Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson

MCIPS

Director & Founder

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited

Johnson Procurement Solutions Limited (JPS) are a UK North East based procurement specialist, founded by Steve Johnson in 2016. Following a long and successful career in the procurement and commercial sector across a range of organisations, Steve has amassed a wealth of knowledge and has established JPS as a result of his learnings and a desire to add value, offer exceptional performance and provide an integrated service on an interim or outsourced basis.

Prior to founding JPS, Steve held a number of leadership positions in large blue-chip companies with annual spend responsibility ranging £400-£500m.

These included Laing O’Rourke, one of the UK’s largest privately owned construction companies. AMEC Power & Process Europe - later AMEC Foster Wheeler now Wood. With an excess of 25 years’ experience, Steve is a driven procurement and commercial leader with extensive experience and a track record in Energy, Oil and Gas, M&E Services, Telecommunication Networks, IT, Construction Procurement and Commercial Management within the UK and Europe.

Working in leadership roles, Steve has led and completed numerous strategic transformation programs as well as established strategic category procurement targets delivering multi- million-pound annual cost reductions to each business. He has implemented business wide systems and procedures to provide greater cost visibility and governance controls as well as streamlining the key process to establish lean working.

Steve mentors and develops key staff, recruits, trains and provides leadership in order to ensure business objectives are achieved. He engages with other senior business leaders on a day-to-day basis to ensure communication and stakeholder engagement are fully integrated to support the delivery teams.

Steve was on the board of the AMEC global supply chain steering group and is an accredited member of the Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply (MCIPS). Steve has presented procurement and supply chain strategies at major supply chain events and forums including the Energy Industries Council.

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Chloe Richards

Chloe Richards

Owner Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications

Good communication is crucial to the success of any company, project or campaign. It could be a requirement to keep teams engaged and updated on changes or initiatives or provide a plan for regular project updates or even a managed recruitment campaign.

Chloe has over 25yrs of marketing and communications experience, working for both corporate organisations in the transport and engineering sectors and for international marketing agencies working on business to business, internal communications, PR, social media as well as consumer facing campaigns, both digital and print.

In 2018, she launched Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications to help businesses get clear on the best way to articulate their key messages and reach their audience, whether that’s their own customers or employees. She helps her clients create powerful business stories that have a clear position and message, connect with their customers to grow. The services she works with clients on are:

• Defining marketing strategy for organisations

• Identifying & articulating key messages to connect with the right audience

• Developing communications plans to be delivered by clients

• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior lead teams on marketing & communications

• Delivering campaigns and plans on behalf of clients

Chloe is always mindful of the business objectives for each project and success criteria is monitored on the commercial success of a campaign. This is so that she can ensure that the communications are having a direct and positive impact for clients.

Client testimonial:

“Chloe has a listening approach, finding out what’s going on in the business. Her efforts actually translate into the bottom line, she is outcome orientated and has a very commercial view.”

Tracey O’Keefe. Managing Director Hospice Quality Partnership

Following her graduation from Leicester University Chloe completed her Certificate in Marketing (CIM) and has taken several courses in brand and digital marketing and social media trends to continue to be a trusted advisor to her clients.

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