Dean Fenton
London,SRY
Summary
Skilled procurement professional with proven success in developing procurement plans that maximise cost effectiveness and increase purchasing power. Experienced in advising and guiding management teams to support decision-making. Experienced procurement professional with career focus on supply chain management and strategic sourcing. Drive cost savings and operational efficiency through strong negotiation skills and supplier relationship management. Excel in developing procurement strategies and implementing best practices to optimise resources and reduce risk.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Procurement Lead
SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd
London, England
09.2022 - 12.2024
- Successfully managed corporate procurement function through major geo-political crisis whilst still ensuring compliance, governance and commercial best practice is achieved
- This has ensured organisation is financially and operationally stable and continues to operate.
- Re negotiate multiple contracts to align with ongoing political crisis.
- Maintained strong working relationships with suppliers and vendors to obtain favourable contract terms.
- Analysed and developed procurement plans with cost-effective solutions and increased purchase power.
- Ensured business continuity, using local suppliers to minimise risk of supply chain disruptions.
- Advised and guided management teams on decision-making, enabling cost-effective tendering processes.
Senior Procurement Lead
SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd
London, England
07.2019 - 09.2022
- To manage newly formed General Procurement Role and aid in all IT categories when required
- Scope
- Build relationships with internal stakeholders and C-Level management and sell procurement function across categories such as IT, Building Services, HR, Legal and Front Office
- Renewal of DocuSign Agreement, Adobe, Microsoft, and Market Data software
- Encourage use of cover sheets, approvals are aligned and do not deviate away from company standards
- Approving new vendor setting up requests
- Approve justifications for purchase, approve or challenge requests for new vendors
- Where applicable, ensure RFP or ITTs are undertaken with full and transparent documentation added to contract database
- Point of contact for procurement counsel to internal stakeholders and advice on newly created procurement policy
- Manage London Procurement team of three FTE's and three subcontractors
- Management of ADP (Active Demand Plan), and regular updates
- Weekly priorities list and monthly management report packs
- Current engagement: ITT for Office floor(s) refit, ITT for BMS replacement, ITT for UPS replacement, ITT for M&E contract, RFP for PR Agency contract, Payroll Provider and Corporate Travel (TMC) new Catering agreement
- Collaborate with stakeholders to create annual demand plans, and with finance to provide line-by-line budget lines.
- Implemented new sourcing strategies with positive outcomes on supply chain performance.
- Minimised risk by implementing robust vendor management systems.
- Standardised purchasing documentation, improving ease of reference and use.
- Developed strategic procurement plans, achieving business objectives.
- Led supplier negotiations, resulting in improved contract terms.
Procurement Manager
Viacom International Media Networks
London, England
01.2014 - 07.2019
- Primary responsibility to manage all Technology expenditure globally across EMEA, ASIA PAC and LATAM
- This includes Desktops, laptops, software/licenses, servers, blades, peripherals, Cisco networks and infrastructure
- Manage annual desktop refresh for all international clusters
- Gathering all aged asset data, creating budgets and submit documentation for $2m Capex
- Manage purchasing of all desktops and ensure business stays within corporate standards and challenge any request to non-standard requirements
- UK Mobile phone contract renewal negotiate contracts for more than 400 connections to include technology funds
- Ensuring Viacom is on best corporate tariff available
- Help write and implement mobile phone and tablet policy
- Working with Vodafone to assess whether Vodafone can provide Pan European umbrella agreement for Viacom and assess potential savings and cost avoidance
- Work with special projects teams and provide sourcing expertise whether it be to request 3 competitive quotes or go to RFP
- Created savings tracker for purchases and submit tracker to Procurement COE in NY for validation and to add to Sourcing savings target
- Create VARs across technology categories
- Professional Buyer” for business and considered SAP professional for purchasing and invoice issues
- Ensuring best practice and business adherence to Global Sourcing Policy
- Engage with internal stakeholders and provide council with most appropriate course of action for goods and services
- Continue to evaluate policies and procedures and amend when necessary
- Raising purchase orders, invoice queries, and confirmation/receipting of orders
- Asset database - managing database for laptops, desktops, mobile phones, and tablets
- Management of Stock room and stock control of IT hardware and peripherals
- Creation of numerous Business justification forms for hardware requests and challenge requests for Apple Macs, nonstandard mobile phones, and laptops where user already uses desktop PC
- Working knowledge/relationships across EMEA, APAC & LATAM
- Extensive SAP knowledge, and part of Sourcing steering council for implementation of SAP/ARIBA in 2019
- Contributed to Viacom Sourcing Team's target saving of $83m for FY18
- Drive cultural change across international clusters and engage with key stakeholders to communicate importance of sourcing function adherence to newly created Global Sourcing Policy and business need for efficiencies thought robust and effective negotiations, SRM, tenders and performance monitoring of vendors/SLA's and spend.
