NOE CPC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Technical Services Manager
Adam leads a team of four specialist technical staff, with specialisms in project management, data analytics and data management, application development, business intelligence, visualisation and process mapping.
Job Titles:
- Senior Category Manager - Technology ( ICT )
- Senior Category Manager for the Dedicated Technology
Alison started work at NOE CPC in September 2011, and has over 15 years' experience in both the private and public sectors within the Steel Industry, Financial Services and NHS sectors managing a broad range of spend categories to delivering significant savings and contract efficiencies.
Alison is the Senior Category Manager for the dedicated Technology (ICT) category team at NOE CPC. She is MCIPS qualified with a BA(Hons) degree in Business Studies.
Job Titles:
- Procurement Support Officer
Annie has over 10 years experience in NHS, the latter five being within NHS Procurement. Before joining NOE CPC, Annie worked in Health Education England and NHS England, supporting their procurement processes and guidance. Annie spent significant time working on a national travel contract, managing the travel policy and implementing procedures to try and reduce the organisation's travel spend.
Annie started her NOE CPC experience working in Hotel Services before moving to the core team where her main experience lies in service contracts, supporting the HR & People team.
Annie has her CIPS Level 4 qualification and is about to commence further training.
Bianca joined the NOE CPC in 2019. She has a background in journalism and communications in the charity sector.
Job Titles:
- Training, Events & Business Development Manager
Caroline has worked in procurement since 1998, moving in the year 2000 from a manufacturing environment to the NHS, initially at the The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. It was during this time that Caroline became CIPS qualified. In 2006 she took on the role of Project Manager for the pilot project "Growing the Region's Businesses with NHS Investment", NOE CPC's unique partnership with Yorkshire Forward. The pilot project was shortlisted for two prestigious awards; the HSJ Awards and Government Opportunities (GO) Awards.
Since the successful completion of the Yorkshire Forward project, Caroline has worked in a number of roles at NOE CPC, including Procurement Training Specialist, delivering training to both businesses and NHS staff on public sector procurement.
Caroline's current role as Training, Events and Business Development Manager involves developing NOE CPC's relationships with both existing and new members, and delivering a programme of training and other events for NOE CPC members.
Job Titles:
- CPC Drive Commercial Manager
Catherine is the latest addition to the CPC Drive team. CPC Drive now has around 100 live schemes, 300 thousand eligible employees, saves around £4m per annum for NHS and public sector organisations and has over 11,000 cars on fleet.
Job Titles:
- Senior Data Analyst
- Senior Analyst for NHS Supply Chain
Chris is the Senior Analyst for NHS Supply Chain: Hotel Services managing a range of spend analysis tools. He is a Chartered Institute of IT professional member and PRINCE2 Practioner.
In his previous role Chris supported the Technical Director with onsite bespoke spend analytics, benchmarking, CRM development, PPIB analysis and training.
Initially as a Contracts Officer for North Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire before moving into a procurement data role within NOE CPC, Chris is certified Advanced Design & Development with Qlikview which he utilises with our online reporting and managing our Qlikview Server.
Chris has an excellent record of delivering strategic analytical change, procurement development and business growth for our members.
Job Titles:
- Category Procurement Specialist - Healthcare
David joined the Healthcare Services team in 2019 as a procurement specialist.
Farah is a graduate of Sheffield Hallam University where she studied Biomedical Science BSc (Hons). She started her career working mostly in global leading pharmaceutical companies known as PAREXEL, Covance, and DePuY orthopaedics as a data analyst and a statistical analysis system programmer. Farah has 6 years data analysis experience and joined us in August 2018 from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where she was a Data Programme Manager in the Oncology Department.
Taking on a change in her career from her scientific background Farah is now working in NOE CPC as a Data Analyst in the Technical Services Team working particularly on NHS Supply Chain: Hotel Services projects such as; Benchmarking, Supplier MI, Monthly Reporting, and Creating Dashboards in Power BI for reporting and analysis purposes.
George joined NOE CPC in 2018 as a Data Specialist, part of the Technical Services Team.
Ian has been involved with information management for NHS procurement for over fifteen years, with both North of England and the original West Midlands collaborative procurement hubs. His specific focus has been around catalogue data, spend analytics, and new technology. He has also worked extensively as an interim Project and Programme Manager, implementing data warehouses and business intelligence solutions at Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dorset Healthcare Foundation Trust.
Prior to joining the NHS Ian worked in heavy industry for Corus plc at their major steelworks in South Wales, working in metallurgical analysis, quality inspection and logistics.
