Government
Procurement transformation, commercial delivery and Source-to-Pay improvement across complex public-sector environments.
About Promote
Procurement and Supply Chain practitioners, delivering outcomes that last.
Our team have led procurement and supply chain functions before advising on them. That experience shapes what we take on, how we scope it, and why we stay through delivery until the outcome is realised. We back it with AI tools that speed up the diagnosis, not the decision.
About Promote
Procurement and Supply Chain practitioners, delivering outcomes that last.
Our team have led procurement and supply chain functions before advising on them. That experience shapes what we take on, how we scope it, and why we stay through delivery until the outcome is realised. We back it with AI tools that speed up the diagnosis, not the decision.
About Promote
Procurement and Supply Chain practitioners, delivering outcomes that last.
Our team have led procurement and supply chain functions before advising on them. That experience shapes what we take on, how we scope it, and why we stay through delivery until the outcome is realised. We back it with AI tools that speed up the diagnosis, not the decision.
Delivery Capability
One delivery model across complex organisations and geographies.
One delivery model, wherever you operate.
We bring the same practitioner-led approach across markets, adapting to local requirements while keeping the focus on measurable outcomes and lasting capability.
£2bn+Savings delivered
£7.95bnSpend analysed
26%Average value of spend re-categorised
150+Engagements
45+Countries
11+Sectors
160+Years of delivery experience
$84bn+Spend onboarded to S2P
24+S2P solutions implemented
54,000+Users onboarded
120,000+Supplier insight records
170+Warehouse locations
450,000SKUs
£2bn+Savings delivered
£7.95bnSpend analysed
26%Average value of spend re-categorised
150+Engagements
45+Countries
11+Sectors
160+Years of delivery experience
$84bn+Spend onboarded to S2P
24+S2P solutions implemented
54,000+Users onboarded
120,000+Supplier insight records
170+Warehouse locations
450,000SKUs
SECTOR EXPERIENCE
Experience across complex sectors.
Our teams bring procurement, supply chain and digital delivery experience across public and private-sector environments.
Defence
Commercial delivery, supplier strategy and resilience in high-accountability operating environments.
Healthcare
Procurement, contract management and supply resilience across complex health and care environments.
Life sciences
Category strategy, spend insight and supplier sourcing across regulated, multi-market environments.
Research
Strategic sourcing, spend insight and category management across research-led organisations.
Financial services
Commercial governance, third-party risk and category strategy across complex financial organisations.
Professional services
Procurement strategy, commercial operating models and supplier management across service-led businesses.
Manufacturing
Supply chain resilience, category strategy and operational cost improvement across manufacturing environments.
Retail
Supplier performance, category management and cost improvement across fast-moving retail operations.
Transport
Commercial performance, transformation delivery and operational insight across complex transport networks.
Estates & FM
Supplier value, estates and facilities category management, and practical operating-model improvement.
Government
Procurement transformation, commercial delivery and Source-to-Pay improvement across complex public-sector environments.
Defence
Commercial delivery, supplier strategy and resilience in high-accountability operating environments.
Healthcare
Procurement, contract management and supply resilience across complex health and care environments.
Life sciences
Category strategy, spend insight and supplier sourcing across regulated, multi-market environments.
Research
Strategic sourcing, spend insight and category management across research-led organisations.
Financial services
Commercial governance, third-party risk and category strategy across complex financial organisations.
Professional services
Procurement strategy, commercial operating models and supplier management across service-led businesses.
Manufacturing
Supply chain resilience, category strategy and operational cost improvement across manufacturing environments.
Retail
Supplier performance, category management and cost improvement across fast-moving retail operations.
Transport
Commercial performance, transformation delivery and operational insight across complex transport networks.
Estates & FM
Supplier value, estates and facilities category management, and practical operating-model improvement.
Our Team
Senior practitioners supported by specialist delivery expertise.
Leadership Team
A small, senior team.
No hand-offs, no layers.
You work directly with us
A small, senior team.
No hand-offs, no layers.
You work directly with us
Rory Grumley
Founder
Rory spent his career inside source-to-pay transformation, usually as the person handed someone else's plan and asked to make it work. He founded Promote to close that gap.
Rory Grumley
Founder
Rory spent his career inside source-to-pay transformation, usually as the person handed someone else's plan and asked to make it work. He founded Promote to close that gap.
Simon Smith
Co-founder
Simon has held CPO roles, led procurement transformations, and advised organisations across multiple industries. He knows how savings get tested, where they fall apart, and what it takes to build procurement functions that deliver in practice.
Simon Smith
Co-founder
Simon has held CPO roles, led procurement transformations, and advised organisations across multiple industries. He knows how savings get tested, where they fall apart, and what it takes to build procurement functions that deliver in practice.
Chris Clark
Director
Chris leads technology-enabled procurement and finance transformation, from start-ups to large multinationals. He is known for embedding change with people, not just installing systems.
Chris Clark
Director
Chris leads technology-enabled procurement and finance transformation, from start-ups to large multinationals. He is known for embedding change with people, not just installing systems.
Lisa Bowan
Principal
Lisa helps complex, multi-regional organisations strengthen procurement performance, governance and control, embedding change that lasts.
Lisa Bowan
Principal
Lisa helps complex, multi-regional organisations strengthen procurement performance, governance and control, embedding change that lasts.
Associate Delivery Team
Specialist expertise, scaled to the programme, under the same senior direction throughout.
Specialist expertise, scaled to the programme, under the same senior direction throughout.
