Leadership Team & Associates - The Procurement Hive

Guy Wiffen

Co-Founder & Director

Guy first started working in the procurement sector in 2005 and since then has worked with clients across the World, including working in Hong Kong for seven years. Throughout his career in the procurement profession, he has worked with Fortune 500 & FTSE 100 companies on a wide range of consultancy projects. He has also helped to advise SME’s who are at the start of their procurement journey & large MNC’s who are more advanced for areas such as spend analytics, cost saving programs & capability development.

Jonathan Pollard

Co-Founder & Director

Jon moved into the world of procurement recruitment in 2005, establishing himself as a trusted partner to a variety of organisations. He was previously Head of Procurement Recruitment for a London based agency, working with procurement professionals across the UK, Europe and the USA. He retains a large network of professionals who trust him due to his depth of knowledge within procurement operations and recruitment. Building strong and powerful relationships remains a key passion to drive the success of The Procurement Hive.

Tom Lewers

Procurement Consultancy & Delivery Director

Starting his career at Rolls-Royce, Tom has over 30 years procurement experience, operating for many years at a Chief Procurement Officer level. Tom supports organisations on transforming their procurement capability; creating strong customer and supplier collaborative ways of working for procurement leaders; building procurement people capability and talent programmes; and negotiating the delivery of significant and sustainable bottom line value. Tom has a preference to unlock customer, supplier, and buyer value with a collaborative style.

Our Consultancy Team

Our consultancy team gives you access to an established network of experienced procurement and industry experts across four continents. Each member of The Procurement Hive team is a specialist within their field and has worked within leading organisations. We work across multiple industry sectors and our team is collaborative and challenging in their approach. Our consultancy team bring a wide range of subject matter expertise and skills to our client engagements, working with you to solve your problems and deliver at pace. The following is a snapshot of our Associate network…

Adrian Brown

Senior Procurement Advisor

Adrian is a transformation specialist and has developed and delivered procurement category strategies, contract management, SRM and managed teams across multi-site and multi country environments in both the public and private sectors.

Colin Davies

Senior Procurement Advisor

Colin is an MBA and CIPS qualified professional with over 25 years’ experience at Senior Procurement Director level across a broad range of sectors. He has extensive experience of leading category teams across all indirect spend.

Chris Cheney

Senior Procurement Advisor

Working as a procurement consultant for the last 10 years, both leading and supporting major projects. Spend experience is wide but not limited to: IT & Telecoms, Software, SaaS, Hardware, Professional Services, Utilities and FM.

Chris Sansome

Senior Procurement Advisor

Chris is a highly successful IT procurement specialist with skills covering software licensing, contracts, subscriptions, SaaS, PaaS and data. He’s also driven vendor management internationally and led negotiations for major infrastructure projects.

Conrad Hull

Senior Procurement Advisor

Conrad is an enthusiastic and accomplished procurement and commercial professional, who has a proven track record delivering transformation and cost management programs which deliver best value to various organisations.

Darren Long

Senior Procurement Advisor

Darren has worked in the ICT environment for over 20 years and has gained invaluable experience in IT Services. Experienced in complex IT Projects including Service Desk; End User Support; Hosting; Data Centres; Cloud Services, etc.

David Hollingsworth

Senior Procurement Advisor

David enjoys a strong reputation within procurement circles, having worked with global organisations including Wells Fargo, Sky and American Express. He’s operated at a very senior level and is able to engage and influence at C-Suite level.

Gideon Coles

Senior Procurement Analyst

20 years procurement experience, both private and public sectors, regulated and non-regulated, utilising available resources for data mining, deep dive analytics through to report suite development for the stakeholders in question.

Jane Dormer

Senior Procurement Advisor

Jane’s main focus has been across the media, content and production categories with a passion to drive partnerships between agency and client allowing the relationship to thrive whilst delivering excellence on quality, efficiency and effectiveness.

James Adamson

Senior Procurement Advisor

A highly experienced procurement specialist, focused on IT spend categories. James has over 25 years of experience and an excellent track record in delivering the right outcomes for clients on a range of complex IT projects and programmes.

Jo Harding

Senior Procurement Advisor

Jo is a seasoned and driven global procurement leader with over 20 years’ experience in strategic sourcing, establishing and developing procurement teams, and driving procurement strategy to deliver deep value.

Marie Stewart

Senior Procurement Advisor

Marie is a seasoned procurement professional focusing on risk management, category management, stakeholder management, transformation and organisational change, strategic sourcing, tendering, and procurement function design and build.

Mark Dann

Senior Procurement Advisor

Mark has worked in Central Government and Financial Services sectors, leading procurement teams as large as 130 FTE and managing third party spend around £5bn pa covering multiple categories, and multiple geographies.

Mark Sukiennik

Senior Procurement Advisor

Mark is an expert in all facets of procurement and a specialist in procurement transformation, cost reduction, building greenfield procurement capabilities, improving existing procurement teams, and supplier relationship management.

Michael Foley

Senior Procurement Advisor

Michael’s procurement experience is predominantly in IT, but he also has experience in Marketing, HR, Professional Services and direct materials. He has global experience working and leading diverse teams within varied industries.

Michael Gillespie

Senior Procurement Advisor

Michael has worked across Infrastructure, Health, Construction, the NHS, Rail and Local Government roles. Michael quickly realised the significance of Procurement in the Public Sector and has worked on a number of high profile projects since.

Morag Powney

Senior Procurement Advisor

Morag provides Indirects procurement expertise, both tactical and strategic. She’s worked at all levels of business spanning global/ regional teams for a FTSE 100 company to a start-up greenfield, brownfield or consortium/ JV.

Nahid Quraishi

Senior Procurement Analyst

Over 15 years’ experience providing data analytics solutions to various industry sectors: both private and public, regulated and non-regulated. Has worked in greenfield procurement projects providing consultancy & data analytics solutions.

Will Smith

Senior Procurement Advisor

Will was a lawyer who crossed the floor and has spent over 20 years in various procurement related roles. He has worked in a variety of senior roles in procurement and SRM, developing and optimising value from relationships.

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