Simon Gray Email & Phone Number

Tonbridge, GB

Sandgate, Kent

New Delhi Area, India

Navon Support Services is a Professional Services outsourcing organisation, providing direct Legal and Procurement support to SME's within the UK and beyond. With a fully flexible approach, Navon provide highly cost effective support solutions to Businesses, delivering excellent customer support and significant value add. With a concentration on SME's.

Dover, Kent

Commercial & Procurement Lead for the New Ship Build Programme for P&O Ferries. Led the end to end procurement process encompassing base commercial strategy development based on TCO, global yard selection programme and created a BAU benefit maximisation strategy.Successfully negotiated and brought to signature a state of the art, hybrid powered, 2+1+1.

Dover, Kent

Lead a procurement team transformation programme, delivering step change improvement within the traditional Shipping Fleet procurement department and establishing procurement support across the rest of the Business encompassing all Indirect areas of expenditure. Created a future savings pipeline and established updated working practices and commenced.

UK

Joint lead on a major cost saving programme across Smith & Nephew Indirect categories. Working closely with the global category teams, identifying, validating and delivering savings projects across Professional Services, IT, Corporate and People services.

London, United Kingdom

Led the merger team for the CSC and Xchanging Supply Chain functions following the £500m purchase of Xchanging by CSC. Established the overall SCM workstream programme covering the integration of personnel, contracts, systems, policies and creation of the synergy savings delivery programme from the combined organisation.

London, United Kingdom

Introduce, coach and embed strategic category management strategies across European SCM team. Act as Procurement Lead on M&A activity within CSC, Bid Support and Integration Adviser on new Business wins.

London, United Kingdom

Assignment to work on a major outsourcing Bid for CSC, covering all supply chain requirements. From October 2014, leading the European Strategic Soucing & Contracts Team on an interim basis in addition to the ongoing support to CSC on a major outsourcing Bid.The SS&C Team comprised of 30 personnel across HW, SW, Networks and Indirects, dispersed across.

London, United Kingdom

Assignment to design and implement a procurement transformation programme across the Federation of colleges, to include implementation of category management, new processes and procedures with associated resourcing structures. In addition to leading on major outsourcing projects, I introduced a pipeline saving programme, introduction of eProcurement system.

London, United Kingdom

Short term assignment, to deliver a step change procurement programme into Monitor, to more appropriately meet the needs of the organisation and recruit a team of FTE's.Introduced a category management operation with all associated templates including category plans, RACI, PMO methodologies. Introduced SRM and contract management, procured and integrated.

London, United Kingdom

Reporting to the CPO, worked cross-category to develop a cost savings project benchmarking current procurement activity against best practice market processes. Led the major procurement projects for temporary labour rate reduction for Fujitsu Ireland and Professional projects in UK including Consultancy PSL, Insurance and Legal. Develop the overall.

Hook

Interim Manager within the central category team working on Professional Services projects.

November 2010 - June 2011 Account Director leading the onsite operational delivery of a team of 10 procurement professionals for a Financial Services Sector client following a recent divestment from a major Bank. Implementing category management, procedure rewriting, leading major operational procurement activity and constructing a savings delivery.

Led the Procurement Team in a transformation project to reinvent procurement and deliver a bespoke strategic solution to the Business. New process based on category management principles, a clear savings delivery programme and a focussed procurement operation operating within the OJEU Procurement regulations. Process involved recruitment of new personnel.

Led the indirect procurement team to deliver a change in strategic direction and improved commercial results. Managed major spend areas of energy, packaging, operational equipment and marketing categories. Achieved cost transformation of packaging category via middle east sourcing strategy and European sourcing strategies.

Following a 9 month break in Spain where I established a speciality foods store, I chose to move to the mainland UK and specialise in the indirect procurement sector.Led the £500m joint procurement project between Brake Brothers and a major Food sector client delivering significant annual savings via product rationalisation and renegotiation. Rolled this.

Managed a team of 12 covering Procurement, Shipping, Customs & Excise and the on-site materials handling function.Rationalised the supply chain to establish STB as the most reactive and flexible supplier of cream liqueur and other ready to drink cocktails to the major retailers in the UK. Rationalised the stock control system, establish procurement.