Facilities Management Association

 

 

 

The PHS Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Tony Ritchings as its Group Director of Procurement.

Tony joined the leading route based workplace services provider on 18th March 2013 from his former position with construction, facilities and services management company Aspire Defence Services.
 
He brings a wealth of procurement experience to the company through his work for Aspire and other blue chip organisations including Serco, Amey, Tubelines and National Power.   Tony has a strong track record of building and developing successful procurement teams, which have delivered market leading strategic sourcing and supply chain solutions, and which have produced sustainable year-on-year cost improvements.
 
Tony will direct and co-ordinate all procurement activity across the Group, delivering ‘best in class’ contractual arrangements, procurement services and practices, optimising supply chains into the Group and ensuring a good commercial balance between ongoing cost reduction, quality of provision and security of supply.

Tony comments:
 
“I’m delighted to be joining PHS during such a dynamic phase in its development, and look forward to supporting the company’s future growth with best practice procurement.”
 

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The PHS Group is a leading workplace services provider, and has traded in the UK since 1963. It has a diverse portfolio of services aimed at improving work and leisure spaces, while making life much easier for facilities, building and people managers. 

 

It really does ‘do more than you think’, providing services for:

 

·         Crate rental and packaging

·         Interior and exterior planting

·         Laundry equipment and workwear

·         Matting and flooring

·         Pest control

·         Records storage and management

·         Shredding and recycling services

·         Testing and compliance

·         Washrooms

·         Waste management

·         Water machines

·         Workplace consumables

 

PHS provides these services direct to UK companies, and also operates as a tier one supplier to the facilities management market, supporting the integrated service propositions of most of the major FMs.

 

The PHS Group employs around 5,000 personnel, operates from a network of 153 regional service branches, and takes care of over 250,000 customers at over 450,000 locations in the UK, Ireland, Holland, Belgium and Spain.