Main procurement specialisms:

Professional Services, IT, Outsourcing, SRM, Stakeholder Engagement, Category Management

Companies previously worked for:

Johnson & Johnson, United Parcel Service, General Electric

Most senior role held:

Director of World Headquarters Procurement

Greatest achievements in Procurement:

1. Category strategies for a large portfolio of professional services

2. Programme development for strategy implementation

3. Global stakeholder engagement

Best procurement advice I’ve been given:

Align your procurement strategies with those of your key stakeholders

Procurement advice I’d give:

Consider each strategy or programme as if it were a business case analysis/justification.  Think of why it would make sense to your business partners.

Build trusting and genuine relationships with your stakeholders and suppliers, and endeavour to be viewed as a source of strategic wisdom

What I wish I’d known:

How profoundly impactful the internet would be on business, in terms of how work is done