Melissa leads world-wide sourcing, procurement, and supplier management teams for both direct and indirect categories. 
 
She is responsible for building the Commercial Claims Spend Management organization at Liberty Mutual Insurance. She manages $3.5B in spend.  Additionally, she leads procurement strategy for Claims, Global Human Resources & Benefits, Professional Services, Facilities, and Travel. 
 
Melissa delivers holistic and sustainable results through supplier management, demand management, and process compliance.  She does this by implementing a progressive procurement program across a historically decentralized organization that has experienced major growth via acquisitions.
 
Melissa is a recognized leader of indirect procurement.  She is speaking at the upcoming 2015 Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) convention.  She was also a featured speaker at ProcureCon Indirect in 2013 and 2012. 
 
Melissa has 18 years of increased global responsibilities in procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier diversity, BPO, real estate, and supply chain management.
 
She utilizes her cross functional skills as a liaison with business groups, suppliers, customers and executive management across the globe. 
 
Melissa has received numerous awards.  She has been lauded as visionary; demonstrating the ability to integrate theory and practice in creating and executing innovative approaches and methods to accomplish complex business objectives.
 
Previously, Melissa developed departmental policies, governance and led supplier optimization activities during mergers and acquisitions processes.  She also energized SSC activities, with an emphasis on realizing immediate results.