Mary Murphy

Background

About Mary Murphy

Senior business director with a passion for making organizations more effective and focused, with experience in High Tech, Software, Healthcare and Non-Profits. I leverage my diversified discipline background in Finance, Product Marketing, Sales, Marketing Communications, Human Resources, Program Management, and Operations to identify issues quickly. I work with front-line teams and executives understand the technical, business, and people drivers, and improve processes and reporting so the organization can pursue its objectives without distractions. • Able to quickly get the pulse of the organization, and how people are being impacted at all levels • Comfortable navigating complex, matrixed organizations • Trusted advisor to senior and executive management • Quickly connect big picture strategic objectives with the day-to-day, and help teams understand how their work is helping the organization achieve those goals • Manage programs with annual budgets of $1-130M, and bring them in on target year-after-year • Not afraid to make decisions quickly. • Experienced vendor management; understanding their fixed and variable costs, what's driving sales teams (it's not always a $ quota), and digging into vendor contracts • Quickly become the subject matter expert on applications and systems used by an organization, from ERP to HR to Supply Chain Management to Sales Operations • Deep data analysis skills and leveraging them to understand cycle times, SLAs, budget variances, customer and employee dissatisfaction, vendor billing discrepancies Technical expertise: SQL, Excel, SharePoint, IT fundamental, statistics, forecasting