The team and their roles
Procurement team members
All our team members are procurement professionals, each with their own areas of expertise. They have a variety of backgrounds from Higher Education to public sector and commercial organisations. Please take a look below to find contact details for each area of expertise.
For details of who to contact with finance queries, such as supplier set ups and amendments, Purchase Order issues, purchase card queries and invoice queries, see the Query Contact List.
Contracts
The Procurement, Research and Enterprise Services (RES) and Legal Services departments manage the majority of the University of Reading contracts in the UK.
Our Staff
Lisa Jeffries
Director of Procurement
Email: l.m.jeffries@reading.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)118 378 8304 (Ext: 8304)
Responsibilities:
- Policy and strategy
- Global procurement
- Leading and delivering benefits
- Recruitments Budget management
- Change programme
Aleks Borkowska
Category Manager
Email: a.borkowska@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 4180 (Ext: 4180)
Responsibilities:
- Estates and Facilities (Interim cover)
- Maintenance services
- Catering
- Marketing and print services (UoR)
- Campus services
Claire Milham
Category Manager
Email: c.milham@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 7629 (Ext: 7629)
Responsibilities:
- Travel and accommodation (including student accommodation)
- Specialist projects (including apprenticeship levy & online blended learning)
- Legal services
- Copyright and licensing
- Research infrastructure
- Income generating projects
- Specialist projects (including apprenticeship levy and online distance learning)
- Public Contract Regulations lead
Michelle Belcher
Category Manager
Email: m.belcher@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 5093 (Ext: 5093)
Responsibilities:
- IT hardware and software
- IT professional services
- On-prem/IaaS/PaaS/SaaS systems & infrastructure
- IT change projects
Currently Vacant
Category Manager
Responsibilities:
- Financial Services (including external audit & tax)
- Pension services
- Executive Education
- Marketing (HBS)
- HR services (excluding recruitment)
Erin Cooper
Business Manager
Email: erin.cooper@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 5807 (Ext: 5807)
Responsibilities:
- Procurement Policy & Processes
- Procurement Systems
- Reporting, Audit and Accreditations
- Compliance and Due Diligence
- Responsible Procurement
- Business Continuity
- Liaison with Legal and other professional services
Tracy McAuley
Deputy Business Manager
Email: t.mcauley@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 6750 (Ext: 6750)
Responsibilities:
- Management of the contract management system
- Website and communications
- eMarketplace training & support
- Team Training & development
- Document standardisation and templates
- FOIRs
- Data management and reporting
- Support for the Business Manager and category teams
James Stedeford
Deputy Category Manager
Email: j.stedeford@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 8633 (Ext: 8633)
Responsibilities:
- Farm vehicles
- Library - books, journals and periodicals
- Stationery
- Sales / disposals
- Support on recruitment services (temporary & permanent)
- Research & laboratory chemicals, consumables & equipment
- Support on travel and accommodation
Currently Vacant
Deputy Category Manager
Email:
Responsibilities:
- Estates
- Special projects
Lorraine Sutton
Deputy Category Manager
Email: lorraine.sutton@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 8552 (Ext: 8552)
Responsibilities:
- Archiving
- Support on IT software and infrastructure
- Telecoms (mobile phones, telephony, radio)
- Support on Marketing (UoR)
- Print services
Aarti Knight
Deputy Category Manager
Email: aarti.knight@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 6936 (Ext: 6936)
Responsibilities:
- Audio/visual and T&L equipment
- User IT equipment
- Specialist/research IT equipment
- Support on IT infrastructure and associated hardware (computing, servers, cabling, AV)
- Support software/system projects
Sarah Moorhouse
Deputy Category Manager
Email: s.moorhouse@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 6258 (Ext: 6258)
Responsibilities:
- Removals
- Furniture
- PAT (portable appliance testing) services
- Couriers/ postage
- Support campus services
- Support capital contracts
Jo Jennings
Deputy Category Manager
Email: j.e.jennings@reading.ac.uk Phone: + 44 (0)118 378 4621 (Ext: 4621)
Responsibilities:
- Contracts for services
- Executive Education
- Support for Pension Services
- Support for Financial Services
- Support for HBS Marketing Services
- Support for HR Services (excluding Recruitment)
Frances Hodder
Deputy Category Manager
Email: f.hodder@reading.ac.uk Phone: + 44 (0) 118 378 4620 (Ext: 4620)
Responsibilities:
- Marketing
- Catering
- Estates
- Support maintenance
Angel Kwok
Deputy Category Manager
Email: o.kwok@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 5989 (Ext: 5989)
Responsibilities:
- Professional Services
- Lab Contracts
Fey Makanju
Contract Officer
Email: feyisola.makanju@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 118 378 5990 (Ext:5990)
Responsibilities:
- Support on the development & issuing of contracts
- New suppliers process
- Supplier terms review
- Support on tendering activity
- Support on mini competitions, Single Action Waivers (SAWs) and quotations
Aria Fouki
Contract Officer
Email: aria.fouki@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 6553 (Ext: 6553)
Responsibilities:
- Support on the development & issuing of contracts
- New suppliers process
- Supplier terms review
- Support on tendering activity
- Support on mini competitions, Single Action Waivers (SAWs) and quotations
Becky Eyres
Insurance Administrator
Email: uor-insurance@reading.ac.uk Phone: + 44 (0)118 378 8309 (Ext: 8309)
Responsibilities:
- Day-to-day insurance queries
- Administration of claims
- Professional indemnity insurance
- Public liability insurance
- Employer liability insurance
- Travel insurance
- Vehicle insurance
- Student insurance
- Equipment insurance
Steve Charley
Bars and Catering Purchasing Manager
Email: s.m.charley@reading.ac.uk
Responsibilities:
- Catering
- Support on marketing (UOR)
Jaspal Chudge
Procurement Administrator
Email: j.chudge@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 8373 (Ext; 8373)
Responsibilities:
- Team Communications and Administration
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Email: procurement@reading.ac.uk
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Address: Ground Floor, Miller Building RG6 6EE