Deepti Mutreja
Director
Deepti has spent a decade on source-to-pay programmes as the person holding requirements, design and testing together. She is known for standardising commercial systems across large, fragmented estates, most recently 260 NHS Trusts.
Deepti Mutreja
Director
Deepti has spent a decade on source-to-pay programmes as the person holding requirements, design and testing together. She is known for standardising commercial systems across large, fragmented estates, most recently 260 NHS Trusts.
Dean Farran
Senior Consultant
Dean delivers system-driven process improvement across procurement and finance. He is known for the change and training work that decides whether a rollout actually holds.
Dean Farran
Senior Consultant
Dean delivers system-driven process improvement across procurement and finance. He is known for the change and training work that decides whether a rollout actually holds.
Delivery Team
The same people who scope the work deliver it.
The same people who scope the work deliver it.
Marvin Mbasu
Consultant
Marvin builds the tooling that does the work, rather than talking about it. He turns spend and supplier data into classifications and reporting a client can rely on, which is what lets the analysis land in weeks rather than months.
Marvin Mbasu
Consultant
Marvin builds the tooling that does the work, rather than talking about it. He turns spend and supplier data into classifications and reporting a client can rely on, which is what lets the analysis land in weeks rather than months.
Mariana Batista
Consultant
Mariana brings S2P delivery, digital product management and spend analytics experience across public services and healthcare. She has supported SAP Ariba transformation, developed category taxonomies, and produced supplier resilience and ESG insights using AI-enabled analytics.
Mariana Batista
Consultant
Mariana brings S2P delivery, digital product management and spend analytics experience across public services and healthcare. She has supported SAP Ariba transformation, developed category taxonomies, and produced supplier resilience and ESG insights using AI-enabled analytics.
Our Values & How We Work
The principles behind how we work, and how they show up in delivery.
Our Values
What we believe
What we believe
Ownership
We stay accountable to the outcome, not just the advice. If something isn't landing, that's our problem to fix, not yours to chase.
We stay accountable to the outcome, not just the advice. If something isn’t landing, that’s our problem to fix, not yours to chase.
Partnership
We work alongside your team, not above it. The goal is that our skills and tools transfer as we go, so what we build stays after we leave.
Innovation
We look for better ways to solve complex problems, not just the safest ones. We will test them first to make sure you get the best outcome.
Innovation
We look for better ways to solve complex problems, not just the safest ones. We will test them first to make sure you get the best outcome.
How We Work
Three things we hold ourselves to.
Three things we hold ourselves to.
End-to-end delivery
From data cleansing through to realised savings, we stay with you the whole way. One team, one engagement: no handover to an implementation partner, no loss of context, no drop in momentum.
From data cleansing through to realised savings, we stay with you the whole way. One team, one engagement: no handover to an implementation partner, no loss of context, no drop in momentum.
Deep sector expertise
Our specialists bring hands-on experience across public sector, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and media & marketing services, so recommendations are grounded in how your industry actually operates, not generic best practice.
Our specialists bring hands-on experience across public sector, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and media & marketing services, so recommendations are grounded in how your industry actually operates, not generic best practice.
Capability built in, not bolted on
We work alongside your team, not around it. Every engagement is designed to transfer skills, tools, and ways of working, so when we leave, your people are more capable than when we arrive.
We work alongside your team, not around it. Every engagement is designed to transfer skills, tools, and ways of working, so when we leave, your people are more capable than when we arrive.
From first conversation to embedded delivery.
The way we work
Diagnose
You tell us what isn’t working and where the data breaks down. In 2 to 4 weeks you know where the opportunity sits, and whether it is worth the budget.
Build
We validate the data and build the opportunity map, stress-tested with your team first. You walk into the business case knowing every figure traces to source.
Deliver
Your procurement and supply chain teams keep running the day-to-day. We stay alongside you until the value is realised, the change is embedded and your team can sustain it.
Let’s talk about what you’re building
Client Perspective
What clients say about working with Promote.
Testimonials
"Promote worked with our organisation very much as partner, injecting commercial knowledge and skill to leave a lasting legacy both in terms of our approach and cashable savings."
Head of Procurement
Local Authority
"The Promote Team’s deep subject matter & delivery knowledge was critical to the successful delivery of our programme."
Transformation Director
Public Sector
Testimonials
"Promote worked with our organisation very much as partner, injecting commercial knowledge and skill to leave a lasting legacy both in terms of our approach and cashable savings."
Head of Procurement
Local Authority
"The Promote Team’s deep subject matter & delivery knowledge was critical to the successful delivery of our programme."
Transformation Director
Public Sector
Testimonials
“Promote worked with our organisation very much as partner, injecting commercial knowledge and skill to leave a lasting legacy both in terms of our approach and cashable savings.”
Head of Procurement
Local Authority
“The Promote Team’s deep subject matter & delivery knowledge was critical to the successful delivery of our programme.”
Transformation Director
Public Sector
Our services
Three disciplines, one integrated approach. Most engagements span more than one.
We can supplement your team's capacity, build capability inside it, or run the programme in full.
Most clients start with one discipline and pull in the others as the picture sharpens.
Our services
Three disciplines, one integrated approach. Most engagements span more than one.
We can supplement your team's capacity, build capability inside it, or run the programme in full.
Most clients start with one discipline and pull in the others as the picture sharpens.
Our services
Three disciplines, one integrated approach. Most engagements span more than one.
We can supplement your team's capacity, build capability inside it, or run the programme in full.
Most clients start with one discipline and pull in the others as the picture sharpens.
