Alistair Grant Email & Phone Number

Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

Dundee City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Global vinyl record sourcer, vintage vinyl record dealer, audiophile, and disco Phil’s based in Dundee City, Scotland, and El Paso, Texas, USA. Published musicologist and journalist.

El Paso, Texas, United States

Edinburgh, Scotland

Reporting to Heineken Group Procurement in the Netherlands and the UK Executive Management Team.Responsible for the leadership and strategic direction of the UK Procurement organisation consisting of 16 senior Category Managers, Contract Managers and Project Managers located in various Heineken UK sites. Key member of the Western European Procurement Leadership Team and the UK Product Re-Engineering Team.Responsible for procurement of all Raw Materials and Packaging for brewery and cider mill production, Contract Brewing and Packing, and all non production sourcing and procurement - Agencies, Media & Research; Merchandise Materials; Energy; Brewery Non Production Materials & Services; CAPEX; Logistics; Production Services; Outsourcing; HR: IT; Travel; Professional Services; and Facilities. Annual procurement spend £1B, budget responsibility £3M.Key achievements:• Drove £5.5M in non-product related savings and £8m in cash flow benefits by end of first full financial year filling the gap resulting from UK Sales revenue shortfall. In the 8 years since the S&N acquisition Sales had never met annual sales revenue targets.• In addition to primary role:1. Successfully led a UK business-wide Purchase to Pay process improvement project, the first UK project in 5 years to exit warranty period with zero defects.2. Led the HEINEKEN Group in the piloting and ramp of new global Heineken Group Procurement systems, processes, tools and ways of working.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

MA in Music Industry Management & Promotion (Creative & Cultural Management). Awarded with Distinction.- Enterprise & Creative Industries- The Culture of Creative Industries- Applied Research Practice- Managing Recording Studios- Creating & Managing Record Labels- Vinyl Record & CD Manufacturing & Distribution- Managing Artists- Concert & Festival Promotion- Creating New & Innovative Music Businesses With Technology At Their Core- Digital Music Services- How The New Artist/Band Can Generate Money From Live Performance- Legal Contracting For Signing Artists, Artist Management, Concert Promotion, etc.- Tour Management- Creative & Cultural Management DissertationDissertation topic: To What Extent Has Devolution Influenced Popular Music Policy In Scotland?

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Elected Student Representative for all four Creative & Cultural Management Industries Masters programmes.

Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

Supply Chain Director for new Carillion business unit established following the acquisition of Eaga plc, Carillion Energy Services (CES). Key member of the divisional board reporting to the CES MD and the Global Head of Carillion Supply Chain for Carillion plc. Carillion plc global category management responsibilities included Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Air Source and Ground Source Heat Pumps and Biomass.Key achievements:• Successfully led and managed the integration of Eaga Group Procurement with Carillion Supply Chain prior to the completion of the acquisition and thereafter.• Established and led a new Global Category Management function for Renewables across Carillion plc.• Directly negotiated 15% reduction in solar PV panel pricing with Chinese, German and Austrian supplier senior executives (senior VP/MD level).

Gosforth, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Chief Purchasing Officer (CPO) for FTSE 250 plc. Responsible for establishing, developing and leading the first Group Procurement function across all divisions in Eaga - Managed Services & Business Process Outsourcing; Clean Energy & Renewables; Carbon Services & Business Development; Heating & Contracting Services; Corporate Services. Key achievements:• Created Eaga plc's Group Procurement organisation, introduced Category Management approach and achieved incremental savings of £2M for the business within the first six months on board.• Developed and implemented Eaga Group's procurement framework, policies and processes across the plc for the first time.eaga was a great company to work for, with its roots in a social enterprise. Employees were partners in the business and the eaga Trust continues to provide tremendous benefits to former employees.

Derby, England

Reporting to the President of the UK Passengers Business Unit in Derby, and the VP of Group Procurement in Berlin. Responsible for the sourcing and procurement of all direct materials for the BU and indirect goods and services for all Bombardier UK sites, leading a team of 75 Procurement Directors, Commodity Managers, Product and Project Procurement Managers, Senior Buyers and Buyers. Annual spend £600M. Annual budget responsibility £7M.Key achievements:• Drove organisational change process, restructuring Procurement team, introducing Commodity Management group and redefining roles and responsibilities to significantly improve the operational performance of the function.• Increased the value of low cost country sourcing in Eastern Europe and China to significantly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of materials going in to the BU.• Introduced visualisation processes for managing and improving critical supplier performance.

St Petersburg, Florida, United States

Reporting to the European President in Brussels and the Senior VP, Global Supply Chain in St Petersburg, Florida, USA. Responsible for Jabil's European supply chain strategy, category and executive supplier relationship management for twelve manufacturing plants across eight countries in Western and Eastern Europe.Led a pan-European team of twenty five senior Procurement, Logistics and Engineering professionals in Technology Design Services, Commodity Management, Supplier Engineering, New Business Supply Chain Development, Supply Chain Programme Management and Logistics. Remotely managed team members in Scotland, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine. Annual spend $3B. Annual budget responsibility $3.2M.Key achievements:• Worked with Jabil's global business units and European plant Materials Managers to achieve best ever Jabil European cash cycle performance of 8 days, reducing working capital employed in the business and significantly improving the return on capital invested.• Introduced low volume/high mix supply chain models to provide cost effective sourcing solutions in response to the changing nature and diversification of the business in Jabil’s Western European plants.• Developed and implemented material sourcing strategies for plants in Poland, Hungary and Ukraine as high volume manufacturing migrated further into Eastern Europe, increasing levels of local material sourcing and reducing overall Jabil end product cost.

