Mark Holmes Mcips

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Commercial Manager @ Government Department
Hook, GB
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Hook, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Mark Holmes Mcips

Fully MCIPS qualified with 15+ years contracts, GDPR and procurement experience in private and public sectors, I develop collaborative relationships and resolve client issues to deliver value to Private Sector and Public Sector clients. I have worked within teams that deliver savings programs on-time! Recently with TfL and at BT and also Hillingdon Council (assignment 3), I have led OJEU competitions for housing regeneration, construction, FM using JCT and NEC contracts and promoted governance compliance.At Surrey Police, I applied private sector negotiations to awarded contracts to get stalled projects going and managed conflicting supplier issues -all IT relatedAt BAE, I led the wider-use of using Exostar - a portal for Defence industry tenderingAt Arqiva I managed IT-Circuits internationally and I owned relationship with BT; At London Borough of Hillingdon I led OJEU-compliance, establishing new frameworks under which we competed £94m construction works for schools development delivering £10m savings;At Surrey County Council, I worked with Hampshire County Council projects including OJEU-compliant PSL of 30 suppliers across 9 lots for construction consultancy services and temporary buildings. At BAA over 3 years, I established multiple OJEU-compliant contracts for vehicles, a PSL of 18 suppliers for professional consultancy services projecting a spend of £200m and I awarded multiple NEC3 construction contracts totalling £40m; At HP I co-led the EMEA outsourcing of FM services, construction, dilapidations, fitout and real estate management, commissioning the build of data centres and delivering savings of $60m At QinetiQ, I led category managers over 4 years establishing group deals for chemicals, electronics, tools, car hire, hotels, HR and IT.I am motivated to deliver savings; my style reflects enthusiasm, networking and results-driven approach; my goals are safety-first, client-driven timely results and save money when possible.