Ian joined NOE CPC in 2015 as an interim, and took up the Technical Director role on a permanent basis in 2018.
Job Titles:
- Customer Relationship Manager
Ian previously worked for over ten years within the public relations and communications field including six years working in NHS communications. The majority of this experience was at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust where he led communications, public relations and media handling during significant events including; transition to FT status, major incident status due to the floods in 2007, the announcement of redundancies and television interest during filming with Jamie Oliver, Dolly Parton, and most notably the BBC documentary; ‘Can Sir Gerry Robinson Save the NHS?'
Applying his vast knowledge and experience of the NHS, Ian moved into a Customer Relationship Manager role at NOE CPC working with members across the country. Ian's understanding of individual trusts requirements and effective communications skills ensure his commitment to help each customer achieve full membership benefits and savings.
Job Titles:
- Category Manager - Facilities Management, Property and Business Services
Imran joined NOE CPC in April 2019 as a Procurement Category Manager and has over 18 years' experience of working across local government, higher education, and healthcare sector. Imran has spent several years working directly within the Estates and Facilities Management, both at operational and management level.
Over the last 6 years, Imran has worked on strategic projects involving major organisational change. These included project management and procurement of the full supply chain needed to support a newly insourced FM function. This involved purchasing/leasing of new fleet, setting up contracts with local materials suppliers with option of consignment stock, design and purchasing of uniforms for the various staffing and procurement of specialist services.
Imran has a keen interest in social values, sustainability, and ethical procurement, which has led to his involvement in the NOECPC Sustainability Group and participating in voluntary work to support local projects within the community.
Imran specialises in the Estates & FM Services category at NOE CPC. He holds degrees in Business Information Systems and Facilities Management. Imran is currently part way through completing a Level 6 Professional Diploma in Procurement and Supply.
Job Titles:
- Senior Category Manager - FM, Property and Business Services
Jackie joined NOE CPC in July 2015 as a Procurement Specialist and has over 20 years' experience in direct and indirect procurement in the private sector in both food and healthcare. Previously Jackie worked as a Contract Manager with a private healthcare provider to the NHS. Prior to that she spent several years at Boots UK Ltd in Nottingham, responsible for the procurement and supply of an extensive range of raw and packaging materials for the healthcare, dental, toiletries and beauty markets for supply to both UK and overseas manufacturing sites.
Jackie specialises in the Business and Professional Services category at NOE CPC. She has a degree in Business Studies, French and German and is MCIPS qualified.
She was promoted to the role of Senior Category Manager for FM, Property and Business Services in 2019.
Job Titles:
- Category Manager - Technology ( ICT )
James joined the NOE CPC team in 2019 as a Category Manager for Infrastructure and Hardware within the Technology category.
Job Titles:
- Support Officer - Customer Relations, New Business and Events
Jenifer joined NOE CPC in 2018 to support the Customer Services Team particularly with training, events and customer relations.
Job Titles:
- Senior Category Manager - HR and People
Joanne is the Senior Category Manager overseeing NOE CPC's dedicated HR and People category team.
Joanne joined NOE CPC in 2015 and has led our staffing procurement projects including the award-winning National Clinical Staffing framework. She is an MCIPS Chartered Procurement and Supply Professional and has completed the Mary Seacole Leadership Programme.
Job Titles:
- Systems and Process Analyst
Joseph joined the NOE CPC in 2017 after previously working as a Buyer in some diverse industries, ranging from umbrellas to tattoo equipment.
His role at NOE CPC is within the Technical Services team, where he is responsible for our PPIB training as well as overseeing our CRM and Office 365 administration.
Job Titles:
- Head of Business Services
Julian has enjoyed 12 years with NOE CPC. In that time he has held a number of roles drawing on his broad commercial and operations management experience. Julian's current role is Head of Business Services and is responsible for the Customer Relationship Management Team, Training and Events Team, Back Office Operations and the highly successful CPC Drive. The Business Services Team ensure a great member and customer experience, manage finance, ABI income collection, Estates, IT infrastructure and CPC Drive.
Julie has worked in the NHS since 1986. She started as a Medical Secretary at St James' and her most recent role, prior to joining NOE CPC, was Executive PA to the Medical Director at Barnsley CCG. Previously Julie has worked for Royal College of Nursing, Field Head Hospital and Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
Job Titles:
- Marketing and Communications Manager
Juliet supports the senior management team to drive the strategic direction of NOE CPC. As Communications and Marketing Manager Juliet works across the whole organisation managing the marketing strategy and leading campaigns to effectively engage and promote the achievements of NOE CPC and the huge savings, efficiencies and opportunities it delivers trusts.
