Commodity responsibility for heavy welded parts, frames, shafts, shaft forgings and covered conductor, for use within the supply of motors and generators, within the renewable energy, oil and gas and marine sectors. Responsible for the co-ordination and strategy from emerging markets, with focus on China, India and Eastern Europe. Accountability for strategy, saving plans, adding sustainable benefit to the bottom line, deploying sourcing strategies based on detailed analysis, sound logic and structured planning.

Managing defined commodities for the supply of permanent magnetic generator components. The negotiation of contracts and the ongoing development of strategic supplier relations. With accountability for the buying to cost process within the PMG team.

I was responsible for commodities including Castings, Forgings and turned parts, my experience in castings include Stainless steel investment castings, where I set up supplier contracts and logistic routes out of Taiwan. Gravity, sand and high pressure in Zinc and Aluminium in China (mainly io the Ningbo region, and India in Combotoire. I sat on Category casting team formulating the strategy for all manufacturing sites worldwide. Over the 4 year period I spent over 12 months auditing and recommending suppply routes, evaluating wheather to send existing tooling to LCM or the manufacture of new tooling, with all the qualification and testing of tools and parts, liasing with many internal functions to hit deadlines and minimise risk to the business.