Experience

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  South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

  • United Kingdom
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Interim Contract Manager

    • Nov 2015 - Nov 2016

    Currently supporting the Procurement Team focusing on a range of Professional Services contracts.

  • Procurement Professional

    • Nov 2015 - Nov 2016

    Currently supporting the Procurement Team focusing on a range of Professional Services contracts

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  Swindon Borough Council

  • Swindon

  • Senior Procurement Officer

    • Jul 2013 - May 2015
    • Swindon

    Working in the Commercial Services Team of Swindon Borough Council in the role of a Senior Procurement Officer:• Supporting Commissioning and Delivery teams to understand procurement policies, risks and implications of non-compliance with legislation and the Council’s Standing Orders. Integrating new Public Contract Regulation and CDM legislation into Council's procurement processes.• Providing commercial leadership, expertise, experience and thinking in working with Commissioning and Delivery teams to develop strategies for driving additional value and/or savings from contract and purchase spend.• Ensuring proposed procurement and contracting processes are streamlined, simple and designed to really enable outcomes to be delivered as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible across the Council’s £100mn pa spend. • Supporting internal clients across a wide range of procurements including: - a Highways Management and Flood Alleviation programme (value £7mn), - provision of Highways Repairs Works and Resilience Measures (value £5mn), - developing and implementing a procurement strategy for Professional Engineering Consultancy for Highways (£5mn), - Taxi Services for Special Needs customers (£5mn), - Restructuring of Children's Centres (£3mn), - Restructuring Mental Health Support Contract (£3mn). - Adult Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Services (£1.6mn) - Restructuring Mental Health Support Contract £3mn) - Information and Advice Hub & Specialist Welfare Services - Person Support Centre & Advocacy for Adults with Learning Disabilities - Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme - ANPR Bus Lane Enforcement

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  Optima One Ltd

  • Owner

    • Sep 2000 - Jan 2015

    Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service, Exeter Interim Procurement OfficerSeptember 2012 to June 2013• Providing professional advice, guidance and support for departments within the Service, including leading and project managing specific projects and initiatives and ensuring that an appropriate procurement process is adopted – in each case, complying with the requirements of legislation, relevant Service regulations and recognised best practice.• Currently involved in a diverse range of procurement activity including managing procurement projects for the ICT, Estates and HR departments.This has included responsibility for all elements of tender preparation, from initial market research and user liaison through to analysis and evaluation of bids. • Utilising Bluelight E Tendering solution and introducing GPS eSourcing SuiteCSC – ArcelorMittal Account, Stevenage Procurement TransformationApril 2012 to July 2012At the request of the Procurement Lead/ Account Team, management of Third Party Contracts from transition to transformation focusing on consolidating procurement requirements using CSC preferred vendors on behalf of the client. CSC – ArcelorMittal Account, Luxembourg Procurement TransitionNovember 2011 to March 2012Working in the Third Party Contract project team:• Ensuring the responsibility and contractual obligations for 3rd party contracts across a range of East and West European countries was transferred within defined time frames.• Working with CSC Tower Leads on IT segments: End Users, Mid Range, Storage, Mainframe, Security and Networks to ensure continuity of service to the client.• Identification and management of risk – including eliminating/minimising “Novation” fees.• Managing the transition of contracts including renegotiation of contracts as required.• Establishing relationships with key suppliers in the areas of IT Software, IT Hardware, IT operations, IT Outsourcing and Telecoms.

  • Managing Director

    • Sep 2000 - Oct 2003

    As an independent consultant specialising in Sourcing, Supply and Cost Management, my clients included well known blue chip companies. I managed projects on their behalf in relation to incorporating 3rd party IT contracts into their organisations –in the case of one client (Avis Car Rentals) as a result of a company acquisition and in the case of another client (CSC) as a consequence of their provision of IT outsourcing to their respective clients (GE, Alenia Marconi and AMP). This involved:• Ensuring the responsibility and contractual obligations for agreed 3rd party contracts was transferred within defined time frames (3rd party spend in excess of £30mn on each project).• Introducing and managing a Due Diligence database.• Identification and management of risk.• Eliminate/minimalise “Novation” fees.• Business Process Re-engineering and managing the transition of contracts including renegotiation of contracts.• Establishing relationships with key suppliers in the areas of IT Software, IT Hardware, IT operations and Telecoms.

