Peter started his procurement career at Mars Confectionery, then was Procurement Director for Dun & Bradstreet Europe, the Department of Social Security, and the NatWest Group.
He is a Fellow and was 2003 President of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), and has served as a non-executive director of two large public sector organisations and a growing private firm.
From 2010 - 18 he was Managing Editor of the Spend Matters UK / Europe website, read by thousands of procurement professionals every day. Penguin Business recently published his latest book in October 2020. 'Bad Buying – How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds and F*ck-ups' which lifts the lid on some amazing global stories of disaster in the business world.
He founded the Procurement with Purpose movement and website with Mark Perera in 2019, and his next book, due later in 2021, will focus on that topic.