Bain-owned procurement and provide chain consultancy ArcBlue has welcomed Daniel Collings as its new managing director, with firm founders Chris Newman and Dan Fielding departing.
Rising out of the long-running PMMS Consulting Group, Dan Fielding and Chris Newman established ArcBlue in Melbourne in 2013, earlier than the procurement and provide chain consultancy was picked up by Bain & Firm one decade on.
The pair of departing managing administrators now hand over to Daniel Collings, former government vp of European and US sister firm Proxima, which was purchased by Bain in 2022 shortly after its buy of ArcBlue.
Collings has been with Proxima for greater than twenty years between London and Chicago, serving to to ascertain and lead its North American enterprise.
Now, as ArcBlue managing director, Collings shall be chargeable for overseeing a workforce of greater than 150 consultants serving purchasers throughout the Asia Pacific from shops in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and most not too long ago Malaysia. The agency has been acknowledged as one of many main procurement consultancies within the area.
Collings shall be based mostly out of the agency’s Auckland workplace, and brings deep trade information to his new function, having began out at Proxima as a graduate in 2004 after finishing a enterprise diploma on the College of Tub. He’s famous for having served among the world’s largest organisations within the media & leisure, skilled companies, aviation, and personal fairness sectors.
For the previous eight years, Collings has been a member of the Proxima board, tasked with increase the UK-headquartered agency’s North American observe, the place he has had accountability for tons of of value and functionality transformation initiatives for purchasers working in quite a lot of sectors. Proxima has an total world headcount of round 300 consultants.
Like Proxima, ArcBlue serves a spread of industries akin to monetary companies, healthcare, power, development and the general public sector amongst others on procurement transformations, with its broad portfolio of service choices grouped round 4 core traces; efficiency enchancment, studying & improvement, social & sustainable procurement, and undertaking procurement.
Co-founders
Fielding and Newman, who began the enterprise in a shared one-room residence in Melbourne, have but to announce their subsequent strikes, however each spoke of exploring thrilling new alternatives after taking a well-earned break. The pair additionally paid homage to their ArcBlue employees over the previous twelve years, and expressed confidence in the way forward for the enterprise beneath the path of Bain.
“We’re so happy with the unbelievable workforce we’ve got constructed, the purchasers and companions we’ve got labored with, and the wonderful vary of tasks we’ve got had the chance to ship,” Newman said. “We’ve got additionally strived to make a distinction, and it has been a privilege to have been capable of contribute to the expansion of social and sustainable procurement throughout the area.”
