
Don Maxim
Procurement Specialist
Sourcing smarter, spending better, supplying reliably
Procurement specialist with nine years sourcing goods and services and managing suppliers for a manufacturing business in Birmingham. Runs sourcing and category work — finding and negotiating with suppliers, managing contracts and spend, and securing the right balance of cost, quality and reliability. Delivered a sourcing and negotiation programme that cut procurement spend while improving supplier performance. Manages tenders, supplier evaluation and contracts, analyses spend and identifies savings, and works with stakeholders to meet their needs while controlling cost. Strong on the negotiation, the analysis and the supplier relationships procurement runs on. Commercially sharp and rigorous about value and risk. Looking for a procurement-specialist, buyer or category role with a business that takes its supply chain and spend seriously.
Midlands Manufacturing Ltd - Birmingham, UK
Procurement Specialist
Delivered a sourcing and negotiation programme that cut the spend while improving overall supplier performance markedly.
Manage all the tenders, the supplier evaluation and the contracts across both goods and services.
Analyse all the spend and identify the savings while balancing cost, quality and reliability carefully.
Manage all the supplier relationships and their performance to keep the supply genuinely dependable throughout.
Work with all the stakeholders to meet their needs while controlling the cost and risk.
Birmingham Supply Group - Birmingham, UK
Buyer / Procurement Officer
Supported the tenders, the negotiations and supplier management across the categories.
Learned the sourcing, the contracts and the spend analysis on the job.
Gained the CIPS diploma and then moved into a procurement-specialist role.
Birmingham Supply Group - Birmingham, UK
Purchasing Assistant
Compared the supplier quotes and kept all of the purchasing records accurate.
Learned the procurement, the ERP and the supplier basics on the job.
Then earned the move up into a full buyer role from there.
Birmingham City University
BA (Hons) Business & Supply Chain - Supply Chain Management
Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply
CIPS Diploma in Procurement & Supply - Procurement
Cut spend, better suppliers
Value, not just price
Supplier Consolidation
Procurement Specialist (January 2019 to September 2019)
E-Procurement Rollout
Procurement Specialist (February 2020 to July 2020)
English (UK)
Native or Bilingual ProficiencyGerman
Limited Working ProficiencyCIPS Diploma in Procurement & Supply
Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (June 2017 to Present)
Negotiation & Contract Management
CIPS (April 2019 to Present)
- Negotiation
- Commercial Awareness
- Analytical Thinking
- Communication
- Integrity
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supplier Negotiation
- Category Management
- Contract Management
- Tendering
- Spend Analysis
- Supplier Management
- Cost Reduction
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management