Ennis & Co were delighted to welcome Lorna as an Associate in July 2020.
Lorna’s career in Financial Services has spanned more than 30 years. Starting out in Retail Banking and securing her MCIBS qualification, she turned her hand to Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement before moving into Procurement and Supplier Management across Outsourced Services, as well as various Spend Categories.
Lorna has a strong understanding of the EU regulations relating to procurement and supplier management as translated into the UK under FCA and PRA requirements for Outsourcing and Third-Party Management. She has previously embraced the OCC requirements and IACCM guidance in North America, where she was the Regional Chief Procurement Officer for a FTSE100 global financial services company.
With 15+ years’ operating at Chief Procurement Officer level, Lorna has enhanced her well-developed approach to transforming procurement functions into value adding entities, whilst delivering strong colleague engagement results, in both private and public sector. Her last engagement was leading the teams delivering Procurement, Supplier Management and Supply Chain Risk & Assurance services for the Banking division in a FTSE100 Retail business.
She was recognised as a fellow of her profession (FCIPS) in 2019. Having spent much of her last 2 years advocating the adoption of Agile methodologies to procurement and supplier management functions to help prioritise and deliver value adding activities, Lorna has now moved to a Portfolio Career. She is currently a Non-Executive Director and Committee Chair (Finance, Risk & Governance) following 8 years as a Director at grassroots level within the world of golf.
Lorna is happy to shape solutions that support Senior Management/Executives develop their Transformation, Governance & Risk plans. She is well equipped to provide mentor and coaching solutions across all aspects of Procurement including Category, Cost and Supplier Management as well as Extended Enterprise Supply Chain Risk.
Lorna’s speaking engagements have previously included the Ennis & Co Automotive Advisory Board on Colleague Satisfaction, ProcureCon Europe (2019) on Agile adoption in Procurement and a CIPS branch event (January 2020) on Modern Slavery.
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