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.
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 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.
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 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.
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
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
RFP & Sourcing
Competitive sourcing events designed to create real market tension and defensible awards.
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
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 $3M savings opportunity in roll stock paper as anchor category
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
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.
Schedule a Callpackaging & professional services