Marr Procurement
Marr Procurement is the UK’s leading care sector procurement specialist, having delivered savings for over fifty health and social care providers. Christoph Marr started Marr Procurement because he believed there had to be a fairer, more transparent way to do business. At its inception, these were the central tenets of Marr Procurement and, coupled with values of integrity, fairness and quality, remain the unwavering ethos today.
Clients include for-profit and not-for-profit providers of learning disability services, primary care, secondary care, mental health, dementia, specialist/ABI care, residential, extra care and home care, so the business understands the pressures facing a wide range of health and care organisations. With a team of 20 employees and Sir William Wells as Chairman (who has five decades of health and care experience), Marr Procurement delivers real savings without compromising on care or quality.
We partnered with the VODG for a number of reasons, not least because we recognised the extraordinary work the VODG does every day to support their members, many of which are our clients. Given that Marr Procurement, the Care Sector Procurement Specialist, works with over fifty care providers in the UK, the advice and guidance we’ve received from the VODG has been invaluable. We look forward to continuing our relationship for years to come
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Christoph Marr
Christoph started his procurement career with Marks & Spencer after they sponsored him at University and went onto spend six years as Buyer then Buying Manager at the M&S Head Office in London. In 2001 IBM recruited Christoph as Senior Consultant and he was seconded as Head of Procurement for IBM Europe Middle East and Africa to help build the IBM UK Procurement Consulting practice involving procurement projects across the private and public sector in the UK, Europe and the US.
In March 2008 Care UK Plc recruited Christoph to create a procurement function and two years later was invited to join a ten strong team involved in a ￡300m venture capitalist backed management buyout.
In 2013 he was appointed as a judge for the annual Management Consulting Association awards and in 2014 Christoph founded the UK Procurement Leader Care Network, a group consisting of 51 Health & Social Care Procurement Directors with aggregated spend of ￡1bn.
Christoph has a 1st Class BA Honours degree from the Aberdeen Business School where he specialised in supply chain quality and his career ambition has been to create a procurement business which operates with real integrity, which always puts clients first and which only employs extraordinary people who have a passion for procurement – this is what differentiates Marr Procurement.