Jonathon Richards Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

My current role as an Executive Commercial Manager at Westpac in the Group Technology Sourcing team includes managing a team in the Business Solutions and Software area of the team. This team looks after the end-to-end procurement process with Westpac’s Strategic Partners including implementing and maintaining governance structures of the commercial arrangements with Westpac’s Strategic Partners and maintaining strong relationships to maximise value from the Strategic Partners. This also includes engaging and liaising with the Senior Executive Management across Westpac.I also operate as the Commercial Lead for large strategic Westpac technology programs with the most recent program being Westpac’s Banking as a Service (BaaS) Platform which involved setting up arrangements and contracts for all the technology suppliers making up the program’s supplier ecosystem.My role also involves managing some of Westpac’s largest technology suppliers such as Oracle as well as the more recent fintech suppliers that are providing emerging technologies to Westpac.

Sydney, Australia

My role as a Senior Commercial Manager at Westpac in the Strategy and Alliance Services team is the Commercial Lead for Westpac’s Customer Service Hub (Core Transformation) Program as well as day-to-day relationship and contract management with Westpac’s Strategic Partners. This includes negotiating and managing contracts (i.e. master service agreements) with two main Strategic Partners of Accenture and Oracle. More specifically, the role involves the following:• Commercial Lead for Westpac’s Customer Service Hub (Core Transformation) Program. This includes Accenture and Oracle consulting services of $200+million.• Engage and liaise with the Senior Executive Management across Westpac.• Develop and implement strategies for negotiation, extension or tendering of products and services provided by selected Westpac Strategic Partners. • Provide commercial management strategies and commercial advice as required to ensure the optimum outcome from all contracts.• Collaborate and maintain regular liaison with internal stakeholders (i.e. Legal, Business, Finance, Risk, Audit, HR, Media Relations, Tax, CTO) so that:o Strategies and processes are in place to ensure that all appropriate reviews are conducted prior to any contract execution; ando Appropriate due diligence is applied to the construction and execution of contracts.• Implement and maintain governance structures of the commercial arrangements with Westpac’s Strategic Partners.• Manage and mentor members of the Strategy and Alliance Services team.• Manage the end-to-end procurement process with Westpac’s Strategic Partners.• Maintain strong relationships with Westpac’s Strategic Partners.

Sydney, Australia

My role as a Commercial Manager in the NBN Co Commercial team involved day to day contract management of the contract between NBN Co and Telstra. More specifically, the role involved the following in relation to the Telstra contract:- Undertaking commercial management, review and monitoring of the performance management frameworks implemented;- Pro-actively assess, manage and negotiate commercial claims, variations and disputes relating to the contract;- Implementing processes to enable NBN Co to meet its commercial obligations; and- Leading complex negotiations and providing advice and interpretation to all stakeholders to optimise NBN Co's commercial position.

Melbourne, Australia

Studied a Master of Commercial Law at the University of Melbourne on a full time basis.

Melbourne, Australia

Employed as a contractor on a short term contract to provide contract management support to the Commercial Contract Manager assigned to the Telstra outsourcing account.

London, United Kingdom

My role was as a Programme Manager on the e-Borders Programme and responsible for the following items:• Lead a team of six Project Managers;• Leading head contract negotiations with the customer (UK Border Agency (UKBA));• Managing to completion a major work stream within the team with a budget of £20 million;• Managing the delivery of programme milestones totalling £31 million;• Managing and negotiating contract changes through the entire Contract Change life cycle.• Managing and delivering all programme and commercial issues between the Carriers (external stakeholders) and the programme.• Managing all commercial issues between the customer (UKBA) and the programme.• Managing carriers through interface development and live service in order to comply with the e-Borders legislative requirements for the UK Border Agency;• Managing several members within the team and constant interaction with the customer in working together for the most successful outcome for the programme;• Analysing risks and opportunities, providing forecasts and statusing of the project;• Reporting to senior management on key issues affecting the programme• Fulfill a wide array commercial support duties often in a constantly changing environment;• Supporting the development of the overall strategy of the organisation.Professional Development:• Principles of Programme Leadership course• Six Sigma specialistAchievements:• Successful delivery of programme milestones totalling £31 million;

Melbourne, Australia

Project Controls Engineer in the bid and start up team and responsible for the following items:• Building the IMS and implement the EVMS for the project;• Critical path analysis of not only Tenix’s IMS, but also 3 major subcontractors IMSs;• Preparation of the Independent Baseline Review (IBR) presented to the client for the project and the 3 major sub-contractors.

Brisbane, Australia

Project Controls Engineer responsible for the following items:• Supporting 3 Integrated Product Teams (IPTs);• Providing cost, schedule and EV up to date information to the IPTs and a detail analysis of the information in order to help them manage their team’s performance;• Supporting Contract Change Proposals, sub-contracts, excusable delay claims;• Preparing project level Estimate At Complete (EAC) reports quarterly and project level schedule metrics.

Brisbane And Central Queensland, Australia (Fifo)

Planning Engineer responsible for the following items:• Constructing the contract programme, as well statusing this program weekly;• Producing numerous cost and Earned Value reports;• Supporting excusable delays and constant critical path analysis;

Master Of Commercial Law

Bachelors, Mechanical And Space Engineering