Michelle O' Sullivan is an Ireland-based Director Analyst with Gartner's Procurement practice. In her current role, Ms. O' Sullivan works with Heads of Procurement and their team members to solve challenges like Procure to Pay from a process and change management perspective, Contract Lifecycle Management, Procurement Digital Transformation and Supplier onboarding.
Ms. O' Sullivan has come to Gartner from Ernst & Young (EY) where she spent the last 2+ years holding several senior analyst roles within their central Procurement Enablement Team, helping with various procurement system integrations and providing procurement analytics and insights to the entire internal Procurement team. Prior to that, Ms. O' Sullivan spent 16+ years in the Bio-pharmaceutical (including Pfizer) and Medical Device industry, in various different Procurement roles. Ms. O' Sullivan has a wealth of knowledge and experience in procurement from a Practitioner perspective with regards to developing and establishing category strategies, digital transformation in procurement, identification of cost saving opportunities, vendor managed inventory programs, demand management, vendor onboarding, contract execution and management, compliance in procurement, tail spend management, spend analytics, vendor rationalization and can advise regarding P2P and CLM platforms and processes.
EY
Ernst & Young
Teleflex Incorporated
Teleflex Incorporated
Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals
Pfizer Inc.
Sourcing and Procurement
Procurement Management
Diploma in Purchasing and Materials Management from the Irish Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management (IIPMM)
1Digital Transformation in Procurement
2Procure to Pay from a process, change management perspective
3Contract Lifecycle Management from a process, change management perspective
4Vendor onboarding
5Spend Analytics