Paul Mander Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Responsible for identifying and developing partnerships with public sector buying organisations, prospective customers and technology partners. Developing a network individually and as part of the UK Commercial team to raise awareness of the HGS brand across the public sector whilst developing specific solutions for central government clients and the wider public sector. Key responsibilities:• Development of outsourced people and technology solutions for public sector clients.• Engaging with partners to shape value adding propositions and recommending suitable compliant public sector procurement routes. • Future proofing commercial arrangements to ensure innovation can be delivered through proposed contracts.• Agreeing appropriate commercial arrangements to support successful delivery.• Engaging with internal teams domestically and internationally to share best practice and develop proposals and procurement pipeline.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading and managing commercial relationships with key buyer and supplier partners as well as providing professional procurement leadership. Worked as part of the Bloom growth team leading the identification of opportunities for expansion of procurement managed services via existing and new routes to market. Managed relationships with strategic partners to ensure contractual obligations and performance were continually met and reported. Engaged with stakeholders across all parts of the public sector including central government, local government housing, universities and NHS trusts.Key achievements:• Successfully led and managed the bid process and implementation phase of multi-billion pound local authority led contract (NEPRO3). • Developed procurement business partner team to support, maintain and grow the procurement managed service with key buyers across the public sector.• Led the Bloom social value programme delivering over £100m of social value to local communities through procurement processes.• Professional procurement lead offering advice and guidance to internal and external procurement and commercial stakeholders developing internal capability through learning and development.• Hosted webinars and contributed to Bloom marketing campaigns to increase public sector awareness of services that could benefit the public sector and contribute to improve overall growth KPIs.

London, United Kingdom

Led and managed the Client Services team, responsible for the execution and delivery of commercial objectives. Worked closely with senior stakeholders from strategic partners including the North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO) to ensure successful application of commercial terms to deliver success. Developed internal relationships, working across all levels of the business to help deliver an organisational structure and a procurement function fit for purpose to enable future growth.Key achievements:• Developed and managed the UK Client Services team through a period of significant business growth making savings of over £15m per annum on behalf of the public sector.• Set up procurement operations team to support customers, accelerate growth and greatly improving the efficiency of the organisation.• Set up and implemented shared procurement processes to support collaborative working across partner organisations.• Developed and managed strategic relationships with key clients to enable benefits realisation.

Reading, United Kingdom

Developing and agreeing a collaborative contracting programme to support member organisation priorities and to deliver maximum benefit. Maintaining excellent senior stakeholder relationships with member organisations, suppliers and other public buying organisations.Managing the effective delivery of the SUPC contracting programme in accordance with agreed procurement policies and procedures including OJEU.Leading the SUPC category management team to deliver the SUPC strategic plan.Producing reports on contract usage and market conditions to allow identification of savings opportunities throughout the supply chain. Monitoring key performance indicators to measure the success of the contracting programme including annual benefit reporting to member organisations. Developing working relationships with key supplier stakeholders to achieve optimum value for money in the sourcing of goods and services.

Gateshead

• Leading collaborative procurement projects across Corporate and Professional Services and Social Care designed to deliver savings in the region of over £15m• Line managing and co-ordinating staff across a range of specialist areas• Managing relationships across professional buying organisations to identify approaches to managing spend across key areas.• Enabling NEPO member authorities to realise cashable benefits as a result of improved procurement practices.• Leading national procurement projects on behalf of the public sector for electronic marketplaces for social care• Sourced, co-ordinated and managed a regional training programme to develop category management capability for procurement professionals across the North East

• Lead Project Manager for category management workstreams and identifed savings in the North East of over £20m per annum• Played a key role in developing the regional category management methodology to enable the North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO) and member authorities to manage and deliver benefits across the region.

London

• Conduct opportunity analysis to identify potential new business opportunities in the local government procurement space.• Lead client engagement to review purchasing processes in Private and Public Sector organisations to identify significant savings opportunities and secure buy-in to implement agreed solutions.• Project manage the delivery of customer funded and client facing activity.• Provide specialist technical lead for Procurement Shared Services• Design and deliver customer funded eProcurement training.• Manage optimum team resource allocation for the business.

Chelmsford

• Led the project management of the introduction a new approach to BPR within an ever-changing and complex environment undergoing considerable and rapid transition. • Working collaboratively with the Director of SC&F and the senior management team to resolve barriers to progress and agree recommendations in light of BPR findings.• Leading and managing 20 staff recruited to conduct BPR, providing individual and group coaching, mentoring and development as required to deliver a high quality and consistent approach.• Facilitating BPR workshops both at a strategic and operational level.• Project managing the entire portfolio of business processes during the redesign phase.• Providing support in reviewing, implementing and managing effective change management strategies.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

• Identified, led and facilitated collaborative procurement opportunities in order to reduce process costs, develop markets, achieve value for money and consistency of products and services across the Council.• Contributed towards specific reviews of procurement strategies, policies and procedures, to ensure that best procurement practice is recognised and implemented across the Council.• Ensured established benefits are realised through contract compliance and strategic sourcing including reductions in budgets.• Developed and implemented the roll out plans for eProcurement including training, workflow and communication.• Provided advice and guidance to other local authorities on the implementation of eProcurement.• Prepared and facilitated training/workshop sessions to ensure the effective communication of procurement practice and procedures.