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Mark Holmes Mcips Work Experience Details
  • Government Department
    Commercial Manager
    Government Department
    Hook, Gb
  • Holmes Procurement Limited
    Director
    Holmes Procurement Limited Apr 2013 - Present
    London, United Kingdom
  • Holmes Procurement Limited
    Interim Procurement Specialist
    Holmes Procurement Limited Mar 2023 - Sep 2023
    London Borough Of Hillingdon, England, United Kingdom
    Engaged to deliver key procurement tasks to drive compliance and support teams as function transforms.
  • Government Dept
    Procurement Specialist
    Government Dept Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Delivered procurement strategy to drive competition; delivered governance to multiple requests and support to wider stakeholders.
  • Transport For London
    Procurement And Commercial Specialist
    Transport For London Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Providing procurement support to TfL Track-team, addressing immediate purchase needs, contract compliance and integrating Ariba governance tools.
  • Bt
    Commercial Specialist
    Bt Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
    Home Based
    In win new business team, helping to secure new contracts through bid and startup. Leading of contractual obligations, influencing opportunities for margin recovery and account growth, leading a team focussed to win and deliver.
  • Holmes Procurement Limited
    Interim Procurement Specialist
    Holmes Procurement Limited Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
    Working In London Borough Of Hillingdon, Uxbridge, London
    Establishing contracts for Council”s development team whilst also supporting tendering and awarding processes for recent competitions
  • Government Dept
    Commercial Manager
    Government Dept Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Accountable for Commercial delivery of Vehicle Replacement Programme.
  • University Of Oxford
    Senior Purchasing Manager (Interim)
    University Of Oxford Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
    Oxford, United Kingdom
    Proud to be in a senior leadership procurement role and providing contract support to our laboratories and the University scientists, as they develop vaccine options during the Covid crisis. Negotiating terms for high cost equipment I support finance budget holders and had delegated authority to approve spend.
  • Holmes Procurement Limited
    Interim Procurement Manager At Babcock
    Holmes Procurement Limited Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
    Ruislip, Greater London, United Kingdom
    Provision of procurement services to support Babcock International client facing commercial team. Initial 6m contract completes and extended
  • Tsr
    Procurement Specialist
    Tsr Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
    At Kbr, Leatherhead, Surrey, United Kingdom
    Providing Client with FM services advice applied to residential markets; enabling access to NHFv7 engagement and benchmarking existing service charges to support recommendations.Supporting the Intelligent Estates team at KBR as required.
  • Thames Water Utilities Limited
    Procurement Business Partner
    Thames Water Utilities Limited Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
    Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
    Led OJEU competition to establish frameworks to define Capital Works-specifications and negotiated contract awards yielding £3m project savings.
  • Mhclg
    Interim Procurement Manager
    Mhclg Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
    London, United Kingdom
    Implementing GDPR amendments for client
  • Morgan Sindall Property Services
    Interim Procurement Manager
    Morgan Sindall Property Services Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
    Aldgate, London
    Implemented a new standard of RFP and used it to add capable vendors to our radically increased work programme; recovered uncollected Product Support for past 12 months and supported incoming Head of Procurement.
  • Amey
    Interim Procurement Category Manager Fm Hard Services
    Amey Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
    Oxford, United Kingdom
    Delivering cost savings for Fire &Security and Lift Maintenance uk-wide to end August 17
  • London Borough Of Hillingdon
    Senior Category Manager
    London Borough Of Hillingdon Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
    London, United Kingdom
    Accountable for Estates and FM Procurement activities, I lead a team of three direct reports. I prepare, publish and award PQQ and ITT 2015-compliant OJEU contracts, currently forecast over £80M.
  • Surrey Police
    Senior Category Manager
    Surrey Police Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
    Mount Browne, Guildford, Surrey
    Appointed to cover IT in the absence of key staff; support acting Head of Procurement following staff churn; drive compliance into existing arrangements and run mini-competitions under CCS frameworks or on G-Cloud to keep systems running.Supported other members of the team as necessary whilst recruitment process gathered pace.
  • Balfour Beatty Living Places
    Interim Category Manager, Aggregates And Surface Treatments
    Balfour Beatty Living Places Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
    Basingstoke
    Appointed to develop partnering relationship opportunities to drive reduced-costs, to support Sourcing goals.
