Europe – Offices & Delivery Centers

London
Established in 2007, London is the base for GEP’s European procurement consulting and delivery team. The team consists of a multilingual team of procurement consultants and category experts with deep experience across Europe and across industries. We specialize in complex, multi-country sourcing engagements, and help our clients leverage their spend across the region, not just in their home countries.

Prague
Our Prague office has supported our consulting and outsourcing engagements since 2005. With a rich pool of talent to draw from, our clients look to our Prague team to offer cost- effective solutions to their procurement services needs.
Procurement Consulting
Our European teams bring deep, region-specific procurement experience to deliver a compelling return on investment from your procurement programs:
- European Category Expertise: Indirect and direct European category expertise and a focus on reducing the total cost of ownership of the goods and services you source
- Ensuring Savings Hit Your Bottom Line: Compliance checking tools and procedures to ensure identified savings are ultimately realized
- Effective Change Management: Local consulting teams with a strong focus on change management to ensure savings are implemented
- The Right Tools: GEP’s own Gartner-rated, cloud-based sourcing and procurement platform GEP SMART™, boosts the effectiveness of our strategic sourcing engagements
- Global/Regional Integrated Delivery (GRID™ ) Model: Ability to tap global offices and operations centers to support your programs
Find out more about Procurement Consulting at GEP.
Procurement Outsourcing
The case for procurement outsourcing is clear — improve and standardize business processes, free up buyers' time to focus on category strategy, gain access to cheaper goods and services, reduce the cost of transaction processing and mitigate supplier and contractual risk.
GEP’s global footprint, deep functional expertise in procurement and outsourcing experience makes it the right partner for procurement outsourcing. Our end-to-end, source to pay procurement solutions are configurable to your organization’s specific requirements, providing transformational efficiencies and savings that move the needle.
Find out more about Procurement Outsourcing at GEP.
Procurement Software
GEP is a true innovator in the development and application of procurement technologies to support company savings programs and supplier management initiatives.
GEP SMART, our cloud-based, end-to-end procurement suite has been built to support all key stages of the procurement process: from demand management and planning through contract implementation and onto supplier management and performance tracking. Our European customer base uses our solutions to enable collaboration across countries and business units and drive standardization of business processes, where appropriate.
The GEP Europe team is also a major user of our procurement suite. Our consultants use GEP SMART's spend analysis and RFx / auction tools to support our strategic sourcing engagements, and our delivery teams use GEP SMART’s contract management functionality and other capabilities to support operational activities.
Find out more about Procurement Software at GEP.
Spotlight

Jamie Ogilvie-Smals
Vice President, Consulting
Jamie is responsible for delivery of strategic accounts for organizations based in Europe. He has extensive experience in running large and complex procurement transformations and outsourced procurement engagements for global organizations.
Jamie’s expertise includes procurement strategy development, procurement transformation, sourcing and category management, spend analysis, SRM program development, and tail spend management. His category experience covers the whole indirect space and he has worked primarily in the pharmaceutical, financial services, FMCG, manufacturing, and oil & gas sectors.
Jamie has a Master’s…

Volker Roelofsen
Vice President, Consulting
Volker brings over 22 years of experience in consulting, focusing on procurement and supply chain management (SCM). He spearheads GEP’s growth initiatives and consulting teams in the DACH (Germany, Austria & Switzerland) region, and also leads large global engagements.
Prior to joining GEP, Volker was a partner with Deloitte Consulting in the procurement and SCM practice. He has also led the procurement and SCM practice for IBM in DACH. During his consulting career, he has managed accounts in the automotive, industrial, telecommunication, chemical/pharmaceutical and consumer goods/retail sectors. His clients include…

JULIAN TRENT
Vice President, Business Development
As a vice president, Julian leads business development for GEP’s services business in Europe.
Julian's career of more than 30 years includes strategy, enterprise procurement transformation, category management and strategic sourcing (direct and indirect), analytics and change management, with the past two decades primarily focused on strategy, business planning, and transforming source-to-pay functions across multiple industries in the private and public sectors.
Before joining GEP, Julian held senior and executive-level roles in industry verticals, management consulting, and managed and digital services. His experience…