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Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Created on 1 April 2019, Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council is 10th largest urban authority in England. It is responsible for all local government services to c400,000 residents.Portfolio includes:• Construction and maintenance of infrastructure (roads, parks, public buildings)• Environmental services (inc. waste)• Public transportation services and parking• Urban planning and housing development• Regeneration• Vehicles and fleet management• Utilities (electricity, gas, water)• ConcessionsSustainable procurement lead, working with GBS and SVP's National TOMs.

Poole, England, United Kingdom

This role developed to become a shared service role in 2018 for Bournemouth Borough Council and Borough of Poole, two neighbouring unitary authorities, ahead of Dorset local government reorganisation. The Category Manager role covered both towns. Christchurch and East Dorset Council also outsourced procurement services to Borough of Poole for several years.

Poole, Bh15 2Ru

eProcurement project: - Authored Business Case to invest in eProcurement in a transformational move away from paper.- Managed procurement and implementation of eSourcing- Managed procurement and implementation of Purchase2Pay- Staff management responsibilityEnergy project:- Authored Business Case to transform energy sourcing: stopped fixed-term, fixed-price contracts, consolidated billing and automated payments.- Managed procurement and implementation of best practice contracts via PBOs.- Reduced energy spend by £126k.

Poole, Bh15 2Ru

ICT & Business Support hosted a corporate Business Transformation Programme between 2007 and 2009.- Created a single, scalable, project management methodology based on PRINCE2. Benefits included reduced administrative overhead and standardised presentation of information to investment decision makers.- Created programme management methodology and templates based on MSP.- Documented the methodology and created the templates required to operate a corporate virtual Project, Programme & Portfolio Office (P3O).- Worked with a web-developer to create intranet-hosted virtual P3O.

Winfrith, Dt2 8Dz

Part of a small team based at Dorset Police Headquarters, with responsibility for £9M spend on supplies, services and works. Using the Bluelight Emergency Services eTendering solution, the team operated a centralised gatekeeper model.- Staff management responsibility.- Redesigned record keeping - a major cause of frustration within the team.

Banbury, Ox16 0Ah

Created in 2000, WRAP is a not-for-profit company, funded by UK Government and the EU. WRAP helps governments and businesses to extract the maximum value - and minimise the environmental impact - from use natural resources. - Joined the company at the start of a period of rapid growth when staff increased from 50 to 250 and funding from £20m to £80m.- Reported to the Director Business Resource Efficiency. - Tasked by the CEO (on joining the company) to diagnose causes of delay to project delivery. - Assigned to project to improve business process to ensure that governance of projects and procurements was proportionate, timely and supportive of project delivery.- Drafted 100s of contracts and framework-agreement call-offs.

Oxford, Ox4 4Xt

BBOWT looks after 88 nature reserves covering 2,600 hectares:- Delivered a £1M programme funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The programme featured a portfolio of projects across 41 freehold nature reserves to improve habitat condition, visitor experience, quality of biodiversity records and management planning.- Consulted stakeholders to understand requirements.- Researched and drafted dozens of specifications.- Procured and managed, dozens of contracts.- Reported to Heritage Lottery Fund.- Managed resources (7 people, budget, vehicles and equipment).- Commissioned by UK Head Office to deliver training events across the UK in procurement, contract and project management.- Speaker at national and regional conferences.- Radio and TV interviews.

Kidderminster, Dy13 8Uj

Wyre Forest is a district in north Worcestershire:- Drove the set up and designation of 3 Local Nature Reserves.- Successfully bid on multiple occasions for funding from English Nature, Countryside Commission and Environment Agency.- Managed habitat condition budget.- Developed wildlife and visitor management for 6 nature reserves.

Msc, Environmental Management

Activities and Societies: Mountaineering Environmental economics, policy and management planning.

Bsc, Environmental Sciences, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Conservation Applied ecology, hydrology, earth sciences and meteorology.