Paul Smith Email & Phone Number

York, Gb

York, Gb

Maidstone, Kent, Gb

I am responsible for our commercial strategy across our Professional Services Division and within the Education Market.

Maidstone, Kent, Gb

Heading up CSG's commercial work in the North. Working with public sector colleagues to identify, mobilise and deliver cost-saving and income generation programmes. We partner with councils to provide innovative solutions to temporary staffing, carbon reduction and much more.

Deliberately Blank is a full-service agency providing digital awards trophies for event organisers worldwide. We use NFT technology to provide a unique and valuable digital trophy either alongside or instead of a physical one.

Citizen Coin is an innovative social value reward scheme that helps local authorities empower their community to do good things.

In my consultancy and advisory business, I work with organisations large and small on a wide range of areas including business strategy, start-up growth, innovation and procurement projects.

London, England, Gb

Paid solves the problem of how large organisations onboard, contract and pay their small, infrequent long-tail suppliers.

At Super Savvy we run an online 10-week bootcamp designed by experienced educators to help students go up by grade or more.

Manchester, Gb

I led the Procurement and Supply Chain Workstream for a major school education supplies export project.

100 Innovations per Hour is my twice-weekly innovation inspiration service delivered via a short WhatsApp voice note.Find out more at 💯🚀.ws (Yes, 👆 that's the domain, type it into your browser)

Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Gb

⭐ In 10 years at YPO, I was able to help the organisation grow, change and innovate.As a publicly owned organisation, every penny we made went back into the public sector helping fund frontline services. I love that fact that building a strong commercial business had such a strong social impact.Amongst the many things that make me so proud of my time at YPO are these achievements:✅ Returned over £70m to the public sector in dividends which is more than double the amount returned in the rest of YPO's 45-year history.✅ Grew the services business by 400% to cover over £1.3bn of public procurement (up from £280m in 2010)✅ Moving away from a paper catalogue led organisation to be digital first, increasing digital orders by 500%✅ Leading the digital transformation of the organisation and removing the legacy systems to provide a platform for the future✅ Created an innovation culture which saw YPO launch new and exciting products and services✅ Negotiated and agreed investment in an edtech startup (Edtech Impact) and £50m acquisition of a key competitor (Findel Education)👇 Read the Yorkshire Post profile below for a bit more about me.

Cheshire, England, Gb

Edtech Impact is start-up helping schools find technology that makes a real difference in the classroom.I led the process of agreeing the investment with the 13 councils that owned YPO (no small task).I then joined the board and worked with the founder to steer the business in the early stages and to advise on growth and strategy.

London, Gb

Part of the Aviva global commercial function with responsibility for managing global supplier relationships and driving extra value from our suppliers by acting as a single customer worldwide.

Gb

Buybl is an online networking tool designed for buyers to connect with their suppliers.The first of its kind globally.

London, England, Gb

Running a Group Procurement team with responsibility for over £100m of indirect spend.

Abingdon, Oxon, Gb

Running the procurement function, responsible for procurement of over £100m of IT components mostly from the Far East.

Running the Procurement Department for a large print group.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Buyer within the Jaguar purchasing department buying interior trim.