Greg Kresge has more than 20 years of global healthcare industry experience in the research, quality assurance, manufacturing, and indirect procurement functions.

He has managed budgets in excess of $600M and successfully elevated strategic sourcing solutions to focus on increasing and managing the total value of supplier delivered services.  When structuring a sound supplier partnership, its Greg’s perspective that quality, service level, innovation, and cost must all be taken into account.  Under Greg’s leadership, Shire’s Global Procurement’s influence on the commercial business grew from 50% to ~80%.

Greg believes that a leading-edge Global Procurement department must consist of an emotionally intelligent staff with business acumen honed on understanding the corporation, organizational dynamics, and internal processes.  This alignment between the business functions and procurement is critical to establishing a supply network that meets and exceeds the core business needs.

Most recently, he closely partnered with the Shire Procurement Leadership Team to confirm best sourcing practices and benchmarked Shire’s Procurement’s structure. The activity resulted in a restructuring and goal reset for the Department.  Additionally, Greg co-developed the Global Procurement 3 year business plan which was completely aligned with and supported the Corporate Strategy.

If Greg doesn’t answer your calls, he is most likely standing in it up to his waist with a fly rod in his right hand and hopefully, trout in his net.