Procurement Cost Reduction

Procurement work
that moves EBITDA.

I work alongside your team — or on their behalf — to find margin in your vendor spend and make sure it makes it into a contract.

Spend Assessments · RFP Support · Supplier Negotiations

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About

Daly Place

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 alike.

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. Working with clients everywhere.

Experience

McKinsey & Company
Insight Sourcing Group
Acquired by Accenture
Velcro Companies

Selected Work

Projects across manufacturing, industrial, apparel, and more.

A sample of engagements across industries. Clients are anonymized — outcomes are real.

Cost Reduction

End-to-end savings engagements — from baselining spend to negotiating the final contract.

$6M
Savings captured

Stamped & Fabricated Metal Components — Industrial Manufacturer

  • Ran competitive RFP across ~30 incumbents and ~20 new suppliers
  • Built negotiation strategy and coached client team through award
  • Executed long-tail outreach campaign across tail suppliers
  • Identified and recovered $2M in historical overcharges from incumbents
RFP · Negotiation · Clawback Recovery
$2M
Savings captured

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
Spend Assessment · RFP · Negotiation
5–8%
Savings captured across material categories

Fabric, Foam & Feather — PE-Backed Apparel Company

  • Rapid negotiation engagement across three material categories
  • Leveraged spend data and market benchmarks to drive reductions
  • Compressed timeline — no RFP, pure negotiation leverage
Rapid Negotiation · Direct Materials

RFP & Sourcing

Competitive sourcing events designed to create real market tension and defensible awards.

50+
Suppliers in competitive process

Full Supply Base RFP — Aerospace Metals

  • Designed RFP covering ~30 incumbents and ~20 new entrants
  • Built evaluation criteria and managed multi-round offer analysis
  • Created final negotiation plan through to award
RFP Design · Offer Analysis · Award Strategy
$3M
Year-one savings opportunity sized

Procurement Org Standup — PE-Backed Corrugate Manufacturer

  • Designed procurement function for $500M manufacturer with no existing team
  • Identified category coverage needs and defined roles
  • Sized savings opportunity in roll stock paper as anchor category
Org Design · Category Strategy · Sourcing

Operations & Process

Engagements where procurement and operational improvement overlap.

10%+
Production speed improvement identified

Manufacturing Cell Optimization — Aerospace Facility

  • Two weeks in the field tracking every lot through every cell across five facilities
  • Trained client team to document stoppage events consistently
  • Identified strategies to eliminate downtime and improve throughput
Operations · Process Improvement · Field Analysis
10K
Part numbers classified

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
Master Data · Category Foundation
$2M+
Cost savings pipeline identified

VAVE Workshops — Cross-Functional Cost Reduction

  • Hosted value engineering workshops across select product lines
  • Brought together marketing, sales, manufacturing, and R&D stakeholders
  • Built collaborative cost reduction pipeline across the product portfolio
VAVE · Cross-Functional · Pipeline Development

Contact

Tell me what you're working on.

If you're overpaying vendors, need to run a sourcing event, or just want to know where your spend is going — I'm happy to talk through it.

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