MacRumors:

The Wall Street Journal today published a profile of Tony Blevins, Apple’s vice president of procurement, providing an inside look at Apple’s corporate culture and what Blevins does for the company.

As Apple’s vice president of procurement, Blevins’ job is to get suppliers to cut their prices, and he will apparently stop at little to score a favorable deal for Apple, which has earned him the nickname “the Blevinator.”

His negotiating skills are so important to Apple that Cook tapped him to manage negotiations for Apple’s spaceship-shaped Apple Park campus. When getting bids for the curved glass used for the structure, he invited glass makers to Hong Kong, put them in separate conference rooms, and went from room to room to get the lowest price, ultimately saving Apple hundreds of millions of dollars.

There’s a guy like this at almost every successful company, for better or worse.