Mark Brandt leads the Supply Services organization which provides Supply Chain, Real Estate, and Building Services support for the Ameren companies. Before taking on his current position in October 2012, he led the Supply Chain Organization which provides sourcing, procurement, inventory management, warehousing, logistics, and supplier diversity services. During his leadership in Supply Chain he led the Source-to-Settle initiative that streamlined the end-to-end procurement process and delivered $35M+ in savings from reduced costs of goods & services as well as process improvements. Mark was also an initial member of the Ameren Strategic Sourcing initiative where he conducted sourcing events for fleet, facilities, and telecom related categories of spend.
Prior to joining the supply chain group in 2004, he spent 20 years in Ameren’s Information Technology group where he led systems design/support, M&A integration efforts, Y2K, and several other significant corporate system implementations. Mark has a Bachelor Degree in Business Management with a Minor in Information Systems from Maryville University in St. Louis, MO. He is a board member of the Utility Supply Management Alliance, and is President of the Waterloo IL Community Fire Protection District.
UMSL is the only public university in the region to carry dual AACSB accreditations for its business and accounting programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
