Kevin Baldwin Email & Phone Number

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Newgate Consulting bring over 50 combined years of continuous improvement, lean, operational excellence and customer experience know-how directly to your organisation’s key people, to be your partner in creating customer value.

London Area, United Kingdom

Mansfield, England, United Kingdom

Helping businesses improve productivity, create capacity and accelerate growth using the power of AI, video analytics, lean, continuous improvement and customer journey transformation.Here’s how I do it:| Streamline operations: Implementing AI, automation and video analytics to optimize your processes and improve decision-making.| Drive efficiency.

London, United Kingdom

• I've been responsible for leading continuous improvement and transformational discovery projects across a variety of BT's lines of business, including Openreach, TSO, BT Business and BT Wholesale and Ventures.I've.
• Conduct a 'health check' analysis (Discovery) package of work consulting with key stakeholders across business areas to baseline and identify quick wins and focus areas for improvement.
• Own the mandating and mobilisation of improvement waves within a BT Line of Business, tailoring the delivery of a standard method as appropriate based on business needs.
• Coach and train others involved in the wave on tools and techniques to solve problems, deliver change and make change stick using lean, six sigma and theory of constraints principles
• Assure benefit delivery, which is financial, people-based (employee engagement) and customer service improvements
• Own and manage the relationships and coaching with Senior Stakeholders for my improvement waves to ensure changes are set up to sustain into the future

Derby, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the programme management of design engineering and manufacturing cost reduction projects to reduce lifecycle and unit cost of components in multiple commodity groups in a global supply chain and.
• Led the delivery of purchasing, design and manufacturing transformation projects that have contributed to significant in-year cost reduction, while developing a large ideas pipeline.
• I programme managed the implementation of value improvement tools, such as ‘should costing’, cost gap analysis and cost transparency to create cross-functional work packages contributing to 50% cost and process time.
• Managed cross functional relationships between customers and stakeholders using my business acumen to turn strategic thinking into committed project plans. I have delivered success by aligning people and processes.
• Negotiated with strategic suppliers using Total Life Cycle and NPV principles to execute in-contract cost reduction based on OE and Aftermarket cost improvements.

• Responsible for quality, cost and delivery performance of a mix of operational and strategic growth suppliers in the Fabricated Products, Casings and Fuel Systems commodity groups. As part of my ongoing development in.
• Led the supplier relationship with a key strategic supplier, developed the supplier strategy and negotiated a new contract to deliver optimum value to Rolls-Royce, resulting in annual savings of £2.6m.
• Project managed in contract cost, delivery and quality improvement through the application of lean techniques such as Value Stream Mapping, Load and Capacity Planning and Design for Manufacture workshops, resulting in.
• Inspired and developed other buyers to achieve cost reduction by leading Cost Reviews, ideas and good practice sharing events, aligned to commodity strategies and customer requirements.

• Responsible for developing, integrating and training the purchasing population on an IT tool I created known as the “Purchasing Hub” alongside SAP data analysis to aid supplier development engagements.
• Developed extensive skills in SAP, Business Warehouse and Microsoft Office software packages to create tools and training materials to drive 30000 annual man-hours out of transactional processing and reporting.

• I successfully applied to the Purchasing and Logistics gradate scheme two years prior to my graduation to gain work experience in a number of functions and sectors.
• Broadened my business acumen by gaining work experience in cross-sector and cross-functional roles, managing projects that delivered business benefit in short timescales.
• Implemented e-auctioning and e-catalogue tools into the Submarines supply chain to improve lead times and demand signals to suppliers.
• Delivered a £150k per annum saving through the sourcing, negotiation and contracting of career transition services.

• I successfully completed a Year in Industry at Rolls-Royce in the Airlines business working as a Customer Services Officer prior to starting my Undergraduate Degree at Nottingham Trent University. I also worked as a.
• Developed listening and influencing skills whilst exceeding profit targets in a sales role, driving month on month growth in a retail store in Newark.
• Resolved customer problems through contract management techniques and developed a tool to calculate Fleet Hour Payments and invoicing for a Chinese Airline.

Mba, Executive Mba, Distinction

I concluded my MBA studies in January 2013 and attained a pass with Distinction. Highlights of the course include undertaking two.

Ba, Business Management