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CAREER OBJECTIVES 
•	To love my job, always challenge myself and never stop improving 
•	To be successful within an exciting organisation, that strives for success
•	To lead a world-class Procurement organisation 

Swinburne University of Technology

Head of Global Source to Pay

Hamish Knight

N26 GmbH (Berlin, DE)

Hired to establish and lead the Source to Pay team at N26. My responsibilities involve the hiring and development of a team of 10 people and building / rolling out the policies and processes required to provide a world class procurement service for the organisation. With a wide remit, my responsibilities extend across: Corporate Services, Marketing, Real Estate, Customer Operations, Tech, Banking Operations and Procure-to-Pay topics.

My responsibilities included the development of media execution and measurement strategies, to maximise every dollar. I have to deliver the maximum ROI/brand awareness possible. By using data and a scientific mindset to drive performance, my team ensures that we have the optimum commercial construct in place with media owners, that delivers the most efficient traffic to Expedia Group's Vacation Rental websites and allows calculable investment decisions at a channel-level.

Expedia Group (London, UK)

Head of Global Media Optimisation

Working in the global sourcing team and supporting all 12 Expedia brands, I was responsible for the Marketing, Tech and Corporate Services categories across the EMEA & APAC regions. As the lead for these categories, my responsibilities included the management of a team of four that developed and delivered category plans, as well as leading sourcing activities that facilitated proper vendor selection process and effectively negotiated agreements that deliver continuous cost savings, performance and process improvement to the business.

Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

Spread across all indirect sourcing categories with two direct reports, the role's focus was leading the large and complex sourcing projects on behalf of the category teams. The role also included responsibility as the client business-lead for Emptoris 
 IBM's proprietary sourcing, contract management and program management software . This involved driving advocacy for the application and managing the implementation roadmap.

IBM (Melbourne, AUS)

Major Procurement Initiatives Lead

With direct responsibility for $60M PA in the goods and services category, my remit was comprised of print, uniforms, retail merchandise and packaging. The role required category segmentation, planning and leading the sourcing events during the Accenture led Procurement Transformation.

Australia Post (Melbourne, AUS)

Strategic Procurement Specialist

Reporting directly to the Head of Procurement, I was employed to establish and manage a supplier panel to source products outside the capability or capacity of the company. In the first 12-months, by successfully implementing strategic sourcing processes, I increased the profitability of Geon's goods for resale, through lowering costs by 18%.

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