Peter Jones is a highly respected and qualified Procurement Consultant working for over 20 years with major institutions. He has negotiated small and major deals with both niche suppliers and blue chips.
His experience in negotiating complex IT project deals involving software (both bespoke and package), hardware and services is strongly based in experience.
In outsourcing Peter was tendering for outsourced services well before it became a standard practice and has built on this experience to the benefit of his clients
He has also managed a UK based but globally applied outsource regarded as ground breaking at the time it was entered into. This, coupled with managing an outsource to establish best practice of contract management over the first 6 months of the contract, means he is well suited to apply these skills to contract management in its widest sense
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Testimonials
His procurement and finance knowledge are first class, as is Peter's attention to detail and focus. He is a person of great integrity, with softer skills of honesty, reliability and trust.
Service Manager Insurance Company
He is equally adept at both 'hands-on procurement' and determining organisational procurement strategy
Senior Interim Procurement Manager
Peter is a highly experienced IT Software Procurement professional having extensive experience in sourcing, negotiating and contracting with large and small scale suppliers. He has strong product and industry knowledge and is particularly skilled at analysing complex contracts and developing appropriate improvements. He is commercially aware, and a competent negotiator.
Category Lead
I have worked with and known Peter for a number of years and highly recommend him as a hugely experienced, customer-focused sourcing and contracts professional.
Experienced Procurement Consultant & Author
Peter was a challenging but fair Procurement Professional to work with. I respected his honesty and integrity but was not complacent in selling to him as his industry knowledge is exceptional
EMEA Sales Lead Global Blue Chip IT Supplier
Associations
- Sometime participant in ITEM Club working parties
- Sometime outside assessor for Staffordshire University Business School
- Sometime participant in the, then DTI, BuyIT Programme
- Guest buyer for Dublin Institute of Technology/Enterprise Ireland International Selling Programme
- Procurement specialist on Carnegie Mellon University virtual software process improvement programme (SPIN)
As an Office Manager in the mid to late 70s Sue was faced with a delivery of some “computers” and manuals and told to get them working! To implement this new technology – not just the installation but the training of the personnel - Sue became self-taught both technically and in the use of applications (there was not much available for the non-technical person back then!) The power of computing quickly became apparent
Over succeeding years Sue expanded on this knowledge and kept it up to date; at all times supporting her colleagues in their developing skills and their problem solving needs. This prompted one of her managers to suggest that formal delivery of training was Sue’s real vocation – and so it proved.
Sue became a qualified trainer of adults through City and Guilds Teaching Certificate evening classes (whilst still keeping the day job) and then through a Certificate of Education and Assessor qualifications at Manchester College of Arts and Technology.
It is this background which makes Sue a dedicated and inspiring teacher. She knows the value of training; she has benefited from training and on all her courses shares her enthusiasm for the content and the benefit of the process.
When later Sue was setting up a new training company she was sought out by a Rail Training Company and after joining them she set up one of the first privately owned LearnDirect Centre which she ran very successfully.
During her time at the Rail Training Company she qualified as a Psychometric Assessor and became responsible for the running of the Assessment Centre.
She then spent a number of years carrying out Psychometric Assessment Centres, undertaking Occupational Personality Questionnaires and conducting Safety Critical Interviews – all necessary to permit rail drivers and conductors to work in this safety critical industry
Sue continued this work on a freelance basis (at one time being the only such assessor in the Rail Industry) whilst continuing with her IT and Soft Skills training business
Some of Sue’s successes have beenOver the years Sue has been courted by various organisations to work for them and sometimes she has taken up the challenge. She has though always returned to freelance training and finally fully committed to this when SPC was incorporated in 2006 Under this umbrella Sue has travelled the UK delivering on-site and off-site courses to individuals and corporate groups – often delivering bespoke courses for her clients. Sue is recognised by a North West Local Authority as their “Better Value” Microsoft trainer and is frequently engaged by clients on a return basis She is a member of the SAGE Accountants Club and is certified Microsoft Office Specialist
- Being an early adopter of desktop application training - Microsoft training and, a sign of the times (!), Lotus SmartSuite
- The introduction of formal SAGE training in the MANCAT Flexistudy Centre such that the training became a route to a formal qualification – not just a skill to have.
- Delivering Microsoft and SAGE courses at MANCAT
- Establishing one of the first Private LearnDirect Centres in the UK
- Becoming involved in psychometric testing and qualifying as an administrator at the behest of her then line Director
- Developing a Microsoft Office training programme for a major North West Local Authority
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