  • London Borough Of Tower Hamlets
    Interim Category Manager, Construction
    London Borough Of Tower Hamlets Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
    London, United Kingdom
    Appointed to support OJEU-compliance in Construction and to determine the merits of setting-up a Contractors Framework for Construction activities.
  • Serco
    Senior Category Manager
    Serco Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
    Hook
    Appointed to drive value from legacy contracts; run e-RFP's to establish new contracts in Heathcare and Bring compliance to arrangements in secure establishments, ultimately driving incremental savings to transform our business to help our Customers.
  • Bae Systems
    Interim E-Sourcing Procurement Specialist
    Bae Systems Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
    Portsmouth, United Kingdom
    I teach and use e-RFx, e-auctions and I have introduced P2P processes including e-catalogues
  • Tramlink (Part Of Transport For London)
    Interim Commercial Manager
    Tramlink (Part Of Transport For London) Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
    Croydon, United Kingdom
    Appointed to resolve the negotiation and appointment of a Vegitation Management Services contract; to drive private-sector commercial values and KPI's into contract award.
  • Holmes Procurement Limited
    Interim Category Manager For It Circuits (At Arqiva)
    Holmes Procurement Limited Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
    Working At Arqiva (Winchester And London)
    Appointed during a period of reorganisation as Category Manager for IT Circuits I helped the team drive decisions to yield savings from an RFP for circuits; I competed a mini RFP for international circuits evidencing a £100K saving to assist winning new Customer transmission lines and I captured legacy undelivered SLA contracts and brought these to the point of signature.Aqriva released me as the result of a funding issue but I left with strong recommendations from their stakeholders.
  • Holmes Procurement Limited
    Interim Procurement Manager For Construction (At London Borough Of Hillingdon)
    Holmes Procurement Limited Mar 2013 - Oct 2013
    Working In London Borough Of Hillingdon, Uxbridge, London
    Delighted to help the Customer strengthen OJEU-compliance by establishing a framework PSL of construction contractors which yielded £10m savings on £94m of works contracts. I led procurement into using new Cabinet Reporting templates helping delivery teams obtain council approvals and driving standardisation. A genuinely excellent place to work.LBH released me as the result of a funding issue but I left with strong recommendations from stakeholders.
  • London Borough Of Hillingdon
    Interim Procurement Manager, Construction (At London Borough Of Hillingdon)
    London Borough Of Hillingdon Jun 2012 - Mar 2013
    Working At London Borough Of Hillingdon
    Delighted to help the Customer strengthen OJEU-compliance by establishing a framework PSL of construction contractors which yielded £10m savings on £94m of works contracts. I led procurement into using new Cabinet Reporting templates helping delivery teams obtain council approvals and driving standardisation. A genuinely excellent place to work.LBH helped me set-up "Holmes Procurement Services" then retained my services until completion of the multiple construction tenders were completed and savings were realised. As the result, I then left with strong recommendations from stakeholders.
  • Surrey County Council
    Interim Category Specialist, Property And Efficiency
    Surrey County Council Sep 2011 - Jun 2012
    Kingston Upon Thames, London
    10-month assignment providing Procurement Services. Appointed to deliver a part-delivered OJEU framework for selection and appointment of Construction consultants. Established new OJEU Framework for temporary classrooms, in harmony with Hampshire county council.Saved £2-3m as the result of my mini-competitions helping the team save over £30m in 2012.
  • Baa Airports Limited
    Opex Senior Category Manager
    Baa Airports Limited Jul 2010 - Aug 2011
    Heathrow
    Appointed to lead the need to drive OJEU compliance of contracts for Vehicles and Operational "MRO" spares. Specifically lead the urgent procurement of vehicles resulting from Heathrow closure in Dec 2010 and the Winter Resilience asset enhancement plan, where I saved £500K in £9m.
  • Baa Airports Limited
    Capex Senior Category Manager - Construction Consultants.
    Baa Airports Limited Oct 2008 - Jul 2010
    Baa
    Interim 9 months converted to permanent, I was accountable for minor construction spend initiatives and for all construction-consultants and design/construction professional services, at all six airports. Initially I awarded minor-works Heathrow [£40mpa] and supported other airports adopting same discounts and supplier terms (NEC3) saving £10m; I then took accountability for construction-consultants [£20mpa] driving improved optimisation and less staff with improved rates; I then tendered design/construction professional services and awarded 5 preferred supplier lists using 17 agreements rationalising numbers of suppliers used by 70%, yielding £10m savings.
  • Hewlett Packard Limited
    Emea Category Manager - Construction Fm And Real Estate Services
    Hewlett Packard Limited May 2005 - Jul 2008
    Uk-Bracknell
