Evaluation Of A Performance Review - 1311 Words

No one ever wants to receive a below-average rating as my review has indicated. I have had a lengthy and well-documented career of consistently meeting and exceeding my goals across two prior companies and my 2015 Performance Review grading is absolutely beyond confounding. The grading of this review is inconsistently and inappropriately low with the performance I have demonstrated throughout 2015. It is vague and effusive in the majority of its key points, and in respects, inappropriately imprecise if not demeaning of my position and valuable contributions to the Procurement Organization. As background, in 2015 I continued to produce consistent work and a positive attitude and stakeholder engagement despite the very significant†¦show more content†¦Because I have a category where over 60% is non-sourceable spend (leases and utilities), I have only $38M in impactable spend where over 80% is spend-managed by detailed contract. I am third in savings only to my Senior Director himself, who oversees the entire group, and the Director of IT Procurement, who manages $77M in annual spend. On a percentage basis, I have out-performed the next two higher-compensated levels in my group, while managing half the sourceable spend. For example, it is pointed out that the Stericycle contract took 9 months to complete. What is ignored is that Stericycle has been under a class-action lawsuit in the state of Illinois for price-gouging, and this situation required the approval of our Assistant General Counsel, Hank Gerock to move forward as well as extensive collaboration with the Vendor Management Organization. This was not a simple approval, but required vetting with spend data, direct negotiation, and confrontation with Stericycle where PPD was at-risk in 14 individual binding contracts across its US sites. My direct negotiation greatly lowered the risk to PPD by directly engaging the Facility category’s highest non-construction, non-utility spend on three fronts: 1) eliminated the 5-year binding standard Stericycle term and reduced it to a 3-year term with â€Å"terminate for