Experience

Elvie

• Australia
• Retail

• Senior Procurement and Planning Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Present



Dyson

• Household Appliance Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Global Commodity Manager - Electronics

  • May 2014 - Apr 2021

  Experienced Senior Procurement Manager responsible for over $100M spend. Global role incorporating end to end procurement on electronic commodities between the UK and Asia. Extensive experience in dealing with China and Asia supply based & Contract manufacturers. Self starter and driven multiple high level projects from start to completion.Specific Role Responsibilities• Lead the Procurement activities for the electronics commodities and represent UK Procurement in cross-functional team meetings for new and existing projects.• End to End procurement management activities from Concept to production. • Complete accountability for commodity, including nomination and strategic objectives• Develop commodity strategies to meet corporate objectives and KPIs• Drive and manage NPD Category costs to meet Should Costs and Target Costs. Conduction annual price negotiations using game theory and bilateral techniques• Develop Category Sourcing Plans for each project, identifying High-risk and High-impact parts and ensuring all necessary Category Procurement activities are complete.• Work with engineers and suppliers to create detailed specifications, and identify VA/VE and DFM opportunities – and ensure they are adopted and benefits realised.• Support cross-functional long-term Procurement strategy for designated categories and related components, obtaining buy-in from key stakeholders within the business.• Initiate negotiations and take the lead in closing price agreements to meet KPIs in cooperation with the Category team.• Identify risk and opportunities, minimise exposure and work closely with internal stakeholders to define and implement mitigating actions.• Carry out complex contract negotiations and new vendor identification, introduction and supplier management• Conduction annual or quarterly business reviews as required

• Procurement Manager NPI & Research

  • May 2014 - Sep 2018

  Specific Role Responsibilities• Supplier Selection – Carry out end to end supplier selection activities including specification reviews, supplier identification, initiate requests for quotation, supplier negotiation, contract management, supplier assessment and allocation• Working with NPI and Research teams to discuss new technologies and how best to source their requirements.• Supplier Audits, Conducting due diligence with supplier visits to ensure all suppliers adhere to Dysons strict codes of conduct.• Project Management – manage and report procurement project deliverables in line with project timescales, manage project sourcing strategies.Developing procurement project sourcing plans, e.g. NDA’s, T’s&C’s, Contracts, RFQ’s and cost analysis and supplier identification and selection• Cost control – manage should costs and target costs, ensure tooling expenditure is agreed and signed off, negotiate cost downs with suppliers. Benchmarking activities with suppliers• Risk Management – identity, track and report project sourcing risks and issues, implement mitigation plans• X-Team engagement – , represent procurement at project milestone meetings and x-team meetings, lead for team on Procurement-Quality interface to resolve issues and provide updates• Supplier Management: Quarterly business review of existing strategic suppliers. Supplier Audits for new suppliers. Performed supply base consolidation exercises to reduce the number of suppliers on our AVL• Stakeholder management:Present to senior stakeholders project costs. Manage expectations and get support for dual sourcing activities. Represent Procurement at Project meetings and Milestone reviews, agreeing and managing, Procurement actions and coordinating completion with UK and Global Procurement Category Managers.• Commodity management: Managed specific commodities for products. From early supplier engagement to supplier selection. Manage supplier relationships. Developing key supplier strategies



Anite

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Technical Strategy Manager

  • Jan 2013 - May 2014

  Ensuring Anite is at the forefront of GCF & PTCRB test case validation.Monitor the conformance validation ecosystem and update on competitor analysisWork closely with external validators to validate new test cases and submit validation reports to GCF/PTCRBAttend quarterly GCF and PTCRB meetings Proactively ensure Anite validations are approved at these meetingsEnsure Anites interests are protectedMonitor email distribution groups for key developments and competitor submissionsInterface with product management and development teams to provide prioritisation for test case developmentWork closely with CT development team to support delivery of technical solutions according to development plans and quality standards.Monitor and contribute to GCF validation processLead CT collaboration partner management and build relationships with customersOversee technical collaborations with customersReport progress and status to the Conformance Group management teamDefine and oversee deployment of new systems for tracking and reporting on the conformance validation ecosystem,



Jaguar Land Rover

• Project manager - Infotainment

  • Dec 2011 - Dec 2012

  Creation, monitoring and control of the project timing to meet the vehicle timing requirements. Communication of the required specification timing with the respective feature and system owners. Monitoring and status reporting of the specification status Working closely with the touchscreen supplier to ensure delivery schedule is adhered to at the correct feature maturity and quality levels Creation of test plans and co-ordination of testing Monitoring and status reporting of the plan to achieve on time ""Engineering Sign Off"" Lead issue resolution with the supplier to ensure ""Parts Supply Warrant"" targets are met. "I am also responsible for Bluetooth connectivity issues that occur with handsets integrating into vehicle systems, this involves reading and taking MOST logs to debug the issues. Creating change requests for our suppliers to update code. I am responsible for creating requirements and use cases for next generation infotainment systems within Jaguar Landrover. This includes specifying with our suppliers what our requirements for the next generation telephony system is. Negotiating with internal feature owners and suppliers over the implementation of the bluetooth feature. I am responsible for the delivery of this system within Jaguar Landrover.



