Peter Monk

Experience

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  Royal Air Force

  Jan 1970 - Jan 1981

  Aeronautical Engineer

  After my apprenticeship at RAF Halton, I then served at various locations in the UK and overseas locations, servicing, repairing and modifing various types of fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. Most notable, Hercules transporters, Whirlwind and Wessex helicopters and various jet propelled fighters.

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  Bristow Helicopters

  Jan 1981 - Jan 1984

  Licenced Engineer

  Under CAA rules I was reponsible for the servicing, repair and operational flightworthiness of the company's helicopter fleet, initially in the UK and then in Egypt.

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  Computervision Inc

  Dec 1984 - Jan 1986

  Field Service Engineer

  Responsible for the installation, commissioning and demonstration of company computer system range and applications at client sites.

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  Prime Computer

  Jan 1986 - Jul 1988

  Field Service Engineer

  Responsible for the repair, installation and modification of the company's computer systems and peripherals, at client sites.

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  Intergraph

  Jul 1988 - Sept 1995

  UK Procurement Manager

  Reporting to the Finance Director in the UK the role involved total responsibility for all aspects within the company regarding its UK purchasing and procurement strategy for a £22M pa spendMajor achievement:• Successfully introduced a single source policy for the car fleet by negotiating with suppliers, manufacturers, staff and management. Reducing cost by £150,000 per annum.• Successfully provided business and procurement advice relating to commercial matters to enable the Electronics division moves towards autonomy. Show less

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  The Charity Commision

  Oct 1995 - Mar 1996

  Interim IT Procurement Manager

  My assignment successfully completed an IT procurement project to select and negotiate a supplier for a new high profile Documentation Management system against very short timescales and within budget.

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  Hertz

  Apr 1996 - Feb 1997

  European IT and Facilities Procurement Manager

  Reporting to the European Purchasing Director, the position provided a centre of excellence for all IT, Travel and Facilities procurement.Major Achievements:• Providing procurement expertise for the successful transfer of employees and equipment for a new Call Centre site in Dublin.• Overseeing the procurement assignments of this major project to build a call centre on a green field site with European subsidies.

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  NatWest

  Feb 1997 - Apr 2000

  Procurement Manager

  Reporting to the Head of IT Procurement, I had responsibility for Hardware and Software Procurement across the Group. From desktop to Mainframe, and off the shelf software to middleware applications. Major Achievements:• The provision of the IT procurement strategy to enable the Group to meet its economic aims.• Responsible for many of the largest contracts let at the time, i.e. Microsoft, Dell desktop hardware, and IBM outsourcing• Responsibility for an IT spend of approximately £180M pa through project managed procurement and/or implementing supply contracts. Savings in line with targets, typically providing 25 -30 % off budget.• Established myself as the first point of contact for the provision of support and guidance to clients and colleagues through a lead role concept.• Leadership to staff in which saw one individual grow from an administrative assistant to a successful senior buyer during my term.• Successfully managed the transition of many contracts from businesses either sold or transferred to Royal Bank of Scotland. Show less

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  Thomson Reuters

  Apr 2000 - Jun 2002

  Purchasing Manager

  Accountable to the UK Procurement Director for a £300M+ IT spend. My role provided support and procurement expertise for all global/local project based procurement activity requiring, data centre and desktop systems, networks, telecoms, satellite, software and/or hardware to the Reuters Group. Major Achievements:• Contributed significant savings to the Group targets. For example a personal £700,000 bottom line saving booked in Q2/02, representing a 40% reduction against budget.• Established supplier management procedures and policies for major vendors, i.e. IBM and CISCO.• A departmental re-engineering process resulted with myself as the single point of reference to approve all IT hardware spend over £10,000.• Established and broke new ground for the department with many internal clients against a background of adversity toward any interference in their autonomous business units.• First point of contact for colleagues and internal clients in search of procurement advice and guidance.• Two white papers written, (1) Leasing guidelines and (2) Purchasing card.• As well as negotiating many of the largest contracts in the industry at the time (Oracle). I have also negotiated many other contracts with small businesses around the globe to provide strategic critical products and services. Show less

