Josephine Josey Willmott

Head of Procurement Excellence @Biffa

GB

As member of the Procurement Leadership Team, I am recognised internally as someone who influences Biffa supplier strategy and challenges procurement professionals to drive better results.Responsible and accountable for compliance to procurement policy, processes and systems within the business and the function to manage and reduce risk within the supply chain. With a spend of over £1bn and over suppliers I lead the excellence function within the Procurement team. I deliver value to the business through engagement of finance and key stakeholders to give credibility to savings deliverables from the category team and ensuring compliance with savings methodology.Developing a joint strategic agenda with business partners to influence category strategy and contract coverage across the function, I have the ability to analyse large sets of unambigious data to identify critical information and draw connections between multiple sources of data for building of Category strategies.

Billingham Campus School

GCSE

CIPS - The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply

Bachelor's degree, Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management