Head 2 Head

Stephen Ainsworth is a Principal Consultant at Turner & Townsend.

For the latest in our Head2Head series, he spoke with James Dobbin about his career and what makes Turner & Townsend such a great place to work.

To read their conversation visit https://www.procurementheads.com/head2head-with-stephen-ainsworth/

For our latest Head2Head, James Dobbin, who heads up our Financial & Professional Services offering, spoke with Alexei Burns, Head of Procurement at Castle Trust Bank.

Alexei has experience across several sectors in procurement leadership positions including utilities, travel and financial services. A proven track record of leading transformation, developing teams and driving procurement’s value proposition forward with technology and data-centric approach.

For our latest Head2Head we spoke with Chris Wilson from Vitality to hear more about his procurement career, what inspires him and what some of the current challenges are.

You can watch or read the full conversation here https://www.procurementheads.com/blog/head2head-with-chris-wilson/

James Dobbin, Head of Practice for Financial & Professional Services at Procurement Heads, has been retained by Oodle Car Finance to recruit a Supplier Relationship Manager role and for our latest Head2Head podcast he spoke to Darin Crosby, Executive Interim & Consultant at Oodle to understand more about the opportunity.

The Financial & Professional Services team at Procurement Heads is recruiting a number of roles for Shawbrook Bank. James Dobbin, Head of Practice, spoke with Jonathan Heads, Head of Procurement and Estate at Shawbrook to understand more about the company's culture and what makes them different from other challenger banks.

Procurement Heads is delighted to have been retained on three procurement roles by KFM.  For our latest procurement Head2Head podcast we spoke with Prince Ahmed, Senior Commercial Procurement Partner at KFM, to understand more about the organisation and what the roles will entail.

Sheldon Mydat runs Suppeco and has been in the procurement, supply and management arena for about 25 years.  

For our latest Head2Head he spoke with executive recruiter Craig Elvin to talk more about his career and some of the trends he is seeing in supply chain.

For our latest Big Interview, Dan Goodson, Head of Practice - Industrial, spoke with Rory Lamont, Group Chief Procurement Officer, Hitachi Rail.

Rory was appointed Hitachi Rail's CPO in 2018, after joining the business as UK Procurement Director in 2017.

He started his career in Aberdeen, working for BP and gained experience in the procurement of goods and services as well as procurement processes and technology in the subsequent four years. Following this, he joined Accenture where he had wide-ranging exposure to many industries, whilst developing a professional focus on procurement and supply chain management.

In 2009, Rory worked across Libya, Syria, Holland, Canada and the UK, as part of Petro-Canada’s Procurement leadership team, before re-joining BP in 2011 as the Head of Category Management for their Refining and Petro-Chemical businesses.

In 2019, Rory was made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply and an Executive Officer of Hitachi in 2020.

To watch their conversation visit https://www.procurementheads.com/blog/the-big-interview-with-rory-lamont/

For Procurement Heads' latest Head2Head, Rupert Gaster spoke with Ninian Wilson, Global Supply Chain Director and CEO of Vodafone Group, to hear more about what Vodafone is doing around sustainable procurement and his recent win at the Procurement Excellence Awards.

To read the full conversation visit https://www.procurementheads.com/blog/head2head-with-ninian-wilson/

James Dobbin is working exclusively with Turner and Townsend to help them recruit a variety of procurement roles. He recently spoke with one of the company's Directors, Peter Cummings, to understand more about the organisation's culture and why it is a great place to work.

For our latest Head2Head, James Dobbin caught up with Stephen Day, CPO at Kantar, to hear more about his career, what advice he would give people setting out on a career in procurement and which star he refused entry to Wimbledon. Listen to the podcast here.

"Be authentic because if you are not people find you out."

David has 20 years of experience in procurement across directs and indirects; holding increasingly senior positions across multiple industries into his current role as Global Head of Procurement for Freshfields.

He spoke with James Dobbin about his career, what he sees as the biggest challenges for procurement at the moment and what he looks for when hiring someone into his team.

You can read to or watch their conversation via https://bit.ly/3uFVDNG

Following a successful career at John Lewis, Alison, an Ashridge Accredited Executive Coach, founded Alison Craig Coaching in 2013.  Their mission is to help managers at all levels get the best from their teams, themselves and their colleagues and be remembered for the right reasons.  Jennifer Gaster spoke with Alison about her leadership coaching programme, and why leadership development in our people managers is so important now.

Proxima has teams in Chicago and in the UK, the business has been around for about 25 years and has approximately 250 people. Clare Harris has been in the business for 15 years and has taken on a number of roles during that time. Clare started out client-facing, then went into operations and was the COO for a number of years before returning to a client-facing role about three years ago. 

For our latest Head2Head, she spoke with James Dobbin about her career and what inspires her.

For our latest Head2Head podcast, James Dobbin caught up with Jonjo Hobbs, Managing Director at Capita Procurement Solutions to hear more about his career and some of the trends he is seeing in the industry.

For our latest Head2Head, Craig Elvin spoke with Executive Coach and Mentor Nicolle Clement to hear about the importance of onboarding and the 90-Day Accelerator Programme.

Rupert Gaster caught up with Patrick Dunne to hear more about his procurement career and what he sees as the key focus areas for procurement are right now.

Shereen Daniels is Managing Director of HR rewired, a Vice Chair of Black Business Association (London Chamber of Commerce & Industry) and she recently spoke with Jennifer Gaster of HR Heads about her work and some of the common challenges she sees in the organisations she works with.

Paul McPartlan is the Chief Executive Officer at Places Leisure, which is part of the Places For People Group, he spoke to Executive Heads' Craig Elvin about his career and how he sees the sector moving forward.

In this episode, James Dobbin talks to George Booth, Chief Procurement Officer of Lloyds Banking Group. Lloyds Banking Group plc is a British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. It is one of the UK's largest financial services organisations, with 30 million customers and 65,000 employees. As CPO, George leads a team of 300 Sourcing and Supply Chain Management professionals. 

In this episode, James Dobbin talks to Ian McNally, Vice President at Efficio. Efficio is the world’s largest procurement consultancy operating across ten offices in Europe, North America and the Middle East.

Nour-Eddine Boufertala (Head of Procurement at the England and Wales Cricket Board), Ruaidhri Dunn (Head of Procurement at the Football Association) and Simon Oldcorn (Head of Procurement & Supply Chain at the Rugby Football Union) discuss the effects COVID-19 has had on sport with James Dobbin from Procurement Heads.