Ronny Takawira Nyamutora Tigere
Birmingham
Summary
Dynamic procurement leader with extensive experience at Westminster City Council, excelling in project management and stakeholder engagement. Proven track record in delivering high-value contracts while ensuring compliance and sustainability. Adept at risk assessment and contract negotiation, driving significant efficiencies and value across complex procurement initiatives.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Commercial Lead (Construction Professional Services)
Government Commercial Organisation (GCO)
09.2025 - Current
- Delivered a wide range of procurement projects, including complex, high-value regeneration projects in house building, social housing supply, housing quality, place making, resettlement, humanitarian efforts, and home ownership.
- The role also covers safer and greener buildings which includes remediation policy, building safety fund and ACM remediation, Grenfell site and programme, Stewardship Portfolio and Grenfell Response, Building Performance and Net Zero, Regulatory regime review of construction products.
- Ensuring the department fully complies with procurement regulations and delivers high profile procurements in line with best practice, functional standards and Department policies and procedures.
- Championed procurement within the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government by developing effective relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring early engagement in departmental initiatives with a procurement or commercial focus.
- Providing sound commercial advice to a range of stakeholders, including development and scrutiny of business cases (Strategic Outline Case, Outline Business Case and Final Business Case).
- Designed and implemented sourcing strategies and commercial models that provided value for money and incorporated key procurement policies targeting small and medium enterprises.
- Providing line management and leadership to a small team of procurement professionals.
- Supporting the wider initiatives in the Department to improve commercial capability.
- Working within a small, dynamic, customer-focused team leading commercial engagement across a wide range of stakeholders, including service users, Ministers, Policy groups, Suppliers, and arm's length bodies.
- Working on a variety of projects including high-profile, complex, strategic procurements related to construction and associated consultancy and professional services activities.
- Running a range of tendering processes, Open, Competitive Flexible and using Frameworks in line with PA 2023 for a range of categories of spend.
- Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government-(MHCLG)-
Commercial Manager
Westminster City Council
03.2022 - 09.2025
- Leading on delivery of high value and complex above FTS procurements in Growth Planning and Housing Contracts.
- Provided commercial and technical expertise across contracts, guiding them through governance gateways of Commercial Review Boards for approval before market engagement and award.
- Ensured high value/high risk tenders received comprehensive advice throughout all stages of the process from initiation (Gate 0) to contract mobilisation (Gate 4).
- Assessing and managing the risk associated with each activity including the development and assessment of the financial robustness of bidders during the tendering process and post award.
- Working collaboratively with legal and other subject matter experts to develop the form of contract, special terms and conditions, KPI’s.
- Preparing a procurement strategy that describes procurement findings and recommended approach.
- Understanding how sustainability and social value will be secured through the tender process.
- Supporting the mobilisation of the contract prior to handover at Gate 4.
- Managing my own tenders using the e-procurement tools used by the council and contributing to its further development.
- Ensuring that procurement strategy develop approaches to ensure a competitive environment for the procurements under my remit.
- Providing leadership to the commercial team, managing a portfolio of work including projects and frameworks.
- Optimized commercial performance through diligent contract management, focusing on value delivery, risk management, and precise cost control.
- Supporting Head of Commercial in delivering directorate of Growth Planning and development budget.
- Managed the financial aspects of standard and complex projects across Westminster City Council from inception to contract delivery.
Procurement Lead
West Midlands Growth Company Ltd
01.2021 - 03.2022
- Leading and developing the provision of a strategic, efficient, and flexible procurement service delivering value for money, efficiencies, and quality service throughout the Tourism and Travel Industry Programme for Visit Britain, Inward Investment Programme including FDI.
- Embedding the Procurement Framework and providing guidance and knowledge for all staff across the WMGC Ltd and partners (Department of International Trade, Department of Culture Media and Sports (DCMS), Visit Britain (VB) and Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Federation Procurement, Organising Committee (OC) and Queen’s Relay Button (QBR).
- Led development and implementation of procurement policies supporting tendering, contracts management, spend analytics, and supplier performance management, collaborating with finance and workstream leads to align with programme deliverables and risk management.