    Accountable for UK&I spend in facility management (hard & soft services of catering, cleaning, security, switchboard, reception, maintenance, logistics, mailroom and telephony services) and construction, I negotiated UK-contracts to minimise suppliers in use and optimise rates.I also was accountable for building works (dilapidations, fitouts, divestments) capturing construction and construction-related services EMEA-wide. This included working with data centresand all new-build facilities. Our team saved $50M between 2005 and 2008.
  • Qinetiq
    Category Manager - Indirect Goods / Services
    Qinetiq Jul 2001 - May 2005
    Farnborough, Hampshire
    Set-up Category Management unit from business formation (QinetiQ emerging from public control), defining Categories of spend, completing data analysis, defining scope of roles / resources to hire, self-delivery of multiple framework contracts to have a category portfolio, then "sold" success by on-site open-day roadshows.Indirectly managed the 4 specialists resulting from setting up this initiative; handed over operational contracts to developing internal specialists to enable development of new categories.Delivered streamlined Supplier pool, leveraged spend savings, consistency of service and payments processing, and enabled release of duplication of resources in non-centralised teams.
  • Bskyb
    Interim Category Manager - Generalist
    Bskyb Apr 2001 - Jul 2001
    Uk-Brentford
    Interim role 3 months, appointed to manage AT-Kearney consultants during the restructing of Procurement and appointment of a new Procurement Director.Launched quick-win initiatives delivering a single-source JIT procurement contract for stationery appointed by e-auction, a small number preferred transport providers, preferred marketing publications provider and IT hardware provider. Savings yielded at £1.5m
  • Amey Supply Chain Services
    Senior Buyer / Client Services Coordinator
    Amey Supply Chain Services Jul 2000 - Jan 2001
    Uk - Swindon
    Interim Manager to provide procurement services on client-sites on the basis of fixed-fee services accessing Amey-leverage discounts.Delievered savings ~£100k monthly yet maintained client procurements on and off-site during business restructure.
  • Sun Microsystems
    Partner Delivery Manager, Professional Services
    Sun Microsystems Jan 2000 - Jul 2000
    Camberley, Surrey
    Establishment of relationships to develop sell-on services agreements with resource partners, to provide sun-badged technical capable project managers, system architects to business customers in London and South East UK
  • Thales Missile Electronics
    Upstream Purchasing Engineer
    Thales Missile Electronics Feb 1997 - Jan 2000
    Procuring high value / high tech design and manufactured modular products internationally for military use, regularly working at "Secret" level whilst ensuring commonality of niche sources where appropriate. Relationship-development is key in this area of Procurement.
  • Environment Agency
    Contract Development Manager
    Environment Agency Mar 1995 - 1997
    Reading, Berkshire
    Awarded Thames Region Framework Contracts for Temporary IT staff, River Engineering Consultancy Services, River Engineering Works Contracts, Refurbishment of Visitor Centres. Also pan-UK collaborative contracts for Paper, IT Print-consolidation, mobile-comms networking.
  • Pirelli Cables Ltd
    Interim Supply Chain Manager
    Pirelli Cables Ltd Jan 1995 - Mar 1995
    Eastleigh, Hampshire
    Short term assignment accountable for purchasing rolls of Cu, Al and Steel Cable-cores from London Metal Exchange for manufacturing Power-cables; tapes and polymer for insulation of 240v cable-manufacturing and drums / reels and other packaging to enable transportation to wholesalers. Short-term role converted permanent and not suited for my future career.
  • Sabre Safety
    Senior Buyer
    Sabre Safety 1991 - Dec 1994
    Senior Buyer procuring to Master scheduler needs, Electronic, mechanical, plastics and rubber-moulded facemasks, and breathing apparatus materials. Also accountble for managing materials to run a 24x7 client owned twinspindle lathe, to streamline costs (buying labour-only).
  • M4 Data Inc
    Senior Buyer, Electrical & Mechanical
    M4 Data Inc Jan 1990 - Jan 1991
    Frimley, Surrey, United Kingdom
    Led MRP2 buying of electrical and electromechanical components to support production lines for reel-reel tape drives; selected and audited manufacturing facilities capable of high precision mechanical manufacturing. Delivered savings whilst maintaining production needs
  • Lynwood Scientific
    Buyer / Senior Buyer / Workshop Service Engineer
    Lynwood Scientific Jul 1985 - Jan 1990
    Alton, Hampshire
    Initially Workshop repair engineer, I moved to parts-acquisition for production line items and procurement of 3rd-party equipment spares, using HNC to interpret parts specifications to maintain equipment

Mark Holmes Mcips Education Details

  • The Management Centre - Basingstoke College Of Technology
    The Management Centre - Basingstoke College Of Technology
    Chartered Institute Of Purchasing And Supply
  • Peter Symonds
    Peter Symonds
    Sixth Form College

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Mark Holmes Mcips's current role is Commercial Manager.

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Mark Holmes Mcips attended The University Of Glamorgan, The Management Centre - Basingstoke College Of Technology, Peter Symonds.

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