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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

- Lead Procurement Teams located in both Brisbane & Adelaide - Manage Procurement Spend of $160M up 24% from FY19- Delivered savings of over $10M in FY20In 2016, two of the biggest credit unions in Australia, CUA and People’s Choice CU, identified the need to maximise efficiencies and entitlements by creating a specialist procurement service body. The result – Mutual Marketplace, the authority in procurement for the Australian credit union industry.Created by the industry, for the industry, our mandate is to optimise procurement opportunities, apply best practice and deliver savings for the benefit of all members. We enable credit unions to grow and thrive in an increasingly complex, competitive and diverse marketplace. Credit unions are founded on the principle that we can achieve more together than we can alone. Our business is a continuation of that ethos. Mutual Marketplace doesn’t just make great business sense; it embodies the purity of purpose of cooperative financial services.

Adelaide, Australia

The City of Salisbury – one of South Australia’s largest and progressive Councils. Consisting of a diverse community with 137,000 residents and revenue of $114m per annum, and $1.4bn in assets.As Senior Procurement Business Partner my role is to support my team of Procurement Professionals through the full life cycle of a Strategic Procurement Process from inception to completion with focus on negotiations that add Value for Money for the City of Salisbury. Items of focus are:- Develop, implement and promote the Procurement strategies to add enhanced value;- Develop and foster high quality, proactive stakeholder engagement collaboration for users of procurement policy, process and systems;- Identify opportunities for improvements to provide valuable business support and process efficiency.

• Have a contingent staffing strategy, developed and supported by top management. • Communicate this strategy to core employees. • Revise company policies, e.g. work dispute, hours of work and overtime, and harassment policies, to ensure that core and contingent workers receive equal treatment. • Establish clear guidelines for managers with contingent workers, e.g. establish who is responsible for productivity rates, performance appraisals, work assignments, etc. for these workers. • Clearly inform the contingent workers who their supervisors are. • Engaged a Managed Service Provider (MSP) as a single point of contact to manage contingent labour providers and labour data• The MSP will be charged with assisting with rates, contractor wages (rate cards), candidate quality, and be measured and compensated based on cost management metrics • I developed partnership with HR and other key stakeholders to revise and enforce the Contingent Labour Policy• Accountable for managing the MSP

• Ensures the primary internal Spectra business drivers for the external goods/services are appropriately aligned with the categories assigned • Scope, lead, and deliver identified Supply Chain projects related to the Enterprise categories with $50-$100MM spend, including strategic sourcing • Manages the category throughout the full life cycle • Manages supplier relationships for the category including building/reviewing supplier scorecards and executing supplier improvement programs • Leads Category Councils for assigned area of responsibility • Leads supplier discussions related to negotiations or issues pertaining to the contract terms • Develops process/techniques to measure supplier performance for the categories managed including internal business feedback • Identifies non-compliance to contracts, investigates the root cause, and resolves root causes where possible • Creates and maintains category demand information • Builds spend analysis of the categories and identifies potential opportunities • Works with business areas to develop relationships and advocate the use of the contracts developed within the responsible sub-categories • Keeps business area informed about significant changes in market conditions for the responsible categories • Accountable for category profile documents that outline the strategy of the category, lessons learned from previous initiatives, improvement opportunities for the future, and current market conditions • Leads and supervises a team that assesses and strategic procurement opportunities, which span or have the potential to span the organization, with the objective of reducing total cost of ownership • Possesses leadership experience with cross functional teams and working groups • Other duties as assigned by supervisor

Facilities Management• Managed Real Estate Broker Firms in developing centralised Facilities Strategy for Canada and the USA headquarters transactions. Which resulted in a cost savings of over $12M for the our Calgary Head Office .• The Houston Head Office negotiated a result of 31% rent savings was realised that translated in over $40M cost avoidance.• Provide premier customer service leading to comprehensive real estate strategies and execution that gives the client an advantage in today's business environment. This was achieved through centralising the Facilities Strategy.• Responsible for structuring and negotiating creative real estate solutions for Spectra.• Compiled strategic facilities plan over 64 office buildings in the Spectra portfolio that reduced the operating costs by $4M by consolidating the vendor base from over 700 vendors to a one managed vendor solution.• Work on economics of the lease and draft and negotiate lease provisions in order to ensure client is adequately protected. • Developed and maintained ‘world class’ Facilities Management Strategy through performance based contracts.• Experience managing the relationship with key business unit and stakeholders to ensure attainment of services provided; review vendor performance and progress of key savings and other initiatives.• Extensive experience for developing and maintaining close working relationship with all key business units and executives to ensure high customer satisfaction.

Corporate Travel• Developed and Updated Travel Policy for Enterprise (Canada & USA)• Negotiated Star Alliance Joint Venture Agreement with United, Air Canada and Lufthansa • Developed Vendor Scorecards which were monitored and reported progress on all Travel vendors• Managed $20M travel portfolio with annual benefits of 10% - 15%

Canada & Usa

• Negotiates contractual arrangements on behalf of the company with the focus of driving cost savings and maintaining the legal integrity of the agreement• Assess and develop strategic opportunities, which span or have the potential to span the organisation, with the objective of reducing total cost of ownership.• Work closely with the staff members and other functional departments leading cross functional Strategic Supply teams to analyze and establish strategic agreements to lower total cost of ownership.• Lead and assist team members with the implementation of strategic sourcing initiatives to improve service levels and decrease costs.• Serve as a liaison between the legal department and internal clients as needed.• Conduct market analysis and research to ensure sound and cost effective supply of goods and services.• Manages categories and sourcing projects ranging from $500,000 to $25,000,000.• Oversee variety of IT contracts including Telecommunications and Hardware vendor• Developed and implemented standards and processes for capital assets• Prepared and managed tender and evaluation for hardware including desktops, mobile devices and servers resulting in savings of USD $1.1M• Prepared, negotiated and managed contract documents with KPIs to achieve savings of USD $1.25M, surpassing the corporate procurement teams annual savings target • Implemented internal process to inform employees of mobile phone spend and how to enact cost saving measures resulting in savings of USD $ 500K

Juris Doctor Of Law, Law

Hon.Ba, Political Science & Philosophy