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Our Mission

Re-defining the future of procurement and sourcing

We believe that the re-design and strategic adoption of procurement and sourcing is fundamental to the success of future business procurement strategies and functions. 

source-re provides consulting services to help businesses re-vision, re-think and re-structure the way they build and manage procurement services enabling agility, resilience and efficiency.  We re-structure traditional category models review and transform outsourcing models, helping our clients to be more responsive, offer more innovative services.

We’re plugged into a vibrant community of thought leadership with an enviable group of talented sourcing and transformation contacts – we’re on a mission and we’re excited, because we believe we’re going to change the face of procurement!

A Little Of Our Story

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We established source-re in 2021. We brought together the well-established and respected team from WorkFutures, Eleanor Matthews and Rosalyn Olney with the extensive skills and industry renown of Barry Matthews and Bryn Barlow. Collectively, realising that the world of procurement and sourcing was changing around them and seeing the opportunity to disrupt traditional ways of working and strategies. Source-re is by no means their first rodeo. Between them they have founded or led a significant number of successful advisory businesses. They know what it takes to run consulting firms. Since the inception in 2021, Source-re has continued to grow and add value to our clients. Now with the addition of Mukesh Parekh joining the co-founders, we have the breadth and depth of capability for Service Providers and Clients.
The opportunity for source-re is one of the most exciting yet -source-re is on a mission to digitally transforming third party relationships.

Meet Our Management Team

The  internal leadership team is supported by our extensive network of independent experts, from the Human Cloud.

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Eleanor Matthews

Sourcing and Open Talent Advisor

Eleanor exudes positive energy and proactivity. She is one of the most accomplished sourcing advisors in the UK and has led multiple sourcing advisory businesses. She is an expert in leadership, change and transformation and her exceptional track record of successful deals means she is a very busy and in demand lady.
Eleanor is one of the best-known sourcing advisors in the UK. She currently wears multiple hats and is a veritable poster child for open talent! Eleanor is currently supporting the launch of a new consumer brand, while in parallel advising a technology consultancy and a software business. She has a track record of successfully founding, building and selling sourcing consultancies: Quantum Plus, Source, Alsbridge and being the lead sales leader at each of the businesses she has founded or joined.
Eleanor is an avid Peleton enthusiast (@longlegsturning) both spinning and running, a multiple marathon and ultra marathoner and swim-runner. She is also a textile artist and coach with her parallel business Freestyle Textiles.
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Rosalyn Olney

Procurement and Sourcing Advisor

Rosalyn is an accomplished CPO with a track record of leading sourcing and procurement transformation programmes for global businesses. She applies her knowledge and experience to support both enterprises with procurement and sourcing and suppliers with sales and solutions.
Rosalyn is a sourcing transformation expert and trusted advisor with an exceptional track record in sourcing, supplier management, change management and transformation with a special interest in digital technologies including RPA, AI and blockchain.
Known for her outstanding commercial and relationship focus, delivery, strategic thinking, and excellent people skills, Rosalyn brings executive level experience from CPO and strategic sourcing roles at The John Lewis Partnership, British American Tobacco, Amey and the Financial Services Authority.
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Mukesh Parekh

Business Growth and Sales Strategy Advisor

Mukesh is an experienced business leader, with a focus on creating new business opportunities. He is energetic & entrepreneurial and brings level of trust, having led some of the most accomplished sales teams in the UK. He is known for is expertise in sales strategy & business change, with a primary objective to deliver business value.
Working with 100’s of clients over his 25+ years career at IBM, Steria, Wipro, Atos, & Capgemini, he brings the breadth and depth of understanding in the ITO and BPO Services market.
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Tom Matthews

Consultant

Tom is an energetic and bright consultant, bringing enthusiasm and a willingness to learn to every project he is a part of.

After graduating from the University of Manchester in 2020, having studied Information Technology Management for Business, Tom joined re-source future of work where he undertook deep research into the Open Talent industry. In particular, platforms and began advising clients on how to access skills from these freelance marketplaces.
Continuing his journey working in exciting Start-up’s, Tom joined Source-re upon its inception in 2021. He quickly took to procurement and sourcing advisory working on projects with major global outsourcers, consultancies, technology providers, and enterprises in the Pharma and Technology industries. Tom has thrived working on multiple different projects, and has turned his hand to a variety of different service offerings including: procurement strategy, sourcing processes, spend analysis, bid support and pipeline growth among others.
Alongside working with Source-re, Tom continued his work in the Open Talent industry – as an advisor with Open Assembly. Using his knowledge of talent platforms and marketplaces, Tom has been deployed in many enterprises to introduce adoption of open talent models. Tom has found great success working as the Point of contact between client and platform, as a 'talent liaison', identify needs and finding talent etc.
Tom is also responsible for creating Open Assembly’s platform directory (over 500 platforms), enabling all users to access information and find the right platform for them.

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