- Leading Procurements for International events and Sponsorships for Investment destinations like (Canada, Australia, Dubai, Singapore, USA, India, China) and ensuring that Inward Investment benefit Realisation is factored into the contracts including managing relationships with key partners like DIT and FCO.
- Built and maintained strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring engagement during development and delivery plan implementation to meet pipeline milestones.
- Created and delivered a training programme for procurement processes across all strands of the TTI Programme, enhancing support for the business case.
- Working with workstream leads to ensure that budgets are spent according to the pipeline and where budgets are being repurposed change control protocols are followed.
- Reporting to the PMO board every month and quarterly on Procurement performance.
- Reporting to my PMO Director and Finance Director weekly on Procurement programme constraints and risks to delivery of milestones L1 and L2.
Procurement Manager
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
12.2016 - 12.2020
- Procurement of Highways contracts such as Fleet Replacement of Highways vehicles £28 million.
- Procurement of Gullies Cleaning contract on A Roads/ Trunk Roads Around Dudley Borough 10 000 Gullies £2Million.
- Managed Street Lighting contract and components, ensuring compliance with specifications and performance standards.
- Managing and Procurement of Temporary Lighting Control and Vehicle Management Services Contract for Dudley.
- Writing and presenting various reports and briefings to Directors and Council Cabinet.
- Managing the Highways Gritting Contract and the Salt Supply for Gritting Roads.
- Procurement of Vehicle Fleet Maintenance Contract for Dudley £14 Million.
- Put together a regional contract to procure electric vehicle charging infrastructure on Midlands connecting Motorways on behalf of the West Midlands Combines Authority and Leicestershire.
- Developed framework for housing new build construction to facilitate delivery of £750 million housing schemes (2020-2024).
- Undertaking all infrastructure Projects for Regeneration and Planning including Very Light Rail Projects (Test Tracks and National Innovation Centre; West Midlands High Modernisation Projects PRISM 5, Highways Modelling Projects, Dudley Entertainment Arena 4000-Seater). (2019-2023) Completed Tendering.
- Completion of necessary documentation to score tenders on quality, price and social value including chairing moderation meetings.
- Working with stakeholders on tender and social value questions and weightings and specification reviews on re-tenders.
- Deploying category management and sourcing strategies and governance that applies and producing RACI for each contract.
- Developing contract management plans, risk management and producing recommendation to award reports for signoff by Commercial review Board and Programme Boards.
- Attending programme board regularly to update senior leadership on success, failure, and lessons learned from each procurement process.
- Addressed procurement challenges and collaborated with legal team on potential judicial reviews.
Procurement Officer
Warwick District Council
09.2015 - 12.2016
- My role included verifying Council compliance with all relevant UK and EU procurement legislation.
- Led production and development of procurement strategies and policies aligned with organizational goals.
- Developing and managing the delivery of a high quality and responsive procurement service.
- Managed e-Procurement process using In-Tend for contracts below and above OJEU thresholds, ensuring compliance with regulations.
- The role involves advising senior Managers on changes in legislation and modelling the Contract Standing Orders/Code of procurement practice to suit those changes.
- I responded to and managed all contract disputes including Suppliers challenges on contract outcomes.
- Again, the role involves reporting quarterly on contracts being awarded and publishing them on council website in line with Transparency Regulation guidance Act (2011).
- I collaborate and lead on contracts with other public service organisations and Councils.
- I also attended essential government Procurement summits such as the Westminster Government Procurement Review White Paper annually.
- Reporting on all cashable and non-cashable savings to Finance Director and other Executives and Cabinet Members.
- Reported to Head of Finance on disputes with other Heads of Service regarding procurement processes.
- Awarding tenders and debriefing all tenderers including giving full feedback to unsuccessful tenderers.
- Observing mandatory standstill where OJEU tenders apply and updating TED with Contract Award notice within 48 days of contract award.
- Training Contract Officers on Specification writing and Contract management.
- Publishing all Contracts valued at 25K on Contracts finder and local e-Tendering Portals.
