The team and their roles
Procurement team members
All our team members are procurement professionals, each with their own areas of expertise. They have a variety of backgrounds from Higher Education to public sector and commercial organisations. Please take a look below to find contact details for each area of expertise.
For details of who to contact with finance queries, such as supplier set ups and amendments, Purchase Order issues, purchase card queries and invoice queries, see the Query Contact List.
Contracts
The Procurement, Research and Enterprise Services (RES) and Legal Services departments manage the majority of the University of Reading contracts in the UK.
Lisa Jeffries
Director of Procurement
+44 (0)118 378 8304 (Ext: 8304)
- Policy and strategy
- Global procurement
- Leading and delivering benefits
- Recruitments
- Budget management
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Change programmes
Martin McMahon
Lead Category Manager
+44 (0)118 378 8308 (Ext: 8308)
- Capital contracts
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Commercial estates-related projects
- Estates contractors and professional services
- Maintenance contracts
- Utilities
- Waste
- Property services
- Insurance
- Line management of Deputy Category Managers & Contracts Officer
Aleks Borkowska
Category Manager
+44 (0)118 378 4180 (Ext: 4180)
- Maintenance services
- Catering
- Marketing and print services (UoR)
- Campus services
Claire Milham
Category Manager
+44 (0)118 378 7629 (Ext: 7629)
- Travel and accommodation (including student accommodation)
- Specialist projects (including apprenticeship levy & online blended learning)
- Recruitment services – temporary and permanent staff recruitment
- Legal services
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Copyright and licensing
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Research infrastructure
- Income generating projects
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Specialist projects (including apprenticeship levy and online distance learning)
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Public Contract Regulations lead
David Ashmore
Category Manager
+44 (0)118 378 5093 (Ext: 5093)
- IT hardware and software
- IT professional services
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On-prem/IaaS/PaaS/SaaS systems & infrastructure
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IT change projects
- Financial Services (including external audit and tax)
- Pension services
- Executive Education
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Marketing (HBS)
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HR services (excluding recruitment)
Susie Morse
Category Manager
+44 (0)118 378 8307 (Ext: 8307)
- Procurement technology & processes
- Reporting (including spend analysis & benefits realisation)
- Training & development
- Audit and accreditations
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Document standardisation and templates
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Compliance and considerations
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Responsible procurement
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Business continuity
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Working with Legal and other professional services to develop templates
Erin Cooper
Business Manager
+44 (0)118 378 5807 (Ext: 5807)
- Management of the contract management system
- Website and communications
- eMarketplace training & support
- Support for the Business Manager and Category teams
- FOIRs
- Document standardisation & templates
- Data management and reporting
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Farm vehicles
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Library - books, journals and periodicals
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Stationery
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Sales / disposals
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Support on recruitment services (temporary & permanent)
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Research & laboratory chemicals, consumables & equipment
- Support on travel and accommodation
- Managed print services
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Archiving
- Support IT software and infrastructure
- Support on Marketing (UoR)
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Support on software/system projects
- Audio/visual and T&L equipment
- User IT equipment
- Specialist/research IT equipment
- Support on IT infrastructure and associated hardware
- Support software/system projects
- Removals
- Furniture
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PAT (portable appliance testing) services
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Couriers/ postage
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Support campus services
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Support capital contracts
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Support maintenance
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Contracts for services
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Apprentice contracts (UoR)
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HR benefits
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Farm business surveys
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Mobile phones
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Support financial services
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Support HBS marketing
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Support HR professional services (excluding recruitments)
- Commercial
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Dairy Feed
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Naming rights
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Campus Commerce events
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Watercoolers
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Support Catering
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Support Property Services
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Supporting commercial projects
- Support on the development & issuing of contracts
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New suppliers process
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Supplier terms review
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Support on tendering activity
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Support on mini competitions, Single Action Waivers (SAWs) and quotations
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Supporting on IT hardware and expediting
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Support software/system projects
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Support on newsletter
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Support on contract management system
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Day-to-day insurance queries
- Administration of claims
- Professional indemnity insurance
- Public liability insurance
- Employer liability insurance
- Travel insurance
- Vehicle Insurance
- Student insurance
- Equipment insurance
Amrit Saggu
Deputy Business Manager
+44 (0)118 378 5806 (Ext: 5806)
James Stedeford
Deputy Category Manager
+44 (0)118 378 8633 (Ext: 8633)
DCM (IT and Marketing)
Deputy Category Manager
+44 (0)118 378 8552 (Ext: 8552)
Aarti Knight / Eric Ho (maternity cover)
Deputy Category Manager
+44 (0)118 378 6258 (Ext: 6936)
aarti.knight@reading.ac.uk / h.ho@reading.ac.uk
Sarah Moorhouse
Deputy Category Manager
+44 (0)118 378 6258 (Ext: 6258)
Matthew Zeien
Deputy Category Manager
+ 44 (0)118 378 4621 (Ext: 4621)
Frances Hodder
Deputy Category Manager
+ 44 (0) 118 378 4620 (Ext. 4620)
Lorraine Sutton
Contracts Officer
+ 44 (0)118 378 5806 (Ext: 6684)
Steve Charley (1 day a week)
Bars and Catering Purchasing Manager
Support on marketing (UOR)Oli Thompson
Procurement Officer
Becky Eyres
Insurance Administrator
+ 44 (0)118 378 8309 (Ext: 8309)
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Email: procurement@reading.ac.uk
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Telephone:
+44 (0) 118 378 8305 -
Address: Ground Floor, Miller Building