Mike Brewis-Levie

A senior Management Consultant with extensive experience in outsourcing and procurement. With a Big 4 background, I have sold $multimillion of consultancy projects and delivered major global transformation programmes to FTSE100 companies as well as Public Sector organisations including HMRC and the NHS. My skillset includes strategy development and implementation, analytics, sales, delivery and stakeholder management, I am now looking for a new role either in a major consultancy or outsourced services firm.

Vice President, European Consulting

GEP

Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry

2008 – 2013 (5 years) London, United Kingdom

• Built GEP’s European practice, responsible for all aspects of operations in London and Prague, growing the organisation from its initial headcount 15 fold and developing revenue from zero to $multimillions.
• Led the European Sales and Delivery team in generating business for the new outsourced procurement service established in 2010. Generated awareness of service and responded to Requests for Proposals, winning contracts for European and/or Global work with major technology and pharmaceutical clients.
• Responsible for selling and extending ‘Spend Analysis’ service to one of the premier global strategy firms. Oversaw the set up of operational delivery from the offshore centre in Mumbai, meeting the client’s high expectations of turnaround time for data analysis and quality of output and resulting in contract renewal and additional sales of software and services.
• Led the team tasked with delivering cost savings for a major FMCG brand’s European operation. Identified and prioritised sourcing activity, oversaw procurement, delivering a €multimillion saving.
• Responsible for the sale and delivery of two programmes to an international industrial manufacturer, to help structure the global procurement function and generate rapid cost savings. Led a team of 7 to successfully deliver €multimillion savings.
• Provided outsourced data management, procurement and contract management services to a global technology company. Rebuilt relationship with an unhappy client and established strong working relationships with the new European client stakeholders. The outcome was a successful service which centralised all procurement activities for 20 EMEA territories for the first time in the company’s history and subsequent major savings and significant process efficiencies.

Senior Director

GEP

Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry

2008 – 2010 (2 years) London

• Sold a programme to improve structure and generate cost savings for a US based industrial manufacturer. Responsible for project delivery with a team of 6 consultants, identifying potential cost savings and phasing the implementation of these in ‘digestible’ segments, achieving €multimillion savings.
• Sold and delivered a project to a global FMCG brand to generate savings for their EMEA organisation. Using data analysis, identified cost savings focusing on three areas of spend, gained client agreement and engaged with relevant stakeholders throughout EMEA to ensure local buy-in. Achieved a €multimillion saving within 6 months.
• Sold project to a global cosmetic brand to reduce the cost of packaging materials. Led team of 3 to deliver project, analysing European packaging material spend and identifying opportunities for cost reduction, creating savings of 35%.

Manager, Consulting Division

Accenture

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ACN; Management Consulting industry

2001 – 2008 (7 years) London, United Kingdom

• Managed a team of c.15 consultants, developing and delivering large complex operational change projects covering all main activities in the IT development lifecycle, within multiple sectors including Retail, Healthcare, Downstream Oil and Government.
• Led procurement consulting projects including an organisational review for a global pharma client, evaluating the current organisation, benchmarking against high performance and creating recommendations for Procurement and HR leadership.
• Led teams to deploy Procurement technology for a Utilities client. Demonstrated procurement tool functionality, the management of client and technology vendor relationships, co-ordination of user acceptance testing and the development and delivery of all functional and technical documentation.
• Lead the functional design of a retail system to be deployed in a global player’s petrol forecourt estate across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and USA. Led a combined team of 9 Accenture, client and system vendor staff. Achievements include a successful design which fully integrated with the client’s corporate ERP solution and an acceleration of system deployment which had only gone live in a handful of sites prior to Mike’s involvement.
• Managed the development and deployment of Accenture’s primary care solutions for the NHS. Responsibilities included contract negotiations, implementing a suitable governance structure and system deployment management. Achievements include successful system go lives in 14 locations and generating demand in diverse primary healthcare areas such as Palliative Care, Out of Hours and Prisons.
• Managed IT transformation projects relating to Government systems in HMRC and the DWP, as well as for private sector clients.

Senior Consultant

Management Horizons, Europe

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry

1996 – 2001 (5 years) London

• Saved $15m for the regional unit in Central America of a leading global food retailer through the identification and delivery of improvements to logistics, product availability and stock levels.
• Improved stock and product ability to generate £2m incremental sales for the Middle East franchise partner for a number of blue chip UK high street fashion and department store brands.
• Assisted diagnostic and operational reviews including due diligence assessments for Banks and Private Equity firms evaluating investments in Retail/FMCG.