A senior global category and procurement manager with significant experience in delivering procurement solutions for services and technology investments to a range of global businesses – including for the retail, advertising, communications and TV markets. Degree educated and MCIPS accredited. Practiced at requirements planning, market analysis and category management, sourcing-to-contract, and subsequent supplier performance management to deliver business goals and growth. Skills:Procurement leadership; project management; communication; business partnering and planning; RFX process; negotiation; category management; spend analysis; risk management; business law; contract drafting and preparation; contract management; TV video production, supplier performance and relationship management, commercialising specs.Categories:Production ServicesIndirects - Technology (SW/HW/Services) - Capex + MROCorporate ServicesFacilitiesPrevious work achievements:- I worked closely with business leadership team to build capital investment plans and I successfully expedited source-to-contract processes to deliver new assets to secure clients and support revenue growth.- I have engaged with the senior leadership team to build, expedite and monitor business critical category plans to optimise how money is spent.- I have managed contract and vendor relationships on significant operational and service contracts to ensure KPIs are met, issues are resolved quickly, and relationships are developed to continually improve the service.- I competitively and simultaneously sourced a package of services in excess of £10m to leverage competition and volume to deliver savings. - I created framework agreements against a catalogue of products and services to offer end users a quick and easy way to purchase professional services, hardware and software. This delivered savings by consolidating spend through preferred vendors and delivered consistency by way of agreeing common product standards across business units.- I provided a centre of excellence to deliver to TV production teams for all their bought-in requirements across all genres including Sport, Entertainment, Factual, Drama, News and Weather. This included strategic category management through to support on key sport and entertainment shows.- I have project managed the procurement for capital investments in IT, XR studio, TV studios, post production facilities, outside broadcast facilities, print, buildings and transportation in the UK and worldwide.