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Manchester, England, GB

United Kingdom

UK & EMEA

Working with 25+ blue chip clients in Europe and the Middle East providing actionable best practice advice throughout the sourcing life cycle. This includes sourcing strategies, contract negotiations, benchmarking, establishing vendor management functions, RFI’s, RFP’s, optimising value from strategic vendors, vendor management maturity assessment.

Liverpool, London, Bristol

Managed the annual $4bn strategic procurement relationship for common goods and services between the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Accountabilities included annual budget savings, client satisfaction, governance execution, executive engagement, strategic performance reporting, account planning and services contract management.

Responsible for defining the IT sourcing strategy at a Group level.

Responsible for the overall management of 541 IT suppliers within Co-op Group and Co-op Bank with an annual spend of £260m. Seconded onto the M&A team to lead the overall IT outsourcing engagement as part of a £1.6 billion banking acquisition.

Manchester

Strategic relationship, contractual and commercial management responsibility for all 306 Bank IT suppliers and outsourcing relationships (annual spend £225m+) and the establishment and management of a highly successful IT Business Partner function.

Manchester

Responsible for the strategic and commercial management of a £250m IT applications and development outsourcing contract. Additional responsibilities included the project office, risk and financial control, process management team and IT change budget (£50m+)

Held full responsibility for the stakeholder management, requirements definition and subsequent renegotiation (with Barclays Procurement), transition and management of a £250m IT applications support and development outsourcing contract.

Responsible for managing the relationship between IT & Operations and Private Clients and International to Director level in the UK and Europe. Accountabilities included client satisfaction, service and project escalations, new proposals and contract management.

Edinburgh

Head of Client Management at First Banking Systems, a joint venture with the Bank of Scotland. Responsible for client satisfaction, new business development and demand. Seconded, at the clients request, to assist in establishing the banks IT Client Services team following the HBOS merger. Previously Key Account Manager for Standard Life and Deutsche Bank.

Managed the IS relationship with the Business Sales Division for the identification of new business technologies. Responsible for definition of a new corporate Marketing Information System.

Responsible for establishing business to business paging networks for retail security clients.

Liverpool, Northern England And Scotland

Responsible for managing existing clients and developing new business in the microwave communications market.

Responsible for marketing and business development in the electronics manufacturing sector.

Professional diver, diamond prospector, farm worker, ocean yacht crew.

Level 7 Coaching Certificate, Executive Coaching

Msc, Business Information Technology Systems

Ba (Hons), Marketing

Activities and Societies: Sub-Aqua clubWinner of John Arthur Robertson Marketing Student of the Year, 1985 University Sub-Aqua Club Diving.

Diploma, Global Strategic Outsourcing

Studying strategic alignment of CSR agendas in the supply chain, particularly outsourcing partners. Currently in progress.