Samuel Lawrence

Sam Lawrence is an experienced public sector leader specialising in Government and Infrastructure across the central and local government sectors. Sam started his career in the food retail industry where he managed several transformation, technology and commercial projects across leading food retailers. Following a successful 12 years in the food retail industry he took up a senior post in the Cabinet Office where he led the business unit responsible for a commercial public joint-venture as the CO (Crown Oversight). Sam's broad technology and shared service experience led to him taking further central leadership roles culminating in developing key policy for Civil Service ERP and BPO technology transformation and procurement. Sam has a strong understanding and core ideal for delivering social value through our public facing organisations.

Sam is currently a Deputy Director leading a Government & Public Sector market proposition for a leading global consultancy firm specialising in centralisation, technology consolidation and GMPP shared service programmes. He is a procurement professional, and long-term Mentor through the Crossing Thresholds programme.