Paul Smith Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, GB

United Kingdom

Consultancy Procurement Leadership and PerformanceLean Transformation and Change Management Cost Reduction, Supplier Relationship and Strategic Sourcing Category and Contract Management Corporate Governance and Process DesignContract development and Collaboration Savings strategies and Sustainability, Cost ModellingStakeholder management Training.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Delivery to NHS SBS and NHS Test and Trace of Source to Contract

United Kingdom

Shared Services Transformation, Ariba, P2P.

Malmesbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Leading on developing Supply chain Transformation

Taunton, United Kingdom

Working on a consultative basis with Somerset County Council developing the operations management function, completing a systems appraisal of their SAP Solution, P2P, SRM, ECC, HR, Payroll and CRM. Created a demand management gateway operating model for all temporary resource, including a recruitment tool, resource management board. Benchmarking and.

Bedfont Lakes

Peterborough, United Kingdom

• Interim Consultant with the remit to implement robust financial and procurement processes into both the Council and Serco (Oracle)
• Re-engineer existing process into fit for purpose
• Design and implemented within 6 weeks of beginning an end to end process to manage all categories of spend, including gateways for client/delivery sign off
• Built a data warehouse and spend analysis database to record accurately spend against categories, budgets etc and financial reporting.
• Created a three year wave plan to deliver savings in excess of £20m
• Built a training program to up-skill current procurement officers into Category Managers

Bristol, United Kingdom

Currently heading up the procurement transformation program. Implementing a Procurement Centre, category management, purchase to pay, contract and supplier performance

Review all existing process and put in place structured and controlled systems for savings. Recruit internal Category Managers as well as a small team of external consultants to boost the Category Management operation. Design a Procurement Centre for all of the Council and its operating partners. Devise policy and governance, define personnel.

Building a shared services team of Category Managers, bench marking spend in each category, supplier rationalization. Leading on change management for purchasing with the implementation of SAP SRM rolling out to over 600 users. Project Managing the SRM purchasing and Category management element of a wider SAP project. Five Wiltshire councils merging to.

• Working on the process, scoping and procurement of a large scale procurement exercise. Merging the Finance/Procurement/HR/ICT functions of five councils into one joint venture. Scoping with a review create a leaner.
• Provide expert advice on obtaining best value from E-Procurement implementation
• BPR, Design process using SAP SRM, SAP R3, marketplaces and other systems to ensure maximum savings are achieved
• Carried out change management, process awareness, acceptance of new systems and process to over 600 purchasers as well as acceptance from senior and middle management
• Administration of SAP SRM, IDeA Marketplace and Supplierbank supplier adoption software.
• Represent Head of Procurement and others at board level throughout the organisation.