Paul Vincent – Managing Director

Paul established Insight Sourcing Solutions in April 2009 following a successful 24 year career across a number of commercial and operational disciplines within BT Group plc.   Paul's CV includes over 13 years buying and global category management experience covering a range of direct and indirect spend areas. In his last role in the company, between July 2007 and March 2009, Paul was the architect of the successful transformation of BT’s end to end approach to managing their global spend in the Consultancy and Professional Services categories.

Paul has the following range of expertise:

	Procurement/Category Management – extensive experience in buying recruitment services, management consultancy and other related professional services, telecoms network infrastructure and consumer equipment for onward resale.
	Business Change/Business Transformation – extensive experience of leading a number of high profile internal transformation programmes; within procurement, sales, product and customer service environments.  Paul is trained to Black Belt level in Lean Six Sigma.
	Senior Stakeholder Engagement – adept at influencing and managing stakeholder relationships at all levels within a business.  This has been a key feature in many of his previous roles.
	Product Management – had lead responsibility for a portfolio of BT’s digital Private Circuit products such as MegaStream at a time when it generated over £200m in annual revenue.
	Customer Satisfaction – led the survey and corrective action programme for BT’s top 4000 corporate and government customers, which collectively generated £4bn+ annual revenue.
	Troubleshooting – successful track record of driving performance improvement initiatives across a range of internal processes/functions, in particular those situations which required behaviour and/or culture change.

Paul has access to a range of professional resources depending on customer needs. He has also established collaborative working relationships with the following organisations.

The TMS Group
Marketing Services

The TMS Group is one of the most innovative marketing services and communication solutions providers in the UK. Based in Dartford Kent, they are a dynamic communications business, focused on delivering innovative software and marketing based consultancy services. Their operating principles have been built on credible expertise and service delivery over the last 20 years to many of the top UK and European retail marketing companies. More information at www.thetmsgroup.co.uk

Source for Consulting
Information and intelligence on the consulting industry

Source Information Services Ltd is one of the world’s leading independent authorities on the consulting industry. They were founded in 2007 by Fiona Czerniawska [her books include: The Intelligent Client and The Economist book, Business Consulting: A Guide to How it Works and How to Make it Work] and Joy Burnford [previously part of the senior management team at the Management Consultancies Association] and are based in London. Their aim is to be the world's best source of information on the consulting industry, whether you're someone who buys consulting services, are interested in overall trends or are looking for specific expertise. More information at www.sourceforconsulting.com

MeAndMyMac
Web and Graphic Designer

Specialist creator of targeted, on paper and on-line designs including branding, websites, advertising, brochures, bulk emails and integrated campaigns. Set up by Kirsten Buckle in 2006, her main aim is to help businesses present themselves in a better way whilst giving the best service possible. More information at www.meandmymac.co.uk

Pretty Good PR
Public Relations and Marketing Agency

Delivering PR and marketing services on a project or retained basis, PrettyGood PR specialises in helping medium and large sized enterprises to promote their brand in the most strategic and cost effective way possible. More information at www.prettygoodpr.com

100% Effective Training
Specialising in Lean and Six Sigma

100% Effective Training, an expert Lean and Six Sigma provider, established in 1999 with the sole intention of becoming the UK's leading provider of Lean Six Sigma training courses. They offer more than 200 training courses including; Lean Six Sigma, Management of Risk, PRINCE2, Facilitation and Change Management. All courses are available openly or in house, delivered in a classroom style learning with practical and theory based exercises. More information at www.100pceffectivetraining.com