Justin Bone - Procurement Manager/Head of Procurement, Forhold

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Work Background

Lidiar GroupSenior Associate - Contracts and Procurement

Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2024Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia · On-siteResponsible for a team of four associates, along with P&L accountability. Returned the department's P&L to profitability. Placed two team members to support client procurement activities in mining companies. Developed a product to asses contract value erosion for a mining client with a specific focus on resolving the relationships thus mitigating value erosion gaps. Developed a procurement maturity continuum and drafted products for resolving Submitted tenders for procurement consultancy services. Developed a process for client relationship progression to secure work. Developed and progressed relationships with potential procurement clients.

ThiessContract Advisor, Capital - Strategic Procurement

Apr. 2022 - Apr. 2023Brisbane, Queensland, Australia• Led strategic minor CAPEX sourcing projects for existing and new site operations. • Successfully negotiated complex framework plant hire agreements with strategic critical plant equipment suppliers. • Identified and commercially negotiated beneficial outcomes of CAPEX machinery to support new mining operations. • Successfully negotiated commercially beneficial outcomes – rebates, spare part discounts, and extended payment terms from various mining plant manufacturers. • Successfully negotiated extended warranty for forklift equipment from 2 to 3 years and locked in pricing for the next two years in response to the volatile global raw material market conditions.

SvitzerProcurement Project Manager - Svitzer Europe

May. 2019 - Nov. 2021Copenhagen, Capital Region, DenmarkBuilt the business case to improve the user’s procurement experience for internal colleagues. Led workshops with heads of departments and C-suite colleagues to develop, test and implement the solution. Improved the safety of the workplace by conceptualising and leading the development of an internal control process with heads of departments and external stakeholders. Led the outsourcing of an procurement process to a third-party company as process experts in their field. Initiated and led discussions between the third party and internal colleagues to allay relevant concerns, ensuring colleagues were confident that the third party could support operationally and commercially. Implemented a global procurement control process in the Europe region, managing colleagues’ expectations in the local organisations of the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Sweden, by successfully leading story telling webinars and hosting training calls. Executed the pilot of a new procurement and ERP system, and captured feedback from end users, delivered to the central project team in a way that would bring about improvements to the project, minimising end user resistance for future rollouts. Obtained commercial benefits in a Capex procurement activity to the organisation of EUR200K compared to a budget of EUR1M, through strong negotiations and data analysis of these strategic investments. Executed procurement sourcing and tendering projects using Coupa, an online bidding platform, resulting in savings of EUR100K or 20% of the annual budget across several key categories. Secured EUR25K or 2% of annual procurement spend by leading successful negotiations with external suppliers.

SvitzerProcurement Specialist - Svitzer

Apr. 2018 - May. 2019Gothenburg, SwedenSuccessfully improved an internal procurement control process from a compliance rate of 50% to 70% through leading training and providing close contact and follow up with colleagues. Engaged with the leaders of the local organisation to influence and improve their understanding of the procurement control process in their organisation, involving heads of technical, finance, operations and management in regular workshops, webinars and training sessions. Analysed procurement spend data and presented to budget owners the opportunities to reduce their freight budgets by 10% annually.

MSC Mediterranean Shipping CompanyCustomer Service Agent

Nov. 2017 - Mar. 2018Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, SwedenExpedited key client accounts, responsible for co-ordinating the shipments of clients requiring special support. Enhanced the communication between internal and external stakeholders based in Sweden, Finland, Austria, Czech Republic and Belgium secure faster decisions and therefore an improved customer experience.

A.P. Moller - MaerskContainer Depot Maintenance and Repair Supervisor

Apr. 2008 - Dec. 2016Creatively managed an annual budget of AU$1M (out of a total AU$10M) allocated to equipment repair and maintenance, by designing a new site audit process in Sydney, Fiji and Papua New Guinea, reducing the repair cost per unit 3% year on year. Secured the prioritisation of a major technical project with heads of technical and sales departments to design, test and implement a change to container hardware. Led the project team that designed, tested and implemented the modification to 2000 machines that removed risk of damage to cargo, consulting with heads of commercial and technical departments and third party maintenance companies. Successfully directed and implemented two separate transition plans, tailored for different service suppliers, using standard GANTT methodology, with minimal impact to the day to day business operations. Increased cost visibility and improved contractor reliability by 50% through detailed and accurate site audits.