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  Procure Consultancy Limited

  Sept 2002 - Jan 2012

  Managing Director

  Responsible for the day to day running of the business and winning new contracts

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  Hewlett-Packard

  Sept 2002 - Mar 2006

  Interim IT Category Manager

  Reporting the to the Head of Procurement my assignment saw me over an extended period hold several roles as a Purchasing consultant working within HP’s UK&I Services Group. The roles included; IT Services Procurement specialist, the UK&I Software Procurement Manager, then finally to provide commercial and procurement expertise in support of Major Procurement Projects in the UK and Ireland. I was required to provide client/supplier management skills, analyse risk, lead major procurement activity in multifunctional teams, negotiate contracts with multiple suppliers whilst flowing down customer requirements and meeting overall company targets to remain competitive. I used my IT knowledge and Procurement expertise in this area to assist other members of the Purchasing team to fulfil their supply chain roles, as well as take an active part in the negotiations and formulating contracts.Examples of tasks included: Novation and renegotiation of all IT service contracts and licence agreements for an international high street bank to HP, including major IBM mainframe installation.Negotiate purchase agreement, service contract and project manage the procurement processes, for a national role out of desktop technology, server infrastructure and networking capability to all schools in Northern Ireland.Renegotiate all current service contracts for substantial central government body, reducing cost and increasing effectiveness through tight service level enhancements. Show less

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  Hutchison 3G

  Mar 2006 - Apr 2006

  Interim IT, Facilities and Marketing Procurement Manager

  Reporting to the Head of Procurement I held a short assignment working within 3G’s Procurement Team. I was required to provide and lead a number of major procurement activities in Facilities, Marketing and IT projects and deliver revised terms and conditions beneficial for the client whilst consolidating their supplier base.

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  Barclays

  Apr 2006 - Apr 2007

  Interim Procurement Manager

  Reporting to the Head of Services Procurement this assignment required me to perform a Sourcing Manager role working within Barclays Global Sourcing Team and specifically the IT Services category. I provided commercial and procurement expertise in support of Major IT Procurement Projects in the UK and supporting other teams globally. I was typically working on several projects at any one time. I used client/supplier management skills, to analyse risk, lead major procurement activity in multifunctional teams, run RFP/ITT processes, negotiate contracts with multiple suppliers whilst flowing down customer requirements and meeting overall Group targets to remain competitive.Major Achievements:• Working with a cross functional team I was responsible for successfully completing several software development projects, for several business units across the Group, achieving £3M of on target savings• Employ e-Sourcing within a major desktop services assessment to consider outsourcing, saving £4M• Providing the procurement expertise of a major outsourcing of all the in-house printing requirements for Barclays Plc in the UK.• I also provided a category lead role for professional services, assessing each requirement and employing contracts as necessary. Show less

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  Volkswagen Audi UK

  Apr 2007 - Jul 2007

  Interim Deputy Head of Procurement

  Reporting to the Director of Procurement I was engaged to ensure the commercial and contractual opportunities were optimised for VW Group UK, following the sale of their internal IT Services provider to an external party.Key Responsibilities• to establish appropriate commercial relationships for all operational IT services for VWG with its new IT services provider, • to provide a senior procurement capacity by standing in for the Procurement Director in her absence• to provide a detailed/tactical level as each IT project assignment required,• to be available for ad hoc commercial and contract project support,• input into the development of the IS Commercial function.Major Achievements:• I was responsible for successfully project managing the novation and employing new contracts where none existed across the entire IT infrastructure between VW UK and its new IT managed Service provider. Show less

