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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 procurement and reduce costs.AchievementsLed projects to completion within three months, the fastest project completion achieved by the procurement teamReduced cost to the Cytometry Facility by 15% on a $1M whilst delivering additional benefits valued at $250K from suppliers to the research facility

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 clinical service this project was extremely high risk and closely monitored by Commonwealth health ministers.Achievements• 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 tender was delivered within extremely challenging timelines and resulted in savings to NSW Health of $1M per year and a new service provider that commenced the service on time on January 1st. • 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• Ensure supplier transition/implementation is managed efficiently and effectively to ensure continuity of supply, ease and robustness of P2P, appropriate system integration, all relevant mandatory bank policy and procedure compliance and customer communications.

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 ASDA and Musgrave. Managed projects for Ramsay Healthcare, May Gurney and the Public Sector. Category spends averaging over £2M per project. Smallest category spend £500K, largest £10M+. Achievements:• Delivered over 60 eAuctions on direct categories for ASDA in Core Grocery, Frozen, Home and Leisure and Bakery• Participated in 12 month harmonisation project across multiple divisions for Musgrave, rationalised suppliers across three operating divisions in Great Britain, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland whilst generating savings without negatively influencing quality• Created £1.75M like for like savings against ASDA’s £3.5M spend on SD Cards through generation of competition between UK SanDisk distributors and setup of a direct line to Sandisk’s head office in Israel• Reduced Ramsay Healthcare’s waste management costs by 55% through extraction and collation of fragmented spend data and an online negotiation between pre-approved suppliers• Led successful Pan-European and global projects for road freight, components and packaging involving several languages and client locations for Cummins, IBP and WABCO involving multiple divisions, languages and stakeholders. Ensured stakeholder involvement, buy-in and satisfaction throughout the process

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 carrying out sourcing, tendering, and contract management for their clients. As Purchasing Manager I was responsible for 50% of all purchasing activity for the client portfolio.Responsibilities• 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• Contract management and anniversary reviews• KPI and performance managementAchievements• Reduced hot beverage spend of a major contract caterer by 40% (£300K) and improved offering through supplier rationalisation and brand harmonisation• Carried out tender, negotiations and implementation resulting in a 30% saving on a national disposables supply agreement (£240K) through competitive tendering and negotiation between key suppliers• Increased buying income on seafood and food to go categories by 50% through effective range management and re-negotiation and management of core list pricing and rebates• Assisted a financially troubled client to continue trading by opening up new supply agreements with suppliers guaranteed by a sum of money held in an Escrow account. The customer was able to return to a positive cash flow as a result of this action.

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.