Thomas Kirk Email & Phone Number

Leeds, United Kingdom

- Supporting a collaborative approach working directly to the Business Lead ensuring the timely development and delivery of the P2P solution, within SAP Hana, throughout the project lifecycle, providing assurance and managing, mitigating and escalating issues and risks through the governance structures as appropriate;- Leading individual work strands for Purchasing, supporting stakeholder engagement, communications and management at all levels of the organisation. - Working with… Show more - Supporting a collaborative approach working directly to the Business Lead ensuring the timely development and delivery of the P2P solution, within SAP Hana, throughout the project lifecycle, providing assurance and managing, mitigating and escalating issues and risks through the governance structures as appropriate;- Leading individual work strands for Purchasing, supporting stakeholder engagement, communications and management at all levels of the organisation. - Working with Purchasing and Finance colleagues and wider stakeholder groups to ensure that the requirements and deliverables are agreed and prioritised in alignment with the projects objectives, driving a single solution approach with effective interfaces to existing and developing corporate systems.- Supporting a collaborative approach to ensuring that new processes and systems are embedded and are sustainable for transition to business as usual, including; - Ensuring process changes are successfully implemented, fully documented and have a clear ownership; - Ensuring the successful design and delivery of training for all staff impacted by the implementation; - Identifying and enabling the organisational cultural and behavioural changes needed to enable a successful institution-wide implementation that is sustainable Show less

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Full involvement and delivery of business acquisitions in respect of integrating supplier management and Procurement processes & policies• Undertake gap analysis of the acquired business to ascertain the processes, policies and key stakeholders • Ensure key data requirements are provided on a consistent basis and manage the review, cleanse and upload data from one ERP software to another • Training circa 3,000 staff on new processes, policies and systems working remotely… Show more • Full involvement and delivery of business acquisitions in respect of integrating supplier management and Procurement processes & policies• Undertake gap analysis of the acquired business to ascertain the processes, policies and key stakeholders • Ensure key data requirements are provided on a consistent basis and manage the review, cleanse and upload data from one ERP software to another • Training circa 3,000 staff on new processes, policies and systems working remotely throughout various UK offices• Forecasting additional workloads and resourcing appropriately in line with increased volumes of work• Development of current processes and managing obsolescence to promote best practice and a more effective supplier data base• Streamline of supplier data base to ensure each supplier is accredited and certified properly in regards to Health & Safety, Sustainability, Quality etc. • Provide support to internal and external audits • Complete overview of current end to end processes, identify weaknesses and implement process improvements whilst maintaining business SLA's (Improve efficiency)• Day to day management, development ensuring the team delivers support and guidance around new supplier set up assessment process and Purchase to Pay processes and systems• Managing workloads appropriately within team, review of headcount versus current volumes, review of individual performances, developing direct reports and their career development and managing escalations and corrective actions • Overall responsibility of the reduction of supplier payment terms• Policy documentation up to date and in line with current legislation, business policies and best practice as well as managing non-compliance• Play a pivotal role in leading and assisting in the progression of a number of business improvement geared towards improving financial control and promoting efficiencies with the business including the purchase to pay system. Show less

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Set up and on-going maintenance of new supplier requests, insurances and other accreditations/certifications ensuring they are fit for purpose within Agresso and meeting agreed service levels• Providing support and advice to the business on the supplier set-up forms, the Purchase to Pay system and other processes• Ownership of control processes requiring deviation away from standard payment terms• Maintain assessed preferred supplier listing with accreditation scoring matrix and… Show more • Set up and on-going maintenance of new supplier requests, insurances and other accreditations/certifications ensuring they are fit for purpose within Agresso and meeting agreed service levels• Providing support and advice to the business on the supplier set-up forms, the Purchase to Pay system and other processes• Ownership of control processes requiring deviation away from standard payment terms• Maintain assessed preferred supplier listing with accreditation scoring matrix and on-going reviews of redundant supplier accounts which can be identified for closure• Pushing back on new supplier requests where alternative suppliers exist• Present weekly and monthly supply chain statistics in regular team meetings • Prime contact for incoming business queries• Responsible for updating of Supply Chain intranet pages in line with updated legislation and process changes• Production of ad-hoc supplier spend reports within agreed SLA Show less

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Responsible for daily management of credit control postings• Overall responsibility of assigning helpdesk calls within the allocated Service Level Agreement (SLA)• Production of weekly/monthly statistics in line with required format and distribution • Prime contact for incoming telecommunication queries • Set up and maintenance of project tasks on the system• Handling of external post• Invoice VAT compliance checks• Invoice rejection and accrual log

Diploma In Purchasing And Supply, Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions And Contracts Management, Currently Studying

Level 4 Diploma in CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply) covering a wide range of aspects in Procurement and Supply Chain such.

Geography Bsc, Geography, 2:2

A variety of both human and physical Geography

Media Studies, Geography & Sports Science, B, B, C

Activities and Societies: Football team

Maths, Science, English, Spanish, Drama, Pe, It, Food Hygiene, Geography, C, C, B, B, B, B, B, B,B

Activities and Societies: Football and Rugby team