First Choice expands purchasing division
29 August 2012
It will handle a potential annual budget of £600 million and its 13 purchasers will influence everything from infrastructure and IT to uniforms and brochures.
Before the department was created at the end of last year, purchasing was managed by individual departments with their own budgets.
Smethurst, who spent two years as a procurement specialist at car rental firm Avis Europe, told SM: “This is a huge cultural change for the company, but we have a great opportunity to establish procedures and policies that can help...