Neil Sayers Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom

• Develop an overall vendor base which creates and sustains a competitive advantage utilising global market exploitation, leveraging spends and leveraging technologies. • Develop, implement, and maintain a supplier relationship and evaluation process to measure effective supplier performance and compliance. Key Responsibilities: - Personnel• Coach, mentor and develop direct reports and manage a high performing team that delivers continuous improvement, added value and cost reductions.• Set department objectives and monitor ongoing progress and performance.• Ensure strong communication between teams under leadership to facilitate exchange of information and in order to implement change and improvements. • Ensure that the function operates in accordance with any health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of staff and visitors.• Responsible for developing the appropriate organisational structure, resource plans, and culture to support the business objectives and customer deliverables.• Provide leadership, coordination, and coaching to the team, ensuring they are trained enabling them to achieve the operational and financial metrics within their areas of responsibility and succeed in their roles.• Complete regular performance reviews, manage attendance, holidays, disciplinary issues and procedures as appropriate.

Uk

• Participate in tender negotiations and preparation of pre contract documentation with potential key suppliers during the tendering phase especially target projects for those commodities under my remit.• Coordination of/and reviewing subsequent quotations for those commodities under my remit.• The preparation and distribution of sourcing proposals for any given tender and/or project for those commodities under my remit.• Identify, Review, Audit and On board Suppliers as required for Key commodities.• Evaluation of market, industry, and commodity trends for those commodities under my remit.• Identify best practice techniques for those commodities under their remit.• Drafting of subcontract agreements to meet the demands of the business.• Undertake and lead risk review analysis for any given commodity.• Provide statistical information as and when required for those commodities under my remit.• Placement of purchase orders and subsequent timely delivery of said in line with company procedures.• Execute all supply chain management activities in accordance with the supply chain management procedures as stated within ABB Power Systems Quality System.• Actively seek continuous improvement and identify appropriate KPI's for suppliers.• Negotiate final prices with suppliers once compliant technical and commercial bid is available.• Managing the flow of information between ABB Engineering and suppliers ensuring that information is issued/received timely to support design and delivery of the programme.• Expediting of information from suppliers as directed and requested by other departments.• Attend monthly project meetings producing the appropriate reports advising spend against budget.• Produce and issue reports as required.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Responsible for the line management of x 3 professional buyers, combined with the overall responsibility for the Procurement department activities to include but not limited to project procurement strategy, departmental strategy and development to incorporate best practice, Responsible for the negotiation, development, placement and execution of major contracts and sub contracts, terms and conditions negotiation and management of associated sub contract risk. Overall responsibility for Veolia ERP procurement module and development, with associated responsibility for Veolia vendor database and management thereof. Responsible for representation of VWS UK supply chain and group level integration within Europe in order to align local business units with group directives and development of global supply chain sourcing strategy.Business development activities.Responsible for the integration and associated activities of procurement and tendering department to include vendor selection Pre contract development, and associated strategy. Responsible for the implementation of business initiative to develop Six Sigma as a process improvement tool across supply chain management. Responsible for the negotiation, and implementation of a VWS wide form of labour supply contract and associated KeyPerformance Indicators and Service Level Agreements for all temporary and contract labour requirements of the business.

Uk

Responsible for the identification of distinct project enquiry packages, preparation, and management thereof, primarily civil construction, & groundworks, M&E installation activities, bespoke materials supply.Sourcing via application of best practice procurement routes. Responsible for development of bespoke project procurement strategy and implementation plan, at both work winning and project delivery stage, including relevant portfolio analysis and internal acceptance and sign off at Operations Director level.Preparation, management and co-ordination of the Tender Event Schedule/Procurement Programme. Expediting supplier offers and deliveries.Responsible for leading subcontract and major supply pre-let meetings, Preparation and placement of significant subcontract and major material supply orders. Management including final close out of strategic tender and contract negotiations. Presentation of monthly project procurement reports including detailed financial report and forecasting of spend vs. savings. Application of Category Management strategy, working with the Category Managers to achieve this. Compliance with all corporate procurement processes & procedures. In depth quotation analysis, evaluation, and cost benchmarking leading to selection of vendors, presentation of tender reviews / recommendation reports to management team.Full integration with work winning departments and management of strategic procurement approach in order to support work winning function, to include the drafting of procurement submission documents for prequalification’s and tenders (where applicable) In consultation with a Project team. Legal, contractual and commercial training and development of reporting individuals via a hand on management approach and responsibility for project vendor performance and enhancement via KPI measurement.

Kidderminster

Professional Buyer employed within a specialist Water Treatment Process Consultancy based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Providing solutions for Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical, Process and Utilities sectors. I worked within a team of four buyers and formed part of a matrix structure approach for the execution of turnkey water treatment projects. Fully responsible for the recommendation and implementation of project specific Procurement best practice in order to maximise potential cost savings and minimise project risk. Responsibility for the management of Procurement on each project to which assigned often running between four and six projects at any given time. Preparation of material and sub contract enquiry documentation, to standard terms of contract and sub contracts using IChemE (Green, Red, Yellow), MF, FIDIC & NEC 2 and 3 (fixed price with activity schedule).Responsible for full formal commercial / technical review of offers and preferred supplier recommendation. To include final commercial, contractual negotiations.In addition to main project and commodity responsibilities, I was appointed as the business expert for overseas procurement and logistics acting as consultant for user departments, regularly sourcing inputs from America, China, & Switzerland.