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Thaxted, Gb

London, Gb

Supporting organisations and consultancy firms with procurement and supply chain leadership and subject matter expertise.

Guildford, England, Gb

Management consultant delivering procurement, category management and supplier relationship management to clients. Led part of the MoD central category management programme coaching client category managers and delivering the One Defence category management and spend taxonomy.

Leading procurement and supply chain operations, with a team of 32 people for Land Systems, Aerostructures and Manufacturing business during an expansion that has seen the business quadrupling in scale. Currently the business unit is c£52m with plans to scale to £200m in the next 5 years. • Minimised Covid-19 impact to the security of supply to manufacturing and the rest of the business• Led changes in business processes as part of ERP systems implementation• Developed European and North American Supply Chain to enable the growth strategy.

Luxembourg, Lu

Alter Domus is a global financial services organisation with its HQ in Luxembourg and assets under management of $1.6 trillion, on a rapid growth strategy both by acquisition and organically.- Led implementation of the global procurement function and the procurement work stream for the design phase of the SAP programme. - Recruited the global procurement team. - Led the procurement of the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) roll out- 20%+ savings delivery on key spend.

Procurement and Supply Chain Consultancy focusing on optimising procurement and supply chain performance. Expertise in the end to end supply chain including data analytics, process digitisation, margin improvement, operational efficiency and cost reduction.Assignments include:Heading up the procurement of £660m pa of prescription drugs in the 3rd largest pharmacy group (private equity) in the UK with shops and short lining wholesaling. Management of a team of 21 people. Management of operations and change of the operating model. Stabilised the team and margin after senior level attrition and recruited two key roles. Delivering operational improvements including digital procurement through Coupa.Developed and delivering the procurmenent and supply chain benefits for a transformation programme based on Oracle Fusion at a FTSE100 hospitality organisation (hotels, restaurants and coffee shops). Driving the transformation into the business to optimise the benefits delivery from procurement. Identified, developed and implemented plans delivering £23m savings.

Marshall is a strategic defence contractor and supplier to the UK MoD and US Government as well as many other military organisations around the world. Leading the reshaping of the group indirect procurement organisation and delivering performance improvement through prioritising on key spend categories. Developed and implementing a new organisational design.

Manchester

Heading up the purchasing and trading of £600m pa of prescription drugs in the 3rd largest pharmacy group (private equity) in the UK, with 780 shops and short-line wholesaling. P&L responsibility for generics, branded and PI medicines. Major achievements include: - Stabilising the team and margin, implementing data analytics and market intelligence. - Created the talent strategy and provided coaching to key team members. - Reversed downward margin trend and reduce cost of goods in a volatile market delivering 6% overall improvement in 8 months. - Orchestrated change in the operating model including digital procurement implementation with forecast savings of c£4m pa. - Put in place supplier performance metrics (including dashboards) and reviews with key suppliers. - Negotiated and implemented a 3PL contract delivering investment, improved delivery service and an additional cash benefit of £500k pa.

Houghton Regis, Dunstable, Gb

Whitbread is a FTSE100 plc whose brands include Costa Coffee, Premier Inn, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre and Block & Bar. Leading delivery of the procurement and supply chain benefits for a transformation programme based on Oracle Fusion. Driving the transformation into the business to optimise the benefits delivery from procurement. Identified, developed and implemented plans delivering c£23m savings.

City Football Group operates several football clubs around the world including Manchester City, New York City, Melbourne City, Yokohama F Marinos and Atletico Torque. Created a procurement function, where none existed, including strategy and policy. Major achievements include: Spearheading the design and implementation of a green field procurement operating model covering £150m external spend. Implemented category management and recruited a team of four. Covered major areas of opex spend in less than 3 years including travel (including aviation), FM and outsourcing of catering. Managed transition and commercial relationship for Global IT including SAP implementation, hardware, desktop support, software and servers. Delivered major savings (up to 30% per category) plus reducing risk, driving quality and service improvements. Reduced supply base by 40% - reduce maverick spend, reduced admin and ensure savings delivery