Juliet joined NOE CPC in November 2009 and has over fifteen years experience working in publishing, marketing, communications, media and design.
Job Titles:
- Communications and Marketing Specialist
Kate joined NOE CPC in 2018 and supports the Communications and Marketing Manager to deliver the marketing strategy for NOE CPC. Kate also manages the communications function for NHS Supply Chain: Hotel Services at NOE CPC.
Job Titles:
- Category Manager - Facilities Management, Property and Business Services
Katrina joined NOE CPC in 2019 as a Category Manager.
Keith Rowley - Chief Commercial Officer, Managing Director
Job Titles:
- Commercial Director
- Managing Director
Keith joined NOE CPC as Commercial Director in October 2011 and was appointed to the post of Managing Director in November 2012. His role within NOE CPC is to drive the organisation's strategy by ensuring customers can gain clear and demonstrable value and cash releasing savings from a collaborative relationship with NOE CPC. As Managing Director, Keith has overall responsibility for the running of NOE CPC and implementation of the organisation's strategic direction.
Prior to joining NOE CPC, Keith worked in the IT Services Sector for 14 years. His career has covered a wide spectrum of roles including procurement, sales, marketing and operations within this sector.
King joined NOE CPC in Nov 2020 as a Data Specialist, part of the Technical Services Team. He previously worked for banks and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Job Titles:
- Technical Support Officer
Kiran joined NOECPC in December 2020, she graduated from Sheffield Hallam in 2019 in Computing and worked for Sky as a technical advisor. Kiran handles enquiries from both collegues and suppliers
Laura joined NOE CPC in 2019 as the Personal Assistant to the Executive Team. She previously worked as a PA to the Director of Children's Services at Sheffield City Council for 15 years.
Job Titles:
- Business Support Finance Assistant
Leah joined the Business Services Team in November 2020, playing a key role in the delivery of effective business support functions including monitoring income streams for frameworks withn NOE CPC and NHS Supply Chain: Hotel Services. She has five years financial experience and is currently completing the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) qualifications
Job Titles:
- Buyer
- Customer Support Assistant
Leon joined NOE CPC in 2018 as part of the Procurement Operations Team.
Job Titles:
- Buyer
- Customer Support Assistant
Liz is the Customer Support and Assistant Buyer for the Procurement Operations Team and an administrator for the HR & People team. Liz joined as an Administrator for NOE CPC when it began in April 2007 and has since gained an NVQ Level 2 in Customer Service. Liz enjoys working as part of the NOE CPC Support Desk team and helping our customers. Prior to that she worked at the Yorkshire and Humber SHA in the Performance Development Directorate as PA to the Deputy Director of Performance.
Liz has a lot of experience in the healthcare sector, she joined the NHS in 1991 starting at Trent Regional Office helping hospitals to achieve NHS Trust status and also worked in Medical Personnel.
Mark graduated from the University of Sheffield, where he studied Physics (BSc). He began his career working in the manufacturing industry, utilising Excel, Visual Basic and C++ to automate financial and technical functions.
Mark has 8 years of analytical experience and joined in February 2020 as a Data Specialist, as part of the Technical Services team.
Mark joined NOE CPC in 2018 as part of the Business Services Team.
Matt specialises in data and catalogue management for NOE CPC, creating unique technical solutions to deliver accurate catalogue information to our members. His responsibilities include maintaining the backbone of the data and systems infrastructure and developing software solutions.
Matt joined NOE CPC in 2016 to provide benchmarking and catalogue management support to the Data Analysis team. He initially trained as a journalist, moving to Sheffield in 2011 to become a copywriter at a major office supplies wholesaler, and later took on data and image management.
Matt is also completing an apprenticeship at Sheffield Hallam University, he is due to complete his MSc in Digital and Technology Solutions in 2021.
Job Titles:
- Senior Category Manager - Healthcare Services and Pharmacy
Michelle joined NOE CPC in 2008, and manages the Healthcare Services Category. She has over 25 years experience in public sector procurement, primarily within the NHS.
Michelle is MCIPS qualified, has a Business Management degree, and a post graduate qualification in Public Procurement Law and Policy, awarded by the University of Nottingham.
