READERPROFILE Christina Nemeyer’s Unexpected Path to Procurement Success as told to Karen Kroll
CHRISTINA NEMEYER is director of corporate strategic sourcing with Performance Food Group (PFG), one of the largest foodservice distribution companies in North America. RESPONSIBILITIES: Oversee the team responsible for establishing national account programs for indirect spend, leveraging PFG’s scale to generate value. EXPERIENCE: Senior manager, corporate strategic sourcing, and corporate sourcing manager, PFG. Fuel supervisor, Estes Express Lines. Inventory control and loss prevention supervisor, S&K Menswear. Market loss prevention manager, Shoe Carnival, Inc. Regional loss prevention analyst and EBR analyst, LP Innovations, Inc. Investigative technician, Capital One Financial Corporation. EDUCATION: MBA, James Madison University. BS, Economic Crime Investigation, Utica College of Syracuse University. In any negotiation, I like to create relationships. I try to understand where both sides are coming from and how we can partner and compromise to come up with a solution that benefits both of us.
W here I initially thought my career would go is not where I’m at now. At Utica College (now Utica University) I studied economic crime investigation with a concentration in nancial crimes. I also interned at Capital One’s internal fraud department, using data analysis to help identify employees who were stealing information. That was so exciting. Then I held several roles in auditing, loss prevention, and fraud analysis for retail organizations. When one went out of business, my career path changed. I moved to Estes Express Lines, where my team managed the procurement of truck fuel and related products. Since I had inventoried suits and ties, I gured I could inventory gallons of fuel. Then I moved to Performance Food Group (PFG). It has been great. I
In any negotiation, I like to create relationships. I try to understand where both sides are coming from and how we can partner and compromise to come up with a solution that bene ts both of us. A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT At PFG, our drivers are everything. I launched a collaborative effort to come up with the company’s rst driver uniform program. I assembled colleagues from across the organization to develop branding ideas and identify the characteristics of the uniform we
oversee a small team that handles strategic sourcing for indirect categories. It’s a large budget amount and affects the bottom line, so we try to put into place national programs that leverage our size and can help PFG’s operating companies run more ef ciently and cost effectively. For example, we help procure diesel fuel for the entire organization, negotiating prices and making sure that we have the supply we need. I love helping PFG and I love working with suppliers and handling negotiations.
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