Commercial Manager
Home Office
Total des années d'expérience :22 years, 5 Mois
• Working as a Commercial Manager within the Visa and Citizenship Application Service section of their Commercial Directorate
• Undertaking commercial assessments of suitable routes to market for the contract and Project Managers who would be handling the interactions between the suppliers and the Home Office.
• Assessing the findings of the End-to-End OJEU Tenders via their Artemis procurement Portal.
• Offering Commercial advice to all project Management teams around the World / UK in support of their programme of support.
• Understanding and explaining the UK Government Procurement / Financial Regulations such as PCR 2015 regulations to non - financially trained Internal stakeholders.
• Working as a Category Manager within the Defence Commercial Team of the MOD.
• Undertaking commercial assessments in relation to Contract Management function of the Supply and logistics within the MOD.
• Undertake approval and commercial assessments processes in order to get approval to go to markets.
• Undertaking End to End Tenders via their procurement Portal.
• Expected to undertake reviews of all relevant frameworks to assess their suitability and compliance.
• Offering Commercial advice to all MOD project teams around the UK in support of their future Projects Programme.
• Understanding and explaining relevant Government financial / Procurement regulations to Internal stakeholders (PCR 2015), (Defence & Security Public Sector Contract Regulations)
Key Responsibilities / Achievements
• Working as a Commercial Lead within the National Criminal Justice Lab (NCJL) section of their Public Safety Group
• Undertaking commercial assessments of suitable routes to market for Data Analysts, Data Engineers and Data Scientists.
• Undertaking End to End OJEU Tenders via their Jaggaer (Bravo) procurement Portal.
• Offering Commercial advice to all project teams around the UK in support of their programme of support.
• Understanding and explaining the PCR 2015 regulations to Internal stakeholders
• Working as a Commercial Lead within the Education, Health, Gender, Science & Research section of their Programme Delivery Section.
• Undertaking Contract Amendments to contracts that had been affected either directly or indirectly with recent budget cuts.
• Undertaking End to End Tenders via their Jaggaer (Bravo) procurement Portal.
• Offering Commercial advice to all project teams around the world in support of their programme of support.
• I have been assigned to the re-running of the Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE) Tender.
This is an essential function within the LFB, as it will replace the equipment and keep the RPE equipment used by all Fire Fighters both up to date in terms of technology advances, but safe due to improvements in the remit of new RPE equipment.
• I am also working on the tendering of the Operation Contingency Crew (OCC) contract as this is due for renewal in 2023.
• I worked on their PMU “Gateway NEQ” project to transform an underutilised car parking area into a more productive science / research quadrant of the university main campus.
• I was heavily involved in the refurbishment project for their 200-year-old campus library building.
• I was asked to review and update their PMU project tracking system to make it more user friendly for the Finance director to prioritise their resources more effectively.
• Working on a user guide for non-procurement trained staff to do RFQ / RFP up to the value of £100k
• Use of NEC 4 suite of contracts for elements of PMU refurbishment and construction projects
• To assist the Buildings Pillar to identify new opportunities on the Porge electronic system
• To help the Pillar to increase the completion of the MSAT assessment.
• To increase the understanding of the Social Value Act 2012 within the organisations that use the CCS frameworks.
• To work with the Climate Emergency team to reduce the carbon emissions to achieve carbon neutral status in line with the Government directives
• To be an active member of the Building Pillar and assist in assigned projects.
• To assist the teams, using FTS methodology, E Tendering software’s.
• Evaluation of all contractual agreements in terms of SLA, KPI’s on a regular basis
• To handled various projects across a wide portfolio of sectors on behalf of the organisation
Working for Government Organisation
Context: A large council within Hampshire that has set ambitious programmes to work with SME's within Hampshire. They have also declared a Climate Emergency and set a goal to become Carbon Neutral by 2025.
