Heath Jess
Function: Procurement
Industry: Business Services & Consulting
Category: Capital Goods
About me
I am a founding director of RESOURCE2SOURCE, a specialist procurement, contract management and probity consultancy firm.
I am a tertiary qualified procurement professional with extensive experience in the oil & gas, government and private sectors.
Specialties:
- Strategic procurement
- End-to-end sourcing across a range of industries
- Project management
- Consultancy services
- Process review
- Stakeholder engagement
- Contract administration and management
- Probity advice and auditing
Work Experience
Director
RESOURCE2SOURCE
December 2013 - Present (10 years, 10 months) | Brisbane
Director at RESOURCE2SOURCE, a consultancy firm, providing specialist procurement, contract management and probity support to clients in a wide range of industries. We provide solutions to resolve your sourcing issues, including:
- expertise to assist your organisation with a high risk and / or high value sourcing activity;
- procurement consultancy services to provide sourcing solutions and areas for improvement;
- probity advisory and auditing services;
- secondment into your organisation to assist contract & procurement departments;
- contract management services; and
- outsourced procurement solutions.
Some of our recent projects include:
> Santos GLNG - Contracting and Procurement Sourcing Team
> Queensland Police - Vehicles Ancillary Procurement
> Queensland Health - Procurement support
> Economic Development Queensland - Probity Services
General Manager QLD
Project Procure
Brisbane, Australia
QLD General Manager for Project Procure, a procurement consultancy firm with offices in Brisbane and Sydney.
Responsible for the delivery of a wide range of consultancy engagements for Project Procure’s clients, with projects across the complete procurement lifecycle, including end-to-end procurement projects, contract management, probity advisory services, development and delivery of procurement training, procurement capability reviews and development of organisational and category contracting strategies.
These projects included:
> Arrow Energy - Upstream LNG FEED / EPcM Tender
> Economic Development Queensland (EDQ) - Commonwealth Games Village Project
> Department of Premier and Cabinet - Master Media Services Non Campaign and Campaign
> Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) - Alcohol Interlock Project
> Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) - Procurement Value Management Project
> TransLink Transit Authority - Contact Centre Procurement
> SunWater - Probity Advisor for Kenya to Chinchilla Weir Water Pipeline Project
> National Heavy Vehicle Regulator Project Office - Procurement Framework and Strategy
ACT Health - Procurement Coordinator
ACT Government
Canberra, Australia
Procurement and Asset Manager for goods and services for the Canberra Hospital, responsibilities / achievements included:
- Provision of strategic procurement advice and purchasing methodologies.
- Improved procurement performance through enhancement of procurement guidelines, processes
and performance.
- Managed the procurement purchasing for a wide range of high value medical equipment.
- Ensured all projects complied with internal policies, requirements, Procurement Act and probity
requirements.
- Coordination and management of ACT Health asset management program and processes.
- Managing the ACT Health Tender Board.
- Managing the ACT Health Plant & Equipment Program.
Education
University of Canberra
Bachelor
2001 - 2004