Current responsibilities include;• Creating the Category plan for Estates covering four key areas, Property Development, Soft Service, Technical Services and Operations and Facilities• Initial projects are a £3.5m and £6.5m refurbishment projects.

Responsibilities Include• Managing the Procurement for the newly forming Warwickshire Police ICT department. This has involved pulling information from Key stakeholders across Warwickshire and West Mercia Police to ensure the correct requirements are captured and delivered.• Key procurements completed to date include;o New core foundation platform to support the replacement of the legacy network, £1.3m contract over four years, negotiating £170k of savings.o Support and Maintenance of the legacy core network, reducing a £700k 6month renewal to a £500k 12months renewal.o Implementing an NEP Office 365 local delivery support partner to validate the new IT infrastructure, £270k.o Procured £111k of LAN switches and £197k Firewall equipment and support for the new IT infrastructure.

• This role supports the key strategy to be a leading research focused University within the Russell Group.• Complete procurements to funding deadlines for external funding bodies, internal university & research project deadlines for key external customers e.g. JLR. This requires me to be responsive & flexible to achieve the tight deadlines. • Enabled £3m spend on Faraday funding using call off agreements set up by myself, allowing research equipment to be called off to very short timescales.• Completed complex procurements such as the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA, £20m) / Coventry Very Light Rail (CVLR, £4m) / National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC) Dynamometers (£20m) using innovative solutions & resolving problems as required.• Engaging with staff at all levels to ensure procurements achieve the right results, engaging with technical teams, project managers, principle investigators, budget holders & the Finance Director to approve higher risk procurements.• Developed specific T&C’s for high value equipment purchases.• Built effective relationships with key departments such as WMG to manage the procurement pipeline, providing training & attending key meetings as required.• Ensure that the appropriate level of due diligence is completed e.g. securities put in place against prepayments, appropriate payment schedules, exchange, import, liability & IPR risks.• Confirm compliance requirements are adhered to e.g. H&S, IR35, GDPR, FOI, etc.• Complying with internal, external & funding audits, meeting with auditors as required.• Keeping up to date with the latest EU Legislation.• Represent the University at SUPC commodity groups & regional collaboration meetings.• Advising CCC on the circa £90m UKBIC research equipment procurement.• Supporting the recurring Catapult funding programme approx. £2m per year.• Contribution to the procurement saving targets as follows; 17/18 £4.1m; 16/17 £1m; 15/16 £1.1m; 14/15 £0.5m & 13/14 £0.4m

Current responsibilities include;• Managing EU tenders and Mini Competitions for the UoW commodity team, liaising with all relevant stakeholders to agree the requirement and most suitable procurement route. Working with the departments to some very challenging timeframes I have bought procurement activities to a successful conclusion and to date I have saved the UoW £102 thousand pounds. I have produced and agreed with the suppliers SLA’s where relevant and negotiated more favourable terms and conditions such as improved limitation clauses where required. • Contract Management of current contracts including securing additional savings for contract renewals and dealing with operational issues with suppliers.• Keeping up to date with the latest EU Legislation and presenting an update back to the wider team at meetings.• Providing on going advice and guidance to departments to help bring them up to speed on procurement best practice and highlight internal policies and procedures.• I have utilised SAP and Opera to analyse spend to help decide the most effective route to procure a commodity and the best departments to work with to achieve the right results.• In addition I have represented the university at SUPC commodity groups and regional collaboration meetings.

• Managed WDC’s Procurement service, guiding various stakeholders through their procurements. In the short space of time with WDC I had to hit the ground running and run two OJEU procurements and four open tenders. In addition I was planning and preparing eight new procurements, advising on the best approaches to take, and checking that the process and documentation complied with WDC policies and all relevant legislation as well as ensuring that best value was achieved. • I also progressed WDC procurement card programme by reviewing and making recommendations on improving their current paper based system and highlighting new areas that are prime to role these cards out to.• In addition I planned their switch in tendering software from Delta (BiP) to In-Tend.

• I became the National Procurement Manager for the AoC, taking on the role of leading the the FE Procurement Development Team. Prior to this, I was the FE Procurement Development Manager for the AoC and was part of the LSC FE Procurement Development Team which was TUPE across to the AoC in 2009. The FE Procurement Team assisted colleges in achieving sustainable efficiency savings of around 72m for the CSR07 period and 38m for the CSR10 periods. During this period I completed my Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply qualification. • I represented the sector on the Crescent Purchasing Consortium and Generic e-Marketplace Boards and have an extensive knowledge on procurement best practices and EU Procurement Legislation.

Association of Colleges (TUPE from Learning and Skills Council - FE Procurement Development Team in 2010)• Making a significant contribution to the development of the team’s Strategy for achieving the £40m saving target.• Manage and implement procurement best practices within FE colleges. Understanding and developing the sector, building relationships and influencing key stakeholders. My extensive experience with colleges enables me to assist them in the achievement of efficiency gains.• Contribute to and initiate communications out to the sector and have written several case studies to give colleges a balanced insight into saving opportunities.• Working in collaboration with AoC members and purchasing consortia (e.g. CPC and OGCbs) on contracting programmes. Undertaking OJEU compliant tender exercises, ensuring robust contract management processes are in place. This requires a thorough understanding of Government and European Public Procurement regulations. • I formulated a sourcing strategy for the Procurement team. This has been used to identify commodities purchased within the FE sector, highlight contract coverage and gaps. Where coverage has been identified I ensured value for money is established and where there is no coverage I produced a plan to fill that gap.• Contract management of spend analysis provider (Exor) to improve performance. Highlighting value for money opportunities and preparation of statistical information for use by team members and other key stakeholders. I analysed college spend data to reflect colleges needs and contribute to the strategic direction of the FE colleges and the FE team.

• As a Purchasing Professional within the Higher Education Sector, I have proven multi tasking organisational abilities, planning, implementing, developing and training on purchasing systems and approaches ensuring that best practices are followed. • Managed a busy Payment and Purchasing team of six staff, ensuring that the service was covered at all times through effective management of Sickness and absence.• Conducted appraisals, developing and training staff ensuring key objectives from the business plan are achieved.• Supervised the achievement of month and year end processes to plan.• Solving issues to set deadlines was often a requirement of this position, this was undertaken with enthusiasm and flexibility to complete the task at hand.• Projects completed ranged from Six-Sigma related cost saving to time or man-hour savings and can include building relationships between suppliers and key individuals within the organisation.• Provision of support to internal departments and suppliers to achieve collective objectives, identifying improvements and implementing when required.• Dealing with departmental and Supplier queries, pointing out, arranging improvements and savings on current contracts to educate end users as to their most efficient use.• Responsible for checking and signing Coventry Universities Purchase Orders, which entails making sure all Financial Regulations are being upheld and that products being supplied cannot be obtained from our current Contract Suppliers.