London, Gb

Global Big 4 professional services organisation. Client facing senior procurement and supply chain professional leading and delivering transformational programmes.Major achievements include: Programme managed the EY Vision 2020 strategy team for marketing and operations reporting to the COO. Successfully led the delivery of a tax efficient global procurement function within a Fortune 500 beverage organisation (>$2bn pa spend) saving 2% pa across all spend. Executed supply chain analysis delivering working capital (inventory) and total cost saving opportunities of £100m. Delivered improvement plans for aviation contracts within a Super major Oil and Gas client as well as in the defence sector. Orchestrated an S&OP process into clients supply chain operation. Led a logistics outsourcing programme in a major utility organisation. Sold services to global organisations, FTSE250 and public sector delivering and exceeding target gross margin

London, England, Gb

Leading the management of >£500m pa of operational spend as well as leading P2P (>£2bn spend), MRO and Chemicals categories. Led transformation of engineering and maintenance outsourced service delivering 21% savings. Contract managed £75m construction project delivering £9m savings.Major achievements include: Created and launched the P2P strategy delivering step change in performance reducing maverick spend and saving delivery compliance (60% to 80% first 3 months). Developed and implemented the aviation category strategy for the North Sea. Led and delivered major category strategy and contract negotiation on £150m of external spend delivering >20% saving across key categories including outsourced maintenance and engineering projects up to £50m. Implemented category management and a supplier/contract management programme to drive supplier performance and cost.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Delivered assignments in major private and public sector clients ranging from outsourcing activity to re-engineering the P2P processes (including systems) and category management implementation. Led teams in strategy creation and implementation for indirect procurement. Major achievements include: Delivered e-procurement adoption programme in a large public sector client. Designed, gained sign off and implemented new shared services organisation - c£500k pa saving. Delivered green field category strategies in a number of organisations including public sector under OJEU. Integrated household name client indirect procurement operation into IBM BPO with savings >10% in year 1.

Us

QP Group is a global consultancy specialising procurement and supply chain. Client assignments include global raw materials; €132m spend pa; European sites services (MRO, FM, Utilities) and North American Logistics for a global chemical company. The latter two ran concurrently with a total spend of €94m. Major Achievements include: Delivery of €9m+ savings. Successfully developed, recommended and implemented procurement strategies within client. Built successfully client relationships with >90% utilization

Tokyo, Jp, Jp

Member of Shire Pharmaceuticals Ireland board of Directors and headed up the outsourced supply chain operations for Shire, outside the USA. Shire is a virtual FSTE 100 company with only one owned manufacturing facility. Major Achievements include: Introducing procurement policy and strategy. Negotiated, put in place and managed major contracts for share price sensitive products. Lead new product introduction team for new European product. Set up global supply chain for the API of a major new drug. Delivered service improvement and cost savings plans developed for key operations. Introduction of risk mitigation and action plans.

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

Managing the global sourcing (procurement, supply chain, technical support, project management) of components for the £1.6bn revenue Metered Dose Inhalers (MDI) product range. Managed a multi-site team. MDI’s contains drugs for the treatment of Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. These are produced in 14 manufacturing sites, globally, supplying devices with potential life dependency for the customer. Major achievements include: Managed introduction and scale up of new strategic suppliers for a bespoke component. Developed global strategy that delivered savings of c£6m by end 2003 and projected £12m by 2006. Renegotiated a contract mid term to deliver 34% price reduction. Improved supply chain robustness and success applied lean sigma philosophy

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

Management and negotiation of all Glaxo Wellcome UK Energy and related service requirements. Development relationships with suppliers to enhance service performance identified and delivered cost and price saving opportunities. The total contracts value c£25m pa. Major achievements include: Reduced standing electricity charges by £300k p.a. Developed new market related gas contract, the first contract of this type in the UK. Delivering £400k savings for 1999. Delivered further savings of £1m pa.

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

Managing the Engineering Service. Accountability for both revenue and capital expenditure. Ceph Vials has a sales turnover of over £150m pa. Major achievements included: Delivered £500k pa savings. Key team member in delivering 50% increase in production output and winners of 1994 North East England Factory of the year.

Accelerated Development Programme, Business & Leadership

Fcips

Ceng Mimeche (Imeche)

Accelerated Development Programme, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Cips Graduate Diploma, Procurement And Supply Chain

B Eng (Hons), Mechanical Engineering