1. Curriculum Vitae 1
Commercial in Confidence
James Pringle
Contact Details 07779 230783
Present Postion Senior Comnmercial Contracts Manager (Interim) – Network Rail
Qualifications  BA (HONS) Business and Management
 MCIPS
 Qualified Prince 2 Practitioner
 ITIL Foundation
Key Skills
An experienced senior procurement professional with a proven track record of
project and cost management experience, coupled with a good understanding of
core procurement principles, financial reporting and appreciation of stakeholder
management.
A determined individual with strong interpersonal and negotiation skills, James has
held responsibility for establishing and maintaining best purchasing practices within
a variety of challenging and environments, managing stakeholder resistance across
multiple public and private industry verticals (Local Government, National
Government, Rail and Infrastructure, FMCG, Financial Services and Banking, Public
Sector Services Organisations, Retail). He is an expert in the delivery of strategic
procurement of IT and FM solutions with a demonstrable history of savings delivery.
James’ key skills comprise of spend analysis and forecasting, stakeholder
management, opportunity identification, market intelligence and primarily best
practice procurement and savings delivery.
Network Rail, (Interim) Senior Commercial Contracts Manager – August 2015 – Present
 Management of Network Rail Telecoms key suppliers
 Tender and Renewal of stragetic technology contracts with OJEU framework environment
 Senbior stakeholder management and project pipeline management
 Contract developemnt in a highly regulated environment tightly controlled by legislation.
 Software license procurement and renewal of maintenance for key service impacting application
stack covering multiple applications and providers.
BP, (Interim) Global Category Manager – January 2015 – August 2015
 Global Category management of IT / Telecoms / Datacentre category areas
 Project management and delivery responsibility for numerous global corporate IT solutions.
 Senior stakeholder liaison
 Management of global Lync Voice project associated commercial management and contractual
negotiations. Project will deliver organisation $8.2m in true opex savings over next 3 years.
 Evaluation of global voice estate and RFP for SIP refresh globally.
 South African Managed Network Services RFP and subsequent contract negotiations (Data,
Voice, Hardware and Field Services) delivering 15% cost reduction, managed remotely with
multiple stakeholders.
 Contract development of key supplier contracts within rigid health and safety and legislative
guidelines.

2. Curriculum Vitae 2
Commercial in Confidence
Capita Group, Principal Consultant – June 2013 to February 2015
 Head of Group IT Procurement managing category strategy development, savings delivery across
all areas of IT.
 Principal Consultant managing core procurement projects within multiple external clients, both
public and private sector.
 Management of Enterprise Software contracts and negotiations, including outsource of software
maintenance and off-shoring for strategic clients.
 Delivery of sourcing strategy to influence software maintenance approach and drive significant cost
out internally and across client environments.
 Multiple external consultancy engagements ranging from managed procurement outsource services
to short-term tactical negotiation projects
 Concurrently running multiple software tender processes for middle office legal software, practice
management and helpdesk support.
 Engagements across a large number of industry verticals including local authority, central
government, legal services, financial services, facilities management, recruitment and resourcing.
 Management of all Telecoms related procurement (international WAN, customer VoIP procurement
and implementations, multiple mobility procurements for SME and Corporate sized customers)
 Management of team to implement Capita Group mobile migration from Vodafone to O2 (circa 23k
users) and ongoing SRM savings delivery
Post Office Limited, Senior Sourcing Manager – December 2012 to June 2013
 Category Management of Network and Data centre Services
 Responsible for contractual separation of Post Office Network and Datacentre services
 Project Management of Separation activity
 Development and delivery of HR Systems feasibility study consultancy
 Responsibility for the development of new contractual vehicle for Network, Voice and Mobile and
Datacentre for identified “strategic tower partners” ensuring integration with SISD.
 Assessment of all contracts adherence to relevant contractual flow downs.
Barclays Capital, Vice President, Global Procurement – June 2010 to December 2012
 Category Strategy Development and implementation
 Weekly representation of team deal pipeline to Retail Bank CIO
 Management of commercial negotiations across Barclays Capital, Wealth, and Retail Bank clusters
on a global scale with relevant Vendors and liaison as appropriate with legal support to ensure
favourable commercial terms which mitigate business risk.
 Ongoing commercial management of key supplier relationships
 Proactive identification of opportunities within category, business case development and
subsequent delivery
 Legacy contract evaluation, remediation and renegotiation to ensure compliance to current policy.
 Contract gap analysis / risk assessment
 Delivery of International WAN renewal tender, UK DWDM high frequency trading network, continent
wide Africa WAN RFP in support of ABSA Bank.
4C Associates, Category manager – Nov 2007 to June 2010
May 2009 – June 2010 FM Category Manager – European FMCG Organisation
 Contractual Management of circa £15m of UK Spend
 Development of short-term tactical strategy to deliver in year benefits of £440k
 Development of medium term regional and national consolidation programme to drive further

3. Curriculum Vitae 3
Commercial in Confidence
commercial benefit and vendor count reduction
 Long Term strategy in development to allow movement to TFM within 24-36 months
 Identification of cross category opportunities for efficiencies (IS / MRO)
Dec 2008 – June 2009 – IS and Telecoms / FM Category Manager – Global Manufacturer
 Sourcing and Implementation of Mechanical and Electrical maintenance contract for head office
building
 Optimisation, Novation and management of software licence estate for approx. 2500 users
 Sourcing and Implementation of Mobile Voice and Data contract
 Contractual coverage governance
Nov 2007 – March 2009 IS and Telecoms Category Manager - Global Manufacturer
 Development of robust category plans to support customer savings targets and implementation of
the category sourcing strategy
 Implementation of strategy to move Microsoft software sourcing from UK to US to take benefit of
advantageous economic conditions in 2007/2008
 Management of RFx process for mobile voice and data telephony services, and subsequent project
management of rollout (approx. 600 users)
 Managed Print Solution – Reduced number of devices by approx. 150 across 6 sites, associated
energy consumption and consumable cost delivering circa £30k saving in year one.
 Management of tender process for 3rd party maintenance contracts for servers achieving 15% cost
reduction.
 Consolidation of large supplier tail and reduction in out of process spend through controls
 Delivery of software asset management programme with 3rd Party to ensure legal compliance and
also provide 12 month ROI through effective use of existing license estate.
 Tender and Implementation of contract to support IP Telephony solution across UK sites
Thomson Reuters - Network Procurement Manager – June 2004 to Nov 2007
 Cost Saving Project Management – The development and implementation of cost saving strategies
including network consolidation, inventory management through audit and contract re-negotiation.
 Financial Reporting – Provision of ad-hoc financial reports and regular monthly cost saving updates
to senior management (I.e. cost of product delivery, industry benchmarking, Network Strategy
costing models).
 Responsible for the procurement and distribution of Mobile Telephony and Blackberry technologies,
relevant contract RFQ’s and regular industry benchmarking.
 Budget management ($18m approx.), preparation and submission to Senior Management and
Finance Management.
 Tender and implementation of Vodafone to O2 migration of entire UK user base delivering 10% cost
reduction on tariff rates.