Rizwan Imtiazi M.B.A

 

Rizwan Imtiazi - Professional Summary:     

I have had extensive experience in procurement - managing categories, major procurement projects, procurement department and staff. I have worked in defence, manufacturing, aerospace, housing and construction sectors and covered a variety of commodities/categories across the range, both direct and indirect. From the beginning of my career I have worked in cross-functional teams and, in my more recent years, with the responsibility of managing them on strategic procurement projects. I have worked on highly complex procurements as well as procurements involving highly complex commodities at a strategic level. The roles have involved supplier integration, supply chain management, process improvement and establishing procurement functions, procedures and policies. This reflects my ability to manage and work closely with suppliers and stakeholders, managing KPIs and managing people including teams and staff.

 

I have also had a consultancy role providing advice on effective decision making and tendering and bid evaluation best practice, including OJEU regulations, to public sector, local government and central government clients. I have also performed spend analysis for FTSE 250 clients in a client relationship management role.

 

I have had the good fortune to be involved in diverse projects, for example...:
- enforcing and administering best practice e-tendering and e-evaluation processes for high value, high risk and iconic Olympic procurement projects for London 2012 at the Olympic Delivery Authority,
- procuring for high value/high tech design, development and production in a manufacturing environment, working at "Secret" level,
- implementing strategic procurement and establishing/improving procurement processes
- Oracle implementation team member representing the Procurement module and a super user,
- working with Boeing to source aircraft and strategic services for an aerospace simulation & training bid
...to name but a few.

 

 

 

Rizwan Imtiazi - Professional Experience:     

Client Manager
October 2009 – Current
Rosslyn Analytics, Broughton House, Sackville Street, London. W1S 3DD.

 

Key responsibilities of current role are:

• Manage portfolio of FTSE 250 clients such as Red Bee Media and ACCO Brands: their expectations, satisfaction and service delivery to provide exceptional user experience with the Spend Analysis software
• Provide spend analysis and propose recommendations for procurement projects and process improvements/transformation.
• Where necessary, run/facilitate the procurement projects and process improvements
• Facilitate implementation of Spend Analysis tool with clients and ensure user community is maximising its benefits
• Generate or identify further revenue opportunities with existing clients

 

Principal Consultant

May 2006 – September 2009

QinetiQ Commerce Decisions, Sadler Building, Oxford Science Park, Oxford.

 

Performed the following for clients including London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority, TfL, Thames Gateway Bridge, MoD, BBC, Royal Horseguards, Home Office, Barnsley County Council and OGC Buying Solutions:

• Provide best practice consultation on effective tendering and evaluation from initial tender draft to contract award debriefs
• Manage client expectations and deliver to agreed contract
• Configure and administer the proprietary E-evaluation tool to seamlessly facilitate tender bid evaluations
• E-tendering and e-evaluation advice and support
• Deliver consultancy throughout the evaluations to facilitate adherence to public sector regulations
• Deliver training sessions on various methodologies and tool training, to all group sizes and all levels of management
• Devise and provide meaningful reports based on the output of the evaluation.

 
Senior Procurement Manager
July 2005 – May 2006
Home Group Limited, Eastcote, Middlesex.

• Establish the Southern England procurement dept, best practices and cost aware culture in the group
• Manage procurement activities for the Group spanning housing developments to maintenance of schemes
• Consolidate vendorbase, identify opportunities and establish appropriate value added contracts in line with EU regulations (OJEU),
• Roll out contracts negotiated on a Group-wide basis to all divisions and ensure compliance in every regional office
• Establish culture of information management in relevant departments in order to provide Head Office with visibility of costs and spend in each division,
• Overcome obstacles, resistance, objections and other impact of cultural change with staff and established departments

 

Major Sub-contracts Manager
June 2004 – June 2005
Thales Training & Simulation Limited, Crawley, West Sussex.

• Manage pool of 4 buyers and co-ordinate other directorate resource in management of procurement projects.
• Project managed all supply chain elements, including risk management, global sourcing, contract negotiation and supplier relationship management, of major training & simulation projects the largest of which had a value of over £600m
• Manage PFI/PPP contracts & projects
• Lead Best Practice team to ensure compliance with CMMi requirements for Supplier Agreement Management (SAM)
• Work with Business Development, Sales & Marketing and Legal & Contracts at the pre-bid stage to ensure risks in the bid are identified and mitigation strategy highlighted in order to influence internal and external customers

 

Procurement Manager (commodities)
August 2000 – June 2004
Thales Missile Electronics Limited, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

• Responsible for 4 buyers and directorate resource for co-ordination of procurement projects
• Managed project and workpackages for all supply chain and procurement elements for strategic programmes in IT, research, new developments & production ranging from £5m to £75m
• Oracle Super-User for the Purchasing module and in charge of acceptance test for implementation of upgrades,
• Member of 2 corporate international Purchasing Efficiency Teams for strategic vendor rationalisation,
• Worked with and managed cross-functional teams including finance, sales, engineering and manufacturing, ensuring supplier KPI’s meet defined targets; investigate and resolve if these are not being achieved,
• Saved 12% on 2004 annual budget against a target set at 8%,

 

Materials Project Manager (promoted from Upstream Purchasing Engineer August 1996 - April 1998)
August 1996 – July 2000
Thomson-Thorn PLC, Hayes, Middlesex.

• Formulated & successfully implemented department restructure
• Optimised value added procurement by piloting and then establishing purchasing cards
• Successful undertaking of various internal consultancy appointments including a 6 month task commissioned by the Materials Director to investigate all supply chain issues of a high profile cost centre. Identified process inefficiencies, recommended areas of improvement and initiated action plans to streamline current practices saving 43% administration costs
• Responsible for supplier integration and facilitating concurrent engineering as a new approach into the organisation
• Perform supplier audits on key suppliers to ensure supply chain quality assurance.

 

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