James Bush Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Defines, plans and prioritises key improvement areas for now and into the future for Consumer & Small Business Services. Owns the 'Game Plan', driving the focus and leading the execution for transformational work across the value chain across the Activation and Assurance experience at Telstra.

Melbourne, Australia

Accountable for the commercial, risk, supplier strategy and budget outcomes of the operation that Activates and Assures customer services on the Telstra network. Leading the volume forecasting and performance function of our 3rd party suppliers, while executing a supplier strategy for our partner footprint that addresses parallel market drivers of growth, decline and deployment of Digitisation programs.

Melbourne, Australia

Accountable for the business plan and strategy of the function that ensures Telstra transitions our customers to Australia's largest infrastructure project in my lifetime. The National Broadband Network (NBN) replaces the existing broadband infrastructure with a faster and more reliable broadband service that looks to meet our needs for the next generation. In ensuring we deliver to the plan, I provided decision making support to the leadership group with recommendations for Capital investment and allocation of resources. Developing cases for change, prioritisation of major customer initiatives and governance of these initiatives for successful delivery & completion.

Melbourne, Australia

Tasked with leading the development of the underlying case for change and prioritisation of major initiatives and strategic improvement opportunities for Procurement & Supply Chain. Key objective was to define and deploy the Procurement & Supply Chain 2025 Vision and Operating Model both domestically and globally across $15bn in 3rd party spend. While supporting senior leaders to be more effective by providing strategic approaches, tools and points of view.

Melbourne, Australia

My mission was to implement a Category Management framework across the Procurement and Supply Chain teams within Telstra. As a key change agent within Procurement, this role contributed to the delivery of Procurement related benefits across $15B of third party spend. This was all about people - positively role modelling a cultural shift within Procurement to managing spend proactively at a category and enterprise wide level.This Included category strategy development, project management, capability and training to ensure Telstra develops fit-for-purpose 3 year category strategies, immediate financial year (FY) initiatives and implementation work plans for execution.

Melbourne, Australia

Supplier Manager within Procurement as part of the IT Procurement category, with a portfolio of commercial and contractual relationships with suppliers who have Software & Services arrangements with Telstra. Supported the direction and executed category opportunity plans for a $500m IT Software Category Strategy on behalf of Telstra Procurement to drive value and deliver change from the categories activities.Key areas of focus were major enabling initiatives and business case development for the Software Asset Management function and improved the overall value of goods and services procured within IT Software while reducing the total cost to serve.

Altona, Victoria, Australia

Australia

Two and a half years experience working within IBM Procurement, managing Software and Services commodities. • Developed proposals and/or negotiated contracts of risk and complexity consistent with customer requirements.• Performed strategic RFx sourcing events, performing moderate to high risk supplier evaluations, selections of a complex nature, risk management and mitigation.• Managed IBM suppliers, primary responsibility within Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region, while also supporting procurement roles for North America and EMEA.

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