Head of Commercial for non-healthcare sales, including developing and commercialising innovations, and developing joint venture companies with Trusts, entrepreneurs and major plc businesses.Shaping and delivering commercial support services to the NHS, public and private sectors.Leads the NHS Renewable Energy Generation purchasing system, enabling on site generation, storage and intelligent asset management delivering CO2 and financial savings.Leading procurement aspects, programme design and influencing end users and budget owners across the spend categories :Estates - built environment, new build and refurbishment projects, site clearance works and Estates Technical Services categories;Energy - Managed transition from a purchased energy model to an actively traded model via brokerage, capitalising on in house CHP, solar, and demand response generation,Informatics - Electronic Patient Record programme procurement, data warehouse, network infrastructure management services, bulk hardware procurements.

Specialist e-sourcing and procurement business change consultancy within private and public sectors. E-sourcing advice, systems selection and implementation, strategic procurement transformational change, and user / supplier engagement delivery. Services provided to Flintshire and Denbighshire county councils, working with two councils merging procurement functions and implementing the PROACTIS e-sourcing module across a largely devolved purchasing environment, to deliver strategic advice, process change, system evaluation, programme management and user training.Services provided to Torbay Council included management of hard FM / built environment procurements for town centre development, sourcing of employee benefit and reward programmes, and leading on social care procurement within a council / NHS joint services structure.

July 2011 – February 2014 Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, Falmouth• HM Coastguard coordinates all civil maritime and coastal search and rescue within the UK search and rescue region,• Handling of radio and electronic distress, and telephone (999) calls,• CoOrdination of surface and air assets during incidents,• Maritime and land based search planning and management,• Provision of radio maritime safety information,• Counter pollution and environmental protection,• Initiation of salvage and accident prevention measures• Development and management of new entrants and support during training programmes.

“Roving” category development for revitalising a major sourcing change project which saw the introduction of on-demand sourcing and auctioning tools, across all spend areas totalling £500m annually.Project managed introduction of Procuri e-sourcing software and subsequent migration from Procuri to Ariba Sourcing including system design, user training and budget,Training and coaching of end users, project stakeholders, external suppliers and customers, resulting in a change from 12% usage to 80% over the project lifespan.Involved with designing CSR and Ethical elements of CIPS Corporate Accreditation programme (Gold), and accreditation for BS11000 Collaborative Working Standard,Responsible for advising on bid development for tendering within the UK and EuropeLed move to AirportSmart / TenderSmart to advise on development and marketing strategies for an online sourcing tool.Member of EU user advisory group for Procuri, latterly Ariba Sourcing.HR – Led tender and supplier selection for Employee Outplacement Services, Travel and Relocation Services, Long Service Reward Programme,IT – Led on tendering process / supplier interviewing for Software as a Service (email, desktop, cloud backup), multi function devices, and co-managed outsourced consultancy support for IT projects,Vehicle – Ran tenders for Company Car fleet provision, exit from existing fleet agreement, ad-hoc Car Hire, and specialist vehicle procurement (railcar and materials handling)FM – Ran tenders for Outsourced Surveying Services, Infrastructure Civils, specialist masts and towers, new build site security, outgoing site decommissioning, and co-managed outsourced building maintenance provision.General indirect – Ran tenders for office supplies, specialist print and marketing, outsourced web design and support, and media crisis management.Integrated Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Performance tools and profiles into e-sourcing system, including qualitative scoring and KPIs..

HR Redeployment and Retraining consultant specialising in financial services industry. Responsible for sourcing and evaluating outplacement providers, contract management, redeployee advice and training provider management. On site HR support for 500 seat call centre during closure and offshoring operation, including career advice, exit option planning and outplacement support.

Procurement Category Manager and Group Procurement Manager (Maternity Cover) developing a new functional role for Northcliffe Newspapers Ltd, the regional (25 site) operation of the Daily Mail Group, responsible for both creative and production businesses. Remotely based across the UK reporting to the London Finance Director. Typical contract compliance was increased from average 50% to average 90%.Main role included coaching, management of change in a non-mandated environment, compliance monitoring and budget management.Rationalised fleet and logistics spend (c.£25m pa) including international trunking.Introduced new strategy for media procurement, moving to a consolidated buying platform for mobile and fixed media together with broadcast spend.Managed indirect spend of £25m across a wide range of business support, outsourcing and marketing procurement categories, and a direct spend of £15m on press and plant maintenance, engineering spares and support, and IT software.Sourced, evaluated and introduced new online procurement system allowing electronic auctions for base categories, and closer contract management and supplier selection criteria. This typically resulted in a category spend saving of 15% - 45% across a broad range of categories.Wrote and introduced Terms of Purchase now in widespread use throughout the Group.Managed building refurbishment and facilities management outsourcing for catering, maintenance, security, site support and architectural services across all sites including new build planning, responsible for supplier relationship management.Expanded electronic invoicing by suppliers, resulting in savings through the Purchase to Pay process.Management of two remotely based direct reports – 1 x category manager and 1 x Procurement Admin Support.

Marketing Brand Development Manager for Kraft's premium product bands (Toblerone, Kenco) leading marketing materials, key client development plans and customer logistics services for leading U.K. and European retailers.Responsibility ranged across four key product categories with upwards of 50 product lines per category, across national and pan-European specifications.Introduction of Procuri e-sourcing software for UK and EU indirect spend,Programme Team member for SAP R/3 migration and upgrade to SAP 4.6 (Star Project)Media buying across static, mobile and broadcast media including creation of Advertising Agency Tier Rota, agency contract specifications and ongoing compliance.Wide experience of EU food-contact regulations and directives relating to child contact promotional product requirements.Sourcing of additional promotional material, plush items, and associated reporting.Management of outsourced item fulfilment, including supplier selection, customer support services outsourcing, and contact centre outsourcing.

UK Major Customers Manager