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Burton Latimer, Kettering, Northants

Achieve and exceeding agreed site budgeted trading targets.Responsibility for own, staff and visitors health and safety within the operation, for the promotion of health and safety in line with ERIKS and Customer’s Health & Safety Policies and procedures. Delivering Customer contractual commitments, including Price and Engineering Benefit Savings, Management of Customer Owned Inventory Reduction and Logistical Cost Reduction.Providing ERIKS and Customer management teams, with required reports, Key Performance Indicators and feedback to contribute to the effective planning, budgeting and performance management, within agreed timeframes.Manage the purchasing team to utilise established preferred sources of supply where possible and where supply chain agreements are not in place, develop supplier relationships that deliver minimised costs within agreed service level commitments.Ensure that reporting team members have clearly defined roles and objectives and that they are developed and motivated to achieve the required standards of performance.Ensure that the Customer adheres to contract payment terms.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Line management of Performance and Improvement Officer, Creation, Development and Publication of Key Metrics, Development and maintenance of contracts and spend information systems and performance reporting, Mapping and reviewing procurement process and flows, Development and maintenance of procurement process, policy, and guidance documentation. Development and maintenance of procurement template documentation. Contribute and input to commercial and procurement planning,and strategy development. Deputise for the Head of Procurement Strategy and Performance. OJEU and Non OJEU ITT and RFQs. Responsible for the creation of a working group across the parent organisation to inform process and share best practice, the development and creation of a suite of reporting published to Senior Managemen, the development and updating of the Government Procurement Card policy and process, the improvement and development of the Internal Requisition Process.

Corby

Leadership and line management of a regional non range sourcing team, developing and sustaining an integrated, European, customer driven sourcing approach which drives and delivers the defined level of customer service and purchasing effectiveness, through best in class procurement processes, strong commercial effectiveness, and positive/collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders. Responsible for delivering specified non range purchasing and Vendor performance that supports appx annualised cost of sales of £3-5m.

My role involved leading and motivating a team to exceed and/or achieve departmental targets of customer satisfaction, sales growth, service performance and to support the development of a European framework for non standard supply chain. My team are a non-range sourcing buying team who have responsibility for the identification sourcing and procurement of sourced products, ensuring that products are delivered through the Supply Chain to meet customer expectation. Since taking up the position I have achieved a month on month improvement in success rate for second source and introduced a system of vendor audit to ensure that purchases are fully traceable. I have also introduced a number of performance measurements to consistently measure and compare performance. Using CI techniques and tools I have improved processes and streamlined areas of re-work. I have also developed and implemented a communication strategy to encourage cross functional working with Key Stakeholders.

The main purpose of my role was to maintain an effective quality assurance function within The Ministry of Justice and National Offender Management Service enforcing programme and project controls through the application of Prince 2/MSP project and programme management methodology as defined by NOMS Board Providing technical and business assurance using static analysis on products against quality scorecards for all phases of the project Performing QA reviews on overall project and programme controls producing reports and delivering content to senior management, programme and project boards Collection and collation of KPI and quality metrics for reporting Management of defects to resolution or work around Technical planning and preparation of QA reviews in consultation with Project/Programme Manager Facilitate and lead conference room pilots and post implementation reviews

The physical relocation and data migration of several units was required this amounted to movement of approximately 1000 people as well as the integration onto the Oracle ERP for HR, Finance, Purchasing and Management Information Purposes. My duties as Business Change Lead included: Raising awareness of the Programme amongst stakeholders and customers and providing a framework for stakeholder management in the form of workshops, presentation and Question and Answer Forums Managing the communication between the Programme and its customer groups to ensure understanding of the Business Change and keep communications consistent Complete training needs analysis for each group and arrange appropriate training and ‘go live’ support Collect all data migration information and liaise with IT suppliers to ensure smooth transition to new servers. Act as main contact and liaison between the Unit, Programme Board and Suppliers to ensure effective communication between all  Provide ‘Go Live’ Support via floor walking and giving assistance to new users Identify and resolve any defects which arose before, during or after ‘Go Live’ Produce Lessons Learned Report with the aid of all parties involved facilitating and leading in meetings to draw out the lessons.