Maria Rowbotham

Background

About Maria Rowbotham

Head of Procurement for Arvato UK part of the Bertelsmann family. Heading up all procurement activity and strategy (direct + indirect capex & opex) managing category managers & purchasing team activities across our UK sites (greenfield)Formally FTSE 100 Global Strategic Procurement Manager for Logistics & Supply Chain covering £220m spend, inc air freight, sea freight, road freight, XBF and domestic parcel plus third party warehousing & packaging across EMEA APAC and LATAMExperienced Strategic Indirect Spend procurement specialist, both on procuring, negotiating and life cycle managing Global Private Sector Group Frameworks specialised for Private Equity portfolios and via Cost Consultancy to identify, commercially analyse and mitigate Indirect spend financial wastage to a large number of the FTSE 100 & 250 in multiple sectors from Retail, Housebuilder, private Care Sector, returning 7 figure annual savings on the p&l. Areas of experience covering construction 🦺, packaging, temp agency, workplace consumables, FM 🧹, MHE, warehouse equipment inc automation, energy, transport & third party logistics, IT mobile and telecoms, fuel, car rental, uniforms, retail equipment, waste and recycling amongst others. A passionate mental health advocate and permanent subordinate to a 10 year old.