- Reviewing Contract Standings Orders in line with any changes taking place in Procurement and Contract Regulation 2015.
- Delivered leisure centres modernisation contracts valued at £50 million and town centre regeneration project valued at £100 million on time and within budget, achieving substantial savings through effective contract mapping during scoping stage.
- (Royal Leamington Spa)
Procurement Lead
Rugby Borough Council
07.2013 - 08.2015
- Managed contract performance through covalent system and OJEU-compliant tendering process using CSW-JETS In-Tend e-Tendering Portal.
- Reflected transparency, probity, and integrity in the contracting process when establishing public contracts.
- Working as an advisor to senior management when tendering OJEU type of projects to comply with procurement regulations such as Directive (2006) and council’s standing orders on better procurement practices.
- Applying applicable terms and conditions for various projects including JCT measured term contracts and NEC3 for New Design and development type of tenders.
- Liaising with legal team for contract sign off and sealing.
- Consulted with risk officer regarding insurance cover levels for each tender, ensuring compliance with liability requirements.
- Managing Key performance via covalent CMS to monitor rate of contract spend to maximise value through formal agreements and minimising non-contractual spend.
- Drove procurement governance improvement through transparency by enhancing stakeholder engagement with small and medium enterprises.
- Producing reports for head of service and working as super user on In-Tend eProcurement system.
- Informing suppliers of tender outcomes through comprehensive feedback to unsuccessful tenderers and awarding tenders.
- Rationalised supplier base by consolidating maverick spend and realigning forward procurement plans through detailed analysis of all spend categories.
Policy Analyst
Local Better Regulation (Agency Contract) Robert Half International
02.2011 - 06.2013
- Collaborated with 26 policy leads worldwide to advance evidence-based policy changes.
- Coordinated with Department for Business Innovation Skills to align policy strands with government agenda.
- Reported to Director of Policy on policies aligned with BIS policy structure, ensuring strategic compliance.
- Collaborated with the Director of Finance to review Procurement Policies and confirm that procedures aligned with Public Contract Regulation and EU directives.
- Developing strategies for ensuring that all held contracts continued to give value for money.
- Recommended all action plans to the board of directors for sign-off and implementation.
Purchasing Officer (Estate Services and Maintenance Contracts)
Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust
07.2009 - 01.2011
- Tendering all Services and Maintenance contracts for the NHS Trust including contracts to the Hospital and Estates.
- Evaluation of tenders together with contract Leads and making recommendations to award reports.
- Evaluated supply market trends to identify risks and bottlenecks in supply of key clinical materials for hospitals.
- Identified sources of savings through procurement consolidation to enhance budget efficiency.
- Reported to Head of Contracts on all potential uplifts and negotiated contracts for extensions.
- Ensured T&Cs safeguarded Trust interests during procurement of goods and services.
- Updating the procurement manuals when changes in regulation and Crown Commercial policy Notes are announced to changes code of procurement practice.
Purchasing and Quality Assurance Officer
Elga Lab Water Systems (Brooke Street Contract)
01.2008 - 06.2009
- Coordinated procurement and supply chain activities across Vivendi Veolia Group, enhancing collaboration among Elga and other group companies.
- Developing commercially focused relationships with key user stakeholders and suppliers.
- Conducted procurement capability assessments, evaluating savings strategies to identify potential improvements.
- Mapped plans for regional procurement collaboration to capture aggregated spend and identify back-office savings.
- Reviewing Elga’s supply chain efficiency, robustness, resilience, wastage and fitness for purpose.
Senior Purchasing Officer
AXA Equity and Law (Hays Procurement Contract)
01.2001 - 12.2007
- Established and maintained compliant contracts and framework agreements, ensuring alignment with organizational standards and stakeholder needs.
- Managed tendering and procurement processes, complying with AXA Equity and Law Contract procedures.
- Managed contract reviews and analyzed management information to ensure optimal contract performance and compliance.
- Managed the procurement team budget.
