Sarah Fletcher (Bowden) Email & Phone Number

Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Responsibility for £34m indirect category spend across the Mitchells and Butlers (MAB) 1700 site estate, including Waste Management, Contract Cleaning, Entertainment and Door Security.• Implementation of strategic change projects with requirement for supplier collaboration and influencing of senior stakeholders.• End-to-end sourcing including specification review, eRFP, supplier appraisal, commercial negotiations, contract development and implementing supplier change across the MAB estate.• Effective management of contractual and inflationary cost risk. • Supporting the indirect team, outside of my category responsibilities, to develop category strategies and implement ‘quick-win’ opportunities.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Procurement• Category Management of ancillary packaging, achieving 8% savings through both negotiation and the creation of index linked contracts.• Developed category insight for packaging using internal spend data and external data sources.• Conducted tender for ABF UK and Europe Utilities Bureau Services to achieve a strategic relationship for the group and £68,000 cost avoidance on increasing prices.• Conducted contract negotiations alongside ABF legal to include strong KPI’s and full SRM programme which will continue to deliver value.Product Availability• Leading packaging trials for supplier approvals and NPD, working cross-functionally and managing suppliers to ensure British Sugar standards were met.• Facilitating cardboard reduction CI on our retail packing lines, using Lean Six Sigma tools (Yellow Belt).Commercial• Developed relationships with new accounts; actively targeting smaller, high margin prospects as a strategic growth area, achieving on average 25% higher margin on sales.• Led a review of the complaints process to deliver a streamlined solution that was in line with customer expectations and reduced response time by 15%.Sales Support & Planning• Managed market insight data to support commercial strategy and to forecast the impact on our demand plan eg. Soft Drinks Levy.• Managed the demand plan for ‘traded’ and ‘blends’ product categories – increasing the accuracy by 62% over 5 months and reducing product write offs up to a value of £20,000.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Melbourne, Australia

Level 6 Professional Diploma

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), International Management, First Class

Activities and Societies: Enactus Manchester, MBS International SocietySpecific Strengths include: Big Data and Information Management.

Level 5 Advanced Diploma

Level 4 Diploma

International Placement, Business Management

Activities and Societies: Melbourne University Student Exchange Society, Women in BusinessA one year international placement undertaken.

High School, A Levels - Maths, Art, Economics, Aab

Activities and Societies: Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award

High School, 12 Gcse'S, A*-B, Including English (A*) And Maths (A)

Activities and Societies: House Drama Captain, Young Enterprise, Netball Team, School Band