David Downs

Independent Sourcing & Procurement Specialist @Ded Sourcing Advisory Limited

Either as an external advisor or in an interim capacity, delivery of engagements for both SMEs and large enterprises, with annual contract values in the range £300k to £500m. Consistently exceeding the required outcomes with savings typically from 30-60%.\\\\n\\\\nAs highlighted in the client list below, a depth of experience across almost all main industry sectors, having been Practice Lead in Financial Services, Utilities, Retail and Public Sector. I have real world experience of working in regulated businesses (e.g. OJEU and all public sector procurement routes; SYSC-8 in financial services).\\\\n\\\\n• Extensive ITO experience covers all service towers (data centre, EUC, infrastructure, cloud, networks, ADM, software, digital transformation, etc.), for clients listed below.\\\\n• Recent years have seen an increasing number of BPO engagements covering a range of processes. A wide range of BPO engagements. Sample BPO experience (as either external advisor of in interim role) includes KPMG (Procurement, F&A, Professional Services), Nordea Bank (HR, P2P), Brit Insurance (back office processing), Aviva (document management), Capco (F&A, misc), AEGON (closed book), Sainsburys Bank (payments, ATM)\\\\n\\\\nProviding advisory and interim support to procurement functions from strategy development through to category management. Examples include: KPMG - providing leadership in the development and implementation of a new procurement strategy, harnessing new systems capability (Coupa) to support a transformation to a function with much wider responsibility and remit to add real business value across all indirect categories; Capco – part of small team setting up procurement function from scratch (following separation from FIS), and taking interim leadership of IT category.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n