Biography

Andrew has spent the last 29 years of his career advising clients in the areas of Supply Chain & Procurement Operating Model Strategy, Design and Improvement. Andrew is an experienced KPMG partner who leads the UK Operations business including Procurement & Supply Chain and has been responsible for leading large multi-year, multi-functional business transformation programmes. He has spent the last 9 years building and growing KPMG’s market leading Powered Procurement team in the UK, focusing on technology enabled business transformations, directly impacting clients supply chain and procurement operations as well leading larger, multi-functional, global, ERP wide programmes utilising various platforms including Oracle Fusion, Microsoft Dynamics and Coupa.

A pragmatic, practically minded business consultant, Andrew is able to apply cross functional thinking and connectivity beyond supply chain including Finance, IT, Tax and Customer functions and understands the importance of Change Management underpinning transformation – defining the what needs to be different is the “easy” bit, the challenge is usually how to enable that change. Andrew has cut his teeth on some of the largest most complex global operating model redesign programmes including; establishing a procurement company in Luxembourg for a global telecommunications company; for a Fortune 30 Global Agri-business he led the joint client/ KPMG team through the initial strategy phase that led to a 2.5 year European business transformation programme, impacting Supply Chain, IT, Finance, Tax and Commercial functions and relocating the clients European HQ to Switzerland; led the European deployment team for a Global FMCG organisation that was aligning it’s regional inventory demand/supply planning, and distribution/logistics functions. The work was part of a global roll out focusing on global supply planning and creation of a regional Supply Chain Control Tower within a global business service capability for supply chain in Europe.

Andrew works across a number of key sectors including Consumer Goods and Retail, Pharmaceutical, Defence, Energy, Manufacturing and Telecommunications. During his time at KPMG Andrew has had a number of leadership roles, including as a founding member of KPMG’s Global Operations Centre of Excellence. As an experienced partner he has a personal passion and commitment to coaching and mentoring the next generation of Supply Chain and Procurement leaders within KPMG.