Paul Denyer Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Leading the commercial development and growth of our UK and European businesses.

London

• Proxima is the UK’s leading procurement outsourcer and solutions provider, delivering superior returns through transforming procurement within its clients.Responsible for Client delivery in a wide variety of sectors.
• Management of client-facing teams across multiple territories, driving the delivery of savings and meeting or exceeding client expectations
• Responsible for on-going business development and P&L performance on all engagements
• Embedded within client sites to deliver strategic transformation programmes and provide procurement discipline throughout the business
• Ownership of client relationship at C-suite within FTSE 250 organisations
• Leadership of a diverse team of procurement professionals to manage the divestment process for non-core logistics businesses in UK, France and Australia for a major media client

London, United Kingdom

• Group wide responsibility for all indirect categories across 350 sites in 16 territories with an annual spend in excess of €180m.
• Leadership of a team of 8 category specialists working on over 80 workstreams with business unit stakeholders to deliver cost reduction and service enhancement across all aspects of the business
• Member of the Senior Leadership team, reporting directly to the Global Chief Procurement Officer and setting strategic direction for centralised procurement in a recently merged organisation
• Emphasis on building board level and senior management relationships in a federated organisation to support rapid in-year savings delivery
• Built board level relationships and developed an organisational demand management programme to deliver 10% cost reduction across €100m+ of group-wide spend
• Shortlisted for Procurement Leaders award, May 2014

London, United Kingdom

• Direct responsibility for procurement delivery across the UK, including 8 distinct business units and an influencable spend of £120 million.
• Leadership (direct and indirect) of an extended team of 10 procurement and category specialists within a matrix management structure
• Developed procurement function from an initial consultancy team of 4, to its current size and implemented business disciplines to maximise spend under management
• Increased cost reduction delivery by 50% over the first two years and achieved £7m savings in 2010 across a range of categories including Media, Econometric modelling, FM, Travel, Digital distribution, IT and Print
• Instrumental in the establishment of a Global procurement function, including the implementation of an organisation-wide P2P system and matrix responsibility for teams in France and Germany
• Awarded Outsourcing Centre Global Outsourcing Excellence Award in 2008

Essex

• Responsibility for the sourcing and cost control of electrical components for all European vehicles with a total commodity spend in excess of $320 million per annum
• Leadership of buyers across Jaguar, LandRover and Volvo brands, based at remote locations in the UK and Sweden
• Achieved over $20m cost reductions and benchmark pricing despite adverse raw material cost pressures
• Led cross brand and functional teams in the development of 5 year integrated commodity strategies to deliver best practice sourcing and global benchmark prices
• Implementation of supply base consolidation activities, including transition to emerging market suppliers, extended term partnership agreements, and cost management frameworks.
• Developed predictive cost models to establish best in class target prices for new model programmes

Essex

• Management of internal consultancy team tasked with the development of strategy processes and tools for Ford of Europe purchasing
• Developed and led implementation of an integrated strategy system to realise purchasing synergies by collaborative procurement of production components within the Ford, Jaguar, LandRover and Volvo brands
• Delivered strategic plans for 65 commodities encompassing 80% of group spend
• Initiated “centre of excellence” organisational structure and continual development sessions on purchasing tools including competitive market dynamic analysis, value chain optimisation, and component commonality and.
• Championed process deployment and worked closely with key stakeholders to obtain buy-in and build recognition of purchasing strategy as a means of developing a sustainable competitive advantage

Essex

Executive Mba, Strategic Management, Awarded With Distinction

Modules included: - Strategic Advantage - Operations Management - Financial Accounting - Marketing - Financial Analysis - Strategy and.

Ba (Hons), Business Studies