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County Cork, Ireland

Trag Consultancy offers operational management support to organisations requiring start up and growth support including sourcing of suppliers and manufacturing partners and general management guidance.Trag Consultancy has expertise in Telecommunications, consumer Electronics, B2B and consultancy industries in large multi-national companies, SMEs and start.

Metaboards is a pioneer in metamaterials – the science of creating materials in a certain shapes, sizes or orientations to give it unique properties that would not be found in nature – in this case the ability to wirelessly charge devices. That enables many electronic devices to be powered across large surfaces without the need for alignment or multiple.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Metaboards is a pioneer in metamaterials – the science of creating materials in a certain shapes, sizes or orientations to give it unique properties that would not be found in nature – in this case the ability to wirelessly charge devices. That enables many electronic devices to be powered across large surfaces without the need for alignment or multiple.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Redux has developed breakthrough technology which transforms the User Experience by bringing surfaces to life with Sound and Touch. Wherever there are touch panels and displays, there is now the potential to boost safety, increase productivity and enrich the user experience with naturalistic sound and haptic feedback. With 178 granted patents, over 50.

Church Crookham, Hants, UK

Member of the Vertu executive management teamResponsible for Product design, R&D, Program management, sourcing & quality, globally with teams in UK, China & Hong KongCarried out review of product roadmap, aligning to business needs and budgetary constraints.Identified and set up operations with new ODM partners, enabling faster development cycle and.

Church Crookham, Hants, UK

• Continue development and growth of the Sourcing organisation within Vertu. Responsibilities include –
• Strategic sourcing direction and implementation for Vertu
• Global management of all direct and indirect sourcing teams
• Sourcing operations in UK & Hong Kong
• Consolidation of global supply base both direct & indirect spend
• Managing sourcing KPI’s to help drive business performance.

Church Crookham, Hampshire

• Developing and implementing ODM sourcing strategy for VertuManaging a team of sourcing specialists dealing with –
• CEM and ODM relationship management
• Software sourcing responsibly for all 3rd party embedded software
• Electronic sourcing responsibility covering all the key component selection including displays, cameras etc

Church Crookham, Hampshire, UK

• Developing and growing a small team of sourcing managers responsible for –
• CEM and ODM relationship management for entire manufacturing demand
• Software sourcing responsibly for all 3rd party embedded software required for our product range
• Electronic sourcing responsibility covering all the key component selection including displays, cameras etc

Saltaire, Yourkshire, UK

• Responsibility for a team of 65 sourcing and support professionals in the role of acting Head of Procurement during an extended transition period.
• Completed major restructuring of the team to re-focus on core competences & geographic location. Working closely with HR & Exec team achieved 30% saving through headcount reduction, reshaping team, and indirect cost.
• Drove direct savings to deliver significant year on year savings across multiple commodity categories. Managing regular review process to monitor progress and deal with escalation of open actions. Using category.
• Managed Pace global responses to Japanese Tsunami mitigation, based in Asia for 3 months.
• Developed a strategy and process to deal with excess and obsolete material, minimizing exposure across the business.
• Managed major outsourcing project to investigate transfer of commercial responsibilities of several component categories to global 3rd party partners

Saltaire, Yorkshire UK

Joined Pace on 4 month contract to help develop a Procurement Category Management strategy and deliver the resulting implementation. Contract was extended on several occasions.

Fremont, California, USA

Bathgate, Scotland