Andrew Knotts Email & Phone Number

Foster City, California, Us

Foster City, California, Us

spend360 has been acquired by Coupa. This is a great combination.........please see this press release for more details: http://www.coupa.com/newsworthy/press-releases/coupa-aquires-spend360/

• Selling and Implementing Artificial Intelligence based spend analysis projects into major retailers and manufacturers enabling better spend visibility and targetted sourcing.• Selling and Implementing eAuction and eRFx based software and desigingin strategies to help companies use such technologies in a difficult market place.

St Albans, Hertfordshire, Gb

Interim eSourcing Manager at Premier Foods since Aug 2006. Designed and implemented an eSourcing strategy into the buying organisation and the strategic use of BravoSolution software. Working with 80 buyers across all commodity ranges with a total spend of £1.6bn annually.Responsibilities:• Develop best practise process for eSourcing within Premier foods for all sourcing to follow adhering to CIPS gold accreditation,• Present the sourcing process to the procurement managers,• Develop tenders and auctions in conjunction with the buyers for both direct and indirect purchasing for all spend (£1bn annually).• Managed tenders with spend of up to £40m annually,• Support the buyers and suppliers through the tendering and auction process,• Advise on auction and eSourcing strategy on a commodity by commodity basis,• Analyse spend and identify key areas for saving,• Continually ensure that the Procurement Managers are compliant with the process,• Reporting to the Procurement Leadership Team and the Board.• Project Managed implementation of Spend Analytics tool enabling Board, Managers, Sourcing professionals and Finance teams visibility of spend across all commodities and suppliers enabling strategic sourcing and supplier/product rationalisation programmes to be put in place. Project took feeds from all AP and PO systems across business encompassing SAP, System 21, JDE & BPCS.

Gb

One of 3 founding partners of Digital Union, a £2.5m turnover eSourcing/procurement software house.Grew the company from 3 to 35 members of staff, building a client portfolio that included Agentrics (formerly the Worldwide Retail Exchange), PwC, AIG, FM Global, Perkins Engines, Tesco, B&Q and Deloitte & Touche.Subsequently sold the company to Verticalnet Inc in 2005. Verticalnet acquired by BravoSolution in February 2008.• Established and developed the professional services function to create bespoke software applications for clients, generating revenue in excess of £1.5m per annum.• Built a strong team of 35, recruiting and developing teams of business analysts and testers that operated to tight deadlines without compromising on quality principles.• Managed J2EE web development projects using both Agile principles and Prince2 as the framework project management methodology. Projects have ranged in value from single developer, £10,000 projects to multi developer projects with budgets in excess of £1m and 10 team members.• Responsible for all staffing and operational issues, gaining sound knowledge of HR issues from permanent and contract staff resourcing and management through to TUPE involvement.• Created and managed all commercial aspects of the business – infrastructure and support functions, managing an annual budget of £0.5m.• Managed and supported key accounts, identified new business opportunities, supporting current projects. Staffing and managing projects that require it.• Key Relationship Manager with IBM, creating a mutually beneficial long-term alliance.• Provided hands-on technical guidance on UNAT (VB & SQL Server), and msimazda.com (ASP, JavaScript & MS Access) and provided technical liaison between the company and IBM.

Stockholm, Se

Stockport, Stockport, Gb