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Perth, Wa, Au

Perth, Wa, Au

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Managing a team of 8 people in procurement delivering a US$400m portfolio of technology projects and services across the globe

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Manage the global technology and corporate services supply team of six people, influencing a global spend profile of US$298M across 800 vendors and 524 active contracts. Continuously drive the strategic direction of Technology and Corporate Services Supply ensuring key objectives and priorities are met, including technology innovation and decarbonisation agreements.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Manage a team of 3 in the delivery of the South32 Global Technology category. Specialise in the delivery of the portfolio around innovation and operational technology including development and negotiation of the Electric Mine Consortium (EMC) and HILT (Heavy Industry Low Carbon Technology) consortium agreements. Extensive experience in leading and negotiation of Intellectual Property and Commercial consideriations required in the development and delivery of Innovation and Decarbonisation projects with organisations such as Alcoa, Edith Cowan University, CSIRO, HILT and EMC.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Perth, Australia

• Led negotiations with key OEM vendor for APM software and services achieving an $8M projected saving off previous contract. • Managed and negotiated new key contracts with large strategic tier 1 suppliers. • Delivered a commercial plan to technology for managing key issues when negotiating innovation contracts and negotiated a number of key innovation contracts for a Greenfields operation.• Worked closely with Legal to implement new contracts fit for purpose across the Technology space.• Manager of a direct report and non-direct lead for the technology supply team. • Continuously drove the strategic direction of Technology Supply ensuring key objectives and priorities are met. • Tendered and Negotiated key satellite monitoring contract to enable monitoring of tailings dams.• Worked as part of a selected project team to develop and deliver new framework and tools for supplier management framework.• Led and supported the Technology Supply specialist to develop a new risk-based approach to the procurement and management of software across the organisation globally. • Proven ability to work in other areas of the business, including a cost out project for a key mining operation during Covid-19 to deliver savings in crane maintenance and grinding media and a mid- contract saving in oils and lubricants.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Unpaid role as the chair of the EMC Governance Committee ensuring oversight and compliance with anti-corruption rules.

Perth, Australia

• Developed and delivered the new procurement policy and guidelines for the newly merged procurement teams. Responsible for writing all policies, guidelines and templates for use by the teams to deliver centralised procurement more effectively.• Process mapped the entire procurement process end to end and deployed to the business to guide through procurement process. • Delivered team training both one-one and in groups on procurement governance, policy and Ariba. Also developed all online procurement training modules. • Managed the vendor master data in Ariba and liaised with stakeholders, suppliers and the procurement team to ensure vendor master data is up to date. • Involved in the development and deployment of the new e-procurement system Ariba by SAP including configuration and testing provided. Responsible for the ongoing configuration and support of the Ariba system.

Brighton, United Kingdom

As a senior procurement advisor for the Pensions Regulator I worked across a diverse range of areas such as IT, Facilities, communications and Expert Services for Pensions.Achievements included;• Was a key player in achieving the government requirement to drive 10% in savings across all contracts.• Implemented 2 new large framework agreements for Expert Services and Pensions Admin services• Tendered and replaced the MFD fleet in 2011 and the new replacement fleet in 2015 and tendered and implemented a consultancy agreement for the Strategic IT development programme, the replacement Facilities Management services contract and the new strategic HR recruitment partner for permanent and fixed term employees. • Key implementer in the strategic development of new procurement documents such as evaluation report papers, evaluation handbooks and pricing evaluation structures.

Was the Category Manager for Verve Energy specialising in corporate and IT procurement. However was also involved in the procurement of other utilities based procurement for other specialised goods and services such as control systems and Industrial cleaning services. Achievements in this role include the following;• Applied new tendering process to reduce overall bid prices to successfully award a new contract for a bespoke software system after previous contract failure due to costs (prior to my arrival). The first stage has been successfully delivered. • Devised new strategic direction for large Industrial Cleaning contract and successfully implemented the new contract. • Led the Tender and negotiation process for the purchase of a New Control System for the Kwinana Gas Turbine achieving significant savings. • Implemented a new stationery policy across the organisation.• Completed a number of Framework contracts for Air Emissions Monitoring, Architectural Services, Immigration & Visa services, IT contracting staff and Tax consulting.

