London, England, United Kingdom
Simon's recent experience has been in leading "Turn Around" programs involving order to cash, procurement & supply chain leading improvements. Prior to that he has built up extensive experience on transformation & cost reduction across a range of different telecoms providers, both on a domestic and international basis. Simon’s experience has been on cost reduction and internal efficiency programs within the Telco, Media & technology sectors working namely with BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Walt Disney Europe, Three, Turk Telecom, Vimpelcom, Telefonica, Vodafone, BT, LGI, NTL, Cable & Wireless , Telewest, Virgin Mobile. Prioir to this telco & media experience he established a wide portfolio of cross industry knowledge from working with; Asda, Amex, Astra Zeneca, Compaq, Shell, BMW, Ford, Williams Grand Prix, DTI,Rolls Royce, Linn Hifi, Aixtron Specialties: Company wide Transformational Cost Reduction, Global transformation through deployment of new cloud based digital procurement technology such as Coupa and iValua. Focus cost areas - IT, Networks, Logistics, Finance, Marketing, Advertising, Sales, Legal, Facilities Pre & Post Merger Cost Reduction Supply Chain Management Low Cost Country Sourcing Procurement Process Improvement Balanced Scorecard SAP - Oracle - Coupa - iValua Electronic sourcing, requisitioning, Invoicing Outsourcing Manufacturing Sectors ; Defence, Industrial, Telecoms (Broadband, Wireless, Wireline, Media), High Tech (PC market), Retail, Finance, Oil, Pharma, Manufacturing
Leading our Sourcing & Procurement Strategy & Consulting practice across UK& Ireland, helping clients to find how to improve their capabilities domestically and globally. Architecting transformation work , leveraging AI and Platform based technologies, driving cost optimisation across direct and indirect materials. Delivering on our promise to drive efficiency and effectiveness on profitability and sustainability.
Leading Procurement & Supply Chain programs, ranging from turn arounds, transformation, new technology implementation, outsourcing, pre & post merger synergy diagnostic & delivery, strategic sourcing, compliance management, cost recovery.
Leading a change in the way a global organisation manages its Direct Material procurement. Supporting the design and implementation of new processes and iVlaua technology to enable £50m of annual benefits through a transformative approach.
I helped lead the design and mobilisation of a new supply chain to enable the manufacture of ventilators for the Ventilator Challenge UK as a response to the governments request for help from industry to tackle COVID. This involved ; - In 2 days setting up the procurement operations to start purchasing with an international team to contract and procure 3.6 million parts from 107 local and overseas suppliers - In 5 days creating a digital dashboard on Power BI which enabled purchasing, shipment and payment visibility across the supply chain - In 10 days designing the physical , financial and data flows across the supply chain - In 20 days designing and building the ERP system on Microsoft Dynamics - In 47 days enabling the build of the first new ventilator - Managing quality inspection activity and logistics picking and sipping to ensure smooth flow of material - Expediting quality issues and replacement stock where needed - Reporting up in to the UK Cabinet Office twice daily on progress and performance - Facilitating collaboration between Rolls Royce, GKN, DHL, ISL, Microsoft to enable results at speed to respond to the governments request in the most efficient way possible.
Leading a business recovery program. This started with an independent review at the request of the CEO. The scope was an end to end review of the order to cash cycle, and then defining specific interventions required to reduce supply chain risk and correspondingly, reducing revenue risk. Operations spanned a wide number of EMEA Markets, with two main product division across £800m of revenue. Significant improvements were realised across, Customer Operations, Sales & Operational Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Warehouse & Distribution, Accounts Receivable.
Transforming procurement to support an increase in capability that will drive higher business performance through people, process, and new cloud technology globally deployed