Andy Palfrey

Managing Partner @This Partners

London, GB

Andy is a founding member of This Partners, a leading IT sourcing advisory firm that delivers lasting positive impact. At This Partners, Andy focuses on business outcomes and building successful, lasting relationships between clients and service providers. Recent assignments include: Global Steel Manufacturer: Andy led the programme to evaluate and consolidate suppliers across the client’s workplace services area. This included strategy development, market engagement, vendor selection and negotiation and the development and assurance of the relevant transition and transformation plans.Leading UK Bank: Andy led a programme for a leading UK bank that focused on identifying opportunities to transform legacy IT and data centres into a leading cloud first solution. The programme included strategy development, requirements definition and data acquisition, market engagement and vendor selection and the development of the necessary business case and approval materials to enable a deal to be signed and the programme implemented.Leading Global Bank: Andy led a major global programme for one of the world’s largest banks to transform the bank’s desktop services and AI capabilities. The programme included strategy development, requirements and data gathering, market engagement across 6 leading service providers via a collaborative sourcing process, sourcing management and negotiation and the analysis of service provider solutions.Global electronics manufacturer: Andy led the market engagement and communications aspects of the sourcing programme which successfully delivered an outsourcing contract for global IT infrastructure services that met the client’s business objectives of increasing operational efficiency and significantly reducing operating costs, creating an IT organisation appropriate for the business’s current size and scope.

London Metropolitan University

BA (Hons), Business Studies - Corporate Marketing Option