Cherryl K. Jostad

Experienced Sourcing Professional with over 30 years experience in Accounting/Finance, Sourcing, Quality, Administration and Acquisition Integration

Experience

• Industry experience includes information technology services, financial services, building materials, consumer products, chemicals, transportation
• Proven results for Paladin clients in categories as diverse as chemicals (9-23%), managed print services (10-25+%), flexible intermediate bulk containers (19%), office equipment and supplies( 10-21%), contingent labor (10-12%), travel management services (5-10%), financial print (>30%), hotels (25-50%), physical exams(10-12%), drug and background checks (27-32%), and relocation (15%+)
• Consolidated from 10 suppliers to 1, moved from individual copier leases and desktop printers to managed print solution with savings over 25%; 80% fleet refresh during the first year, and comprehensive consolidation of model types
• Led 20-person cross-functional contingent labor team that transformed 100% manual process to digitized process while saving 18% and consolidating supply base by 98%
• Led multi-business travel project that identified a travel management company able to provide improved service with reduced transaction costs. Project also achieved additional air and hotel discounts via spend aggregation
  Conducted multi-business financial print project realizing 45+% savings
• For a large client, discovered unleveraged early pay discounts leading to thousands in cost savings.
• Achieved 17% reduction in search firm fees while reducing supply base by 36%