PROCUREMENT WITH PURPOSE

Peter Smith Peter was born in Sunderland and after graduating from St. John’s College, Cambridge, he started his procurement career at Mars Confectionery. He was then Procurement Director for Dun & Bradstreet Europe, the Department of Social Security, and the NatWest Group. He is a Fellow and was 2003 President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, acted as a Senior Adviser to the UK National Audit Office and has served as a non-executive director of two large public sector organisations and a growing private firm.    He founded his consulting firm, Procurement Excellence Ltd. in 2004 and from 2010-18 was Managing Editor of the Spend Matters Europe website, read by thousands of procurement professionals every day. His first co-authored book, (with Fiona Czerniawska), “Buying Professional Services” was published by The Economist Books in 2010.  A second book, “A Procurement Compendium” was published in 2019, and in October 2020, Penguin Business published his latest book, “Bad Buying – How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds and F*ck-ups”!