization through weekly training sessions.• Implemented business process to monitor Procurement roles to ensure continued SOX compliance. Brought Procurement financial system users into 100% SOX compliance by eliminating 170 initial role violations. Show less

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  Qualcomm

  May 2008 - May 2013

  Sr. Business Process Analyst

  • Creation of technical and business requirements based on legal agreements to support new customers in business development. Marketing of new tools and responsible for training all users to ensure a seamless experience.• Implemented, Created design specifications, tested solution to standardized electronic (B2B) customer programs and using automated electronic messaging in Oracle and Rapid Response. Support and new design of Supply Chain system responsible for all change management, user documentation and worldwide user training within 4 months from inception to implementation to manage an estimated 3 million in quantity per week.• Managed and created quarterly improvements in electronic forecasting for top tier customers to support weekly production requirements for customer phone launches. Production support for worldwide issue resolution is estimated around 30 new cases per week.• Automated process to provide critical customer sales for worldwide customer service with creation of systematic reports (Business Objects, QlikView, SharePoint) to manage customer demand.• Developed processes and reports to support integration of acquisitions new product development, life-cycle management, ensure orders can meet customer schedules for Customer Service support.• Implemented 3 new customers within 2 years from business negotiation to technical system development.• Implementation for Forecasting system solution upgrade including change management, user training and testing.• Troubleshooting and support for training to all international locations to support vendor managed programs to support highest volume customers over 3 million units per week from Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) hubs.• Marketing and manage new product introductions and product changes to customers by proactively driving process improvements throughout the largest technology division of Qualcomm. Show less

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  SAP

  Jun 2013 - now

  Experienced in branding internal/external projects, Marketing, Supplier Strategy, Sales Operations, ERP system usability designs and solution implementations to improve business processes throughout organizations with an international user base. Analyzing how business is conducted and driving the progression of changes based on industry best practice review, technology by socializing the value. Over 16 years of working to indirectly and directly improve the B2B and Customer Relationship. Expertise in Sales/Purchasing/Operations/Service focused on regulatory regulations, increasing customer growth, financial analysis, process improvement, systems analysis, project implementation and relationship building. Ability to utilize my business knowledge gained from conducting business and immersion with global markets to ensure the best solutions are implemented for the organization. Show less

  • Global Executive Director, Industry Leaders Think Tank & Global Director Corporate Responsibility

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Director Customer Evangelist

    Jan 2019 - Apr 2022

  • Senior Customer Engagement Executive

    Jul 2014 - Jan 2019

  • Senior Consultant

    Jun 2013 - Jun 2014