* Responsible for sales of all lines of business through key accounts* Specialising in Source Tagging, I am responsible for strategy and growth of this key line of business* Working directly with senior management to drive key corporate initiatives* Building senior level relationships with customer Trading and Loss Prevention teams* Working with major retailers to drive merchandise availability through source tagging and loss prevention initiatives

• Responsible for the strategy and growth of all source tagging business in the UK.• Working with team of key account managers to drive strategic activities in all UK accounts.• Building senior level relationships with customer Trading and Loss Prevention teams.• Facilitating multi-retail customer forums to help drive wider market discussion around source tagging and benefits for all customers.• Building double digit growth YOY for source tagging, growing into a multi-million pound revenue stream.• Team of direct reports, commercial and operational roles.

• Working with major retailers to drive merchandise availability through source tagging.• Analysing customer data to identify product categories that will provide an ROI through source tagging program.• Embedded customer facing activity with key customers in relevant head office.• Driving global source tagging initiatives to benefit local customers, leveraging vendor relationships to provide world-wide service.• Working with key account managers to support with relevant projects associated to source tagging.

Working primarily on UK side of the business - Responsible for end to end management of contracts, from product inception through to delivery to customers.Responsible for over £3.5 million of contract management annually.Account manager for major UK FMCG retailer including negotiation, product development and offers.Establishing cost and margins within profit target frameworks.Working with Far East, European and South American suppliers / manufacturers to ensure the best price and quality is secured.Product range development. Being both pro-active and re-active in improving current products and creating innovative ideas to take to market.Ensuring all products meet current European and/or Australasian standards for product testing; liaising with world leading testing houses in Europe and the Far East.Working across a diverse range of non-food products including, Toys, Kitchenware, Bathroom goods, Sporting goods and many others.Specialities:- Negotiation- Relationship Management- Purchasing- Product Sourcing and Delivery- Project Management

Scope: Control and accountability for relevant software sku ranges. Relationship management of suppliers and vendors. Produce detailed financial reporting on all relevant software vendors; reporting into management level. Key Tasks:Maintain pricing for all Major Software Vendor rangesReview ranges on regular basis to ensure accuracy and minimise lossCollate financial information on category and present routinely to upper management, discussing commercial aspects and directionAttain pricing and maintain managed service catalogues for priority customers. For example BP, TFL, Barclays and AmeyResponsible for proactive and reactive creation of stock codes on internal systems meeting all relevant SLA's.Relationship management through regular meetings and supplier performance reviews.Working closely with the sales department in order to maximise profit margins and identify opportunities to improve customer relations.Primary achievements:Pioneered project for a key focus area of the business. Introducing reporting ability on our renewals business, using existing tools and databases. This enabled Computacenter to set realistic targets against software renewals for 2010 and beyond.Created several process' and databases to better streamline the category day to day work and better understand our commercial return to the business.Created formats for excel reports to be delivered to senior management that are now used as the benchmark across the procurement department (approx 120 employees