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Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Leading the procurement team responsible for supporting business growth opportunities through effective strategic sourcing across Babcock’s Land Sector

Telford, England, United Kingdom

Telford, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for creating and delivering of procurement & supply chain solutions to support functional transformation activities across Babcock's Land Sector spending ~£1bn p.a. Activities include supply chain design, strategic sourcing, contract drafting, negotiation, requisition to pay and supplier development. All with a view to improving functional effectiveness and creating significant value for the Sector. Typical spend categories include vehicle parts, tyres, vehicle hire, maintenance etc.) training, construction, facilities management and indirects.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for designing, sourcing and negotiating all elements of the supply chain to enable a business winning bid submission and value delivery through the life of the contracts for a Sector spending ~£1bn p.a. with a bid pipeline of ~£8.3bn, reporting into the Head of Procurement (Business Development). Typical supply chains support fleet management, training and engineering services contracts of scale.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Providing strategic and tactical procurement support at divisional level within the Defence & Security division. Responsibilities include drafting and implementation of cross-divisional policies and procedures, lead and/or support division-wide sourcing projects, take on line management of a Shared Procurement Centre team with 5 FTE and transform the Shared Procurement Centre from transactional procurement administrators to a value creating tactical sourcing team.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Providing strategic and tactical procurement support at a divisional level wihtin the Defence & Security Division focusing on the delivery of division-wide projects and initiatives. Responsible for supporting the delivery of a fucntional transformation programme in addition to being the Supply Chain Manager for all Divisional procurement, to include embedding group-wide supply deals into the Division.

Various

Front line procurement support to the Land & Sea training contracts (and wider Land & Sea supply chain team as required), across the full range of procurement activity from sourcing through to contract/supplier management. Responsibilities included:- Business unit spend of circa £50 million per annum.- Procurement of several contracts worth over £2million across a variety of categories, over short and medium contract terms.- Supported Group-wide procurement initiatives.- Implemented substantial value initiatives.- Established pipeline value initiative opportunities.- Led Direct and Indirect procurement initiatives across various spend categories including: Engineering, Soft FM, IT, HR and Training.- Led procurement of goods and services, in support of Major Bids programmes, with values over £10million.

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Commercial and Supply Chain (Major Bids) Feb '14 - May '14:Supporting the Senior Commerical Manager for Major Bids on a strategically vital major bid project.- Supported supply chain bid solultion through: competitve tenders where subcontractors or supply chain support was required, carrying out due diligence on prospective partners, P&SCM workshops, engaging with supply chain for market testing purposes, procurement of professional services.- Supported commercial bid solution through: commercial model workshops, project governance, contract risk analysis, contract mark-ups, bid writing.Supply Chain (Training & Training Support) Aug ‘13 – Feb '14:- Automation of stock control, allowing for stock replenishment orders to be raised and the PO without buyer involvement,- Develop processes to manage the transition of transactional PO process ensuring no KPI failures,- Review of functional processes across the training business,- Stakeholder relationship management,- Review P Card usage for Land & Sea business.Supply Chain (Land Equipment Support) Feb ‘13 – Aug ’13:- Supplier Mobilisation,- Standardise RFQ and contract documents,- Enhance approved supplier list,- Functional process mapping where previously non-existent,- Sourced UK product to be used overseas,- Project to source a contracts management system,- Supply chain lead on a variety of tenders,- Bid Support; and- Supplier relationship management and supplier performance monitoring.Commercial (Land) Sept ‘12 – Feb ‘13:- Implementing governance procedures,- Audits on contractual processes,- Process refinement across contracts to increase efficiency and contract compliance,- Worked with the restraints of a “Chinese Wall”,- Drafted and submitted customer quotations,- Worked with Suppliers to provide quotes for customer requests,- Customer liaison,- Drafting NDAs, teaming and consultancy agreements,- Advising on contractual terms and conditions- Bid support

Industrial Work Placement. Duties Included:Managing and administering the UK E-Procurement system. Including training and development of system users. In Nov 2010 a system upgrade gave me the opportunity to coordinate and train 100 users, across 3 sites, on how to effectively use the system.Using SAP to process purchase orders, create currency hedge requests, update material prices and run vendor analysis reports.Updating and maintaining the UK purchasing intranet page. Updating the supplier approval and evaluation process.Working with suppliers on a daily basis to ensure that Prysmian were receiving best price, best quality and best service for the products which they purchase.Sourcing of ad-hoc requirements ensuring that the best price and best quality product was purchased cost effectively.I was involved in many projects including standardising packaging across 3 sites, benchmarking the stationery supplier and improving the efficiency of the outsourced onsite cleaning. The packaging and stationery projects projected large savings to the business.

Duties included:Training employees on the concept of yields and how to control product usage to ensure cost effective production. Included improved wastage control and meeting lean objectives.Supervising production from butchery to finished product with great emphasis on lean production and quality standards. Operating finished product labelling and sealing machinery. Controlling Inventory and Stock levels. Familiar with working towards 'Just-In-Time' objectives. Working and making decisions in a high pressured working environment.Leading teams on and training employees in a variety of tasks to a competent standard.

Holiday placement and weekend work during 6th form studies. Duties included inventory and stock control, production from Raw Material through to finished product and despatch. Worked with the factory managers to review staffing levels and the layout of production lines, to help the company achieve their lean production objectives.

Ba Business Excellence, Purchasing And Supply Chain

Purchasing and Supply Chain Management) Modules include: Year 1: The Market Place, Understanding and Managing people, Business.

A' Level; B, English Language; Business Studies

C), German (C) 'AS' Level - Design & Technology (B)