Simon Hakney

Key member of one of the largest transformation teams in the aerospace and defense industry, responsible for ensuring that the program worldwide, is delivered on time and to cost, and yields full benefits to the group. ✔ Responsible for developing a global category management strategy within one of the group’s largest direct spends across Europe, Scandinavia and North America. ✔ To analyse the total Cobham-wide spend and to identify a multimillion cost improvement project plan. ✔ Re-engineering policies and procedures to encompass industry best practice. ✔ Developed a Category Management Process incorporating best practice strategic sourcing.

Purchasing / Procurement

The Doncasters Group ($1bn revenue) is a leading international manufacturer of performance and tolerance critical engineering components for a variety of end market applications. The company offers well-developed supply chain integration solutions, delivering complex assemblies and engine-ready components to its customers. Doncasters currently employs approximately 5,000 people in over 20 sites across the UK, Continental Europe, USA, China and Mexico. The Group has institutionalised lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principles throughout its operations. Achievements ✔ Developed “Live” metrics dashboard to identify and resolve poor OTIF performance, resulting in a 30% improvement in OTIF score in the first 6 weeks of implementation. ✔ Reduced physical inventory by 27% within 12 weeks. ✔ Secured recurring cost saving of 40% on a “quick win” indirect spend category. ✔ Major cost savings >30% of BOM value on a strategic direct spend supplier. ✔ Excellent return on investment 12:1 within 4 months.

Intertek is one of the world’s leading providers of quality and safety. The company’s success has been driven by helping customers improve quality, gain efficiencies in manufacturing and logistics, overcome market constraints and reduce risk. Intertek holds extensive global accreditations, recognitions, and agreements, and the company’s knowledge of and expertise in understanding regulatory, market, and supply chain hurdles is unrivaled. While Intertek provides services for almost every field imaginable, key industries include renewable energy, medical devices, IT/telecom, textiles, toys, electronics, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, and cargo scanning. Intertek has more than 35,000 employees in 1,000 locations in over 100 countries and is headquartered in London, England and has revenues of £2,054bn Reporting to the CFO I have responsibility for the group's supply chain for all countries across the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) with a secondary responsibility to lead many global initiatives. ✔ Excellent return on investment 27:1 within 10 months.

Babcock is the UK's leading engineering support services organisation with revenue of circa £3bn in 2011 and an order book in excess of £12 billion. Defence, energy, telecommunications, transport and education are all sectors where Babcock can be found working diligently behind the scenes, delivering critical support. Classic transformation challenge in a FTSE 100 company, working with the business unit leadership to understand what the business needs from procurement then making it happen within various indirect spend categories. ✔ Excellent return on investment 14:1 within 6 months.

As one of Britain’s 10 “Most Admired Companies,” in operation for over 70 years, Cobham supplies sophisticated military and civil systems across air, land and marine platforms. With four strategic technology divisions and revenue of $3 billion, Cobham employs more than 12,000 people on five continents. Reporting to the Global VP of Operations I have been tasked with initiating and driving the development and implementation of a hybrid-led procurement and purchasing commodity strategy process. Working globally across 80 business units, my accountabilities include strategic planning and tactical execution to leverage global spend across all divisions and business units Achievements ✔ Successfully managed development and implementation of purchasing and procurement strategies for highly technical and complex products and services ✔ Delivered greater than forecasted multi-million pound savings in purchasing and procurement across global business units Accountabilities ✔ Establishing strategic direction and key activities for supply chain, purchasing and procurement functions for various commodities ✔ Optimizing all global and regional procurement / purchasing / sourcing strategies and opportunities, initiating and implementing global agreements ✔ Establishing procurement and purchasing standards, policies, and key vendor partnerships ✔ Supporting improvement in demand management, material scheduling and planning by applying “Lean Manufacturing” principles ✔ Managing internal customers to ensure their business requirements are met

Purchasing / Procurement

With 5,700 employees and a turnover of £974 million, RS Components is the leading international high service distributor of electronic, electrical and industrial supplies. As procurement and purchasing lead, my accountabilities included generating savings and service improvements in purchasing and procurement for a number of indirect supplies and services across the group’s European operations. My role covered a range of facilities management and site services. Key purchasing and procurement areas included energy, healthcare, car fleet, HR, telecommunications and facilities management. Achievements ✔ Generated savings of 79% on telecommunications and significant improvements in service and contract structures across a number of key indirect strategic areas. ✔ Initiated and implemented business improvements achieving £3/4 million cost down achieved over three months. ✔ Excellent return on investment 33:1 within 3 months.

Offering 24/7 service Aggreko PLC is a global leader in the rental of power generation and temperature control equipment. The company offers service in more than 100 countries in 133 locations in a range of industries. I was hired by the Northern Europe executive board to deliver business improvements through developing a comprehensive procurement and purchasing strategy. Key purchasing and procurement areas included commodities such as fuel, oil, car fleet, temporary labour, transport, utilities and telecommunications. Achievements ✔ Developed procurement and purchasing strategy to reduce costs by £1.5 million ✔ Excellent return on investment 18:1 within 10 months.

Purchasing / Procurement

Purchasing / Procurement

Purchasing / Procurement

Purchasing / Procurement

Purchasing / Procurement