Weir Minerals Australia designs, manufactures and services highly engineered solutions that makes it's customers more productive. I manage the supplier relationship for all spend used within Weir that is not re-sold to the customer including services, Capex and consumables.

Responsible for developing and managing product ranges in the Construction and General Hardware categories.

Supplier Relationship Manager for the MRO Categories of Adhesives/Sealants, Paint, Power Transmission, Valves/Fittings, Ladders, Construction, Lubes and General Supplies.

Category Manager for Engineering spend

Category Manager for Engineering/Consumables spend including Capex/MRO/other plant consumables. Also includes PPE/Clothing/Gas/Chemicals/Fabrication/Parts/Services.Developing strategies for each sub-category, selecting high quality long-term suppliers within each category, managing both the supplier and the customer to ensure best value is achieved in each transaction.

I fulfill a role that is often labeled as a Category Manager, in this case providing strategic management of the Capex/MRO categories. My responsibility covers over $100m spend in the areas of plant machinery, and consumables including Electrical/PLCs/Tools/Clothing/PPE/Transmission Spares/Motors, plus services required to deliver and maintain these.

Procurement Manager Rotating Equipment/MRO/Pipes Valves Fittings/Static Equip/Site Mtce Services Provided an interface between the manufacturing organization, Shell Global Solutions and suppliers for true pro-active Strategic Procurement. This includes the functions of:-• Managing the effective and efficient delivery of Category Strategies across Australia.• Ensuring that Procurement adds value to the Line of Business (LoB) through Total Cost of Ownership and delivering LoB… Show more Procurement Manager Rotating Equipment/MRO/Pipes Valves Fittings/Static Equip/Site Mtce Services Provided an interface between the manufacturing organization, Shell Global Solutions and suppliers for true pro-active Strategic Procurement. This includes the functions of:-• Managing the effective and efficient delivery of Category Strategies across Australia.• Ensuring that Procurement adds value to the Line of Business (LoB) through Total Cost of Ownership and delivering LoB service needs.• Contributing to the achievement of global procurement Value Improvement (VI) targets for LoB and ensure that the maximum benefit is derived from the strategic procurement of LoB spend. Show less

Develop sourcing strategy for new Global Procurement team, benchmark supplier base across AsiaPac (including commoditisation of suppliers and spend analysis), activated new Project for the management of Cisco's Contingent Workforce, analysed and develop new P2P process for AsiaPac (including Accounts Payable), ran the SOX P2P compliance project for Australia and Singapore

Principally IT contracts - software and hardware to match to contracts sold by the Sales team