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Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand

Responsible for Indirects. Categories currently under review include: Fleet; Telcos; Facilities; Travel; Recruitment; IT.

• Key Achievements and Responsibilities
• Managed Mobile Plant FMS Roll Out across 22 separate businesses
• Capture and Validation of key Fleet Data for all assets – 100,000 fields of data.
• Project Managed Internal Stakeholders and Third Party Supplier ensuring deadlines achieved.
• Managed Internal and External Comms

Auckland, New Zealand

• Key Achievements and Responsibilities
• Responsible for reviewing a Global Indirect Spend of $230M
• Indirect Spend had not been reviewed at Fisher and Paykel Appliances
• Developed and deployed Category Plans across major Indirect Spend areas.
• Introduced clear RFP processes across a number of categories.
• Educated and coached business stakeholders and their expectations.

Auckland

• Responsible for the Procurement of all Food Ingredients, Packaging and Indirect Spend for George Weston Foods in New Zealand
• Involved in and leading NPD ( New Product Development)
• Responsible for supplier selection, evaluation, negotiations, contract award, contract management, supplier development, supplier performance reviews and engaging with suppliers to encourage supplier innovation.

Responsible for Centralising the Procurement and Purchasing Functions at Hynds. Introduced Supplier Contracts and the Tendering Process for the first time.Delivered major savings and introduced rigorous procedures and processes.

Category Manager responsible for Fleet, FM, Security, Post and Couriers. Developed internal and external relationships to produce best results.Key successes: Change of Westpac car Fleet to a lower Carbon emission output. Became a key part of the Westpac TV commercials. "This car is not red it is green" As a result invited to be a key note speaker at the.

Temporary Contract

• The Elliott Group are the UK’s largest manufacturer of Portable Buildings, Classrooms and Telecommunication modules with a turnover of 450M UK sterling. They have recently merged with Algeco, the largest manufacturer.
• Enhance the Group Procurement structure by developing and implementing procurement strategies.
• Continually implement process and system improvements to improve Procurement effectiveness.
• Negotiate key supplier agreements for the UK and in collaboration with our sister companies throughout Europe..

Ba Hons, History

4 A Levels, 11 O Levels