Nick Jenkinson

Nick Jenkinson has spent the past 2 years as the interim Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) of Santander (UK) and during this time, was tasked with delivering a significant transformation across the organisation.  Prior to Santander, Nick was at Astellas, a Japanese-headquartered pharmaceutical organisation for 5 years and during this time led award-winning transformations across Procurement and Corporate Real Estate and in addition, led the strategy and implementation of a newly created Business Services model.

Prior to these roles, Nick has held senior procurement roles across a number of industries including Automotive,  Building Materials, FMCG, Business Process Outsourcing & Media with the past 12 years predominantly focused on leading transformational activities.  These experiences provide him with the unique background of never working in the same industry twice – 7 companies & 7 industries!  Nick has an MBA from Warwick Business School and has a keen interest in cookery, sport & music.