Andy Knight Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

London Paddington

I oversee and help optimise £300M marketing expenditure spanning five countries and four retail brands as well as execute transformation plans to ensure £100M Group savings. I implement a highly effective sole supply print solution following a comprehensive e-RFP, post tender negotiations, and due diligence process. I re-engineer an £80M cross-market media agreement to include a benchmarking clause linking performance to renumeration, that is anticipated will reduce costs by 5%. In 2018/19, secured £3.7M savings across all markets and categories such as media, print, paper and creative agency fees.Key Contributions:• Acted as an active lead in performance-related fee re-calculations & re-negotiations of a £80M media contract.• Segmented a series of digital marketing and e-commerce subcategories to create a clear picture of suppliers and internal business owners, leading to the development of the first true digital marketing procurement strategy.• Formulated and implemented a digital agency consolidation programme that simplified planning, measurement and execution of omni-channel campaigns and is helping to deliver a plc objective of increasing online sales to 6% of total company revenue. • Applied various sourcing techniques to save £1.2M in print management fees and print procurement while enhancing operational efficiencies.• Developed and deployed a 3-year procurement strategy for media and media audit that covered all European markets to deliver 5% incremental savings, estimated at £12M.• Regularly presented project recommendations to board members and senior sponsors for approval or stage gate sign-off with little support and am an influencer with integrity.

Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom

Transformed travel programme from position of fragmented booking tools, confused ways of working and divergent policies to a far more seamless user experience through greater deployment of technology, policy alignment and integration with expense software.Within Marketing, implemented robust controls and defined the ways of working with a £15m retained agency relationship to ensure that each client lead was accountable for agency time to prevent cost over runs and waste.Key Contributions:• Saved 5% operational cost through implementation of a global travel policy, common delivery model, single booking platform and real time reporting processes.• Delivered £0.4M savings while negotiating with airline companies and introducing hotel programme.• Provided executive-level support to the brand director by running the creative pitch for Tesco’s clothing business; F&F. Fostered and maintained relations with new lead agency to develop the “Supermarket Woman” platform that placed Tesco on the fashion map.• Outsourced content creation switching it from an undervalued internal agency to a highly creative specialist. In addition to saving £0.5M, there were huge improvements in quality, speed, efficiency & satisfaction. • Conducted investigation of a long-standing £10M publishing and content agency relationship. Implemented cost-effective methodologies for ensuring reduction in costs, technology fees, and agency hours, which ultimately saved £0.5M. • Matched pace of business by leading a quick-turnaround sourcing exercise to identify a series of new brand and product design partners for refreshing corporate brand identity and creating a series of new product brand.

I have played a significant role within a high-performing procurement team to deliver efficiencies and savings related to site catering, travel, recruitment, company cars, and HR services. I have retendered the site catering contract(s), delivering both enhanced employee satisfaction in factory and office locations while reducing company subsidy level. Key Contributions:• Reduced subsidy by 10%, increased all satisfaction scores based on price, value for money, taste and quality, and introduced healthy, vegetarian, and vegan options.• Re-tendered travel services across UK, Ireland and France that resulting in reducing 10% fees, access to new hotel inventory, simpler booking processes.• Served as part of a cross-functional team, completely refreshed the company car scheme and policy, reducing costs, whilst maintaining a level of choice suitable to role and seniority and supporting corporate sustainability objectives.

Cheshunt, England, United Kingdom

Indirects

Stansted Airport

Chartered Institute Of Purchase & Supply, Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions And Contracts Management, Mcips

Bachelor Of Arts, Geography & French, 2:1

Gcse'S & A Levels, All A - C