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East Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Specially created role to expand on previous duties, with a larger focus on directing and supporting commercial support, tendering, contract management and procurement activities for all digital contracts across the Trust.Provides leadership and strategic direction on all digital contracts to the digital team to deliver procurement, contract management, purchasing, compliance, project and administrative support activities for a large NHS Trust.Contract negotiation, award and management of multi-million-pound digital services contracts, including Data Centre, Service Desk, Microsoft licencing and Cloud Telephony.Management of Capital funded programme of work for service redesign programmes.Key Accomplishments:Strategy development and implementation activities to build a digital procurement in-house team. This has resulted in direct savings of £66k per annum and led to improved and more transparent activities.Introduced contract management framework and dashboard to align processes, clarify ownership and create greater understanding of contractual requirement for different contracts.Direction of Savings Improvement Programme delivery resulting in realisation of £500k+ per annumEvaluation and award of new contracts.

Worthing

Member of the senior management team and Technology Board, accountable for the delivery of high profile technology projects and management of outsourced managed service contracts for IT services, helpdesk functions, managed print, data centre, unified communications, software and licensing.Provides leadership and direction to the Business Service team and associated functions spanning procurement, contract management and compliance, staff management, event management, project and administrative support.Manages and controls a £60m department budget for the provision of co-ordinated business service functions to the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust IT Department. Engages with key stakeholders across the Trust at both senior manager and executive level, advising on strategy and prioritisation for the implementation of new technology.Delivers a cross-functional communication strategy to ensure an "all informed" methodology in a fast changing environment.Implements business process improvement initiatives and KPIs to improve operational efficiency and ensure processes are followed, accountable, measurable, and auditable.Delivers service improvement planning initiatives using ITIL methodology to identify opportunities for improvement and to measure the impact of improvement efforts.Chairs 30 meetings each year in support of the delivery and review of contractual management plans for outsourced contracts.Oversees IT communications processes throughout the Trust, all procurement activities, and, develop, run and host all department development days.

London And Brighton

MEND is the world leader in the design and delivery of child obesity programmes. As a member of the senior management team, oversaw the delivery of large (£1m to £15m) multi-partner grant funded portfolios delivering projects across the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Middle East.Line-managed the Finance, HR and Quality Assurance teams, and mentored the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive.Improved contract delivery through the creation and roll-out of KPIs to manage contract performance and guide strategic direction.Worked directly with external Grants Officers in managing under and over-spend, renegotiating budgets and commissioning new projects. Introduced appropriate project governance and robust reporting frameworks to ensure the efficient delivery of projects within budget and to agreed timescales. Spearheaded strategic and budgetary planning processes including expenditure, forecasting, and cost control measures.Led the negotiation and effective management of contracts with statutory and corporate delivery partners.Transformed the quality of contract delivery by outsourcing national and international procurement, fulfilment and supply chain processes and projects through tender processes. Oversaw all resource procurement and worked internationally sourcing products, along with the R&D team in product development, adaptation, translation and design of bespoke resources.Key Accomplishments:Relocated warehouse and built bespoke online ordering and stock management tools.Represented MEND as a speaker at national conferences and created a national awards scheme to encourage best practice.Re-engineered operational processes across the organisation and introduced Lean techniques to deliver cost efficiencies such as reduced interview times and cost neutral staff benefits.Led and directed organisational change initiatives, in particular the implementation of an ISO 9001 quality management system, placing quality at the heart of MEND.

London, United Kingdom

Octopus is a registered charity through which a number of community organisations run partnership projects involving ‘hard to reach’ Islington-based community groups.Organised and prepared monthly partnership committee meetings and sat on national steering groups to provide guidance on strategy planning and expenditure.Worked closely with statutory bodies and funders, preparing evaluation and monitoring reports, case studies, and budgets.Key Accomplishments:Programme managed the delivery of a £1M community sector project, setting up and maintaining all management and monitoring systems for financial and performance outcomes.Capacity built the delivery organisations, which included delivering training in milestone setting, marketing, fundraising and performance monitoring. Designed and built the organisation’s website and ran community events involving local dignitaries to raise the profile.Initiated and coordinated a London-wide consortium of similar programmes to jointly bid for lottery funding.

London

Production and office manager, line managing 25 staff across three shifts. Responsibility for staff recruitment, induction and training; creating personal development plans to manage performance. Account manager for approximately 200 blue chip clientsOperational and day to day handling of services, resolving complaints and production difficulties as they arose.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Leadership, Distinction

Master'S Degree, Management, Merit

Specialising in Knowledge Management, Project Management (including MS Project) and Managing Diversity