Life at SGS Maine Pointe

Dominique Kren joined our team halfway through a client engagement and made a tremendous impact.

With multiple masters degrees, Dominique adapted extremely fast. She worked day and night to learn on the job and accepted all feedback.

Not only is she is an amazing coordinator, but she does much more, including participating as a trainer in key client 6-Step procurement process trainings.

She is a very fast learner, able to interact with all our client levels, anticipate the needs of the ED and the client, proactively engage, and has a problem-solving mindset. She brings colors to the team and is an extremely reliable member. She is instrumental to our engagement.  

Dominique was also brought in to support an aerospace & defense engagement and quickly gained credibility with the client organization through DILO studies and process mapping of three major products.  

Establishing herself as an important member of the A&D team, Dominique has been able to have an impact in engagement and analysis work in her first year with SGS Maine Pointe.

Throughout John’s first engagement with Maine Pointe, he instantly understood our process, engaged with the broader Data Analyst team and is now considered one of the best resources we have in that role. 

John’s focus on the engagement has been outstanding with new Spend Cube updates coming in constantly from a disorganized finance team at the client – John has managed to produce over 13 different spend cubes for the Procurement team.  In addition, John delivered 3 Power BI dashboards, with drill down capability, 3 different client spec’d excel trackers and a Cash Flow statement as part of our leave behind. 

The client team has embraced John and leaned heavily on him for support, design & development. Ultimately during hand off John has trained 6 of the client’s resources to support the SCM team with ongoing sustainable practices. 

Here is a client testimonial from the VP of Procurement:

John has provided outstanding client service in developing dashboards, which will deliver the visibility we were lacking to be effective in our roles. His attention to detail and consideration of our needs during development were awesome to develop a tailored product and his can-do attitude and adds were a pleasure to work with.

We look forward to Lynne’s continued success on behalf of Maine Pointe and our clients.

Les is a procurement subject matter expert with a concentration in chemicals and has been working with Maine Pointe since 2018. 

Les’ pre-consulting background includes procurement roles at Bausch + Lomb, Bekaert, and Eastman Chemical Company.

Les’ selection as our September winner is in recognition of his role for his most recent client engagement.  Les was also a key member of the Analysis team for this same client.  The Engagement presented challenges, including a client emerging from a period of severe financial hardship, harboring skepticism toward consultants due to a previous encounter, and introducing a new financial sponsor and private equity client for Maine Pointe.

Les was highly successful building credibility with the executive team and driving CFTs forward across 6 independent paper mills for a number of chemical sub-categories.  With no small amount of support from others on the Engagement team, Les has been able to absolutely crush the high end of the savings range. 

Upon completion, the client is anticipated to realize annual savings of nearly $7.5 M, surpassing the initial high-end estimate of $3.3 M across three chemical categories.  Notably, one of these categories has yielded benefits nearly 4X higher than the upper limit originally projected.  Initially faced with the prospect of minimal or no benefits, Les collaborated with the team to uncover a unique cost-saving opportunity related to a change in packaging type that led to extraordinary performance in that category.

A special acknowledgement goes out to Les for serving as a shining example of our values, effectively spearheading a critical category, and ensuring Total Client Satisfaction.