Stockholm, Sweden

Key role in establishing and developing Electrolux Corporate Purchasing in Stockholm. Reporting to the Chief Purchasing Officer, responsible for all electronic and electrical sourcing, commodity/category management, supplier relationship management, contract negotiation and Total Cost of Ownership reduction. Remote management of seven Global Commodity Managers and eighteen Regional Commodity Managers located in Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, China, Brazil and the USA. Annual spend €1.4B.Key achievements:• Negotiated with and influenced the General Managers and Purchasing VPs of the Group’s six autonomous business units (200 manufacturing plants) to adopt a centralized global approach to procurement to more effectively leverage and manage electronics and electrical commodity spend across a diverse range of products.• Demonstrated added value of new global approach within six months by identifying incremental material cost savings of €825M over three years and accelerating low cost country sourcing in China and Eastern Europe.

Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland

Provider of Global Procurement & Supply Chain consultancy services.

Easter Inch, Bathgate, Scotland

Reporting to the Site General Manager and the European Materials Director in Flensburg, Germany. Responsible for all aspects of supply chain and materials management for the operation, managing 280 people in Planning, New Product Materials Programme Management, Commodity Management, Supplier Engineering, Operational Procurement and Material Logistics. Ensured continuity of supply for a 24x7 manufacturing and distribution operation, producing 16M mobile phones a year. Annual spend $2B; budget $10M.Key achievements:• Inheriting major Materials performance issues initiated a comprehensive review of the organization, redesigning business processes, structure and roles resulting in the improvement of all key performance metrics.• Responsible for the planning and successful materials supply for a 35% increase in year-on-year volumes.• Drove changes in sourcing strategy and supplier relationship management with Asian suppliers reducing product lead times by 4 weeks.

Glasgow, Scotland

Global business development, strategy and support for Scottish SMEs who wanted to globalise their businesses. Reported to the Director of Scottish Business.

Menlo Park, California, United States

Various global supply chain and procurement roles reporting to the VP Worldwide Supplier Management. Co-located at corporate in California with various Design Engineering and Product Marketing groups, with responsibility for global sourcing strategy development and implementation, commodity/category management, supplier performance improvement, contract negotiation and supplier executive relationship management. Annual spend ownership and responsibility = $750M - $1B. Annual budget responsibility = $3M - $4M.Key achievements:• Defined and implemented the 2-5 year global strategic sourcing and supply strategy for a number of key Sun commodities – Displays Power Supplies, Input Devices, Printed Circuit Board Assemblies, Enclosures, System Subassemblies, SPARC RISC Processors, ASICS, DRAM, SRAM and VRAM.Allistair was embedded with the relevant Design Engineering and Product Marketing teams in Mountain View and Menlo Park and chaired and led several commodity strategy teams with his Design Engineering and Product Marketing Director counterparts.• Achieved in excess of $200M in cost reductions negotiating with suppliers at President, VP and GM level, exceeding commodity and personal annual cost reduction targets for five consecutive years.• Led the make/buy process for the Corporation and successfully managed all aspects of Sun’s outsourced manufacturing operations (External Manufacturing) consisting of 15 global third party Electronic Manufacturing Services sites and 26 Sun Process, Test and Quality Engineers, senior Commodity Managers and Planners.

Linlithgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Approver and signatory for all European Operations contracts.

Linlithgow, Scotland

Board Director of Sun Microsystems Scotland BV, reporting to the VP of Worldwide Supplier Management and the VP of European Operations. Responsible for all direct materials and complex services procurement (facilities, IT outsourcing, consultancy, contract labour, capital equipment, travel), contract negotiation and management, and supplier performance and relationship management for European start-up operation.Defined and implemented European sourcing strategy for key commodities, identifying and developing new European suppliers for use by European and US operations. Team of 15 Commodity Managers, MRO Purchasing and operational Materials Managers and Buyers (until new European operation was up and running.). Annual spend $1B. Annual budget responsibility $1.5M.

Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

South Queensferry, Scotland

Edinburgh

Ma, Music Industry Management & Promotion, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Elected by peers as Class Student Representative for all four Cultural Management MA courses. One year full time.

Executive Mba

Harvard Business School Residential Executive Education programme, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Residential course at Harvard Business.

Mba, Finance, Law, Marketing & Operations Management

Dissertation: Impact of MRP II Systems on the organisation of work. A case study. Two and a half year part-time MBA programme successfully.

Ba Honours, Social Sciences - Majored In Sociology, 2:1 Honours

Activities and Societies: Helped promote gigs at Glasgow Tech's famous 'bubble' Students Union. Dissertation: The Impact of the Cultural.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Established Sixth Year external discussion group with assigned Community Education Worker. Prefect. Volleyball.

Executive Mba, Executive Mba