- Managing controlled processes including document information relating to competitive Dialogue Process ensuring compliance with AXA procurement procedures and Code of Procurement Practice.
- Chairing CD meetings with bidders, analysed supplier management reporting, vendor rating results and benchmarking information for written reports to Commercial Manager.
Deputy Procurement Manager
Anglo American Zimbabwe
03.1993 - 12.2000
- Managing the inter-mine purchases of goods and services across categories of spend from drill steels, Earth Moving Equipment, Refinery products, Smelter Materials and products, Concentrator materials and Metal sales requirements.
- Procuring all materials requirements for underground mining needs and support services including transport fleet.
- Equipped group stores with necessary materials for daily mining operations, ensuring all capital items were procured and certified on insurance equipment lists.
- Accountable for all audit queries including rectification and sign off of reports that effect actions that get reported to the board by audit partners.
- Ensured quality compliance of supplied goods and equipment, conducting pre-audit spot checks to identify and rectify non-conformance in procurement processes.
- Managing a team of 26 buyers and stock control officers.
- Reporting to Group Commercial and Procurement Manager on constraints and mapping risk mitigating measures.
- Supply systems development including developing procurement policies.
- Setting Inventory management and Stock Control polices across group companies.
- Managing Key Performance indicators with suppliers for goods and services under contract.
- Training procurement and stock control staff on use of e-procurement systems.
- (Mining Bindura Nickel Corporation)
Education
Certificate of Higher Education - Political Economy
University of Oxford
03-2026
Sustainable Business Strategy -
Harvard University Business School Online
06-2020
Graduate Diploma Level 6 -
Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS)
PG Certificate - Sustainability Leadership and Value Chains
University of Cambridge
Master of Science - Project Management
Birmingham City University
Diploma Level 4 -
Chartered Institute of Quality Assurance (CIQA)
PG Certificate - Public Procurement Policy and Law
University of Nottingham
PG Certificate - Law of Construction Industry
University of Strathclyde
Skills
- Project management
- Sustainability strategy
- Procurement compliance
- Stakeholder engagement
- Risk assessment
- Contract negotiation
Accreditation And Licences
- Government Commercial Function, B Grade, 005051979
- MCIPS Qualified, 2006
References
Available Upon Request
Training
- Level 5 Certificate, Institute of Leadership Management
- Certificate of Completion Managing Successful Change, University of Oxford
- Certificate of Completion Leadership with Emotional Intelligence, University of Oxford
Availability
3 Months
Salary Expectations
£650 to £800 Per Day
Roles Submitted For
Procurement Business Partner
Timeline
Commercial Lead (Construction Professional Services)
Government Commercial Organisation (GCO)
09.2025 - Current
Commercial Manager
Westminster City Council
03.2022 - 09.2025
Procurement Lead
West Midlands Growth Company Ltd
01.2021 - 03.2022
Procurement Manager
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
12.2016 - 12.2020
Procurement Officer
Warwick District Council
09.2015 - 12.2016
Procurement Lead
Rugby Borough Council
07.2013 - 08.2015
Policy Analyst
Local Better Regulation (Agency Contract) Robert Half International
02.2011 - 06.2013
Purchasing Officer (Estate Services and Maintenance Contracts)
Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust
07.2009 - 01.2011
Purchasing and Quality Assurance Officer
Elga Lab Water Systems (Brooke Street Contract)
01.2008 - 06.2009
Senior Purchasing Officer
AXA Equity and Law (Hays Procurement Contract)
01.2001 - 12.2007
Deputy Procurement Manager
Anglo American Zimbabwe
03.1993 - 12.2000
Certificate of Higher Education - Political Economy
University of Oxford
Sustainable Business Strategy -
Harvard University Business School Online
Graduate Diploma Level 6 -
Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS)
PG Certificate - Sustainability Leadership and Value Chains
University of Cambridge
Master of Science - Project Management
Birmingham City University
Diploma Level 4 -
Chartered Institute of Quality Assurance (CIQA)
PG Certificate - Public Procurement Policy and Law
University of Nottingham
PG Certificate - Law of Construction Industry
University of Strathclyde