Procurement & Supplier Cost Management
Procurement work
that moves EBITDA.
I run spend assessments, competitive RFPs, and supplier negotiations, all the way through to signed contract. I work with procurement teams that need an extra set of hands, companies that don't have a procurement function yet, and PE portfolio companies where the savings have to land in EBITDA.
For Private Equity
Cost takeout your operating partners can underwrite.
Procurement value creation for PE-backed companies, sized in diligence or the first 100 days, executed to signed contract, with every dollar mapped to EBITDA.
Rapid diagnostic
Baseline spend and size the addressable savings in weeks, not quarters, ready to drop into the value-creation plan.
Prioritized roadmap
A sequenced plan targeting the categories with the fastest, most defensible EBITDA impact across the hold.
Execution to exit
Competitive sourcing and negotiations run to contracted savings that show up in the P&L, not just a slide.
About
The work gets done by the person you hired.
I'm Daly. I've spent six years doing procurement cost reduction at McKinsey, Insight Sourcing Group, and Velcro Companies, working alongside teams at Fortune 500 companies and mid-market manufacturers.
I work hip to hip with your procurement team, or on their behalf if you don't have one. Either way, when you hire me, I'm the one in the room, running the RFP, building the negotiation strategy, and making sure savings make it into a contract.
Across direct materials, packaging, and professional services. Based in New York.
Experience
How It Works
A clear process. A measurable outcome.
Every engagement follows the same logic: find the savings, go get them, lock them in.
Spend Assessment
Baseline your spend by category, benchmark against the market, and identify where the real opportunities are.
RFP & Competitive Sourcing
Run a structured market event, create real competition, analyze offers, and coach your team through award.
Supplier Negotiations
Build the strategy, sit in the room, and make sure every dollar of identified savings makes it into a contract.
EBITDA Impact
Savings that show up in the P&L, not just on a slide.
Selected Work
Projects across retail, manufacturing,
industrial, apparel, and more.
A sample of engagements across industries. Clients are anonymized. Outcomes are real.
Tariff & Cost Recovery
Getting money back out of the supply base: overpaid tariff costs and historical overcharges.
IEEPA Tariff Recovery: National Retailer
- Screened 300+ part numbers across 70 suppliers for tariff-driven price increases
- Built the supporting evidence package and sized exposure supplier by supplier
- Ran supplier outreach and negotiations, with about 65% aligned under agreement
- 20%+ converted to collected cash and credits as of August 2026
Cost Reduction
Savings engagements from baselining spend to negotiating the final contract.
Plastics Trim: PE-Backed Automotive Manufacturer
- Spend assessment to baseline category and identify opportunity
- Competitive RFP to create market tension against incumbents
- Negotiations through to contracted award
Fabric, Foam & Feather: PE-Backed Apparel Company
- Rapid negotiation across three direct material categories
- Leveraged spend data and market benchmarks to drive reductions
- Compressed timeline, no RFP, pure negotiation leverage
Stamped & Fabricated Metal Components: Industrial Manufacturer
- Competitive RFP across ~30 incumbents and ~20 new suppliers
- Built negotiation strategy, coached client team through award
- Long-tail outreach campaign across tail spend suppliers
- Recovered $2M in historical overcharges from incumbents
RFP & Sourcing
Competitive sourcing events designed to create real market tension and defensible awards.
Procurement Org Standup: PE-Backed Corrugated Manufacturer
- Designed procurement function for $500M manufacturer with no existing team
- Identified category coverage needs and defined roles
- Sized $3M savings opportunity in roll stock paper as anchor category
Full Supply Base RFP: Aerospace Metals
- Designed RFP covering ~30 incumbents and ~20 new entrants
- Built evaluation criteria, managed multi-round offer analysis
- Created final negotiation plan through to award
Operational Value Creation
Engagements where procurement and operational improvement overlap.
Manufacturing Cell Optimization: Aerospace Facility
- Two weeks in the field tracking every lot across five facilities
- Trained client team to document stoppage events consistently
- Identified strategies to eliminate downtime and improve throughput
Raw Materials Master Data: Global Manufacturer
- Classified 10,000 raw material part numbers for category management
- Defined supplier classification criteria and contract execution flows
- Created foundational data structure for ongoing sourcing execution
VAVE Workshops: Cross-Functional Cost Reduction
- Hosted value engineering workshops across select product lines
- Brought together marketing, sales, manufacturing, and R&D
- Built collaborative cost reduction pipeline across the portfolio
Recovering IEEPA refunds from your supply base
After the 2026 Supreme Court IEEPA ruling, up to $175 billion in tariffs may now be refundable, but the money often goes to the supplier who was the importer of record, not the company that absorbed the higher price. This playbook lays out a five-step framework to identify your exposure, engage suppliers, and turn it into recovered cash.
Contact
Tell me what you're working on.
If you're overpaying vendors, need to run a sourcing event, or want to know where your spend is going, I'm happy to talk through it.
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