Established Leader with over 20 years procurement experience in regulated environments within private and public sector. Operationalizing outcome driven multibillion-pound cross-functional, complex procurements (UCR/ PCR). Leadership Excellence: With extensive experience in commercial procurement across sectors like utilities, rail, banking, and insurance, I bring a strategic approach to leading end-to-end procurement, compliance, and assurance functions. I have a proven track record of optimizing processes, delivering cost efficiencies, and driving supplier performance through robust frameworks and governance. As a change leader and advisor, I excel in transforming procurement functions, ensuring regulatory compliance, and aligning procurement strategies with business goals for sustained growth and resilience.Strategic Vision and outcome driven leadership:Influencing stakeholders up to C-suite and Strategic Alliance boards I have inspired & lead assurance and risk management frameworks and cloud-based platform Implementations.My outcome-driven approach is focused on measurable results through process improvement, regulatory compliance, and innovation. I lead teams to achieve operational excellence, ensuring long-term value creation and business resilience.Value-Driven transformative Leadership:Known for fostering inclusivity, maintaining calmness in high-pressure situations, and demonstrating resilience, I possess the agility to calibrate skills to cater to dynamic business scenarios.

Leadership accountabilities BAU role –- Strategic e2e sourcing : day-to-day operations, source to contract, SRM, including BAU strategy, e2e s2c, category strategy, and transactional sourcing teams. Managing 12 full-time employees, extended responsibility of full function (60FTE)- People Management: including recruitment, coaching, mentoring, inspiring, and implementing reward and retention strategies.- Strategized & Delivered of transformed functional operating model and ARIBA GB - Leading Development robust annual business plan – negotiating target efficiencies and resource allocation - Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): design and delivery of a SRM matrix to complement the SRM strategy,- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborating and influencing , business partnering with Directors to ensure alignment with Company goals and objectives.- Supply Chain Performance & Resilience Improvement: - Regulatory leadership: Ensuring process, conduct compliance to UCR / PCR- ESG Integration: Leading communications and implementation efforts for ESG deliverables within processes- Supplier Code of Conduct policy: Leading communications, delivery, and implementation of AW Supplier Code of Conduct, ensuring adherence to ethical standards.- Sustainability Strategy: Lead developed and embed of the Procurement sustainability strategy, driving environmentally conscious and socially responsible practices.- Governance and Audit: Own AW covenants and audits, overseeing processes, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and Governance structures.Leadership accountabilities in Programme role (Delivering greenfield S4 Hana, Sap/Ariba (guided buying, s2c, p2p, SLP, Category management) design and deployment and functional transformation of operating modelSuccessfully

As a Strategic Leader - I look after- Procurement compliance, Procurement operations and performance management, P2P processes, Transactional spend . Accountable for above functional teams, team performance, resourcing, process compliance, process KPIS, process improvements and delivery of AMP objectives.As Anglian Water goes through a period of tech transformation with one of largest S4 Hana evolution programme in the country underway; I'm the business lead for Supply Chain working closely with our appointed Consulting partners; I'm responsible for 1- Technology –from the business side -leading process architecture, design, efficiency projections and supporting our teams 2- People – in partnership with HR business partner and change managers – supporting supply chain teams through change and training. Leading resourcing re-config workstream.3- Business Continuity - ensuring our end customers / our suppliers and internal /external stakeholder remain unaffected

Role requires- To give strategic alignment and innovation for categories in my remit; supported by insightful market engagement through networks.Strong influencing skills to setup the project from the start, influence key customers & stakeholders to join the governance group. Lead and deliver multimillion-pound cross functional procurement projects, collaborating across hierarchy up to C-suite level. Manage competing priorities, with skill to respond quickly to key business issues working with stakeholders to make recommendations to mitigate adverse effectsInfluence subject matter experts in business.

Accountability for category review, strategy recommendations and sourcing activity for social care and community services categories.The role required team management skills, ‘self-starter’ skills, strategic thinking & engagement skills to initiate category review, charter objectives and develop category recommendations. Achievements: -Piloted Category Management activity for Social Care, estimate category value- £65m pa. -Met Council’s ethos of Quality & value for money.-Introduced and successfully deployed KPI management regimes such as Service Credits & incentivisation clauses to mitigate reputational risk and safeguarding issues for the council. -Delivered benefits to the value of £13m within community services opportunities, this was achieved via demand consolidation, sustainable, cost avoidance and volume driven savings. -Planned & lead collaborative engagement with neighboring Local authorities to lead joint opportunities. -Successfully defending strategies at Senior panels including local Councillors.

 Procurement experience specifically human resource category, marketing category and Professional Servcies category Strong negotiation skills. Extensive experience in single supplier negotiations. Supplier relationship management experience. Experience of managing supplier due diligence processes and supplier evaluation. Business process analysis/review/changes and standardisation/governance implementation.  Good commercial view of cost versus revenue in relation to contractual & ad-hoc services. Tender documentation expertise, market analysis/evaluation and stakeholder management. Bid management /supplier & solution evaluation Strategic sourcing experience. Cross-functional relationship development & stake-holder management – internal & external. Strong problem solving / troubleshooting / lateral thinking abilities. Strong sense of process governance; key process owner of process audit.