Imerj Design

• Operator Acceptance Engineer

  • Oct 2010 - Dec 2011

  In my role I am responsible for guiding our Android based products through the multiple operator acceptance processes simultaneously My duties include the organisation of software release schedules, organising our partners who perform Field Testing, GCF, PTCRB and various lab entry requirement tests such as AGPS, and the full 10776 acceptance tests for AT&T. I have to create Statement of Works, Master Service Agreements and Purchase orders prior to product testing activities.I have responsibility for Bluetooth and Wifi Certification, including CTIAI am responsible for sourcing the various outsource partners we use this involves RFP’s and organising quotes prior to selecting our partners.I have to manage multiple operators simultaneously and create project plans to track the outsource partners progress.I am responsible for validation of the outsource partners and software errors raised. This includes testing this myself to check it’s a real issue. Taking log files or the errors and reviewing the logs before sending them to the Software developers. This includes managing multiple test campaigns and organising and tracking of test resultsI organised weekly error reviews with all the operators to go through open issues and actions and what we need to do to close these down.I am experienced using diagnostic tools such as debugmux and QXDM.



Garmin

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Carrier Approval Engineer

  • May 2010 - Oct 2010

  In this role I was responsible for the product approval of Garmin's handsets and I was one of the UK interfaces to our European customers with regards to product approvalsMy duties include the sanity testing of software releases prior to delivery to the customerError reviewing and handling of incoming issuesTest case development and importing into quality centre.Creation of new test cases based on operators specificationsError verification of bug fixes.Liaising with the software developers regarding fixes and log files.Weekly error reviews with the customer on fixes and software release dates.



Asylum Media Ltd

• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Aug 2006 - May 2010

  I was asked to become a Director in a web design and hosting company, an opportunity that I could not afford to turn down.During my time as Director of this Limited Company, my successes have included significantly increasing the client base as a result of marketing and promotional work and word of mouth based on the success of previous client projects. I have also developed the Company from start-up to a profitable business with a six figure turnover (increased by 20% year on year).I have also ensured compliance with all Companies House reporting, including end of year accounting.



Nokia Mobile Phones

• United States

• Technical Account Manager

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2006

  In this role, I was responsible for all of Nokia's product range sold by Orange plc.It was my responsibility to ensure the approval of Nokia's products by Orange. My duties included error management and error reviews with Orange and Nokia programs. I was also instrumental in planning the product acceptance for each product. This included meetings with Orange management as to the status of each program. I attended kick-off meetings with Orange and Nokia on new products. It was my sole responsibility for the Technical Planning phase. During my time in this role I was responsible for the approval of some of Nokia's best selling products.

• Technical Account Manager

  • Apr 1999 - Aug 2006

  Technical Account Manager, Nokia Mobile Phones - 1/2005 - 8/2006• In this role, I was responsible for all of Nokia’s product range sold by Orange plc.It was my responsibility to ensure the approval of Nokia’s products by Orange. • My duties included error management and error reviews with Orange and Nokia programs. • I was also instrumental in planning the product acceptance for each product. This included meetings with Orange management as to the status of each program. • I attended kick-off meetings with Orange and Nokia on new products. It was my sole responsibility for the Technical Planning phase. • During my time in this role I was responsible for the approval of some of Nokia’s best selling products.

• Field Test Team Leader

  • Mar 1999 - Jan 2005

  My initial role at Nokia was as a Field Test Engineer. In this position, I tested prototype handsets in the live network, found software errors with the handsets and reported on them. This role required detailed knowledge of the GSM and WCDMA air interface in order to clearly report my findings and suggest possible fixes.I was promoted to the position of Field Test Team Leader for verification in Europe, US and Asia. This involved the planning of resources and locations to field-test prototype handsets. I was responsible for 6 engineers and the planning of their test schedules, as well as overseeing their individual development within their roles, whilst remaining very active in the testing role myself. I managed and extensively planned many field test projects in Nokia's key areas and worked closely with the UK and Irish operators with early GPRS tests cases in their test networks. This involved offsite meetings where I represented Nokia and offered technical support on Nokia's products.I also ran several in-house training courses concentrating on Website development, including Java Script and Macromedia Flash 5

• Field Validation Engineer

  • Mar 1999 - Jan 2005

  My initial role at Nokia was as a Field Test Engineer. In this position, I tested prototype handsets in the live network, found software errors with the handsets and reported on them. This role required detailed knowledge of the GSM and WCDMA air interface in order to clearly report my findings and suggest possible fixes.I was responsible for running and adding test cases into test director.I was promoted to the position of Field Test Team Leader for verification in Europe, US and Asia. This involved the planning of resources and locations to field-test prototype handsets. I was responsible for 6 engineers and the planning of their test schedules, as well as overseeing their individual development within their roles, whilst remaining very active in the testing role myself. I managed and extensively planned many field test projects in Nokia's key areas and worked closely with the UK and Irish operators with early GPRS tests cases in their test networks. This involved offsite meetings where I represented Nokia and offered technical support on Nokia's products.I also ran several in-house training courses concentrating on Website development, including Java Script and Macromedia Flash 5



Ericsson

• Sweden
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• EMC Design Engineer

  • Mar 1998 - Mar 1999

  My role at Ericsson was to develop an EMC test lab and perform pre-compliance tests on the handsets. This involved regular contact and meetings with possible vendors and Ericsson management to report on time scales and costs My role at Ericsson was to develop an EMC test lab and perform pre-compliance tests on the handsets. This involved regular contact and meetings with possible vendors and Ericsson management to report on time scales and costs



RFI Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services

• Type Approvals Engineer

  • Apr 1996 - Mar 1998

  I started this role as a Technician and progressed to Engineer. My role involved the Type approval of customer's products to ETSI standards. I also assisted customers in R&D work with their products. I started this role as a Technician and progressed to Engineer. My role involved the Type approval of customer's products to ETSI standards. I also assisted customers in R&D work with their products.