Paul Hemmings EADS
Paul has twenty years experience of collaborative working and partnering between MoD and Industry, concerning R&T/R&D, Business Development, Commercial, Procurement, Supply Chain, Bid Management and Programme Start Up demands.
For the past 7 years he has been with EADS. Currently he works for EADS UK in London at the Strand offices having recently been appointed Head of HMG Strategic Engagement and Alliances. His responsibilities include the implementation and management of EADS’s unique Strategic Framework Agreement with HMG: In addition the management of EADS engagement with trade associations and joint Government-Industry bodies, and coordination on strategic industry alliances across the EADS UK divisions.
He first joined the Defence Systems division of EADS on the DII(F) bid running for two years as deputy Bid Director within the ATLAS consortium. At Contract Award it was recognised a successful Start-up to be dependent on the joint relationship. Paul helped establish the joint Stakeholder Management team that enabled collaborative working across the joint delivery teams as business processes bedded down. This entailed the joint development of an award winning partnering programme with the IPT.
Previously Paul worked as a consultant for five years with SIGMA supporting mainly MOD’s Supplier Relations Group on the SCRIA programme; leading on over forty Platform partnering activities. It focused on IPT’s and their Industry Partner relationships and was aimed at helping embedding SMART Procurement.
Prior to that he worked with Rolls Royce Energy as a Programmes Manager for 6 years in the special projects team establishing a joint development programme with the customer into critical systems monitoring and assay. For 18mths prior Paul was with Elctrowatt the Swedish nuclear-environmental consulting group, on a series of research programmes into computer modeling commissioned by BNFL and AWE.
His qualifications include a 2:1 in Physics from Manchester University, an MSc at Surrey University in Applied Nuclear Physics, and an MBA from LBS.
Main interests include time spent with his children Alex (6) and Isabella (4), and running. He held several national middle distance titles and international vests in his earlier years though is more content these days with trail and cross-country running.
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