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  Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply

  • South West

  • CIPS Qualified - Professional Diploma in Purchasing

    • Dec 2004 - Dec 2014
    • South West

    CIPS activity has included: - CIPS Congress Member representing the South West - 2012 to 2013 - CIPS Council - elected South West Representative - 2009 to 2012 - CIPS West of England Branch - Chair (2004 to 2009) - Responsible for re-juvenating the dormant branch - CIPS Swindon Branch - Chair (2003) - Responsible for re-juvenating the dormant branch - CIPS Thames Valley Branch - Deputy Chair (1999 to 2003). - Rebranded the existing Oxford and Reading Branch

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  Southwest One (joint venture of Somerset County Council and IBM)

  • United Kingdom
  • Government Administration
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Procurement Manager

    • Dec 2007 - Aug 2011

    Southwest One is a joint venture between Somerset County Council, Taunton Deane Borough Council, Avon and Somerset Police and IBM to provide Shared Service. This role involved:• Developing a shared service Strategic Procurement Services Team.• Supporting the Procurement Team at Avon and Somerset Police with a view to unblocking a number of key projects. This was achieved through:a) successfully mentoring the team members which was reflected in a note from the Head of Procurement Operations:"Well done it seems like you’ve had an immediate impact in Portishead" andb) hands on management of a number of key projects – primarily IT related. One major result was the project management of the ANPR camera contract within very tight time scales which qualified the Force for NPIA funding of £250,000. The handling of this project generated a letter of appreciation from the Assistant Chief Constable: “I know that with such tight timescales you have worked under enormous pressure but you have risen to the challenge admirably to meet all the deadlines."• Procurement Lead role in the implementation of a major Category Planning programme with direct involvement in the following categories:Estate and Built Infrastructure; Waste and Sustainability; IT and Professional Services.• My entry, analysing the effectiveness of this programme, for the 2008 SOPO awards won the Strategic Procurement Services team outright winners Procurement Award.• Focusing on Professional Services, savings of £150,000 were achieved through the re tendering of the Childcare Voucher contracts. • Project Lead role on the sub category of Legal Services to determine and implement optimum procurement solutions on behalf of Avon and Somerset Police, Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council.

  • Senior Procurement Officer / Deputy Corporate Procurement Manager

    • Nov 2003 - Nov 2007

    • Created and implemented the Marketing and Communication Plan for the “modernisation of procurement” strategy throughout the Council. Achieved through the introduction of a structured key stakeholder communication plan.• Developed and implemented the first Corporate contracts within the Council. This included contracts for Stationery, ICT Consumables, Fixed Line Telephony, Mobile Phones, Anti Virus software and Occupational Health. Each of these procurements was approached through project management with key stakeholders. Savings of over £1mn were negotiated.• Managing the Corporate Procurement Team.• Introduction of a Procurement Resource Planning Tool highlighting how each individual Procurement team member was supporting each business unit. This was well received by the Procurement Board and resulted not only in a tool that helped prioritise the team's work load in line with the service units needs but also served as a "marketing" tool to identify to the Procurement Board the far reaching support the Procurement team was providing the organisation.• Working jointly with Taunton Deane Borough Council Procurement I developed a joint Procurement strategy for TDBC and SCC. I also wrote strategy papers on Sustainability, Equalities, Compliance and Freedom of Information.• Initiated and obtained approval for the E-procurement strategy through the Procurement Board and, led on the subsequent programme of selecting an e Market-place provider and developing the associated supplier adoption programme.• Thorough knowledge of EU procurement procedures including experience of running procurements through the Open, Restricted, Competitive Dialogue, Frameworks and Works Concessionaire routes.

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  Imation

  • Purchasing Manager

    • Nov 1998 - Aug 2000

    • Re –establish and marketing of Purchasing Function in UK – eliminating “maverick” buying.• Establish and develop Requisition to Pay Process (Oracle).• Purchasing of all Imation UK requirements.• Implementing Preferred Supplier Programme/SRM programme.• Implementation of cost reduction/value for money programmes to optimise business unit budgets.

  • Business Analyst

    • Jul 1996 - Oct 1998

    • Project Manager/Demand Planning Manager • Business Unit Project Lead managing the migration from 3m legacy systems to Imation’s new Oracle applications.• Minimise impact of change on business unit’s customers.• Manage 5 European “go live” projects from business unit perspective. • Developing and Implementing Demand planning function across Europe.• Establishment and roll out of Sales and Operation Planning programme across Europe.• Co-ordination of European Management team to produce one integrated business plan.

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  3M

  • United States
  • Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • European Customer Liaison Manager

    • Aug 1993 - Jun 1996

    Managing multi-functional and cross cultural teams.Responsible for the collation of all the logistics requirements and forecast information from the Division’s European clients. Organisation of information flows to and from clients, as well as implementing new systems to meet the needs of 3M’s Photo Colour customers. The “customer voice” within 3M.

  • Customer Liaison Manager, Northern Europe

    • Nov 1991 - Jul 1993

    Manage the customer liaison role with special focus on developing business in the Nordic countries.

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  3M

  • Marketing and Sales Development Roles

    • Aug 1979 - Sep 1989

    To liase with National Sales Manager / Marketing Manager to review major accounts and formulate operating plans to improve product take up in the market place. Working with a wide range of key accounts developing a series of ECR programmes including supply chain initiatives, promotion strategies, purchasing strategies, product positioning and packaging concepts to build their Private Label Photo Film programmes.