An Interim role reporting to: Procurement Director & Director of Operations for the Contract Management & Non-Clinical division for Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Responsibilities include:- Provide strategic procurement leadership, advice and expertise- Manage internal operations and resources in line with strategic objectives - Manage the procurement of healthcare goods and services by delivering a portfolio of complex and high value projects in line with objectives, including improved patient care - Establish effective relationships and lead change to enable delivery of savings and quality improvements- Engage with key stakeholders, Executive Directors, General Managers, Clinical Directors, Heads of Service, Business Managers and Matrons and contribute to commercial discussions with preferred Bidders- Team leadership, providing guidance, support and performance management- Provide procurement advice on complex contract negotiations- Financial analysis and benchmarking in support of procurement projects as well as detailing expenditure and estimating financial benefits from procurement initiatives- Budget Management and provide authorisation on purchase ordersAchievements: Quickly recognised as an influential contributor to the senior management team

An Interim role reporting to: Director of Procurement & Deputy Director of Estates and Facilities for this Healthcare Trust. Responsibilities included:- Managed complex OJEU procurement processes covering all elements of facility management - Procurement lead for the soft facilities management services re-procurement exercise through the Competitive Dialogue procedure and implementing improvements- Procurement lead on the concession agreement for Retail Services incorporating a new concept within the NHS – Operators Choice (pro-local SME & provenance). - Engaged with Director level stakeholders and involved in commercial discussions with preferred bidders- Managed the performance of transport related service provision and managed exit agreements- Project managed the North-East London Sustainability and Transformation Plan to develop and implement a new Patient Transport Related Services framework agreement- Reviewed the utilities procurement strategy for 2018 and beyond- Supported the Strategy team on the redevelopment of the Whitechapel site and Whipps Cross Hospital- End-to-end procurement support against a wide portfolio and provided tendering and procurement project management on many more diverse Capital and Estate led projects- Spend analysis and savings identification for the 2017/18 procurement strategy and beyond- Procurement strategy development and commercial contractual advice to the Procurement DepartmentAchievements: Soft facilities management services re-procurement exercise through the Competitive Dialogue procedure - delivered significant improvements in service and savings over 10 years; Concession agreement for Retail Services (operators Choice) successfully implemented generating large guaranteed income over a 10-year concession period and improve the food and non-food options throughout the Trust for all staffs, visitors and patients

An Interim role reporting to: Development Director for the commercial arm of Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Responsibilities included:- Development, design and implementation of outsourced procurement projects- Programme management, design and delivery of a model for implementing energy efficiency and local generation measures in public and private sector estates. The energy savings model delivers a guaranteed reduction in energy costs and carbon footprint. Nine projects managed since Aug 2011, covering 12 acute hospitals, 20+ community based sites, delivering guaranteed energy savings and 34,000 tCO2 per annum guaranteed carbon savings- Project managed complex OJEU procurement processes covering all elements of facility management services and generating cost and efficiency savings- Provided commercial support for pre-sales bid & tender processes- Bespoke procurement training to the Community based teamAchievements: 9 projects successfully managed since Aug 2011, covering 12 acute hospitals, 20+ community based sites with a guaranteed energy savings and 34,000 tCO2 per annum guaranteed carbon savings. The key energy-efficiency programmes include but not limited to: King’s College Hospital, St George’s, Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospital, Brighton and Sussex, Kent and Medway Partnership Trust, Northern Devon Healthcare, Guy’s and St Thomas’

An Interim role reporting to: Work Stream Lead for the Estates & Facilities department of this organisation, founded and funded by the NHS. Responsibilities included:- Provided support to the work stream Lead in Estates & Facilities with strategic advice and led the development, design, implementation of new national collaborative procurement frameworks for high spend categories namely Waste and Transport Related Management Services with a spend of £200m pa - Designed, implemented and managed a “fully integrated, guaranteed savings” model for Waste Disposal and Transport Related Services- Engaged stakeholders to promote and market new frameworks to demonstrate the financial benefits- Enabled SME’s to participate in the complex processes by simplifying these processes and undertaking due diligence exercises to ensure capability and longevity of services- Activity based income and gain share models developed to generate a minimum of £200k pa for the Client- Delivered significant savings Achievements: Collaborative procurement projects for several categories across 72 diverse and disparate NHS Hospitals across London, these categories were: Patient Transport, Patient Transport Call Centre, Waste (clinical & domestic).

Reporting to: CEO of this well-established medical transport service provider. Responsibilities included:- Provide strategic in relation to industry standards and benchmarks across private sector and government, and managed the implementation of various and complex successful tender bids- Key Account Manager, with a portfolio in excess of £30m and responsibility for 200+ staff, including on boarding, training, continuous development and leadership- Defined a new operating model to provide the client (NHS) with most appropriate services for their needs and reducing their expenditure however retaining margins for the organisation and improving process- Reviewed all Corporate Business Processes and implemented changes to enhance the service delivery, decreasing waiting times and therefore liberating resources to take on additional workload- Led the delivery of a new operating system to be installed throughout the 6 main and subsidiary sites- Collaborated on a project with our NHS client to implement an online based eligibility assessment - Successfully negotiated contracts with suppliers to ensuring best practice was applied- Set-up satellite offices across the UK to adapt to the increasing demand for services- Developed a proactive approach to managing service delivery with regular meetings with NHS Senior Managers and assisting them in reducing unnecessary expenditure coupled with high levels of service- Provided commercial support for pre-sales bid & tender processes as well as renegotiating existing contracts and service level agreements to ensure alignment with the organisational strategy - Lead on the Sustainability project for the organisation to exceed the targets mandated by Government to then be incorporated into our private sector