Michael Paterson

Michael Paterson is an accomplished commercially focused procurement professional, partnering with business to optimise financial, commercial and strategic outcomes. A strong leader with experience in end-to-end procurement, category management, focused on total lifecycle cost optimisation, innovation and supplier performance. Maintaining a future state focus of proactive practices to identify and deliver innovate supply solutions. Michael has spent 8 years at Pacific National and is currently the Procurement Manager – Rollingstock and has previously managed the fuel portfolio. His experience has also included infrastructure and indirect categories. Michael has had exposure to FMCG, manufacturing and the health care sector and has worked overseas. Michael has a Master of Business, Honours Degree in Industrial Engineering and Computing, Prince2 and Agile Project management accreditations and has recently started his MCIPS qualification.