As well as her category management role, Michelle is also actively involved in the development and presentation of training courses for the Skills Development Network and across the NHS, and has recently become a CIPS tutor.
Job Titles:
- Senior Systems Process Analyst
Passionate about data and sharing insights with non-technical audiences, Mohammed joined NOE CPC in July 2018 and has over 7 years' experience working in Systems Development and Data Modelling.
Mohammed holds a Master of Science degree in Big Data Analytics, and is certified as an Agile PM Practitioner, he supports the Project and Programme Management Office at CPC to support the delivery of Business Intelligence projects both internally and to member Trusts.
Job Titles:
- Procurement Operations Manager
As Procurement Operations Manager Natalie oversees the NOE CPC Procurement Operations team including the support desk function. The Procurement Operations Team provide support to the four dedicated Category Teams and is committed to enhance the NOE CPC customer experience.
Natalie joined NOE CPC in December 2013 with over 10 years' procurement experience in the Further Education sector, working for The Sheffield College.
Job Titles:
- Procurement Support Team Manager
Since 2000 Neil has held a range of posts within the public sector including; Project Co-ordinator for the NHS Executive Trent Management of Substance Misuse Training Programme for Primary Care staff; as well as a brief period within the Home Office Work Permits division, liaising with employers and British overseas Diplomatic Missions with the provision of the UK Work Permit arrangements.
Before joining NOE CPC in 2004 Neil worked for the South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority within the Public Health Directorate, supporting the implementation of the National Service Frameworks for Diabetes and Children.
In addition Neil has co-ordinated a number of successful capital development bid responses to the DH for sexual health services in South Yorkshire.
Job Titles:
- Category Manager
- Category Manager - Pharmacy
Paul is a Category Manager for the NOE CPC dedicated Healthcare Services and Pharmacy (non-drug) category.
Paul joined NOE CPC in June 2006. Prior to that he had worked as a Strategic Procurement Liaison Manager for the West Yorkshire Supply Management Confederation. His career covers over 20 years combining a Multitude of experiences in project Management, procurement and account/contract management.
Prior to commencing employment with the NHS, Paul was responsible for the setting-up and management of a team who tendered and negotiated contracts for some major organisations within automotive, electric and blue chip industries within Europe.
Job Titles:
- Procurement Support Officer
Rachel joined NOE CPC in 2018 as part of the Procurement Operations Team.
Job Titles:
- Business, Finance and Contracts Manager
Robert joined the NOE CPC team in September 2018 as a Business Support Manager within the Business Services Team, having previouslty worked for the North West Ambulance Trust. He has over 20 experience in the NHS.
Ryan was previously based at Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trusts Procurement Department.
A Leeds and York NHS trust employee for over eleven years Ryan worked for many divisions including Procurement, Transport and Logistics. Having worked in a variety of procurement roles over this time his experience and qualifications deliver a useful procurement perspective for our Technical Services Team.
Ryan has a number of procurement and technical qualifications and has achieved full MCIPS.
Job Titles:
- Customer Support & Assistant Buyer
Sarah works in the Procurement Operations Team at NOE CPC.
Job Titles:
- Customer Relationship Manager
Shafiq joined NOE CPC in 2010 following a career break from the pharmaceutical industry. He has extensive key account management and sales training experience within the pharma industry having worked for Glaxosmithkline and later AstraZeneca dealing with a range of NHS customers.
Steve is Director of Procurement at NOE CPC leading a team of procurement specialists in dedicated category teams focusing on FM, Property & Business Services, HR & People, Technology (ICT), and Healthcare Services & Pharmacy.
Steve's role is to drive the category management approach to deliver our customers the benefits of local and collaborative working in the dedicated areas.
Job Titles:
- Category Manager - HR & People
Steve joined the NOE CPC in 2019 as a Category Manager for HR & People.
Job Titles:
- Category Procurement Specialist - HR & People
Tina has over 20 years' procurement experience primarily working in manufacturing for the aerospace and automotive industry. Over ten of those years were spent managing a team of procurement professionals and warehousing staff. Tina has been responsible for indirect/MRO/services/recruitment and energy spend and also managed many large projects along the way.
After spending the majority of her career in the private sector Tina decided to broaden her experience into the public sector and joined NOE CPC in 2015. Tina is a dedicated specialist in NOE CPC's HR & People category including the temporary staffing frameworks.
Job Titles:
- Category Procurement Specialist - HR & People
Tracey joined the NOE CPC procurement team in 2018, focusing specifically on the dedicated HR and People Category.