- Managed inventory levels efficiently, avoiding stockouts or excess inventory.
- Sourced and verified quotations from suppliers before initiating purchase processes.
- Managed suppliers' performance through regular reviews and feedback.
- Achieved cost reduction with strategic sourcing and vendor negotiations.
- Negotiated contracts and terms successfully, delivering cost and operational efficiency for group.
- Established standard operating procedures for the procurement department, increasing workflow efficiency.
- Oversaw the creation of purchase orders, ensuring accuracy and compliance at all times.
- Enhanced supplier relationships by negotiating contracts and managing communications.
Procurement and Contracts Manager
FremantleMedia Limited
London, England
10.2007 - 12.2013
- Responsible for all centralised purchasing activity, this will include relationship management with FremantleMedia and talkbackTHAMES
- Implementation of new corporate travel management company
- Ensuring best practice, company duty of care and working with TMC account manager to ensure all KPI's are achieved
- Drive down Corporate Travel expenditure and re-evaluate staff travel categories, mandate hotel expenditure, and encourage travellers to consider their carbon footprint
- Re-evaluate and revise Corporate T&E policy for group and territories and ensure all Corporate Travel has been authorised and booked within policy
- Renegotiate couriers, taxi services, media tapes, production, utilities, IT Hardware, Telephony providers (mobile and fixed lines), stationery account, and currently undertaking full print audit with view to rationalising all copiers & printers
- Analysis of spending utilising SAP ERP system within business and proposing solutions for improvement
- Working to align and implement preferred suppliers with other companies from Bertelsmann UK Group
- Ensuring company's procurement policy is constantly updated and adhered to
- Work closely with Heads of Production, Production managers and Co-Coordinators to help reduce supplier base & renegotiate agreements in areas such as Postproduction, Cameras, Sound and Lighting, Blank Media
- Devising process to implement global Corporate Travel and Global Mobile, Fixed Line & Conferencing policy
- Managing all IT contracts and service levels for current IT support provider
- Savings
- Renegotiate UK courier rates - expenditure 100k
- Reductions as follows; van 3.5%, non-stop vans 2.7%, motorbike rates 3%, and non-stop motorbikes 9%
- Taxi services - £700,000 expenditure - reduced by 15% by stating that cars will not be left waiting
- Furthermore, ensuring cost avoidance on rate cards for 24 months (about 2 years)
- IT Hardware, constant benchmarking on price, availability, and Service Level
- Stationery - £280,000 expenditure
- Awarded new supplier contract with 25% saving & annual rebate
- Renegotiated October 2012 for corporate mobile and fixed lines and conference calling contract with expenditure of £1.5m and includes technology fund & cash rebate
- This equates to 23% saving
- Continued savings after implementing corporate Travel Management Company
- Savings to date were £2m, indirect saving and priority were to ensure travel leakage identified & stopped by tightening and mandating corporate Travel & Expenses policy whilst corporate travel continued to increase by nature of business
- Various other saving on corporate printed stationery, Utilities & Blank Media
- RFP and implementation of Managed Print Solution and uniFLOW server with savings of £800,000 and streaming entire print functionality
- Sourced and verified quotations from suppliers before initiating purchase processes.
- Worked with department heads to determine requirements for procurement activities.
- Evaluated procurement processes and used results to improve workflows and procedures.
- Negotiated with vendors and service providers to control corporate expenditures.
Senior Buyer
Johnson Controls
Farnborough, Hampshire
09.2006 - 10.2007
- Within the Facilities Management sector
- Scope
- Ensure mobilisation of contracts, services & staff from client to Johnson Controls
- Novation of existing contracts & agreements
- TUPE of staff where applicable
- Negotiate contracts, preferred suppliers & ensure KPI's are always set & ensure SOX compliance
- Devise alternative methods of BVM
- Commodities:
- Security, catering, landscaping, Cleaning, Waste, IT, Print & other soft services
- Savings
- Security, catering, landscaping, Cleaning, Waste, IT, Print & other soft services
- All categories required novation from Orange to Johnson Controls, inclusive of re-negotiation of contracts
- Total cost saving of categories before formal ITT, £2m.
- Optimised procurement processes with streamlined strategies.
- Maintained strong working relationships with suppliers and vendors to obtain favourable contract terms.
- Negotiated contract terms and awarded supplier contracts to achieve optimum business profits.
- Evaluated supplier performance for quality control measures.
