Bio

Allison Earnest is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal's Private Equity Performance Improvement group in Denver. Ms. Earnest brings more than 15 years of experience in strategic sourcing engagement and transformation projects, handling $10+ billion in spend and implementing sustainable process and organizational improvements for Fortune 50 and 500 companies, as well as private equity clients. Ms. Earnest has extensive source-to-implement and program management experience, identifying and achieving category efficiencies, executing transitions, implementing savings tracking, and handling operational improvement initiatives including process design and implementation. Ms. Earnest’s notable engagements include handling the procurement process improvement and strategic sourcing for a $500 million global shipbuilder; identifying $10+ million in run-rate cost reductions and executing source-to-contract for multiple components; identifying opportunities, working with engineering to de-risk sole supply opportunity, conducting supplier qualification and direct negotiations for bulkhead panels, partitions and doors; and implementing process standards and formalizing go-forward category strategies to sustain savings. Ms. Earnest mapped and validated a $50 million cost-takeout exercise for a construction services company, including SKU rationalization, strategic procurement activities, and warehouse and network optimization; and implemented ongoing reporting and developed an execution roadmap for procurement organization. Previously, she managed the transformation and strategic sourcing execution for a $500 million remediation and renovation construction company, including organization design and business integration, source-to-contract execution for construction equipment and materials, resulting in $5.5 million run-rate cost reductions. Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Earnest managed client sourcing programs for the Business Process Outsourcing group at Accenture. She worked on process implementation for global strategic sourcing programs and transformation design, supplier performance management and policy and contract compliance. Previously, she worked with Ariba's Spend Management Services (now a SAP company), delivering accelerated savings implementation and multi-year transformation. Ms. Earnest earned a bachelor’s degree (cum laude) in media and professional communication from the University of Pittsburgh. She also earned a certificate in legal studies.