Setting up of new indirect spend category.Identifying categories and savings opportunities. Creation of existing suppliers’ database.Analysis of spend per supplier by sub-category. Analysis of price data for specific savings projects including pallets and employment agency spend.Running tenders, obtaining quotations and negotiation for areas of indirect spend including furniture, utilities, fuel, warehouse racking, forklift trucks and winter precaution supplies.

Research project analysing data about estate service charges and property attributes (e.g. lifts, and bin stores) from surveys of all Orbit’s properties.Cleansing of Orbit’s property data including tidying naming conventions, merging duplicated records, creation of new asset data and disposal of unnecessary data.Resolving survey and data queries with surveyors and other stakeholders in the business.Using other tools to assist in research including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to interpret map data, Google Street View, ActiveH Asset and Attribute Database, and various Excel spreadsheets to cross reference data provided.Using advanced Excel skills such as pivot tables, and lookups to link spreadsheets and provide project reports to senior management.Line management of temporary project staff including training, support and performance reviews.Manage project Key Performance Indicators and report to Project Manager and other key stakeholders.Record decisions taken at project meetings concerning Orbit’s property data.Testing of newly procured Service Charge System.

Studying for Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply through City College Coventry.Modules Undertaken:Management in Procurement and SupplyManaging Risks in Supply ChainsOperations Management in Supply ChainsImproving the Competitiveness of Supply ChainsCategory Management in Procurement and Suppy

Management of the procurement cycle from sourcing suppliers, through to tendering, contract negotiation and contract management for facilities, ICT and health and safety spend.Management of key supplier's contract performance.Strategic management of the Chamber's Information and Communications Technology.Leadership and motivation of ICT, Facilities and Finance and Contracts Department including planning, controlling and monitoring objectives and workload.Overseen successful move to new premises in 2011 including demise of old premises.Managing the health and safety of the Chamber including reporting to senior management team, Board of Directors and Board sub-committee.Project management of business support / research projects including multinational partner projects using Prince 2 methodology.Plus all responsibilities of the Finance and Contracts Manager

Management of the procurement cycle from sourcing suppliers, through to tendering, contract negotiation and contract management for facilities management spend.Manage supplier contracts for facilities management and finance department spend.Internal consultant to budget holders managing European funded projects including knowledge of the tendering process for public funded contracts.Maintain proper and efficient financial controls and procedures for audit and compliance.Ensure timely and accurate management accounts are produced by the Management Accountant.Reporting group financial information at Board Meetings, Board Sub-Groups, Senior Management Team Meetings and Staff Communications Meetings.Preparation of the annual departmental business plan.Supervise banking operations, maintenance of bank accounts and investment in funds.Budget holder for identified facilities and corporate administration budgets.Assist other senior management / budget holders with budgeting and business planning.Manage and administer externally funded contracts, maximising claims and ensuring good financial management, contract compliance and establishment and implementation of effective systems, processes and budgets.Leading and motivating the Finance and Contracts Staff and planning, controlling and monitoring departmental objectives and workloads.Identification and input into tender opportunities.

Leading and Motivating a team of Contract Officers responsible for managing supplier contracts and making grant claims to external grant funders.Procure and then manage supplier contracts including business counselling, consultancy, briefings, training, marketing and other advisory schemes.Manage and administer the provision of externally funded contracts, maximising claims, ensuring good financial management, contract compliance and establishment and implementation of effective systems and processes.To provide information, advice and guidance to senior management in relation to monitoring and review of Chamber contracts.Produce the annual departmental business plan and budget.Reporting back to senior management about issues affecting programme delivery and management information.Negotiation and assessment of externally funded contracts.Liaison with internal and external programme managers, advising on programme delivery as required.Produce monthly and quarterly management information and communicate the results.Identification and input into tendering opportunities.Active representation and participation in management meetings and internal working groups on quality and business development.Project Manager for various funded projects.

Supervisor of staff in Contracts Department.Procure and then manage supplier contracts including business counselling, consultancy, briefings and other advisory schemes.Establishment and implementation of effective systems and processes that support the Chamber's contractual relations with funding bodies and suppliers.Ensure that external funding claim deadlines are met.Liaison with external funders.Contract monitoring and evaluation of supplier's performance.Maintaining and monitoring financial budgets and spend against contracts.Collecting data and preparing monthly or quarterly management information.Checking claims for European and UK funding.Assisting with the business planning process.

The same responsibilities as the Contracts Officer role held with Business Link Coventry & Warwickshire following merger with Coventry & Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce.

Procure and then manage supplier contracts including business counselling, consultancy, briefings and other advisory schemes.Contract monitoring and evaluation of supplier's performance.Assist Project Managers with maintaining financial budgets.Collecting data and preparing monthly and quarterly management information.Making claims for European and UK grant funding.Internal Auditing.Assisting with business planning process.Setting up spreadsheet systems for project monitoring of grant funding.General administration duties.

Responsibilities including advising or sign-posting existing businesses to services available to them, advising clients on how to set up a new business, setting up conferencing facilities for training courses and general administration duties.

All aspects for administering the Centre's training courses including client targeting, course promotion, conference centre management, course booking and confirmation, finding speakers, invoicing, ensuring courses ran profitably, management of part-time caterer, delivering short presentations about self-employment, dealing with contracts and some negotiating work with the Centre Director.

Responsible for daily maintenance of Centre's computer systems, including desk-top publishing, database management (including statistical analysis) and producing spreadsheet financial forecasts with clients.

This post involved learning how to operate computers and software applications.