A very “hands on” and practical procurement leadership professional with 25 years of experience and a proven track record of delivering transformational change including creating new procurement functions, merging procurement operations and step change improvements in the performance of existing procurement functionsAreas of expertise include:• Category Management: Won industry awards for fleet, travel and packaging category strategies and consistently over-delivered on cost, quality, service, risk, compliance and innovation KPIs• Behavioural Procurement: Implemented behaviour based procurement/stakeholder relationship programmes in 5 businesses• Team Leadership: Led teams of 4 to 40 people and used advanced leadership practices to optimise team alignment, motivation and performance• Project and Programme Management: Took over the leadership of a project to implement a business-wide financial reporting system that was one year late and delivered it, in full, within 4 months• Relationship Building: Excellent at building trusted relationships and expert at adapting personal behaviour to align to stakeholder needsDeliverables include:• Developed an isolated and disjointed tactical FMCG buying function into an integrated strategic procurement team in less than 1 year saving 18% of addressed spend (annualised)• Built an indirect procurement function from scratch in a global pharmaceutical business and moved all indirect spend from functional budget holder control in 20+ operating countries to procurement-led central control• Led the progressive merger of the procurement functions of 9 operating companies in a global food business• Transformed a locally and tactically focussed pharmaceutical buying function into a global strategic procurement function• Merged separate indirect and direct pharmaceutical procurement teams to create a sustainable best practice global procurement functionAvailable. Call: 07826 514 285. E-mail: simon-gee@hotmail.com