Purchasing & Supply Chain Consultancy & Interim Management CV

Consultancy & Interim Management Profile

Interim purchasing executive experienced in mergers & acquisitions, change management, strategic & tactical purchasing practises, supplier cost reduction programmes, ERP implementations and purchasing department start-ups, with experience of a wide variety of demanding industries and managing global / pan European purchasing organisations. Working through own limited company with professional indemnity insurance to deliver break-through purchasing performance improvements in businesses often with significant French speaking interests. Typical assignment duration: one year. Most recent assignment: two years.

Purchasing & Supply Chain Consultancy Experience

• 6.5 years

Purchasing Interim Management Experience

• 9 years

Purchasing Transformation Programmes

• Developed business case & implemented new purchasing organisation – Retail
  
• Led purchasing post-acquisition integration across six European plants. $100m spend – Global Commodity Chemicals
  
• Delivered targeted synergies after only 12 weeks & annual savings 20% above target – Global Commodity Chemicals
• Developed “global purchasing transformation” business case & led implementation of global direct and indirect category management - Pharma
• Implemented and established new global governance principles for 100 indirect purchasers and established compliance management – Pharma
• Introduced new product introduction/project purchasing process within the UK business unit - Automotive

ERP, e-Sourcing, Purchasing & Materials Management System Implementations

• Led pharma regulated implementation of JD Edwards ERP system for indirect purchasing across eleven legal entities - Pharma
• Led pan European implementation of SAP materials management (MM) module – Global Commodity Chemicals
• Designed and introduced gross MRP system – Aerospace
• Introduced Ariba-Procuri e-Sourcing platform and launched programme of e-RFIs, e-RFQs and reverse auctions. E.g. saving: 33% - Pharma

Purchasing Category Management

• Achieved pricing for contract hire of 400+ pan-European vehicles, equivalent to fleets more than ten times larger through reverse auction - Pharma
  
• Managed a major active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) category – Pharma
• Saved £ XX m + during post-merger integration through industry leading category strategy & outsourcing ~60 employees. – Financial Services
• Outsourced train cleaning (21 employees) - measurably improving quality and saving 23%
  
• Established Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) for professional services to deliver targeted year on year cost reductions – Financial Services
• Led European plastic purchasing strategy team for 3 business units in France & Germany - Automotive
• Benchmarked global sub-contract contract electronics manufacturing (CEM) market to support annual negotiations with supply partner - Automotive
• Negotiated rebate on air travel spend for group companies in the UK of 18%
• Championed multi-disciplinary team to resource key polypropylene plastic extrusion, saving >25% - Automotive
  
• Introduced strategic Asian raw material supplier. Reversed quarterly price increases into saving 23% - Automotive
• Used EU public sector procurement rules - Rail
• Captured low density polyethylene savings on £1.4m spend (38%) - Automotive
• Negotiated 7% saving on annual chemicals raw materials spend in eight weeks including: 19% savings on rubber compound, 16% to 27% savings on chemicals spend, 30% savings on pigments/colourings - Polymers
• Led team to benchmark 200 suppliers to formulate category purchasing strategy using Booz Allen strategic sourcing methodology - Aerospace
• Led pan-European purchasing team for specialist active electronics category - Automotive
• Developed and implemented Unix workstation and software purchasing strategies - Automotive

Supplier Cost Reduction Programmes

• Led team to develop company-wide Strategic Supplier Cost Reduction Programme - launched internationally - Aerospace
• Diagnosed and implemented 10% labour savings for key supplier within a four week period – Aerospace Client & Supplier
• Initiated 30% labour savings leading to £1.8m cost reduction at plastics manufacturer – Automotive Client – Polymer Supplier

Project & New Product Introduction Purchasing

• Sourced & qualified a new local suppliers for confidential/strategic new market development programme - Automotive
• Developed microprocessor purchasing strategy for new RF transmitter product platform with R&D team - Automotive
  
• Managed capital equipment purchasing for plastic moulding tools - Automotive
• Managed purchasing elements of product down costing programme including value engineering - Automotive

Supply Chain Management Consultancy

• Developed competitive supply chain strategies to maximise gross margin for key categories - Retail
• Led several intensive supply chain diagnostic studies to identify improvement opportunities - Aerospace, Automotive.
• Analysed demand vs. inventory levels to identify opportunities to deliver £ 0.5m savings. – Global Telecoms
• Designed supply chain change programme to reduce raw material stocks by 50% - Polymers
• Re-engineered outbound supply chain using Lean Manufacturing principles – saving: 30% of labour and 85% of lead times - Media
• Re-engineered replenishment process for multi-site business, saving labour & inventory by closing stores - Rail
• Analysed requirements and selected cell materials planning and control system - Automotive
• Through Kanban systems, reduced stock by 70% in defence business and achieved nil stock-outs and 85% reduction in lead times between suppliers and automotive industry customer.
• Developed international multi-site make vs buy/manufacturing strategy – Electrical Systems

Contract Drafting & Management

• Negotiated contract for IT systems (hardware & software including SLAs) – subsequently adopted by all of ex British Rail (£100m)
  
• Led negotiations for engineering spares contract (£175m) for all newly privatised train operating companies

Professional Education & Institution Membership

• Loughborough University of Technology - Bachelor of Technology (2:1 Hons) - Production Engineering & Management - 4 year thin sandwich
• Sponsored by both GEC-Ruston Gas Turbines and GEC-Napier Turbochargers
• Chartered Engineer (C.Eng)
• Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (M.I.Mech.E.)
• Member of the Chartered Institution of Purchasing and Supply (M.C.I.P.S.)

Personal

• British
• Age 44
• Languages: English – mother tongue. French – able to negotiate
• Based - West Midlands

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