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  Marks and Spencer

  Jul 2007 - Feb 2008

  Interim Procurement Manager

  Reporting to the Head of IT Procurement, for this assignment I was engaged as the Commercial Manager for the Non-Merchandise Procurement within the IT Division. My primary task was to support the Software category. Key Responsibilities • Support the selection process and negotiate the terms for a new warehouse management system for the Group (Globally this will be one of the largest systems in use)• Provide commercial assistance to select and negotiate a Enterprise Data Warehousing system for the Group,• Lead the software category forward and provide strategy plans to raise its profile within the groupMajor Achievements:• Working with a cross functional team I was responsible for successfully completing one of Europe’s largest warehouse management software projects, achieving £3M of on target savings on a £20M investment.• Employing benchmarking within all current System Integrator projects I reduced the current cost base by a minimum of 20% saving the organisation a further £4M over 3 years. Show less

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  Government Communications Planning Directorate

  Feb 2008 - Jun 2010

  Interim Senior Procurement Manager

  Reporting to the Head of Procurement and the Head of IT, I was engaged as a Senior Purchasing Manager primarily for client liaison to further promote procurement and strategic planning within the Directorate. But also carry out the procurement of the organisation’s; hardware, software, network and telephony requirements to ensure timely response to internal client requirements. Such requirements include middleware software applications, network support contracts, hardware, helpdesk systems and the renegotiation of all voice and data contracts.Major Achievements:• Increased the dependency on professionals to carry out procurement of major programmes, which in turn has reduced risk, project failures, contract disputes, lowered costs and increased productivity.• Leading a number of procurement projects; major telephony replacement programme across the organisation, saving £2M. • Removal of the dependency on individual relationships for consultancy services, replacing it with a limited number of professional services contracts, now utilised across the organisation.• Review and implementation of software asset management, bringing significant improvement in license management and total cost of ownership• Renegotiation of networking maintenance contract, reducing costs whilst raising service levels. Show less

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  Lloyds TSB

  Jun 2010 - Jan 2012

  Interim Market Data Category Manager

  Reporting to the Head Market Data, I was engaged as a Senior Category Manager to assist LBG and its third party contracts as it prepared for 2012 when it is due to comply with Government regulations to divest some of its business units. But my tasks also were to gain best value from existing Financial Services Information provider contracts, including Fraud Prevention and Debt Collection. Employ and negotiate new/existing supplier agreements. Seek out savings opportunities, renegotiate existing terms with a bias towards utilising service levels and increasing use of off shore resources.Major Achievements:• Fully met savings target for Market Data category for 2010 by reducing 2009 spend by 50% from consolidation and introducing greater competition,• Successful introduction of the new Cost Management Unit across my stakeholder community,• Introduction of robust service levels which are targeted to the business deliverables, instead of simply meeting OLA’s,• Negotiated a services contract for Fraud detection, reducing initial quote from £4M over three years to £1.8M,• Review and replacement of the Credit Reference Agency Strategy,• Renegotiation of the Consumer credit reference agency contract further reducing costs by £1M pa via the introduction of a rebate system Show less

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  First Group

  Jan 2012 - Nov 2013

  Group Procurement Manager

  I am responsible for all IT procurement across the UK organisation which includes our Rail Franchises and Bus businesses.FirstGroup plc is the leading transport operator in the UK and North America. With revenues of over £6.5 billion per annum and approximately 124,000 employees we transport more than 2.5 billion passengers every year. Major Achievements:• Working with a multidiscipline team I ran the selection and negotiation of a replacement TIS (Ticketing Information System), Web based sales engine and Customer Services. By introducing none traditional Rail suppliers both in the UK and from the rest of the world, this created a more competitive supplier base. Savings of not less than £20M over 5 years are anticipated from an annual spend of £63M. Show less

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  First Group Plc

  Nov 2013 - Mar 2014

  Group Procurement Manager - Facilities and Travel

  I was also responsible for all Facilities Management and Travel procurement in the UK on behalf of First Group.

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  Verizon

  Jun 2014 - Feb 2015

  Sourcing Consultant

  Recently appointed to Verizon as Sourcing Consultant

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  Vodafone

  Feb 2015 - now

  Contracts and Bid Manager

  Leading the supply chain responsibilities and activities into all major new bids on behalf of Vodafone. Developing and employing negotiation strategies with potential third parties to support the solution. Providing all supply chain responsibilities in every aspect of the bid to "go live" for the solution.