Global Category Lead - Professional Services
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Senior Procurement Specialist - Interim
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Whilton, England, United Kingdom
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Jeremy James is listed as Senior Procurement Specialist - Interim at GSK, based in Whilton, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Jeremy James.
Jeremy James previously worked as Global Category Lead - Professional Services at Gsk and Corporate Services Category Lead - Procurement BPO Services at Ibm. Jeremy James holds History, European History from University Of Oxford.
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SENIOR PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST with 20 years’ experience in leading regional and global procurement projects to transform client 3rd party spend in Professional and Corporate Services. Proven track record in value creation and cost reduction across Human Resources (Benefits, Resourcing and Learning), Insurance, Consultancy, Audit, and Legal. Sector experience includes Professional and Financial Services, Travel and Marketing.KEY SKILLS AND EXPERTISE•Creates trust and develops effective and collaborative business partnering across functional boundaries•Builds aligned spend category strategies with clients to drive desired business transformation•Ensures maximum commercial opportunity/value delivery•Drives robust contract negotiations mitigating legal and operational risk•Uses Project management disciplines and takes accountability for detailed projects plans to achieve end dates•Champions business process improvements to transform client experience•Creates and sustains team energy and motivation for business change•Expert in leading and facilitating project teams through ambiguous and rapidly changing environments•Excellent communication, listening and enquiry skills to engage with all client styles•Challenges team and colleagues with honesty and integrity
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Corporate Services Category Lead - Procurement Bpo Services
Interim, then permanent Category Leader for a key Professional Services client in the UK accountable for:•Design and build of Category strategies aligned with business needs, driving a client aligned project pipeline to meet contractual savings targets•Delivery of client projects and annual savings in HR and Professional Services categories•Optimising client relations between extended Procurement team and client teams including HR Benefits, Finance, Operations, Legal and Resourcing•Continual improvement to client Net Promoter Scores for Procurement•Continuous improvement of Source to Pay performance and capabilities, leveraging strength of IBM multi shored teams in Hungary and India
Nov 2019 - Jun 2023
Commercial And Procurement Specialist
Jrj Consulting Ltd
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Interim Procurement Business Partner
Led the Procurement and commercial workstream for the sourcing and contracting of a strategic software solution and platform, to deliver a full suite of end-to-end Regulatory reporting capabilities, (A-IRB). Including a new data warehouse build, credit risk model execution capabilities, and IFRS 9 reporting calculations. End solution fully met requirements of Technology, Reg team, Compliance, and Legal.
May 2018 - Mar 2019
Category Director - Professional And Corporate Services
Director for Professional and Corporate Services ( Consultancy, Advisory, Audit, HR and Legal) Sourcing at Barclays. Re-located to London from Singapore in January 2015 to develop and lead further significant improvement opportunities to optimise spend, alongside key Bank stakeholders in London and New York.
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Category Lead - Professional Services, Barclays Sourcing Centre, Singapore
Leading the strategic sourcing agenda for Barclays Global categories of Management Consultancy, Legal Services, Advisory (including Audit and Insolvency) and Insurance Services. Based in the Bank APAC Service Hub in Singapore, serving internal clients across the whole Bank footprint. Responsible for a Team of 13 Strategic Sourcing Managers across all sub-categories.
Oct 2012 - Dec 2014
Category Lead - Corporate Operations (Credit Data, Insurances, & Professional Services)
Category Lead for Bank wide sourcing of consumer and commercial data (used for credit and risk management through the whole Bank credit cycle including acquisition, existing customer management and collections/recoveries) Also accountable for the Banks insurance services category including corporate, cross-sell and wholesale.Prior Career Experience Capital One - Recoveries Lead, Head of ProcurementThomas Cook - Travel Services DirectorCarlson Marketing - Operations DirectorThe Mortgage Corporation - Lending ManagerBritish Army - Infantry Officer
Sep 2007 - Sep 2012
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Jeremy James works for GSK.
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Jeremy James is listed as Senior Procurement Specialist - Interim at GSK.
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Jeremy James is based in Whilton, England, United Kingdom while working with GSK.
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Jeremy James has worked for Gsk, Ibm, Jrj Consulting Ltd, Close Brothers, and Barclays.
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Jeremy James holds History, European History from University Of Oxford.
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