A highly experienced procurement professional with significant leadership and category management expertise within the healthcare industry, in addition to multiple other industry sectors.A proven track record of building lasting and effective relationships with clients, colleagues and suppliers, with consistent positive results achieved across a diverse range of commodities and services, client groups and geographic regions.Key Achievements:*Established and led a highly successful clinical procurement management team managing clinical and pharmaceutical arrangements worth in excess of $350 million per annum and achieving annual savings of approximately $12 million per annum.*Implemented a very successful Strategic Supplier Management Program within both UnitingCare and Queensland Health that has improved supplier relationships, improved overall supplier performance and generated process efficiencies.*Successfully led a pharmacy services outsource project for four major hospitals that included negotiating the transfer of existing staff to the new provider.*Led a project to sell UnitingCare’s Laundry business at Darra. This project not only achieved an above market price but we were also successful in negotiating the transfer of all existing laundry staff to the new owners.*Established a growth rebate program for clinical consumables within Queensland Health that is now generating additional revenue of $3 million per annum.