Richard
Expertise
Richard has almost 40 years' experience as a leader and procurement professional. Following a career in the British Army, Richard has held c-suite roles in Construction, Finance, Aerospace and Training as well as Consultancy with McKinsey. Across these roles, Richard has focused on strategic change and, in particular, the training and coaching support to colleagues experiencing that change. Richard has trained over 2500 Category Managers across most sectors and is a regular Chair and Speaker at international procurement conferences.
Uspire Leadership Coaching
USpire Network – Commercial Coach Unique CXO Networking and Mentoring: Helping to build capability through shared experience and 121 support Commercial Coach for London and Birmingham Business Groups Delivering of bi-monthly group sessions Bi-monthly 121 Coaching and mentoring of senior leaders
Financial Services Technology Cost Reduction
Served as Interim Head of Procurement & Commercial at Prudential Global Digital Service, driving a 100-day sprint transformation across procurement, software asset management and governance, including Contract Management, Supplier Relationship Management and Supply Chain Risk Management Delivered a 10-month cost reduction programme across c£38m of addressable spend-base with c£3.1m reduction achieved on c£10.7m of spend
Pharmaceutical - Cost Reduction & Innovation
For a global Pharmaceutical client, delivering 3 sourcing transformation projects to capture specification optimisation, cost reduction and digitial innovation
Automotive - Procurement Manager Training
For a large Automotive company, co-delivered 5 x 4 month training and coaching programmes in which c20 delegates, operating a teams, delivered a strategic procurement project. The programme combined 8 dedicated training days and 6 coaching days per team
Global Sports/Fashion Company - Technology Training
For a large German sports clothing and equipment retailer, supported the rollout of the SAP Ariba program to Indirect Procurement in order to drive user adoption
Tullow Oil - Procurement Awareness
Helped an Oil & Gas business to record and share a programme of webinars to raise awareness of key activities by the Procurement Team
Manufacturer - Cost Reduction
Worked with a UK based manufacturer of safety lighting to drive down costs through speciifcation optimisation and low cost country sourcing
University - Procurement Team Training
Provided a 3 month procurement skills development course to the Procurement Team of a major UK university focussing on both hard and soft skills. The training enabled the team to improve delivery of a major capital project.
