1. Alan Platt
Mobile: 07503 184520 Email: poshplatt@aol.com
PROFILE / KEY SKILLS
A senior procurement professional with significant private and public sector experience who has
held Head of Procurement (or equivalent) positions at a number of Blue Chip companies. I have
excellent stakeholder management skills and am comfortable working at CEO/CFO level.
Throughout the past 27 years I have procured a wide range of goods and services but would
suggest that my specific expertise lies in the categories IS/IT; Facilities Management; Professional
Services/HR and general corporate services.
May 2013
to present
Company Name: Emily James Associates Title: Managing Director
Annual Spend: DEPENDENT UPON CLIENT ORGANISATION
Scope: Emily James Associates is a boutique procurement consultancy providing procurement services to the
Public and Not For Profit sectors. Recent clients have included the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch
Hospital ; E-Act (an educational charity) Intelligent Processing Solutions Limited (a vendor that provides
cheque processing solutions to the UK banking industry) and Crown Commercial Service. In my last role at
Crown Commercial Service I negotiated aggregated procurement deals (typically 20-30 clients per mini-
competition) for clients in the technology pillar.All procurement activity was undertaken in compliance with
OJEU procurement rules. Typical procurements would include IS hardware, IS software, Mobile Services (voice
and data), text messaging (for the NHS only but 180+ NHS Trusts) and IT based traffic solutions.
Categories and/or Commodities: IS/IT (including hardware and software); fixed and mobile telephony; data –
warehousing; IT helpdesk. Professional services including management consultancy; permanent recruitment;
interim management; HR services ( Employee Assistance and Benefits); taxation services; legal services. Hard
and Soft FM. Fleet. General corporate services (stationery; photocopying; print management solutions; post
and couriers). Travel, hotels and conferencing.
November 2012 to
May 2013 Company Name: Genworth Financial Title: European Sourcing
Manager Annual Spend: £60M PLUS 3 DIRECT REPORTS
Scope: Managing sourcing activity across 20+ offices in 13 European countries. RFPs, commercial and contractual
negotiation; supplier and contractual negotiation; senior stakeholder management; monthly reporting to the US
based Global procurement team; responsibility for the EU ERP system (Oracle)
Categories and/or Commodities: IS/It (including hardware, software and applications development); fixed and
mobile telephony; data – warehousing; IT helpdesk; outsourcing and off shoring. Professional services including
management consultancy; PR services; permanent recruitment; interim management; HR services ( Employee
Assistance and Benefits); taxation services; legal services (including renegotiation of all EU legal services
contracts) Hard and Soft FM. Fleet. Marketing and Promotions. General corporate services (stationery;
photocopying; print management solutions; post and couriers). Travel, hotels and conferencing.
Primary Achievements:
• Cultivated senior stakeholder base to transform a failing sourcing function that had previously been seen as a
“blocker” into a business function seen as adding value to the business.
• Increasing the savings pipeline for FY2013 from $500k to $6m.
• Increasing the use of RFPs by 400% in less than 6 months.
• Rolling out throughout the EU the global sourcing policy and monitoring compliance.
• Renegotiation of all EU legal services contracts to ensure that a standard rate card structure supported with
discount arrangements based upon volume spend was in place.
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2. Nov 2011 –
Sept 2012
Career Break
Nov 2009-Nov 2011 Company: Ministry of Justice Title: Head of Procurement - Category Management
Annual spend: £ 1.2bn PLUS 4 DIRECT REPORTS
Scope: Managing procurement activity for HM Prison Service and HM Courts and Tribunal
Service. RFPs; commercial and contractual negotiation; senior stakeholder management;
liaison with Ministers and Permanent Secretaries; responsibility for answering
Parliamentary Questions and Freedom of Information requests; representing the Ministry
of Justice on pan-Governmental working groups and committees.
Categories and/or Commodities: Hard and Soft FM annual spend £100m+); Professional
and HR services; food and catering (Prison food and catering services for the court
network); logistics including management of Ministry of Justice warehousing and logistics
services; Utilities; uniforms, clothing and footwear; Minor construction and building works
(to £250k per project); corporate travel and hotels; security equipment ( including radios
and scanners).
Primary Achievements:
• Met and exceeded annual savings targets in each year including a saving of £20m per
annum on an annual FM spend of £120m.
• Established a supply chain for clothing and prison uniforms enabling the Ministry of
Justice to buy directly from off-shore manufacturers rather than buying from UK
distributors.
• Re-engineered the supply chain for the Prison retail contract transforming it from a
contract losing £6m per annum to a cost-neutral contract.
• Negotiated a new contract for Prison food which provided prisoners with 3 meals per
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3. day plus drinks for £2.19 per person.
