Michael Cotter Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

End to end category management and strategic sourcing of both Indirects/Directs including; Travel, Fleet, Freight, IT/Telecommunications, HR, Marketing, Project sourcing and Contractor management.

Provide a senior level of advice to budget units with respect to procurement, tendering and general sourcingDrive compliance on internal purchasing policies through exception reporting and consultationManage tender Life-cycles from development of Tender documentation in line with stakeholder requirements through to contract execution with General Counsel.Manage all tasks associated with the University’s Fixed Asset RegisterManage improvements related to the Concur Travel & Expense Management SystemManage the University's Corporate Credit Card Facility

Ensuring requisitions are authorised in accordance with University policy and uptake of University preferred suppliers.Provide a senior level of advice to budget units with respect to purchasing mattersManage and monitor vendor relationships and service level agreementsInvestigate and provide recommendations with respect to preferred supplier arrangements

Project manager for the implementation of the Concur Expense Management System coveringapproximately 600 users. This involved scoping, planning, risk analysis, time/resource management,communication, training, system development & cost management.Managed the Tender process for a new credit card provider, vendorrelationships and service level agreements.

Developing Media Specifications for intelligent mailing machineryManagement of user acceptance testing for new media productsSuccessfully managing Microsoft Great Plains Upgrades for Inventory & Financial ControlVarious Project coordination and change control for the media teamSupplier Management

Coordination of Business Continuity Planning for the Billing operations media categoryManage and facilitate testing of new print media requirements

Certificate Iv In Business (Frontline Management), Business Administration And Management, General

Diploma Of Project Management - Bsb51504, Project Management

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