Jorene Chai

Work I've led inside the enterprise.

Products and systems that people adopted and the value they delivered.

Earlier roles

  • Modernizing supplier onboarding and procurement operations

    I led the North America implementation of a global supplier onboarding platform, turning regional procurement needs into product requirements for the central team. I owned it end to end, from requirements and user acceptance testing to launch and adoption, and ran weekly sessions with the global team and office hours for users. Supplier onboarding went from 3 to 4 months to a few weeks across 200 to 300 suppliers, with more than 100 procurement users and key contacts across legal and finance on the platform.

  • Global standards and a supplier marketplace for co-manufacturing

    As the North and South America market lead and technology pillar lead in the Collaborative Manufacturing Center of Excellence, I built playbooks and standards for responsible sourcing, forecasting and marketplace-based sourcing. Supplier capability information was scattered across markets, so I defined the vision and requirements for a global supplier marketplace that shows procurement teams what co-manufacturers can do in every region. I took it through a proof of concept and pilot with the vendor team, and teams gave positive feedback on how much easier it made supplier discovery.