# Procurement Specialist résumé example

Six years of indirect buying: tenders won on cost, suppliers consolidated, and the governance that survives an audit.

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## Imogen Farrell — Procurement Specialist (Indirect)

Procurement specialist with six years buying indirect categories for manufacturing and facilities. Runs a £14m book across facilities, MRO, logistics and professional services, and has taken £1.9m out of annual spend without a service level moving.

### Experience

**Procurement Specialist (Indirect)**, Brightmoor Industrial Group · September 2022 – present

Indirect categories worth £14m a year across nine UK sites: facilities, MRO, logistics and professional services.

- Delivered £1.9m of annualised savings across three competitive tenders, each figure signed off by finance against the prior-year baseline.
- Consolidated 240 MRO suppliers to 46, cutting purchase-order volume by 61% and shortening requisition-to-order from nine days to two.
- Introduced a quarterly supplier scorecard on delivery, quality and responsiveness; on-time-in-full across the top 20 suppliers rose from 82% to 94%.
- Wrote the modern slavery and environmental questionnaire now issued with every tender above £50k, closing an audit action open for two years.

**Procurement Officer (fixed-term contract)**, Tenby & Crowe · November 2021 – August 2022

Nine-month fixed-term contract covering a purchasing system migration.

- Migrated 3,800 supplier records and 1,200 live contracts into the new purchasing module with no missed payment run.
- Cleared a backlog of 640 unapproved invoices in seven weeks and recovered £96k of duplicated payments.

**Buyer**, Harlow Vale Foods · August 2018 – October 2021

- Bought packaging and ingredients worth £6m a year; renegotiated the corrugate agreement to hold price flat through a 19% market rise.
- Cut stockouts on 40 core lines from 23 a month to four by moving three suppliers onto call-off agreements with agreed lead times.

### Education

- BSc (Hons) Business Management · University of Manchester · September 2015 – June 2018

### Skills

- **Categories**: Indirect spend, MRO, Facilities, Logistics, Professional services, Packaging
- **Commercial**: Competitive tendering, Contract negotiation, Should-cost analysis, Call-off agreements, Supplier scorecards
- **Governance**: Modern Slavery Act compliance, Supplier due diligence, Contract renewals, Audit evidence
- **Systems**: SAP Ariba, Coupa, Power BI, Advanced Excel