The team and their roles

Procurement team members

All our team members are procurement professionals, each with their own areas of expertise. They have a variety of backgrounds from Higher Education to public sector and commercial organisations. Please take a look below to find contact details for each area of expertise.

For details of who to contact with finance queries, such as supplier set ups and amendments, Purchase Order issues, purchase card queries and invoice queries, see the Query Contact List.

Contracts

The Procurement, Research and Enterprise Services (RES) and Legal Services departments manage the majority of the University of Reading contracts in the UK.

Our Staff

Lisa Jeffries

Director of Procurement 

Email: l.m.jeffries@reading.ac.uk 
Phone:  +44 (0)118 378 8304 (Ext: 8304)

Responsibilities:

• Policy and strategy
• Global procurement
• Leading and delivering benefits
• Recruitments Budget management
• Change programme

Aleks Borkowska

Category Manager

Email: a.borkowska@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 4180 (Ext: 4180)

Responsibilities:

• Estates and Facilities (Interim cover)
• Maintenance services
• Catering
• Marketing and print services (UoR)
• Campus services

Claire Milham

Category Manager

Email: c.milham@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 7629 (Ext: 7629)

Responsibilities:

• Travel and accommodation (including student accommodation)
• Specialist projects (including apprenticeship levy & online blended learning)
• Legal services
• Copyright and licensing
• Research infrastructure
• Income generating projects
• Specialist projects (including apprenticeship levy and online distance learning)
• Public Contract Regulations lead

Michelle Belcher

Category Manager

Email: m.belcher@reading.ac.uk   Phone: +44 (0)118 378 5093 (Ext: 5093)

Responsibilities:

• IT hardware and software
• IT professional services
• On-prem/IaaS/PaaS/SaaS systems & infrastructure
• IT change projects

Currently Vacant

Category Manager

Responsibilities:

• Financial Services (including external audit & tax)
• Pension services 
• Executive Education 
• Marketing (HBS) 
• HR services (excluding recruitment)

Erin Cooper

Business Manager 

Email: erin.cooper@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 5807 (Ext: 5807)

Responsibilities:

• Procurement Policy & Processes
• Procurement Systems
• Reporting, Audit and Accreditations
• Compliance and Due Diligence
• Responsible Procurement
• Business Continuity
• Liaison with Legal and other professional services

Tracy McAuley

Deputy Business Manager

Email: t.mcauley@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 6750 (Ext: 6750)

Responsibilities:

• Management of the contract management system
• Website and communications
• eMarketplace training & support
• Team Training & development
• Document standardisation and templates
• FOIRs
• Data management and reporting
• Support for the Business Manager and category teams  

James Stedeford 

Deputy Category Manager

Email:  j.stedeford@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 8633 (Ext: 8633)

Responsibilities:

• Farm vehicles
• Library - books, journals and periodicals
• Stationery
• Sales / disposals
• Support on recruitment services (temporary & permanent)
• Research & laboratory chemicals, consumables & equipment
• Support on travel and accommodation

 

Currently Vacant

Deputy Category Manager

Email:

Responsibilities:

• Estates
• Special projects

Lorraine Sutton

Deputy Category Manager

Email: lorraine.sutton@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 8552 (Ext: 8552)

Responsibilities:

•  Archiving
• Support on IT software and infrastructure
• Telecoms (mobile phones, telephony, radio)
• Support on Marketing (UoR)
• Print services

 

Aarti Knight

Deputy Category Manager

Email:  aarti.knight@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 6936 (Ext: 6936)

Responsibilities:

• Audio/visual and T&L equipment
• User IT equipment
• Specialist/research IT equipment
• Support on IT infrastructure and associated hardware (computing, servers, cabling, AV) 
• Support software/system projects

Sarah Moorhouse

Deputy Category Manager

Email: s.moorhouse@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 6258 (Ext: 6258)

Responsibilities:

• Removals
• Furniture
• PAT (portable appliance testing) services
• Couriers/ postage
• Support campus services
• Support capital contracts

Jo Jennings

Deputy Category Manager

Email: j.e.jennings@reading.ac.uk  Phone: + 44 (0)118 378 4621 (Ext: 4621) 

Responsibilities:

Frances Hodder

Deputy Category Manager

Email: f.hodder@reading.ac.uk  Phone: + 44 (0) 118 378 4620 (Ext: 4620)

Responsibilities:

• Marketing
• Catering
• Estates
• Support maintenance 

Angel Kwok

Deputy Category Manager

Email: o.kwok@reading.ac.uk    Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 5989  (Ext: 5989)

Responsibilities:

• Professional Services
• Lab Contracts

Fey Makanju 

Contract Officer

Email: feyisola.makanju@reading.ac.uk  Phone: +44 118 378 5990 (Ext:5990)

Responsibilities:

• Support on the development & issuing of contracts
• New suppliers process
• Supplier terms review
• Support on tendering activity
• Support on mini competitions, Single Action Waivers (SAWs) and quotations

Aria Fouki

Contract Officer

Email: aria.fouki@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 6553 (Ext: 6553)

Responsibilities:

• Support on the development & issuing of contracts
• New suppliers process
• Supplier terms review
• Support on tendering activity
• Support on mini competitions, Single Action Waivers (SAWs) and quotations

Becky Eyres

Insurance Administrator

Email: uor-insurance@reading.ac.uk Phone: + 44 (0)118 378 8309 (Ext: 8309)

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day insurance queries
• Administration of claims
• Professional indemnity insurance
• Public liability insurance
• Employer liability insurance
• Travel insurance
• Vehicle insurance
• Student insurance
• Equipment insurance

Steve Charley

Bars and Catering Purchasing Manager

Email: s.m.charley@reading.ac.uk 

Responsibilities:

• Catering
• Support on marketing (UOR)

Jaspal Chudge

Procurement Administrator

Email: j.chudge@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 8373 (Ext; 8373)

Responsibilities:

• Team Communications and Administration