Helen Waldron Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

London, United Kingdom

Professional Services Category Lead within the Global Procurement Services EMEA team. Responsibility for Consulting, Tax, Legal and Marketing across SSBT businesses regionally. EMEA Procurement Relationship lead for SSGA, SSGM and Corporate business lines.

London, United Kingdom

Responsibility for the Firm’s procurement operations in European locations, implementing and standardising processes in line with regulatory and corporate guidelines; development and implementation of EU sourcing strategy across all indirect spend areas; establishing sourcing guidelines for business owners, including vendor performance and contract management principles; creation of core procurement documentation to ensure consistent application of strategy across all locations; regularly reporting to management and the Partnership on key issues, savings and forecast initiatives; global lead for development and implementation of the Firm’s Green Procurement Policy, in tandem with the Firm’s wider Environmental and CSR policies.

London, United Kingdom

Helen's work focussed on HR and professional services, and indirect spend categories more broadly with experience within travel, logistics, insurance, facilities management and translation services.Working in the Global Procurement Team, Helen supported internal clients where products and services have a value over £100k and was also involved in the development of strategic supplier relationships on behalf of the Firm. Projects typically included: legal support; contract management; management reporting and monitoring; risk management; cost and opportunity analysis; and compliance management.

London, United Kingdom

Commissioning and Procurement Specialist, working on a consultancy basis for the DfE, Department of Health, NHS, and local authorities. Work included: managing the tender development and issue for a social work pilot scheme to transfer delivery responsibility away from local authorities; a review of contract management processes within a local authority to evaluate the potential for development and improvement, from initial definition of customer requirements to delivery of final report (projected savings £14m); and an evaluation of HR spend (within the NHS) across framework and non-framework service providers to develop improved procurement and HR solutions for three NHS Trusts (projected savings £16m).Helen was involved in the Social Contribution Group, developing a strategic plan for the growth of the CR offering and securing relationships with key partner charities.

Manchester And London

Project Management for public sector clients, predominantly within the health and education spheres. Projects included: the delivery of a £12m radiotherapy treatment centre extension; development of Business Case for Manchester's 'Building Schools for the Future' programme; managing the procurement process for a local authority's waste management outsourcing initiative; delivery of a bid for a 6-year framework project, securing full supply-chain agreement; and management and evaluation of a pilot scheme to test the link between financial incentives and improvements in health following a directive from the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit.Outside work, Helen was the national representative for environmental strategy on the social and corporate responsibility committee, producing an in-depth evaluation of the company's existing energy use and recommendations for improvements in utilities, recycling and communications.She also founded the Manchester office netball team.

Llb (Hons), Law

Activities and Societies: Law Society Netball, Mixed Lacrosse CaptainContract Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Law of Evidence, Land.

Msc, Management

Activities and Societies: Lacrosse CaptainTaught modules: Principles and Practices of Marketing; Organisational Analysis; Management.

Education record

Activities and Societies: House Captain; Charities Committee; Chamber Choir; Senior Orchestra; Lacrosse Team;A-level: English Language.