Senior Buyer
Qatar Foundation
Doha
03.2006 - 08.2006
- Annual Spend: Approximately GBP 10 million Scope
- Implementation of new procurement procedures provides purchasing advice & support to buyers
- Review & streamline current processes, workflows & to eliminate bottlenecks
- Working with Oracle ERP system
- Sourcing in Europe, USA, Middle East
- Commodities; Sound & Vision, Educational Books, Science Equipment, Facilities Management requirements
- Savings
- Indirect saving by reviewing & streamlining current processes, workflows and eliminating bottlenecks
- Identified bottlenecks within purchasing function
- Recommended & implemented change to purchasing authorisation levels to increase output & encourage responsibility within.
- Maintained strong working relationships with suppliers and vendors to obtain favourable contract terms.
- Sourced new vendors and suppliers to boost product offerings and increase profit margins at each store location.
- Negotiated contract terms and awarded supplier contracts to achieve optimum business profits.
- Assessed and resolved logistic challenges to meet delivery deadlines.
Lead
Red Bee Media, BBC Broadcast
London, England
12.2005 - 02.2006
- Scope
• Help devise new purchasing strategies.
• Data analysis via SAP
• Formerly manage and build New purchasing department of 6.
• Devise and implement alternative methods of purchasing to achieve BVM.
• Reviewing tender processes and contract reviews.
• Managing and maintaining successful supplier relationships.
• Reviewing and negotiating pricing, setting up preferred suppliers and Framework Agreements ensuring margins are optimised.
• Commodities:
Print, marketing products, stationary, broadcast equipment
Primary achievements:
Select & award PSL’s for Recruitment agencies, Print Suppliers
Apply Purchasing Cards & implement procedures within Procurement team. - Delegated tasks and reacted to changing workloads to maintain efficient operations.
- Maintained smooth-running business operations by delegating priorities to staff abilities.
- Led and managed administrative staff to maintain smooth daily operations.
- Coordinated hiring, recruitment and training strategies to build successful administrative team.
Senior Buyer
BBC Resources, BBC Postproduction
London, England
10.2000 - 12.2005
- Annual Spend: GBP 54 million
- Scope
- Responsible for all purchasing - hires v buy, stock control, life cycle costs, service level agreements, cost recovery and communications
- Implementation of Tender Processes and where necessary following OJEC
- Contract management and review processes
- Sourcing in UK, Europe & USA
- Managing supplier relationships and supplier base, including KPI's, review of payment terms & vendor rating
- Developing and implementing purchasing strategies
- Data analysis via SAP
- Responsibility to junior members of team including training, support, appraisals, sick leave & annual leave
- Project management
- Reduction of hire costs, via negotiation, introduction of alternative suppliers via influence & persuasion of internal stakeholders & customers
- Project managed & set up purchasing team of 4 from inception to completion
- Commodities:
- Postproduction equipment, editing equipment, Cap Ex, Sound & Vision, Marketing, Print, foodstuffs & beverages, Stock & stock control
- Tendered to include debt Recovery for BBC
- Savings
- Primary Achievements: Total savings (5-year plan) of GBP 12.9 million over all categories
- Introduction of PSL's to business, immediate & sustained discounts from start to finish
- All savings are within camera, lighting, film, stationery, print & IT sectors
- (Hire v buy, long-term v short-term hire, Future proofing of technical kit)
- Negotiated contract terms and awarded supplier contracts to achieve optimum business profits.
- Researched and purchased specialized equipment and materials for company use.
- Managed tender process, interviewing and comparing bids to maximise contract terms.
- Visited trade shows, showrooms and product design events to increase product offerings.
- Conducted market research, identifying competitive pricing trends.
Education
Skills
- Relationship-building
- Procurement ethics understanding
- Approachable personality
- Strategic thinking
- RFQ preparation
- Supplier evaluation
- Commercial negotiation
- Global sourcing strategies
- Exceptional negotiation skills
- Global sourcing
- Strategic sourcing
- Contract negotiation
Timeline
Senior Procurement Lead
SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd
09.2022 - 12.2024
Senior Procurement Lead
SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd
07.2019 - 09.2022
Procurement Manager
Viacom International Media Networks
01.2014 - 07.2019
Procurement and Contracts Manager
FremantleMedia Limited
10.2007 - 12.2013
Senior Buyer
Johnson Controls
09.2006 - 10.2007
Senior Buyer
Qatar Foundation
03.2006 - 08.2006
Lead
Red Bee Media, BBC Broadcast
12.2005 - 02.2006
Senior Buyer
BBC Resources, BBC Postproduction
10.2000 - 12.2005
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