Andrew Tanner-Smith Email & Phone Number

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

I am passionate about my commitment to sustainable sourcing. Via my own company, Supplier Strategies Ltd I have made a commitment public by signing up on the SME Climate Hub and subsequently included in the Race to Zero.We strongly encourage all our partners, clients and suppliers to do the same. is committed to it and has signed up for

London, England Metropolitan Area

• Having spent many years at Nokia, it was time to start delivering training and consultancy through my own company, expanding my skillset and experience by designing end-to-end solutions to a variety of clients.
• Developed a proprietary taxonomy based on academic research to help organisations identify process weaknesses and add greater value to procurement functions.
• Provided training to 100s of salespeople globally, bringing greater coherence to the relationship between sales and delivery teams.

London, England, United Kingdom

Developing the market for Net Zero supply chains - profitably. Using its network of partners, INNOVO can introduce clients to a whole range of zero-carbon oriented suppliers from clean tech providers to carbon capture and storage solution suppliers. Contact me on LinkedIn or call me on 07561 776 808 if you are interested to know more.My role is to help.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Following a restructuring, I moved into a Project Office Management position to recover a failing project that was behind schedule and over budget. Working with a major UK telecoms company, the brief was to deliver.
• Saved 1000s of hours of FTE by collaborating directly with the senior project team and delivering a series of training programmes.
• Implemented major culture change within the project, rebuilding processes and procedures to bring them into line with the Nokia approach.
• Coordinated and guided 40 Project Managers working across 26 workstreams.
• Rebuilt a dysfunctional sales-to-delivery handover process, implementing controls, enforcing existing policy. This saved Nokia over €100,000 in liquidated damages claims.
• Identified and remedied ongoing losses totalling approximately €11M, caused by scope-creep and miscommunication between sales and delivery teams.

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

• Process Development ManagerThis role tasked me with restructuring Nokia’s procurement processes, rebuilding the entire ecosystem to align it with strategic goals and ensure it was defined by business needs. The brief.
• Cut digitalisation project delivery time by 20%, building processes around SAP/Ariba technology while ensuring that the tools didn’t define the process.
• Wrote a new supplier off-boarding process, cutting unnecessary Supplier Master Records by over 90%
• Pioneered a lean, robust, supplier anti-corruption screening process to adhere to legislation. Limited the process impact to less than 2 days in 99% of cases.
• Saved over €5M in start-up costs by implementing a revolutionary procurement process based on crowdsourcing talent.
• Shaved 6 weeks from new supplier on-boarding time by building a framework for policy and governance around ‘fast-track suppliers’ whilst maintaining full compliance.

Fleet, Hampshire

• With the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, I rolled out a control change management programme to meet new compliance requirements and increase efficiency and accountability.
• Implemented a global training programme for over 1000 purchasing professionals in 2 weeks.
• Overhauled Nokia’s Internal Controls for ‘Purchase-to-Pay’ cycle eliminating 30 controls whilst supporting full SOX compliance. This saved 1020 working hours per month across the business.
• Automated a key control point for low value spend, saving 1000s of hours in GR/IR matching tasks.

Farnborough, Hampshire, UK

Applying sound research methodologies to Indirect Sourcing Duties and Achievements* Developing tools and processes for Indirect Sourcing to enable them to understand research data and develop strong procurement strategies* Provide in house research services * Developing Category Managers research skills, offering research training, developing training.

London, United Kingdom

Consultant and subject matter expert. * Developing collaborative sales pitches based on customer brief* Understanding client pain points, developing propositions to answer pain point. (e.g. should a client enter a specific market, how should a client pitch a new offering to an existing customer base) * Fulfilling projects involving bespoke research and.

London, United Kingdom

Duties and Achievements* Writing reports on various B2B IT, Software and communications markets- Digital Imaging- CAD/CAM/CAE- ERPContributed to developing in house research methodologiesKey Skills* Research skills* Technical understanding* Persistence and negotiation

Msc, Science And Technology Policy

Activities and Societies: I ran an independent study groupReceived a scholarship to study at the University of Sussex's Science Policy.

Bsc (Hons) 1St Class, New Technology: Media And Communications, 1

Activities and Societies: Sailing club, I ran an independent study group,This degree was multi-disciplinary in nature and was concerned.