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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Commercially responsible for best practice and best fit procurement and analytics solutions to Central Government and Transport sectors.

Sydney, Australia

To carry out tenders for high value medical research instruments and close out the projects within timelines and below budgets agreed with stakeholders. Sydney University had embarked on a $13M project to equip a medical research facility but the process had stalled and budgets expanded. Consultants were brought in to deliver each facility’s equipment.

Sydney Area, Australia

• Managing procurement of telephonic health services on behalf of Australian Commonwealth and Federal government. The key project was the re-tender of the Healthdirect helpline, Australia’s version of NHS Direct. As a.
• Managed the delivery of a tender for the Get Healthy Service (http://www.gethealthynsw.com.au/), a telephonic health coaching service valued at $3M per annum, primarily in NSW but now extended to other states. This.
• Advisory role in the re-tender of Healthdirect Australia’s core service, the telephonic Nurse Triage service (http://www.healthdirect.gov.au/) valued at $40M per year.
• Managed the tender for delivery of an After-Hours Telephonic Palliative Care Service for NSW Health
• Established a new tender evaluation plan that simplified the process whilst strengthening the audit trail and minimising probity risk.

Sydney Area, Australia

• To lead sourcing projects across all categories managed under Group Procurement; Property, Business Services, Marketing Media and Communications and Professional Services
• Work with stakeholders to ensure requirements and outcomes are built into, and delivered by, the sourcing strategy
• Work closely with Risk and Legal throughout the sourcing process to ensure compliance with Bank sourcing policy.
• Select the sourcing methodology to deliver the optimal outcome.
• Identify metrics, tools and processes to optimise sourcing
• Work collaboratively with other teams to prioritise and drive implementation

London, United Kingdom

• TradingPartners (http://www.tradingpartners.com/) specialise in spend management and cost reduction solutions for clients using fully managed sourcing projects.Responsibilities
• Delivering end to end eSourcing projects for clients from inception through to implementation
• Being able to quickly become expert in any category from Sea Freight through to Office Supplies
• Engaging with client stakeholders from CFO level through to buyers to ensure buy in and communication of requirements
• Working with high volume client spend data to extract useable data and to highlight potential cost savingsLead consultant for ITV, WABCO, Vitacress, IBP and Cummins. Worked on site alongside the buying departments of.
• Delivered over 60 eAuctions on direct categories for ASDA in Core Grocery, Frozen, Home and Leisure and Bakery

Camberley

• Acquire are a purchasing consultancy specialising in sourcing, contract management and cost reduction to businesses in the hospitality industry. Their offering is a fully functional outsourced procurement department.
• Generation of buying income to clients and Acquire through growing rebates and putting in place volume achievement incentives with suppliers
• Sourcing supply solutions to client specification, award and implementation to successful suppliers
• Regular range reviews across divisions to maximise purchasing efficiency and core lists and to reduce rogue spend
• Managing negotiations and implementation of new supply agreements
• Responsibility for all food and beverage categories

Farnham

Business Development on wholesale salesProspect pipeline creation in supermarket and export sectorBringing existing wholesale together under one reporting structure to manage sales, margin and credit information Training and incentivising telesales teams in line with wholesale targets and strategy.

Aylesbury

Managing sales to National AccountsManaging profitability and margins of these accountsAccount sectors included hotels, pub groups and purchasing consortiums

Godalming

Managing client spend and supplier pricing. Maximising purchasing income.

Ashtead

Managing the customer investment portfolio of the Motor Oils department of ExxonMobil UK & Ireland, a value of £40m.