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Procurement and sourcing professional with 15+ years of experience leading global category strategy, vendor negotiations, process transformation, and stakeholder alignment across high-growth and enterprise environments.
About
Liudmyla Phan is a sourcing and procurement leader specializing in enterprise IT, SaaS, software, hardware, and vendor management. Her work spans high-growth companies and global enterprises where strong negotiation, disciplined execution, and cross-functional trust matter.
She has built and scaled category strategies, improved commercial terms, launched sourcing processes, managed supplier performance, and supported digital transformation initiatives while balancing risk, value, and speed.
Years of enterprise sourcing experience
Annual SaaS and technology category scope at Zoom
Annual cost avoidance highlighted in recent work
Experience
Directed commodity strategy for a SaaS and technology portfolio of approximately $800M per year, designed end-to-end procurement processes to support Zoom's rapid growth, and delivered 10% YoY savings with $30M in annual cost avoidance on large deals.
Developed and executed strategy for the IT software category, partnered with IT leaders to align business needs with supplier value, and led high-visibility CIO initiatives including dashboards, KPI tracking, benchmarking, and category planning.
Led critical supply chain work during Tesla's Model 3 ramp-up, built global IT hardware sourcing strategy at Ingram Micro, managed service sourcing in Eastern Europe for Sony, and drove strategic sourcing, supplier evaluation, and complex negotiations at IBM.
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Skills
Category strategy, supplier selection, RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, reverse auctions, and fair value evaluation.
Complex contract negotiations, pricing strategy, T&Cs, cost reduction, and stakeholder alignment.
Supplier relationship management, risk assessment, performance evaluation, and remediation planning.
Spend analysis, KPI dashboards, TCO and ROI analysis, benchmarking, forecasting, and process design.
ERP implementation support, sourcing process redesign, digital transformation, and workflow standardization.
Cross-functional collaboration, project management, executive communication, and change leadership.
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Credentials
Certified Professional in Supply Chain Management, ISM, 2017.
Six Sigma Yellow Belt and Project Management Certification through IBM PMI, 2014.
Professional Certificate from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Education
Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto, USA. Focused on leadership and financial analysis.
Master of Arts in Political Science from Central European University in Budapest, plus Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and translator training from Dnipro National University in Ukraine.
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Open to new opportunities in Enterprise IT Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management.