Patrick Tobin Email & Phone Number

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

London, England, United Kingdom

Develop, manage and maintain responsibility for category planning and portfolio management across indirect spend categories, leading on tenders, undertaking benchmarking, achieving savings by reducing costs and managing the complete supplier and product/service life cycles• Provide procurement advice and guidance on all contracts within the portfolio. Create and develop procurement strategies that encourage continuous improvement and deliver value for money• Produce intelligent sourcing strategies, RFP, pre-qualification questionnaires, ITT, evaluation criteria and review contract agreements to influence the decision-making process in line with procurement objectives• Carry out appropriate due-diligence when assessing suppliers to promote good procurement practice with due regard to sustainability, inductions, audits and whole life costing• Confident understanding and familiarity with standard terms and conditions and relevant UK legalisations• Negotiate appropriate commercial and contractual arrangements with suppliers for all products and services within spend control, including managing category supply base to ensure delivery against commercial requirements. Ensure suitable measurable quality and performance metrics (SLA’s and KPI’s) are defined and incorporated into the contract to facilitate future performance audits and reviews• Attend and hold meetings with business stakeholders and manage all related activities and actions as required• Promote and lead with a collaborative team-working approach with internal departments across the business, and externally with suppliers to ensure the effective and efficient operation of the procurement function• Support the Head of Procurement to promote good procurement across the organisation ensuring governance is observed and adhered to in line with the UK Power Networks Procurement Strategy• Spend Management of approx. £70,000,000 per annum

London, United Kingdom

Senior Management Consultant with a focus on supply chain cost reduction and optimisation.Helping organisations reduce costs and increase profits through procurement and supply chain transformation. I work with our clients to identify and deliver improvements to profitability and support them to continually deliver efficiencies with on going intelligence and consulting support. Specialist areas: Cost transformation for major organisations in the private and public sectors. Project Management, Strategic sourcing, Supply Chain Optimisation, Procurement transformation, Category management, Procurement team development and Procurement Process Optimisation

London, United Kingdom

This role aims to provide advice on operational requirements to help our clients deliver operational efficiencies in their organisations as well as existing and proposed buildings. This can cover aspects around how to build a winning team through to the design of manufacturing operations using tools such as lean and six sigma. This can include providing operations and logistics advice to multidisciplinary master planning and building projects. Our clients are public and private organisations and we are currently developing the operations requirements for new developments in cities such as San Francisco and London, delivering urban logistics projects in Bond Street for the New West End Company and implementing operational readiness programmes for airports across the world.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Principle duties included relationship management and ownership of assigned accounting clients. Was the point of contact for one of UK’s leading Insurance under writer for any monthly accounting reports.• Showed strong communication skills though liaising with accounting support, and pricing teams to ensure data used in monthly accounting was accurate.• Provide timely response and resolution to client inquiries, and provided status update to fellow team members and supervisors. Also organized and chairing client and internal meetings.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Prepared and calculated daily and monthly Net Asset Valuations of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and OEIC and unit trust mutual funds.• Liaised with clients and other departments on a daily basis ensuring any issues were dealt with quickly, which in turn satisfied a timely and efficient delivery of the net asset value.• Assisted in establishing new procedures for team, aided and trained colleagues, helping them understand company procedures and a greater understanding of financial markets. Reviewed the daily work of colleagues, whilst preparing daily and weekly ad hoc client reports.

Master Of Science (Msc), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management, Distinction (1.1)

The content of my program provides an in-depth study of all aspects of supply chain management and logistics. Subjects covered include.

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, 2.1

The content of this four year programe was a comprehensive cover of all aspects of the business environment. In my final year I majored.