Robert Bonnar

bp is an International Energy Company headquartered in the UK with revenues of $200Bn. Leading a team of 30 covering all categories of spend in support of the $2.5Bn 3rd party spend for the Technology function. Major Categories: Services, Software, Cloud, Networks, IoT, Robotics. Supply consolidation with trusted partners to deliver cost reduction and top line growth in bp businesses. Winner of CIPS award for Procurement Team of the year in a large organisation and shortlisted for Procurement Leaders team of the year.

SHV Energy (Calor Gas, Primagas, Liquigas etc.) is a €7Bn revenue specialised energy company headquartered in the Netherlands. A procurement transformation role, building the new Global Procurement team at SHV Energy. 130 FTE globally across 18 Business Units including 15 FTE centrally covering both Category Strategy and Procurement Excellence. €1Bn Spend across Logistics, Technical Goods and Indirect categories. Translating Corporate Strategy into Procurement Strategy for Sustainability & Social Responsibility, Safety, Security of Supply, Skills, Sourcing & Systems. Enabling data and insight driven Category Strategy and gaining stakeholder and business unit buy-in to deliver significant up-skilling of the Procurement Excellence capabilities across the organisation. Top line growth and bottom line cost reduction.

Anheuser-Busch InBev is a global brewer headquartered in Belgium with revenues of $55Bn. A procurement transformation role in the generation of synergy savings based on the integration of global procurement from SAB into ABI. Championed and implemented the Zero Based Budgeting model in the UK. Led teams to implement best practice strategy across Indirect procurement i.e. HR (Temporary Labour, Health Benefits & Insurance) Marketing (Advertising Production) and Professional Services (Consultancy & Legal Outsourcing) globally.

Partnering at executive level to define the shared business objectives for procurement, strategy development, contract coverage, efficient P2P process and value add project delivery. Generated effective category strategies. Building a team of 12 direct reports and 30 procurement personnel in the UK. Total Spend of £500M per annum.

GSK are a science-led global healthcare company (pharmaceuticals, vaccines and consumer healthcare) Headquartered in the UK with Revenues of £24Bn. Procurement of the IT Software & Services required for the implementation of the Global SAP Single Instance at GSK. Software, licensing, maintenance, services. Onshore, offshore and nearshore development and deployment support. Preferred supplier list, rate card and contract/vendor management to deliver best value and flawless delivery.

Focusing on supplier enabled innovation and early stakeholder engagement, delivering procurement support for New Product Research activity within both Pharmaceutical and Consumer Healthcare projects.

Visteon is a global automotive technology company headquartered in the U.S. Revenues of $3Bn. Embedding procurement in the commercial sales & business pursuit approach to win new customers for Visteon within the Electronics Product Group. Automating and streamlining business processes to ensure efficient timely support. Focusing on supplier partnership and innovation to deliver technology breakthroughs that enabled sales success.

Leading the Electronics Purchase Team in the Chihuahua Mexico office. Investigating Low cost country & Lowest delivered cost opportunities to transition supply base in plastics, electronics, components, assemblies and wiring to capitalise on changing manufacturing footprint.

Leading the Electromechanical Commodity Purchase team in development of strategy, sourcing of new product and cost reduction ideas.

Program Management of the MM function for new model introduction. Cost, Quality & Time performance of the implementation of a new model supply chain.

Analysis & reporting of financial performance in the fields of Labour & Overhead, budgeting and controlling Facilities & Tooling spending.

Industrial Chemist working in Oilfield applications of Glycol Ethers.