LIAM LEES

• Achieved Advanced Practitioner status in the Procurement Act, enabling compliant tender submissions and a good working knowledge of current regulation.
• Updated and maintained essential systems and documentation, such as contracts register and supplier list.
• Conducted spend analysis to identify priorities and develop strategic sourcing strategies.
• Contributed to reports and presentations, including quarterly finance reports and procurement updates for the senior leadership team.
• Played a key role in optimising procurement processes to enhance efficiency.
• Carried out a range of above and below threshold projects addressing various goods and services spend categories such as materials, telephone surveys, call monitoring, carpets, etc.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to establish specifications for new procurements and instructed on essential components of specifications to enhance future projects.

I've held a part time role of company director since 2022, which I carry out in my spare time. I've gained transferable skills and experience in this role:

• Financial planning and management
• Time / labour management
• Marketing
• Purchasing
• Sales / Customer Service

• Developed and streamlined procurement processes to increase autonomy in decision making and to allow flexibility and agility where needed
• Generated and analysed monthly spend reports to support with category planning and identify cost saving opportunities
• Category lead for machining, fabrication, injection moulding and 3d printing, managing a spend of £9m in 2023. Sourcing new suppliers across these categories to support on specific projects, from prototyping to volume production, by carrying out desktop research, meeting suppliers, evaluating against set criteria and auditing, while managing risk
• Prepare bid packs, unique to each project to ensure timely and accurate analysis of bids from suppliers
• Proactive approach to indirect cost down projects including machinery, HR services, factory consumables, etc.
• Developed market intelligence that supports business decision making

• Progressing within organisation to manage further client care initiatives, accountable for a broad range of buyer responsibilities to promote business growth
• Using superb communication and interpersonal skills to build lucrative and sustainable supplier relationships, including benchmarking of prices against competitors to target best organisations, negotiate price reductions and source new suppliers as needed
• Driving high quality standards through liaison with Goods In and Quality Control
• Balancing a range of stock management requirements to ensure ongoing availability and limited surplus items including weekly inventory and reporting, creating codes, booking deliveries, placing and sending orders
• Sourcing and ordering products from the Far East with excellent understanding of process, lead times and potential issues with trading in this region
• Extensive data management to support streamlined operations including compilation and logging of accurate costings, updating trade agreements, distributing and receiving paperwork and invoices, and producing yearly vendor reports
• Effective collaboration with sales team to manage forecasts from key account customers in line with purchasing requirements

• Responsible for ensuring the delivery of exceptional service for all customers for largest solid surface adhesive manufacturing in Europe
• Key account management to ensure the timely completion of all deliveries, participating in various operations across business units, ensuring the adherence to all customer order dates to uphold reputation, and managing logistics to facilitate this
• Lending organisation knowledge to manage website; making updates, creating new pages in line with product launches, and answering any queries submitted via the website
• Proactive management of sales activities to maximise all revenue generation, creating and analysing monthly YTD sales and identifying customers to redevelop relationships with
• Ensuring the diligent maintenance of all customer data including creation of purchase orders, accurate delivery documents, invoicing, amending trade agreements and ensuring up to date contact details

• Began in role part-time during studies and asked to come onboard fulltime to fulfil a wide range of sales and operational duties for the North East's leading timber merchant
• Delivering exceptional service to both retail and trade customers in showroom environment, expertly identifying all requirements and tailoring service to suit requirements
• Consistently exceeding all sales targets, recognised by Managing Director for superb achievements including identification of innovative way of reporting sales on new internal system
• Handling a range of financial duties including cash payments, processing card payments and refunds, as well as producing professional quotations to be issued to customers
• Ensuring optimisation of all sales opportunities through chasing up customer quotations
• Gaining extensive awareness of sales, profit margins and stock management