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Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Creating close business relationships with Senior Leadership Teams across Barings, I lead and advise on transformational IT projects including Cloud deployment, AI (Microsoft Co-pilot), and IT vendor consolidation strategies encompassing network and telecommunication services. I also advise on and lead strategic corporate sourcing projects covering.

Deployed to co-ordinate the development and implementation of a Master Services Agreement with TPI's outsourced IT vendor, involving significant requirements gathering, team management, and contract negotiation. Also, to advise the Programme and Senior Leadership Teams on all aspects of business transformation, including: IT third party integration.

London, New York, US

• Deployed as a C-level IT / Finance business partner to define sourcing strategies for IT Infrastructure / Hardware / Software, and Professional Services categories. Also, to manage operational vendor risk assessments.
• Managed strategic, outsourced, and external IT vendor relationships across S2P, IT Infrastructure / Hardware / Software (including SaaS), and Professional Services categories. I co-managed both vendor and internal.
• Commercial Lead to deliver CLS’ cloud strategy, advising on procurement and vendor engagement strategies through the transition from on-premise to a hybrid cloud solution.
• Commercial Lead to integrate an S2P finance system into both London and New York offices, leading contract, service level, and commercial negotiations, and co-managing implementation with both the vendor and systems.
• Led multi-million GBP tenders and cross-functional teams for:o a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) telecoms & networking tender, delivering significant cost savings, while securing extensive investment in CLS’.
• Commercial Lead to re-structure CLS group of companies, requiring extensive vendor negotiation to novate contracted benefits to all CLS entities.

London, GB

• Deployed to establish close working relationships with senior IT, Finance, and business stakeholders, define sourcing strategies for IT Infrastructure / Hardware / Software, and Professional Services categories, manage.
• Achieved six performance-based contract extensions within a challenging environment, concluding my tenure as Commercial Lead to re-tender GM&T’ SAP support service.
• Worked at C-level to develop annual category plans for IT CAPEX and BAU projects, vendor governance policies, vendor continuous improvement plans, and vendor relationship management strategies/ notable vendors included.
• Proactively developed a successful business case to augment the internal Application Development & Testing teams with a flexible labour pool; I then established and led a cross-functional project team to both tender.
• Led multi-million GBP tenders and cross-functional teams to deliver an outsourced automated Finance invoicing solution, and a HR Learning & Development system for GM&T offices in London and Russia.
• Led multi-million GBP tenders and cross-functional teams to outsource the Accounts Payable, Market Data, and Procurement functions.

Dublin 2, IE

Deployed to revitalise engagement with senior client stakeholders, and to lead a team to establish visibility across both IT and non-IT categories. Working with C-level stakeholders I rebuilt the client relationship and introduced category plans and an activity pipeline, together with defined timetables and deliverables for IT, HR, and FM categories.

• Deployed to lead on both IT and non-IT categories, to develop and implement OJEU compliant sourcing strategies and manage cross-functional teams for both project and business-as-usual procurement activities.
• Delivered a discernible increase in compliance with OJEU regulations by strengthening relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Mentored junior Procurement Advisors, and improved Procurement’s reputation throughout the FSA by advising on stakeholder and Vendor Relationship Management techniques, category, and tender planning.
• Consolidated vendors for market data feeds and legal services, securing favourable contract and commercial terms.

London, GB

• Recruited to bring private sector Procurement expertise into an established and highly regulated Procurement function, with responsibility for managing cross-functional teams to deliver IT and non-IT tenders, leading.
• Reversed the decline in Procurement's engagement through close co-operation with key senior stakeholders.
• Mentored the team to encourage and facilitate active engagement with their respective stakeholders.
• Established regional category plans, enabling the team to manage resourcing, workflow, and client expectations.

London, GB

• Recruited to establish a Procurement function, including procurement policies, governance, and IT and non-IT sourcing strategies to Linklaters’ offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and throughout Europe.
• Introduced professional procurement principles and delivered an SAP S2P solution to Linklaters offices world-wide.
• Delivered a global procurement portal, allowing all Linklaters’ offices to purchase IT hardware against a single global price, underpinned by 24-hour local support and maintenance services.
• Substantially reduced the cost of Linklaters’ global Wide Area Network (WAN) service whilst preserving security and resilience.
• Successfully outsourced Linklaters’ internal Mail Room service.
• Substantially reduced the cost of Linklaters’ external printing service and introduced a standard rate card, and improved service delivery times.