Duncan Burroughs

Experience

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  Dexion Comino

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2011

  Purchasing Manager

  I was responsible for managing the daily operations of the UK purchasing department as well as continuing to work with the group in Category Management.

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  Constructor Group AS

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  Category Manager
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  Dexion Storage Solutions

  Apr 2010 - Jul 2010

  Purchasing Consultant

  A three month secondment to work with my colleagues in Romania looking at their purchasing practices and ways of reducing costs.

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  Gonvarri Material Handling

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2020

  Responsible for the Supply Chain organisation within the Group Sales Offices in 14 countries across Europe. Lead and Negotiate Group Wide contracts for key commodity purchases. Main point of contact for the resolution of major supplier issues and the ongoing supplier relationship management across Europe. Part of a team that has successfully driven savings both pre and post order across the organisation year on year. Provide major project support negotiating with and managing the suppliers throughout the project.Sourcing of new suppliers as required as well as working with our factories to insource products that complement our portfolio, I am therefore familiar with manufacturing and tooling processes. Work with technical departments on bespoke product designs advising on supplier manufacturing constraints.I organise supplier training for our support teams as well as personally providing procurement training for these teams. Minder weergeven As part of a European team I was responsible for establishing group wide deals with a number of key commodity suppliers that gave all sales offices across the group the same prices and terms and allowed us to increase the sales of these commodities.I also had the responsibility of working with the groups offices across Europe to insource products that had good synergy with our manufacturing capabilities. This led to a significant increase in the volume of business being ordered on our own factories, with year on year growth achieved. Minder weergeven

  • Export Business Development Manager

    Apr 2019 - Jan 2020

  • Supply Chain Manager Europe

    Feb 2016 - Apr 2019

  • Category/Insourcing Manager

    Jan 2011 - Feb 2016
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  P and SC Ltd

  Jan 2020 - Sept 2020

  Director

  P and SC Ltd providing Procurement and Supply Chain Consultancy. Helping businesses to increase efficiency in Procurement and Supply Chain whilst saving costs in their daily operations.

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  Fortna

  Sept 2020 - Apr 2023

  Manager, EMEA Procurement, Supplier Relations and Estimation

  • Responsible for all Procurement Activities for the EMEA region whilst also supporting estimations for Bid and Proposal offers to end Clients.• Part of the Senior Operations Leadership Team developing strategies to deliver significant growth whilst maintaining on time in full implementation projects• Negotiating several multi-million-pound Supplier agreements, including difficult Legal discussions with the Support of the Legal team.• Gained significant knowledge of warehouse automation for large multinational retailers including but not limited to knowledge on ASRS, Conveyors, Sorters, AMR’s as well as Autostore.• Presenting Supplier Selection process to multiple Clients to get buy in on selected Suppliers whilst demonstrating due diligence in Supplier Selection process.• Leading the Procurement Strategy for the largest Client order in the company’s history.• Managing a spend across EMEA in excess of €75m annually.• Managed Supplier relationships effectively to ensure where possible projects remained on time despite the significant challenges caused by Covid, Global Supply Shortages and dramatic price increases in many materials Minder weergeven

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  Government Commercial Function

  Apr 2023 - now

  SRM Intelligence Lead