Mark Holmes MCIPS

Experience

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  Lynwood Scientific

  Jul 1985 - Jan 1990

  Buyer / Senior Buyer / Workshop Service Engineer

  Initially Workshop repair engineer, I moved to parts-acquisition for production line items and procurement of 3rd-party equipment spares, using HNC to interpret parts specifications to maintain equipment

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  M4 Data Inc

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1991

  Senior Buyer, Electrical & Mechanical

  Led MRP2 buying of electrical and electromechanical components to support production lines for reel-reel tape drives; selected and audited manufacturing facilities capable of high precision mechanical manufacturing. Delivered savings whilst maintaining production needs

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  Sabre Safety

  Jan 1991 - Dec 1994

  Senior Buyer

  Senior Buyer procuring to Master scheduler needs, Electronic, mechanical, plastics and rubber-moulded facemasks, and breathing apparatus materials. Also accountble for managing materials to run a 24x7 client owned twinspindle lathe, to streamline costs (buying labour-only).

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  Pirelli Cables Ltd

  Jan 1995 - Mar 1995

  Interim Supply Chain Manager

  Short term assignment accountable for purchasing rolls of Cu, Al and Steel Cable-cores from London Metal Exchange for manufacturing Power-cables; tapes and polymer for insulation of 240v cable-manufacturing and drums / reels and other packaging to enable transportation to wholesalers. Short-term role converted permanent and not suited for my future career.

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  Environment Agency

  Mar 1995 - Jan 1997

  Contract Development Manager

  Awarded Thames Region Framework Contracts for Temporary IT staff, River Engineering Consultancy Services, River Engineering Works Contracts, Refurbishment of Visitor Centres. Also pan-UK collaborative contracts for Paper, IT Print-consolidation, mobile-comms networking.

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  Thales Missile Electronics

  Feb 1997 - Jan 2000

  Upstream Purchasing Engineer

  Procuring high value / high tech design and manufactured modular products internationally for military use, regularly working at "Secret" level whilst ensuring commonality of niche sources where appropriate. Relationship-development is key in this area of Procurement.

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  Sun Microsystems

  Jan 2000 - Jul 2000

  Partner Delivery Manager, Professional Services

  Establishment of relationships to develop sell-on services agreements with resource partners, to provide sun-badged technical capable project managers, system architects to business customers in London and South East UK

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  Amey Supply Chain Services

  Jul 2000 - Jan 2001

  Senior Buyer / Client Services coordinator

  Interim Manager to provide procurement services on client-sites on the basis of fixed-fee services accessing Amey-leverage discounts.Delievered savings ~£100k monthly yet maintained client procurements on and off-site during business restructure.

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  BSKYB

  Apr 2001 - Jul 2001

  Interim Category Manager - Generalist

  Interim role 3 months, appointed to manage AT-Kearney consultants during the restructing of Procurement and appointment of a new Procurement Director.Launched quick-win initiatives delivering a single-source JIT procurement contract for stationery appointed by e-auction, a small number preferred transport providers, preferred marketing publications provider and IT hardware provider. Savings yielded at £1.5m

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  QinetiQ

  Jul 2001 - May 2005

  Category Manager - Indirect Goods / Services

  Set-up Category Management unit from business formation (QinetiQ emerging from public control), defining Categories of spend, completing data analysis, defining scope of roles / resources to hire, self-delivery of multiple framework contracts to have a category portfolio, then "sold" success by on-site open-day roadshows.Indirectly managed the 4 specialists resulting from setting up this initiative; handed over operational contracts to developing internal specialists to enable development of new categories.Delivered streamlined Supplier pool, leveraged spend savings, consistency of service and payments processing, and enabled release of duplication of resources in non-centralised teams. Show less

