Dedicated, results-focused and proactive Head of Procurement with more than 20 years of experience developing global purchasing strategies, nurturing long-term business partnerships, and significantly reducing expenses. Emphasises cross-functionality and team collaboration to brainstorm cost-reduction solutions.Strong exposure to S2C and P2P end-to-end procurement, business process development, major e-procurement projects including Digital Asset Management systems, SAP Ariba, Concur and MS D365 design, build, test and deployments, plus local and offshore team management. Category strategy ownership across Oceania sites and influenced ~AUD$300M spend across a diverse range of categories, cultures, sustainable sourcing challenges and country’s for spend across FMCG, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Marketing, Travel, Human Resources, Fleet, ICT, Facilities, Logistics and Warehouse. Key Achievements;• Marketing ‘Case for Change Project’ – moving from three creative agencies to one globally across Campbell’s and Arnott’s. The project challenge included managing the internal stakeholders and PR communications plan, especially when one agency relationship was +77 years old. Project included building a “case for change” document and plan that covered all possible challenges to the case. Spend analytics and service reviews for all ASAI-PAC locations. The project outcome delivered only one agency across the ASIA PAC footprint. $3M savings plus delivered a greater share of voice of key resources at the agency, improved product, and efficient processes.• ICT achievements are broad, from strategy and procurement for company wide projects to bespoke apps across all types of technologies. Most recently the purchasing and set up of automated and optimised business process projects including SI (service integration), cloud strategies, SaaS, hardware (desktop, architecture), telco solutions, and bespoke apps to simplify business processes• Business Lead for SAP/Ariba role-out across ANZ. Successfully launched on time at 8 sites. Included all Indirect spend, 30 catalogues, 6 waves of suppliers, 2000 suppliers in scope. Lead on ANZ Suppler Enablement and CRM.• Developed a new packaging design and print process for all Packaged Goods. New Process generated $1.4M savings, reduced time to market and improved print reproduction across Flex and Offset print processes.• Developed an “End to End” strategic plan to deliver Shopper Promotional Material to market, resulting in $1M savings from $7.2M spend across Print and Warehouse/Logistics services.