Rich Sains

Acada

Working with a number of FTSE100 and large enterprises such as M&S, Canon, Boots, Diageo, Costa Coffee, Premier Inn, ASOS, Janus Henderson, Dentsu and Value Retail to transform their IT and procurement functions.

Managing Consultant

The Procurement Conversation

Host of The Procurement Conversation Podcast - speaking to Procurement leaders and industry experts about the biggest topics facing the profession. 

Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube

Podcast Host

Marks and Spencer

Head of IT procurement

IT and Ecommerce Procurement Manager

buyingTeam

Working with O2, Reuters, Man Group, Countryside, Universal Music and others to optimise their procurement of IT.

Solutions Developer - IT and Telecoms

Touchbase

Head of Procurement and Logistics

The Procurement Conversation Podcast Host | Elevating Procurement | Procurement Leader | 10x Procurement |

My mission is to increase the love for Procurement. I want our people to love the job and stakeholders and suppliers to love working with us.

I do this through:

1) Acada: Software that prioritises strategic activity, measures the impact we have on our businesses, and facilitates self service for low value, low risk buying.

2) Elevate: An online learning experience to develop our peoples 'Procurement EQ' and the Procurement Lounge community to support this learning.

3) Advisory: Strategy development, transformation, benchmarking and process re-engineering.

I also host the Procurement Conversation podcast and write the Procurement Weekly Newsletter where we share insights and best practices on procurement topics and trends. 

If you are interested in working with us or learning more about our products and services, please feel free to contact me at rich@acadatech.com.

Founder

We help procurement leaders to solve many of the challenges they face in today's complex environment and manage their teams more effectively and objectively.

Procurement Doctors Consulting

Principal Consultant

Smart national Solutions 

Help clients with delivering the best in class solutions to transform their Procurement organizations.

Consultant

MetLife

Reporting to Assistant Vice President of Procurement Systems and am responsible for supporting the organization in delivering global technology solutions that enable the services provided by Global Procurement to MetLife Enterprise and help organization adhere to the global policies and procedures.  My  key focus is implementation management, administration and on-going support of the platform's deployment activities for global spend management(eProcurement).  These technologies together make up the MetLife Global Procurement Platform (GPP) and are being provided by the SAP Ariba OnDemand Solutions.

I will be responsible for developing partnerships with regional executive stakeholders, deployment team members, and IT application development and key business unit leaders.

Global Procurement Project Manager

Bristlecone, a Mahindra group company

Helping organizations derive the best of out of the sourcing and procurement processes by applying the best practices, tools and conduct diagnostic studies to unleash the potential of getting better savings, governance, visibility of spend, category strategies, process improvements, eliminating the pain points of large enterprises by utilizing our experts from the center of excellence.

Provide consulting support study of current procurement policy and build tight process governance and controls and apply the controls through utilization of the right tools, processes and training.

Brought the cycle time reduction in Sourcing, Contracts and Supplier On boarding process.  Reduced the invoice match exception% by applying training and process changes.  Formulated category specific KPIs for rank and create a scorecard to judge the performance of Key or critical vendors.

Handled procurement transformations for large enterprise with a global presence

Solutions Architect & Presales Head- EMEA Region - Digital Integrated Sourcing & Procurement

Handled Procurement technology Deployment activities for Sourcing, Contracts and Supplier Management.  Helped support the restructuring the Policies and Procedures and work with various team in building the technical and functional aspect of the process re-engineering, system configurations and testing and user management and template creation and management.

Technology deployments in the below companies-
1. MetLife Insurance Company USA
2. MetLife Alico Insurance K. K. Japan
3. MetLife Seguros Chile
4. MetLife ProVida Chile
5. MetLife Seguros Mexico
6. MetLife Insurance Poland
7. MetLife Insurance UAE

Assistant Manager - Source to Pay Transformations

DuPont

Ariba Admin and Deployment of OnPremise, movement of Transactional Agreements from RP1 and legacy versions of SAP to Ariba OnPremise
Managing the Administration of Users and User Groups and Templates
Doing enhancements to the templates based of policy and procedural changes and collaborating with Ariba to resolve issues.  Train team on Ariba related updates and new hires, subject matter for Ariba related queries Design the renewal effort and applied a strategy to do the Contract renewals to have a better hierarchy and visibility of contracts in the system. 
Category Management & Procurement Operations - Handled Waste Water Treatment, Radioactive Waste Disposal, Professional Services, Recycling & Remediation Services and Contractual Services
Heading the operations team of 22 which is further divided into three commodities which primarily work on creation of a Sourcing and legal white paper agreement and maintenance of the same, these agreement also have associated transactional agreements which also need to be maintained. The team supports the buyer's and help them in their day to day activities in terms of renewal of agreement etc. Need to set targets for the team and help in achieving the same, focal point any escalations or clarification that need to be made in terms of the process. Conduct monthly one on ones and give feedback to individuals based on the performance and look for a career progression of the team members.
Manage the day-to-day work of the team to maximize the effectiveness / efficiency of the team.
Serve as the first escalation point within the team for resolution of issues that require knowledge or skills beyond that of the Procurement Specialist.
Respond to complaints, with a root cause analysis, which define corrective action, control in place and problem description.

PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS LEADER

SME and handle escalations and calls related to all the Credit Cards of GE Money Servicing

PROCESS DEVELOPER

Wipro

Handled calls for Dell Techincal Support and Bell South and CapOne Credit Cards

CUSTOMER SERVICE EXECUTIVE

Principal Consultant @ Procurement Doctors | Diagnosing procurement problems and prescribing effective solutions

As a Principal Consultant at Procurement Doctors Consulting, I diagnose procurement problems and prescribe effective solutions for clients across various industries and regions. With two decades of experience in procurement, IT, and consulting, I have a complete grasp of the source-to-pay cycle and the best practices and technologies that enable it.

My core competencies include strategic sourcing, contract management, data migration, process improvement, and analytics. I have successfully managed and implemented global procurement projects involving SAP Ariba and RPA, delivering operational excellence and cost savings for my clients. I am also a recognized thought leader and influencer on procurement, with multiple publications and honors in the field. My mission is to leverage my domain expertise and inquisitive mindset to create positive impact for my clients and the procurement community.

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