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  Hewlett Packard Limited

  May 2005 - Jul 2008

  EMEA Category Manager - Construction FM and Real Estate Services

  Accountable for UK&I spend in facility management (hard & soft services of catering, cleaning, security, switchboard, reception, maintenance, logistics, mailroom and telephony services) and construction, I negotiated UK-contracts to minimise suppliers in use and optimise rates.I also was accountable for building works (dilapidations, fitouts, divestments) capturing construction and construction-related services EMEA-wide. This included working with data centresand all new-build facilities. Our team saved $50M between 2005 and 2008. Show less

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  BAA Airports Limited

  Oct 2008 - Aug 2011

  Interim 9 months converted to permanent, I was accountable for minor construction spend initiatives and for all construction-consultants and design/construction professional services, at all six airports. Initially I awarded minor-works Heathrow [£40mpa] and supported other airports adopting same discounts and supplier terms (NEC3) saving £10m; I then took accountability for construction-consultants [£20mpa] driving improved optimisation and less staff with improved rates; I then tendered design/construction professional services and awarded 5 preferred supplier lists using 17 agreements rationalising numbers of suppliers used by 70%, yielding £10m savings. Show less

  • OPEX Senior Category Manager

    Jul 2010 - Aug 2011

  • CAPEX Senior Category Manager - Construction Consultants.

    Oct 2008 - Jul 2010
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  Surrey County Council

  Sept 2011 - Jun 2012

  Interim Category Specialist, Property and Efficiency

  10-month assignment providing Procurement Services. Appointed to deliver a part-delivered OJEU framework for selection and appointment of Construction consultants. Established new OJEU Framework for temporary classrooms, in harmony with Hampshire county council.Saved £2-3m as the result of my mini-competitions helping the team save over £30m in 2012.

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  London Borough of Hillingdon

  Jun 2012 - Mar 2013

  Interim Procurement Manager, Construction (at London Borough of Hillingdon)

  Delighted to help the Customer strengthen OJEU-compliance by establishing a framework PSL of construction contractors which yielded £10m savings on £94m of works contracts. I led procurement into using new Cabinet Reporting templates helping delivery teams obtain council approvals and driving standardisation. A genuinely excellent place to work.LBH helped me set-up "Holmes Procurement Services" then retained my services until completion of the multiple construction tenders were completed and savings were realised. As the result, I then left with strong recommendations from stakeholders. Show less

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  Holmes Procurement Limited

  Mar 2013 - Dec 2013

  Appointed during a period of reorganisation as Category Manager for IT Circuits I helped the team drive decisions to yield savings from an RFP for circuits; I competed a mini RFP for international circuits evidencing a £100K saving to assist winning new Customer transmission lines and I captured legacy undelivered SLA contracts and brought these to the point of signature.Aqriva released me as the result of a funding issue but I left with strong recommendations from their stakeholders. Delighted to help the Customer strengthen OJEU-compliance by establishing a framework PSL of construction contractors which yielded £10m savings on £94m of works contracts. I led procurement into using new Cabinet Reporting templates helping delivery teams obtain council approvals and driving standardisation. A genuinely excellent place to work.LBH released me as the result of a funding issue but I left with strong recommendations from stakeholders.

  • Interim Category Manager for IT Circuits (at Arqiva)

    Oct 2013 - Dec 2013

  • Interim Procurement Manager for Construction (at London Borough of Hillingdon)

    Mar 2013 - Oct 2013
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  Tramlink (part of Transport for London)

  Jan 2014 - Feb 2014

  Interim Commercial Manager

  Appointed to resolve the negotiation and appointment of a Vegitation Management Services contract; to drive private-sector commercial values and KPI's into contract award.

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  BAE Systems

  Mar 2014 - Jun 2014

  Interim E-sourcing Procurement Specialist

  I teach and use e-RFx, e-auctions and I have introduced P2P processes including e-catalogues

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  Serco

  Jul 2014 - Jan 2015

  Senior Category Manager

  Appointed to drive value from legacy contracts; run e-RFP's to establish new contracts in Heathcare and Bring compliance to arrangements in secure establishments, ultimately driving incremental savings to transform our business to help our Customers.