Key Responsibilities / Achievements
•To head up all the Procurement functions on behalf of the council to address Non-Contract spend (Savings to date 54.4%)
•Redraft the Procurement & Contract Management strategy for the next four years.
•To identify and correct areas of ‘Maverick Spending' within the business units of BDBC
•To work with the Climate Emergency team to reduce the carbon emissions to achieve carbon neutral status by 2025.
•To work with SME's within Hampshire in compliance of the Social Value Act (SVA) 2012
•To be an active member of the Operational Management Group (OMG) within the council
•Heading up all high value tender bids within the council, using OJEU methodology, E Tendering software's.
•Evaluation of all contractual agreements in terms of SLA, KPI's on a regular basis
•Able to handle various projects across a wide portfolio of sectors on behalf of the organisation
Context: This is the privately-owned school sponsored by Qatargas, one of the largest oil and gas providers in the Middle East. The school currently supports a student body more than 6000 pupils, and an annual budget of $58M.
Key Responsibilities / Achievements:
•Delivering a strategic vision for optimising procurement processes/activities across the school, involving: Ideas development; forward planning; research, analysis, and evaluation; problem solving and resolution and the focussing of key objectives - Re-negotiating terms with suppliers to minimise risks and provide significant savings across the board
•Heading up of all Procurement related Estate & Facilities activities and controlled an annual $52M spend budget; ensuring that optimum value is always delivered.
•Managing of five schools within AKIS reactive, proactive Hard and & Soft Facilities / maintenance programmes.
•Management of all IT related purchases including IT Hardware and Software's.
•Management OF SRM strategies for increased co-operation and cost efficiencies between Vendors and AKIS.
•Management of all contracts related to educational requisites.
•Managing the integration of E-Procurement software to improve budget productions and budget holders spend activities, delivering significant cost savings/efficiencies going forward.
•Successfully vetting for new products and outsourcing new products from suppliers on an on-going basis; conducting complex tenders and gaining experienced in NEC 3 contract negotiation.
•Thoroughly researching products/markets to ensure competitive price levels and establishing benchmark prices against competitive sectors of market - delivering exceptional value for money whilst ensuring the `best fit` product for the task required.
•Ensuring the security of financial data and the audibility of the system to comply with Sponsoring company`s Business controls policy.
•Conducting regular meetings with suppliers to ensure adherence to SLA's, KPI's
Specialist Estates & Facilities, Medical Equipment
Led the development of a Procurement Strategy for a ‘greenfield' Hard & Soft Facilities infrastructure and strategic partnerships
•Managed Contract negotiations in preparation for a major IS Outsource agreement. 3-year savings of £150k per year through proposed and initiated strategic supplier implementation and support contracts
•Created a Procurement Category Management strategy and implemented Print Policy and Global Print Management Solution. Global Desktop Contract Management over initiated Global Governance Structure that has delivered savings more than £3 Million
•Renegotiated IT Server installations and maintenance programmes.
•Managed and led Procurement team
•Worked as consultancy-based advisor on both SAP and Oracle based Software
•Initiated and evaluation Hard FM tenders for Orange FM offices in Aberdeen.
•Conducted 3-year Pest Control contract for Biffa Waste Management- negotiated Year on Year savings, amounting to 10% reduction in annual costs due to entrepreneurial thinking.
•Holding of Regular Supplier relationship management / contract management meetings
Glamorgan University MSc Strategic Procurement Student
Worked across all sectors of the RCM Estate: Facilities Management, Security, Project Management, Budget Forecasting, and Financial EMM Returns
Selected Achievements:
•Worked across all sectors of the RCM Estate: Facilities Management, Security, Project Management, Budget Forecasting, and Financial EMM Returns
•Managed 15 staff and the entire Procurement department for all of RCM Estates and Maintenance departments
•Managed the evaluation of Tenders, Budget setting, Contract management, Procurement Databases.
Chartered Status Completed studies and assessments to achieve MCMI status
MCIPS CHartered
MIWFM
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