Michael Cater Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

London, England, United Kingdom

• Management of the Procurement Executives who support the wider Third Party Management Team.
• Review and approve all engagements from the Procurement team before the contracts are sent for signature. This includes reviewing approvals from finance, business owners, information security, data protection and legal.
• End to end delivery of category plans, from strategy through implementation and benefits realisation ensuring appropriate balance of cost, service and risk in all procurement decisions for Central Functions as well as.
• Running tender processes from requirements drafting, market analysis, response review to contract signature for engagement value from £50,000 up to over £10,000,000
• Responsible for process improvements in the onboarding of third parties and how the Third Party Management team interacts with internal stakeholders throughout this process.

London, United Kingdom

• Procurement Manager: Close Brothers Limited
• End to end delivery of category plans, from strategy through implementation and benefits realisation ensuring appropriate balance of cost, service and risk in all procurement decisions.
• Implement/on-board new suppliers, including the transition and exit of old suppliers, ready for the business to consume
• Monitor and manage business compliance for approved suppliers and any established frameworks, and remedy off contract spend
• Where appropriate, develop the category plan for the category and sub categories under management, in line with the procurement and category strategy
• Managing circa £10 Million Facilities spend, negotiating and implementing complete FM solution across 46 sites, achieving savings of over £500,000.

London, United Kingdom

Planning & executing sourcing activities, providing quality commercial support. Tracking of cost indices, supplier & product research, managing projects & data. Developing category strategies & sourcing plans in collaboration with procurement teamMaintaining category spend & savings performance data, maintain accurate contracts databaseProvide support to.

Based in Essex this role covered all sites in the UK and I had to work very closely with Italian colleagues from several sites in Italy. My role involved a lot of analytical aspects including downloading and manipulating large quantities of data both straight out of the SAP system and also in Excel. I am used to working to tight deadlines and presenting.