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  London Borough of Tower Hamlets

  Jan 2015 - Feb 2015

  Interim Category Manager, Construction

  Appointed to support OJEU-compliance in Construction and to determine the merits of setting-up a Contractors Framework for Construction activities.

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  Balfour Beatty Living Places

  Mar 2015 - Apr 2015

  Interim Category Manager, Aggregates and Surface Treatments

  Appointed to develop partnering relationship opportunities to drive reduced-costs, to support Sourcing goals.

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  Surrey Police

  Apr 2015 - Jul 2015

  Senior Category Manager

  Appointed to cover IT in the absence of key staff; support acting Head of Procurement following staff churn; drive compliance into existing arrangements and run mini-competitions under CCS frameworks or on G-Cloud to keep systems running.Supported other members of the team as necessary whilst recruitment process gathered pace.

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  London Borough of Hillingdon

  Jul 2015 - Jan 2017

  Senior Category Manager

  Accountable for Estates and FM Procurement activities, I lead a team of three direct reports. I prepare, publish and award PQQ and ITT 2015-compliant OJEU contracts, currently forecast over £80M.

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  Amey

  Mar 2017 - Sept 2017

  Interim Procurement Category Manager FM Hard Services

  Delivering cost savings for Fire &Security and Lift Maintenance uk-wide to end August 17

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  Morgan Sindall Property Services

  Nov 2017 - Feb 2018

  Interim Procurement Manager

  Implemented a new standard of RFP and used it to add capable vendors to our radically increased work programme; recovered uncollected Product Support for past 12 months and supported incoming Head of Procurement.

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  MHCLG

  Apr 2018 - Jun 2018

  Interim Procurement Manager

  Implementing GDPR amendments for client

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  THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED

  Jun 2018 - Nov 2018

  Procurement Business Partner

  Led OJEU competition to establish frameworks to define Capital Works-specifications and negotiated contract awards yielding £3m project savings.

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  TSR

  Nov 2018 - Feb 2019

  Procurement Specialist

  Providing Client with FM services advice applied to residential markets; enabling access to NHFv7 engagement and benchmarking existing service charges to support recommendations.Supporting the Intelligent Estates team at KBR as required.

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  HOLMES PROCUREMENT LIMITED

  Mar 2019 - Feb 2020

  Interim Procurement Manager at Babcock

  Provision of procurement services to support Babcock International client facing commercial team. Initial 6m contract completes and extended

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  University of Oxford

  Feb 2020 - Jul 2020

  Senior Purchasing Manager (interim)

  Proud to be in a senior leadership procurement role and providing contract support to our laboratories and the University scientists, as they develop vaccine options during the Covid crisis. Negotiating terms for high cost equipment I support finance budget holders and had delegated authority to approve spend.

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  Government Dept

  Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

  Commercial Manager

  Accountable for Commercial delivery of Vehicle Replacement Programme.

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  HOLMES PROCUREMENT LIMITED

  Oct 2021 - Jan 2022

  Interim Procurement Specialist

  Establishing contracts for Council”s development team whilst also supporting tendering and awarding processes for recent competitions

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  BT

  Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

  Commercial Specialist

  In win new business team, helping to secure new contracts through bid and startup. Leading of contractual obligations, influencing opportunities for margin recovery and account growth, leading a team focussed to win and deliver.

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  Transport for London

  Nov 2022 - Mar 2023

  Procurement and Commercial Specialist

  Providing procurement support to TfL Track-team, addressing immediate purchase needs, contract compliance and integrating Ariba governance tools.

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  HOLMES PROCUREMENT LIMITED

  Mar 2023 - now

  Engaged to deliver key procurement tasks to drive compliance and support teams as function transforms.

  • Director

    Apr 2013 - now

  • Interim Procurement Specialist

    Mar 2023 - Sept 2023
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  Government dept

  Oct 2023 - Dec 2023

  Procurement Specialist

  Delivered procurement strategy to drive competition; delivered governance to multiple requests and support to wider stakeholders.