Kieran Brocklebank Email Address

Head of Innovation

We help life flow smoothly for about 7 million people and 200,000 businesses in the North West by providing them with clean, fresh water every day. We also take away and treat the North West's wastewater helping keep our rivers and beaches clean. Take a look at our short video to find out more about us.

My goal is to help businesses improve their business performance especially around innovation and their sustainability / corporate responsibility. I have experience of:- Procurement / supply chain - mainly within Utility industries (water / wastewater / gas / electricity distribution / telecoms) with some retail and defence industry too. Creating and running purchasing joint ventures and running over 50 reverse auctions / eTendering events in UK and USA. Collaboration with construction partners to deliver £3bn 5 year capital programme. Sponsor of several successful change projects includsing learning and development and new processes and systems. EU legislation - Public Utility Procurement Directive, Alcatel ruling, Use of supplier qualification systems, competition distortion. Learning & Development, Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility. eP2P and Purchasing Consortium (JV) experience. Continuous improvement of processes, people and systems to unlock supply chain efficiencies. Significant supplier performance improvement and whole life cost reductions. MCIPS qualified through examination. Specialties: People tell me I am strong on:- Leading teams especially converting from under-performance to out-performance Sustainable supply chain, facilitation, inspiration, motivation and supply chain skills. I take accountability for projects and make progress. Results delivery - usually through hands-on, collaborative approaches.