Patrick Tobin Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Blackfriars, England, GB

Fuschl, AT

Delft, Zuid-Holland, NL

• Reporting into the Global Category based in Sweden, responsible for all areas of Facility Services, including hard and soft FM services along with Security Services across the IKEA businessKey Achievements
• Currently acting as a Global Lead for a Facility Services Transformation Project, I have taken responsibility for the U.K., Ireland and Switzerland. In this project along with leading the procurement process I am.

Delft, Zuid-Holland, NL

• Support various functions in both the Retail and Distribution organisations in the UK and Ireland which have included Facilities Management, Marketing, Food, I.T., Equipment and Customer Services
• Management of end-to-end Procurement Process, including, but not limited to, designing RFI and RFPs, conducting analysis work, presentation of findings, commercial and legal negotiations
• Responsible for circa £30 millions of spend
• Represent Western Europe in a global procurement matrix for FM where best practices are discussed and put in place for implementation
• Training the Procurement team in the upcoming organisational changes, working with global organisation on how to roll the training out and the content of the material
• Strong analytical skills to review qualitative and quantitative submissions and turn that into presentable material to senior management

Cowley, Oxford, GB

• In my current role, a national hire retail business has outsourced the supply and purchasing of its spares to Unipart. I am tasked with driving down costs and the overall spend. These duties are carried out in liaising.
• Awarded contract responsibilities upon initial start, working to procure products and services to meet business needs; managing the purchase of aftermarket parts for a national hire business
• Closely collaborating with internal and external stakeholders and the client to realize optimal purchasing results
• Overseeing supplier management by conducting reviews with strategic suppliers and re-negotiating prices with current suppliers for longer fixed-term pricing
• Investigating single source commodity purchasing in combination with the use of large OEM parts distributers in order to downsize the supplier base for cost efficiencyKey Achievements
• Created and developed processes and strategies from the ground up, including a rebate strategy to negate year-on-year increased expenditures

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London, England, GB

In this role, I was tasked with the procurement and maintenance of all machinery and plant equipment’s across the company on a national level, in coordination with 2 technicians. In addition to that, I carried out routine interactions with suppliers to discuss supplier performance, pricing and upcoming work, besides performing a nationwide audit of all.

London, GB

Here I provided front line support to small and medium sized businesses, while working with the Escalations team dealing with high level complaints from high spend customers. I also delivered on cover management strategies, with up to 80 members of staff while ensuring SLA's were met by regularly over achieving targets set. Furthermore, I mentored members.

Master Of Science (Msc), Supply Chain Logistics And Management

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History