Head 2 Head

Martin Coles is Director and Cost Centre Lead for the South West and Wales Cost and Commercial Team at Turner and Townsend.

For more procurement insight, visit https://www.procurementheads.com/blog/

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.

Procure4Peace is the bridge between Ukraine and the procurement community.

Procurement Heads' Founder and MD Rupert Gaster spoke with Sammeli Sammalkorpi, Rohit Sathe and Lance Younger from Procure4Peace to hear more about the group and its aims.

To find out more about Procure4Peace and how you can help visit https://procure4peace.org/ or click here to join the LinkedIn group.

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/