Jason Donner

Jason Donner

Head of IT Infrastructure Sourcing

Houston, TX
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Results-orientated, highly productive supply chain management professional with experience in the oil and gas, automotive, manufacturing, and insurance sectors. An excellent track record building teams, managing people, reducing cost and creating strategies to meet business needs. Five years of project management skills employed through Six Sigma with successful implementation of multiple regional and global projects. A team player, able to build relationships at all levels within an organization.

Skills: Strategic Sourcing – Category Management – Negotiations – Outsourcing – Benchmarking – Governance – Risk Management – Financial Management – Performance Management - Innovation – Automation – Project / Program Management – Six Sigma.

Experience

2015 Jan - Present
Head of IT Infrastructure Sourcing
BP / Houston, TX

eading a global team of Category Directors and Category Managers to deliver commercial value through category management, strategic sourcing, and post award contract management for the categories of platform, XAAS, workplace and network services.
In 2019 I designed, developed and implemented an application to analyze contracting trends and automates the legal negotiations. The application reduces contracting time from ~90days to 14 days, removes contracting friction, resource time redlining and allows focus on business requirements, commercials and service levels.

2013 Jul - 2015 Jan
Category Sourcing Director
BP / Houston, TX

Reporting to the Head of Vendor Management, manage a team of four and own post award contract management process for all suppliers providing hosting services to BP. Set up and manage governance for strategic and managed vendors. Ensure all SLA's are measured and create appropriate tension/positions with suppliers. Eliminate value leakage through contract management and providing commercial support for major projects.

2009 Jul - 2013 Jul
IT Commercial Sourcing Director
Aviva USA / Des Moines, IA
Managing existing outsourced arrangements, developing governance processes, and negotiating new outsourcing opportunities.Developed a US strategy and business case to implement a Procure to Pay system. Managed the design, build, test and implementation of an Oracle based P2P system that streamlined procurement with current financial systems at Aviva.
Managed US based demand management team and developed a regional strategy for resources, processes and technology to support Aviva across North America.

Responsible for initiating, owning, leading and supporting IT Infrastructure projects to meet business objectives through the deployment of appropriate sourcing strategies, creating contracts, supporting supplier and customer relationships, managing contract implementation and transition, ensuring internal and external compliance, and identifying demand management opportunities across Aviva North America.

Education

1990 - 1992
Tresham College
National Diploma Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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