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Steve is a strategic leader with a proven record of leading cross-organisational transformation in the public sector. He is a highly experienced professional with a wide breadth of skills and experience across procurement, project and change management and management accountancy. Steve led the adoption and implementation of category management within the Council delivering a step-change in procurement performance. Steve also provides senior level leadership to the Social Care category team.

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Chris has a broad Procurement background having spent 18 years in the private sector formerly working in various Strategic procurement roles for a number of FTSE100 organisations before joining the City of Cardiff Council 5 years ago. In his current role as Senior Category manager, Chris leads the Corporate and Environment category teams within the Council’s Commissioning and Procurement department covering ICT, FM, Fleet, Construction, Professional Services with a spend in excess of £200mpa. Chris is also the South East and Mid Wales Collaborative Construction and South East Wales Highways Construction Framework Manager.

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Following a successful career as a Chartered Land Surveyor delivering major national and international projects, John joined the public sector. John is a highly skilled professional with a breadth of experience in leading and developing transformation projects at a local, regional and national level. He has extensive experience of partnership and stakeholder engagement whilst working closely with senior leaders. John developed the Council’s methodology for undertaking Service Reviews with a focus on efficiency, sustainability and identifying opportunities for alternative delivery models.  John has been instrumental in the establishment of a Local Authority Trading Company and is presently driving forward the social value agenda in Cardiff.

Before joining Commissioning and Procurement Team Alicja worked in areas of Policy and Economic Development within the City of Cardiff Council for 10 years. Alicja has helped to deliver projects to maximise the economic potential of Cardiff and supported policy development on in-house and European Union projects. Alicja’s key expertise is in stakeholder engagement, project management, research and development. In her current role as Senior Strategy and Development Officer, Alicja is leading on the delivery of community benefits / social value through procurement processes and is developing the Council’s wider social responsibility policy.

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Lucy is a Strategic Category Manager within the Corporate and Environment team in the City of Cardiff Council.

Lucy has extensive procurement and category management experience. She has worked within the public sector for seven years constantly demonstrating innovation and versatility in utilising category management, strategic procurement tools and e-procurement technology. She is a highly effective project lead with extensive experience of working within cross-functional teams and senior managers to successfully deliver complex procurement projects. Lucy has a proven track record of working with clients to identify procurement opportunities, both savings and service improvements, and then developing and delivering sourcing strategies.

One of the categories that Lucy manages is the Passenger Transport with an annual spend of £6.4 million and she led the implementation the first DPS in Wales for Passenger Transport Services which was an award winning procurement.

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Ben is a Strategic Category Manager within the Social Services Team in the City of Cardiff Council. Ben is an experienced procurement professional having worked within the public sector for over 10 years. Ben has extensive knowledge of the Social Care category and leading complex social care procurements. Ben is constantly demonstrating innovation and versatility; utilising category management, strategic procurement tools and e- procurement technology across the Social Care category.

Ben has a proven track record of leading cross-organisational / multi-functional teams and engaging with service users throughout all phases of the procurement cycle. Ben played a prominent role in the Council’s Award winning Supported Living Service Procurement and delivering projects to time, on budget, realising savings benefits and service improvements.

Since graduating from Cardiff University in 2009, Dean has worked for the Cardiff Council’s Commissioning & Procurement team. Dean has successfully Project Managed the organisational redevelopment of the Commissioning & Procurement team and SAP Blueprinting. Dean has led the adoption and implementation of the Council’s primary eSourcing solution, PROACTIS, across the Council. In his current role as Systems and Process Development Officer, Dean’s eProcurement expertise has been a key driver in the Council delivering significant financial and efficiency savings through the successful deployment of electronic procurement tools including eAuctions and Dynamic Purchasing Systems. Dean is now a regular speaker on eProcurement issues at both National and International conferences.

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