• Negotiated £2.3 Million discount on SAP licences for the MPS corporate ERP licences and lead the procurement process.• Lead the procurement process for a corporate EDRM requirement (value £8 Million) and achieved saving of £2.8 million in licence and maintenance costs.• Managed the procurement process for SAP Software Upgrade and achieved 50% saving on initial project cost value. • Responsible for managing a large number of complex ICT procurements.• Developed the new PQQ documents and evaluation criterion for the MPS.• Managed and led the Tender and negotiation process for the purchase of a complex Forensic Property Tracking & Contract Management System.

Responsible for management of two assistant buyers and one junior buyers as the Manager of the Resettlement & Drugs team.Responsible for procurement of a high-profile large resettlement project buying, education, training and employment (ETE) services for prisoners across 17 prisons based in the midlands and northeast, east Anglia and south west using a negotiated procedure route.Managed information dissemination on complex TUPE transfer rules during the procurement process.Responsible for procurement using competitive dialogue process for large resettlement project for ETE and housing services in the Eastern Area for 9 prisons.Responsible for contract management of resettlement contracts throughout England.Responsible for ensuring co-operation on resettlement services between the central Procurement Team and the 5 area-based procurement service units.Role involved regular travel to area offices throughout England

Responsible for negotiating reduced margins from 33% to 28% on two large security contracts held by the Council before contract renewal.Outsourced the Authority's Councillor mail deliveries and put in place 2-year contract for same-day courier deliveries saving the Council £15K per year.Implemented a corporate contract for protective clothing and uniforms to achieve savings of £10K per year.Developed new streamlined pre-qualification documents for standard documentation.

Implemented Procurement Cards across the Council in line with National Procurement Strategy Milestones.Lead Project Manager for the £1 Million refurbishment of Mitcham, Morden and Wimbledon libraries. This involved the full internal refit of three large borough libraries including redecorations, book storage, furniture and new stock. All three libraries were delivered on time and under budget.Managed the tender process for large procurements within the council including development of tender documentation and advice on contract negotiation processes for complex procurement activities.Compiled and updated the contract management database.Developed standard procurement templates, reports and interfaces.

Responsible for the initial development of two new corporate frameworks for the council in order to amalgamate council spend.Lead Procurement manager for the projects and prepared all initial research and scoping for both of the new contracts and developing the Issues papers and Options appraisal papers for approval by council to move forward with the project.Responsible for putting together a Project Board and Project Team in order to develop the frameworks and was the Project management leader for the Project Team.Responsible for developing a risk register and project management timescale and ensuring both new frameworks are compliant with EU legislation.Also involved on a Project Board for a third corporate framework and responsible for developing the project timescale and ensuring the development of the framework is following EU legislation requirements.

Responsible for purchasing IT & Telecoms goods and services on behalf of other State Government agencies.Worked with key internal stakeholders to evaluate commercial reasons and specifications for procurement requirements.Acted as probity auditor on clients procurement processes.Issued and prepared RFP's and ITT's for vendor selection purposes.Prepared and presented evaluation reports for senior management in conjunction with business case proposals and contract preparation/drafting.Negotiated pricing and SLA requirements for final vendor selection.Lead contracts valued up to $2 million. Key savings achieved in line with Dept. KPIs

Western Australia, Australia

Administered First Home Owner Grant Scheme (FHOGS).Worked on project to standardise the FHOGS application form and provided training to various financial institutions.

Responsible for project management of national Satellite Mobile Phone Scheme rollout.Wrote a relational database in Access/SQL in order to run the scheme more effectively providing key MIS reporting and business intelligence for senior Management and Cabinet Ministers for Parliament debate.Involved travel to Canberra to assist a Federal Govt. department with the development of the scheme on national basis.Project received a State Premier's Award commendation.

Skilltech, Icon and ASG, Western AustraliaProvided 1st line support for all IT issues for Government agency.Business Systems Administrator for Water Corporation with responsibility for managing water meter reading staff.Led complete multi-site Windows Software rollout across Royal Perth Hospital business and operational units - 3000 users.Responsible for development and establishment of a multiple supplier SQL database via a rigorous pre-selection process thus streamlining and implementing an inaugural complete end to end IT Procurement policy and procedure for the Ministry of Justice.Conducted user testing and key stakeholder training for Gov Dept for accessing the new Secure management reporting system.

Technical Internet support

Chartered Mcips Procurement And Supply Professional, Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions And Contracts Management, Chartered

Activities and Societies: Procurement

Certificate Of Negotiation, Negotiation

Strategic Negotiation & Influencing

Mcips, Procurement

Bachelor Of Business, It, Ict, Networking, Project Management

Activities and Societies: Surf Life SaverGraduated with a Distinction, equivalent of a 2:1 in England.