We focus on two things: Marketing and Sales coaching and consultancy for Agencies, and marketing procurement consultancy and contracting for Brands / BuyersWe help agencies grow and retain business by giving them more capability and confidence relating to everything that impacts their profitability We help brands of all sizes elevate the efficiency and effectiveness of their procurement functions. What we do for agencies: demystifying the 'who,' ‘what,’ 'how' and 'why' of procurement; tailor-made coaching for account and leadership teams on procurement basics. Advisory on contract renewals, pitch responses, negotiation role-play, market analysis, customer segmentation and targeting.For brands / buyers: contracting, consulting and procurement project work across Indirect Spend: needs analysis, stakeholder engagement and comms planning; RFI / RFP; supply market analysis, tail spend management, strategic category management, remuneration models, SRM, make-or-buy decision support. Coaching and mentoring for junior professionals

Responsible for global marketing stakeholder relationships across strategic and creative Advertising agencies, PR, Influencer, Sponsorship, DAM, and in-housingQuarter-back for delivering best practice, case studies, insights and inspo on agency work, the big topics in advertising, and putting creative and quality ahead of savings and cost messaging. Supplier performance management evolution.Category management co-ordination across business units, brands, countries and clusters. Process / ways of working and demand optimization between procurement, marketing, legal and finance.

MARKETING: Interim team Lead for half of 2018, partnering across EMEA marketing leadership, to drive top and bottom line results. Brand-building, membership-focused and innovative supply partnerships at a geo as well as hyper-local scale, across all marketing categories. Supporting both vendor-selection + make-or-buy strategies in the Digital Brand team (digital strategy, creative, production; both holistically and across all owned social channels) ensuring the organisation is set-up to deliver in an agile and scaleable way. Partnering with Media team to drive effective traffic to NIKE.com (and wholesale partners .com) through affiliates, SEO, paid, etc. Cross-category gameplan focusing on how procurement can support our 12 global key cities strategy activation.RETAIL: Working closely with the store design, store construction + store ops teams to leverage our European scale + large existing supply chain. Developing strategies focused on rationalization, speed of store construction / fit-out, sustainability and digital, across all store tiers, with both NIKE and Converse; + with accounts like JD Sports & Footlocker .FACILITIES: Partnered with the facilities business to co-develop strategies which enhance the working experiences of our staff, elevating standards across the most important suppliers: new KPI/SLA strategy rolled out and embedded into contracts and QBRs, to foster continuous improvement and drive insights into supplier performance. Accountable for our team delivering multiple end-to-end RFPs including food services, cleaning services, and also the "Sports & Wellness" (gym/physio, etc) function, at European HQ.

Developing an internal stakeholder network across all European countries, all marketing functions, and all sports categories.example projects. Pan European marketing print; digital agency annual SoWs; affiliate agency negotiations; football retail fixturesmanaging 2 x internsSpend influenced FY15 c. $100m

Non Production Spend/Indirect procurement for UK and Northern Europe, plus some Global digital projects. Northern Europe responsibility covers all marketing, corporate and operational spend.

Overall responsibility for making an annual marketing budget of over £100m go as far as possible, globally, across multiple platforms: from sponsorship, use of strategic agencies, media planning and buying, merchandise, events, PR and offline (TV and press), and a host of online methods.supplier pre-qualification and tenderingcontract review and negotiationpost award supplier performance measurement

Engaging with and consulting with buyers and suppliers within the London2012 supply chain, looking at best practice supply chain management and procurement strategies and implementation.More recently also worked closely with Crossrail and their main contractors on responsible procurement and supplier engagement initiatives.High level of experience in working closely with key strategic stakeholders and contractors, at all levels within organisations, presenting, negotiating and managing relationships from start onwards.Employee of the month at BiP Solutions - December 2008 (c. 250 staff)

Account Manager for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, assisting LOCOG with all aspects of their use of the CompeteFor portal to pre-qualify and shortlist suppliers for their broad and numerous tender opportunities which they require to put into the public domain, for their Olympic procurements. Including training sessions, input at high level meetings, and account management.

Account management of both traditional/offline and online specific accounts, focusing on planning and delivery of search engine optimisation, pay per click, design for print, and social networking campaigns for businesses from a variety of sectors