With your own team
Working inside your commercial, finance or operational function, using your governance and your systems, so the capability stays with the people who will still be there afterwards.
About
Fourteen years of commercial work, under one name.
Nexus Connect Limited has been trading since 2012, on procurement, contracts, supply chain and commercial transformation for organisations across the UK.
Trading since 2012
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Commercial work, for organisations where the decisions carry.
Nexus Connect works on the commercial side of organisations: what they buy, who they buy it from, what those arrangements cost, and whether the things they have committed to get delivered.
The clients are mostly organisations where a commercial decision has consequences beyond the balance sheet. Public sector bodies, NHS and care providers, hospices, housing associations, regulated utilities, and corporate organisations whose procurement function is under pressure.
The work ranges from a single re-tender through to multi-year commercial transformation. It covers the advice, the design, the sourcing and the delivery, and it is scoped so that one of those is never quietly assumed to include the others.
Boutique by design, senior by default.
Nexus Connect is deliberately lean. There is no standing bench to keep occupied, so an engagement is staffed against the requirement rather than against a utilisation forecast, and the people who scope the work are the people who do it.
That is a structural choice, not a limitation. It is what allows a substantial programme to have experienced commercial judgement on it continuously, rather than at review points, and it is why the person who understood the problem in the first meeting is still there for the last one.
- What is fixed
- Senior ownership of the commercial outcome, named from the outset
- What flexes
- The specialists around it, agreed with you in advance
- What is agreed first
- Scope, cost, timescale and success criteria, in writing
- What you are left with
- A position your own team can hold
The team is sized to the engagement.
A contract review and a multi-year commercial transformation need different things. Rather than fit both to one delivery shape, Nexus Connect works in whichever of these four ways the engagement calls for, and often more than one across a programme.
With specialist practitioners
Experienced specialists brought in by name for a category, a technology, a jurisdiction or a volume of delivery. You are told who they are, and why, before they start.
Alongside other partners
Programmes rarely have one adviser on them. We take the commercial thread and work with the systems integrator, the legal advisers and the delivery partners already in place.
Leading a workstream
The commercial workstream inside a larger transformation, reporting into the programme's own governance rather than running a parallel one beside it.
Who leads the work.
Adam Parry MCIPS
Director
Adam is a procurement and transformation practitioner. His background covers procurement transformation, strategic sourcing, source-to-pay and procurement technology, programme delivery, commercial transformation, supplier and contract management, and operating model and change delivery.
He is a member of The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, and his professional background is on LinkedIn. Enquiries that arrive through this site are read by him, and he is the person you meet at the first conversation.
Four things we hold to.
Say the difficult thing early
Commercial problems get more expensive the longer they are described optimistically. If a programme is not going to land, or a saving is not real, you hear it from us first.
Scope to the problem, not to the fee
The right recommendation is sometimes a smaller piece of work than you came for, and occasionally none at all. Saying so is cheaper for everyone than the alternative.
Work in the open
Our reasoning, assumptions and evidence stay visible to the client. A recommendation you cannot interrogate is not much use when someone challenges it.
Leave the capability behind
The measure of an engagement is whether the position holds once we stop: documentation, process, trained people and a named owner for whatever we put in place.
Procurement decisions carry ethical weight. They determine which organisations get paid, on what terms, and what conditions the people delivering the work operate under. Three commitments follow from that, and each of them is checkable.
- Independent technology advice. We do not resell software, hold no vendor partnerships, and take no commission on a recommendation.
- Social and environmental value written to be enforced. Built into sourcing criteria and contract terms, not added at evaluation, and drafted so suppliers can be held to it afterwards.
- Proportionate treatment of suppliers. Realistic timescales, documentation sized to the contract, and prompt decisions. Smaller suppliers pay a disproportionate price for a badly run procurement.
The formal position.
- Registered name
- Nexus Connect Limited
- Company number
- 08029067
- Incorporated
- 13 April 2012, England and Wales
- Registered office
- Unit 102 Bowen Court, St Asaph Business Park, St Asaph, Denbighshire LL17 0JE
- Professional body
- Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (MCIPS)
- Also operates
- BRIEF, getbrief.uk
Much of the work is commercially sensitive, so client names are not published here. In a conversation we can describe comparable assignments and, with permission, introduce you to someone who can speak to them.
Next step
Describe the position and we will tell you whether there is work in it.
Enquiries reach Adam Parry directly, usually answered within one working day. Email works just as well as the form.