Paul Wakelin
Senior Manager Marketing Sourcing at Lloyds Banking Group
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Wakelin is a procurement and sourcing leader with over a decade of experience designing and executing global marketing, travel and print sourcing strategies for blue-chip and FMCG clients. He combines hands-on category management and eSourcing chops with stakeholder-led change management, having delivered Strategic Meetings Management Programs across 80+ countries and driven double-digit savings at IBM and multi-million pound savings at Lloyds. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and external consultants, he builds reporting, dashboards and governance frameworks to turn spend data into repeatable value and better supplier relationships. Paul also brings ESG and transformation experience, having developed sustainability-focused procurement propositions and deployed sourcing processes into challenging markets such as China. Known for translating complex stakeholder needs into practical commercial solutions, he blends consultancy rigor with pragmatic delivery. Based in Birmingham, he pairs a print-management background with a track record of embedding procurement as a strategic business enabler.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) 2:1 Print Management, BA (Hons) 2:1 Print Management at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English
Github Skills (87)
eclipse10
java10
cobol10
garbage-collector10
virtual-machine10
footprint10
cics9
api9
maven-pom9
interpreter9
throughput9
openjdk9
maven9
factory9
jzos9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cicsdev/cics-java-liberty-employee-db
Dec 2017 - Jul 2022
Sample web application that uses JDBC to read and update the sample Db2 EMP table.
Contributions:3 PRs, 28 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 8 months
db2web-sampleweb-applicationempupdate
cicsdev/cics-java-liberty-jdbc
Aug 2017 - Oct 2024
CICS® Liberty JDBC sample web application
Contributions:3 PRs, 19 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 3 months
libertycicsjavadatasourcejdbc
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