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Providing coaching and insight materials developing and promoting best practice Contract and commercial management across global industry

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Leading a team of contract management professionals supporting a >£60m p.a digital supply chain.Working with partners (including 365) and suppliers across professional services, infrastructure support, cloud, software and network technologies, to ensure effective support of major programmes and business as usual delivery.In addition to the above I am.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for successful creation of and leading the Contract Management function across the entire and very diverse University supply chain (Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, IS, Professional & Campus Services, Accommodation & Estates).Focused on full life cycle supplier relationships, my role is to ensure value for money and performance excellence aligned.

Responsible for leading vendor contracts including management and strategic direction of >£60m contract budget across 100+ suppliers covering software applications, security, platforms, networks and support services. Through effective commercial and operational management of supplier relationships on a tactical and strategic level, I delivered improved.

Edinburgh/London

Responsible for delivering best practice programmes across BT's multi £Bn Contract Management business covering Wholesale,Global Services, UK and Public Service sectors. This is achieved through developing an environment for growth and enabling the right behaviours and techniques to drive effective long term contract relationships. As well as an integrated.

Responsible for a range of major clients in Global Service Integrator vertical - a business in excess of £300m p.a I regularly exceeded targets set through increased sales of emerging technologies and managed/professional services resulting in several new deals. A key function of this role was to develop major Global outsource and managed service IT and.

Led a number of complex managed and outsourced contracts within the above line of business. I was responsible for P&L delivery (£100m+) as well as the full contract life cycle: business growth, commercial, programme and service delivery across a number of major UK clients.During this time I was successful in negotiating new client contracts as well as.

Led business development across various Global Manufacturing and Service Industry clients. Specializing in outsourced and managed contract bids I successfully achieved sales order of several £100m through successful acquisition and growth deals from existing client relationships within a number of Global regions across: EMEA, Asia Pacific and USA. This.

Led the Business management and development for around 30 clients within Middle Markets(SME) environment. As well as leading on new business sales of infrastructure and managed services, the role included all aspects of a multi £m P&L to service and programme delivery across a broad spectrum of industry verticals. Here I ran a team of Contract Business and.

Involved in bid team for major outsource contract in the Finance sector. Once successfully concluded went on to lead the in life Business and Programme development team leading programme bid, budgets and subsequent delivery of a number of new deals enhancing the business infrastructure for this major Global financial client.

Responsible for number of Global networked contracts as well as leading Contract Team across wider client base. Successfully led delivery against a number of key managed network deals across a number of Global regions, achiveving double digit growth in a multi £m P&L through new business growth and effective cost restructuring.