{"id":74561,"date":"2016-09-29T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=373c2d933a22e4480f75faf14f7c085d"},"modified":"2016-09-29T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:57:40","slug":"news-story-ccs-appoints-new-commercial-specialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74561","title":{"rendered":"News story: CCS appoints new commercial specialists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> is an Executive Agency and Trading Fund of the Cabinet Office responsible for government procurement of common goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Lawson joins <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> on October 12 as Strategic Category Director &#8211; People. Peter will be based in London. He joins from ISS, the international facilities management company, where he has held the position of Head of Procurement &amp; Property for the UK &amp; Ireland. Prior to this Peter has held leadership roles in a number of blue chip organisations including GE, Barclays, RBS and The Burton Group.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter Lawson\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/56712\/Peter_Lawson_2.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Peter Lawson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Samantha Ulyatt is to join <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> as Strategic Category Director &#8211; Buildings on November 7. Sam will be based in Liverpool and joins us from her previous role working for the nuclear business of Babcock International heading up their supply chain function. Previously Sam has also held senior roles at both E-On and United Utilities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Samantha Ulyatt\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/56713\/Samantha_Ulyatt_2.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Samantha Ulyatt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This follows on from a previous announcement concerning the internal promotion of David Skinner to the role of Strategic Category Director &#8211; Corporate Solutions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Skinner\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/56714\/David_Skinner_2.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>David Skinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malcolm Harrison, <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> Chief Executive said: \u201cI am delighted to welcome Peter and Sam to the <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> Senior Leadership Team &#8211; they each bring a wealth of experience to their roles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> faces a range of key challenges, including ensuring our Category Strategies are best in class, so as to deliver maximum value to our customers. We must also continue the development of <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> to be operationally excellent and customer focussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrengthening our senior team with experienced leaders who have deep knowledge of specific categories will help us meet our objectives and ensure <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> is best-placed to provide the best possible value for the taxpayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Government Chief Commercial Officer Gareth Rhys Williams said: \u201cIt\u2019s a great reflection on <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> and the exciting steps being taken that we\u2019ve been able to attract Sam and Peter; they will complement the existing senior leadership team and help us further improve what we can deliver for our customers; their range of experience will be a tremendous asset and will be an important part of helping <abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr> meet its cost reduction and performance targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is pleased to announce the appointment of two senior commercial specialists who will both join its Senior Leadership Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}