Jan 2007-
Aug 2009
Company: ICG Commerce (now Procurian) Title: EU Program Lead
Annual spend: £ 250m PLUS 8 DIRECT REPORTS
Scope: Established EU Operation of ICG Commerce (ICGC). Program Lead for ICGC flagship
EU account – the FMCG manufacturer, Kimberly Clark. RFPs, commercial and contractual
negotiation; senior stakeholder management; responsibility for meeting contractual SLAs
and savings targets; responsibility for development of client “upsell” opportunities.
Categories and/or Commodities: Hard and Soft FM; general corporate services;
Professional Services and HR; Co-packing; Marketing services and print; OEM consumables;
Minor construction and building works to £250k; IS/IT; Fleet; Corporate travel and hotels.
Primary Achievements:
• Establishment of the ICGC EU business and growth of the EU team from 1 employee to
45 in 2 years. Responsibilities included location of office space; recruitment of
employees and day-to-day management of the EU team.
• Management of the ICGC flagship account with Kimberly Clark and successful delivery
of agreed savings targets of 4% and 7% of spend under management in Years 1 and 2 of
the contract respectively.
• Supporting the global bid team on other account pitches which led to contract awards
with Hertz, Symantec, Cameron and Research in Motion (Blackberry).
Nov 2001-
Jan 2007
Company: Pricewaterhouse Coopers/Hewitt Associates Title: Senior
Consultant/Head of Procurement Europe and AsiaPac
Annual spend: £ Various PLUS VARIOUS DIRECT REPORTS
Scope: Provision of Procurement Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services at PwC and
Hewitt Associates before moving to a greenfield role as Hewitt Associates Head of
Procurement for Europe and AsiaPac. RFPs; commercial and contractual negotiation; senior
stakeholder management; responsibility for meeting contractual SLAs and savings targets at
a variety of clients including Thomas Cook, Tibbet and Britten and Standard Chartered Bank;
development of procurement policy and procedures.
Categories and/or Commodities: IS/IT (including hardware, software and applications
development); disaster recovery services; IT helpdesk; general corporate services; Travel;
Marketing services; Expense Management and procurement cards; logistics; Fleet; FM
(both Hard and Soft services); HR services (including HR Outsourcing and payroll
management); Professional Services and management consultancy; postage and couriers;
document management; actuarial services.
Primary Achievements:
• Delivery of annual savings targets at consulting clients where I had either full or part
budget responsibility including Thomas Cook, Tibbet and Britten and Standard
Chartered Bank.
• Developing and implementing a “disaster recovery” savings plan at Thomas Cook to
cover a budgetary black-hole post 9/11.
• Establishing a greenfield pan-European procurement function covering 9 EU countries,
India and Japan when appointed Head of Procurement for Europe and Asia-Pac at
Hewitt Associates.
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4. Nov 1999-
Nov 2001
Company: HMV UK Ltd Title: Head of Procurement
Annual spend: £ 60m PLUS 2 DIRECT REPORTS
Scope: Development of procurement policies and procedures; commercial and contractual
negotiation; senior stakeholder management; post-contract award vendor and SLA
management; liaison with external lawyers.
Categories and/or Commodities: Marketing and print services; IS/IT; FM (both Hard and
Soft services); HR Services; Travel; Procurement card; Distribution and Logistics; Shop-
fitting; Minor Construction works; general corporate services including stationery and
photocopying: Company Cars.
Primary Achievements:
• Establishing a greenfield procurement function including development of policy and
procedures.
• Establishing, and tracking against target, a savings pipeline and annual savings plan.
• Developing a communications plan to ensure that the procurement function
successfully interacted with all key stakeholders.
• Developing links with other non-competing organisations to leverage cross-vendor
spend to deliver savings opportunities.
May 1997-
Nov 1999
Company: Prudential Portfolio Managers Ltd Title: Associate Director of
Procurement
Annual spend: £ 150m PLUS 3 DIRECT REPORTS
May 1996-
May 1997
Company: Nortel Networks Title: Company Purchasing Manager
Annual spend: £ 100m PLUS 2 DIRECT REPORTS
Aug 1988-
May1996
Company: London Underground Limited Title: Various Roles
Annual spend: £ 60m PLUS 2 DIRECT REPORTS
EDUCATION
2001 Masters Degree in Business Administration – Sir john Cass Business School
1991 Fully MCIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply) qualified
1988 BA (Hons) in History 2:1 Classification - University of Reading
1985 3 “A” Levels and 12 “O” Levels/CSEs
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5. CONTACT DETAILS
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Address
01733 303323
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07503 184520
poshplatt@aol.com
1 Fortuna Drive, Stanground, Peterborough, CAMBS, PE2 8GG
OTHER DETAILS
Nationality
Interests
Languages
British
I am a season ticket holder at Peterborough United FC. I have a passion for all types of
music with the exception of jazz. I enjoy travel and have been fortunate to have both
visited, and worked in, a variety of locations around the world. I also enjoy restaurants, the
theatre and reading.
I can read both French and Italian although I am not verbally fluent.
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