Roger West

Roger initially joined DE&S as the Project Lead for Inventory Management Transition, in January of 2013, before assuming the Directorship of the new Inventory Management Operating Centre (IMOC) in December of the same year, and took the reins of the LCS(T) programme which has now reached contract award. In Autumn 2015 Roger became the Director of Logistics Delivery responsible for maintaining and transforming the Defence Supply Chain, including commodity acquisition, Defence storage and global distribution to meet the needs of our Armed Forces whilst delivering it more cost effectively. He joined the organisation with a background in procurement and supply chain management gained in a wide range of public and private sector organisations. He has worked with IBM, ASDA, Coopers & Lybrand, Capgemini and DHL, most recently as procurement director for NHS Supply Chain where he led the establishment of a commercially focussed trading team supplying hospitals across England and held procurement responsibility for spend of £5 billion per annum.