Katrina Hill

I've been in my field for about 20 years now, and I've spent my career teeter-tottering and seesawing between healthcare and fintech. I started out on the sales side of the house, working as a contracts manager in a sales operations function and sometimes in a legal capacity, supporting sales teams. About 10 years ago, I made the transition to the sourcing side - I came over to the dark side, as they like to say in procurement. The inspiration for that move was really to see what the other side was like and to be able to take my skills, especially with contracts management and review, and use those negotiation skills on the other side of the house. Prior to my current role, I spent 6 years as a sourcing specialist at Voya Financial, working with various business lines, business owners, and stakeholders on both the enterprise and IT sides. I ran sourcing events - RFXs, RFPs, RFIs, RFQs - for goods and services across a wide range of categories: everything from real estate, facilities management, janitorial services, architectural services, and AV builds to IT, data access management, asset recovery, and asset storage for computers and hardware and software. I kind of ran the gamut. I just started my current role in April as the Senior Sourcing Specialist for cost management and strategic sourcing at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island. My day-to-day is really a hopscotch or double Dutch game of working with business lines, business owners, and suppliers in various operating systems for sourcing initiatives, trying to see where we're able to influence or create savings.