OUR CONSULTANTS Tobias Morris

The cost and purchase
management specialists

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Tobias Morris

Areas of Expertise:
Highly experienced consultant. Industry experience includes telecoms, leisure, publishing, manufacturing, education, professional services, travel, recruitment, financial services and not for profit.
Skills:
Skills include vendor management and tendering, negotiation, project management, selling, relationship management, change management, implementation and troubleshooting.

Lowering the cost of doing business

There's no getting away from it: businesses are expensive to run. And for organisations throughout the UK, they are often more expensive than they should be.

Those organisations are paying much more than they should for their essential business costs.

Why? Firstly, because it can sometimes be very hard to know exactly where to start. And then, even when you do know where you might be overspending, many companies can't afford the time it takes to get those essential business costs under control.

To address this issue, many organisations find themselves relying on their office or accounts staff to audit and review their current operational overheads. But there are two major problems with this approach.

Firstly, cost and purchase management isn't their core competency: the market is inundated with a vast range of essential business services providers. And secondly, the time spent hunting down a better deal is time that these members of staff could be spending more valuably by focusing on their key areas of skill - helping the business make more money.

Project Experience

Managing cost reduction process for well known clothing retail organisation. Advised on telecoms infrastructure change that could result in savings of 60%.
Run tender process on behalf of prominent value added distributor of telecoms equipment for all aspects of fixed line and mobile communications. Resulted in savings of 25%.
Reviewed costs of mobile and fixed line telecoms for large international transport consultancy resulting in both significant service level improvements and considerable savings.
Benchmarking, review and recommendations for large multi-site trading organisation of public sector body spending £1m+ on communciations.
Conducted and managed all aspects of tender process for mobile communications on behalf of household name in car manufacturing industry. This resulted in savings of 39%.
Managing tender process for outbound and 0845/0800 UK-based inbound minutes on behalf of royalties collecting body. Recommended actions on inbound minutes showed a saving of over 80%. Negotiated a saving on cost of outbound minutes of 28%.
Managed telecoms review on behalf of a university leading to savings of over 20%.

Testimonials

RHM Frozen Foods
Very pleased with report. Balance of detail and recommendation. Ongoing account management good. Whilst one would always like to have to share less of the saving I think 50% of the saving is a reasonable reward split. Share of savings is something we prefer to use even if a fixed basis is cheaper. It demonstrates the consultants belief in themselves. Unfortunately there are too many "consultants" who do not deliver. We found you to be very competent and professional and you delivered. Happy to give you a reference and I don't say that very often.

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