Stephen Kerr Email & Phone Number

Scotland

Various

Key member of a four-month strategic project to help meet group procurement targets for the UK.o Lead a multiple million pound project on electrical commodities across the UK business unit, achieving an average of over thirty percent cost saving.o Supported the M&E Category Manager on a secondary project for specialist plant hire; looking at Boilers, Generators and Chillers, exploring a number of solutions including a “managed service” through a strategic partnerships.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Accountable for managing the procurement of contracts for services and commodities with an addressable spend in excess of £50m p.a.o EDF, (Workplace Solutions) across the UK including seven nuclear and three thermal power stations and multiple office locations. o DWP, (legacy BBworkplace contracts) across multiple UK sites comprising four service centres and two specialist print and scanning facilities, Played a key role in a contract rebid with EDF. I was a procurement function representative on several multi-disciplinary, cross company working groups set up to identify savings as part of our rebid. Led a rebid of electrical commodities on our EDF contract which delivered over a thirty percent cost saving Managed key relationships with senior stakeholders in both EDF and DWP.Extensive experience of tendering & sourcing; using E-Sourcing tools for RFI, RFQ's, E-Auctions etc.Member of various in-house sourcing project teams.

London

Reporting to the head of the PMO; accountable for monitoring, analysing and reporting the status, in particular spend and milestones, of projects being undertaken to integrate Balfour Beatty Workplace and Cofely GDF Suez Ltd into a single entity (following the sale of Workplace to Cofely).Supported the setting up of Cofely's Shared Service Centre by mapping multiple sets of heritage processes for use in training documentation.

Scotland

After the sale of Balfour Beatty Workplace to GDF Suez Group in December 2013 continued graduate training under the "Cofely UK" GDF Suez.3rd Placement: CSM, Department of Business Innovation & Skills (Scotland).• mobilisation of a new "Facilities Management (FM)" services contract to the Student Loans Company under the UK Government BIS umbrella. I was the client’s principal point of contact in Scotland and lead all activities (both operationally and from a procurement perspective) to mobilise the new contract including; holding meetings with staff in relation to TUPE; liaising closely with the client to ensure any concerns were effectively dealt with. • I ran a number of sourcing events to appoint sub-contractors to deliver elements of the service (after identifying in-house skill gaps that would have prevented self-delivery of the contract).4th Placement: Business Change & Improvement Manager (London) - Camden & Islington NHS Trust, FM contract. • Accountable for improving domestic service delivery; used a number of six sigma and other tools e.g. “day in the life shadowing”, process mapping, etc. Identified a number of delivery failures in key service areas and implemented corrective actions. This role had a strong focus on stakeholder management to obtain customer buy in to the proposed corrective actions.

Various Uk

Balfour Beatty Graduate Programme (four six month placements). 1st Placement: Team Manager, DWP Service Centre (Glasgow). • Responsible for leading a team of 16 and for managing the operation of each function of the service centre on a rotational basis. Leadership accountabilities included holding weekly team meetings, staff development and coaching, staff disciplinary actions and performance improvement plans. 2nd Placement: Procurement Manager, Private Sector Contracts (London).• Accountable for all procurement activities required to support five facilities management contracts with an addressable spend of ~ £5million. Accountabilities included: running tenders and sourcing events; spend analysis; stakeholder management and contract negotiation. and business development to support bids for new work. • Supported the successful bid for facilities management of HMS Belfast with the Imperial War Museum.

Ayr

Master Of Arts (Ma), Business Management With Operations Management, Upper Second (2,1)

Hnc & Hnd, Business Management

Nc, Electronic / Electrical Eng

High School