Stronger vendor relationships, lower costs and more benefits.
Hello and welcome to the official website of Agostino Carrideo, your go-to expert in vendor management. With over 25 years of experience and a proven track record in the industry, and I am recognised as a #1 Amazon Best Seller Author in Vendor Management.
I am the founder of Vendor Management Experts, I offer expert consultancy and advisory services in vendor management, providing both strategic guidance and practical solutions to optimise your vendor relationships and improve your operational efficiency.
Explore my website to learn more about my professional journey, the services I offer, and how Vendor Management Experts can support your business needs. Whether you’re looking for staff augmentation, consultancy, mentoring, or strategic advice, you’ve come to the right place.
Feel free to navigate through my professional highlights, client testimonials and learn about other interests beyond vendor management.
Agostino Carrideo
Step into my professional realm, where you'll discover a spectrum of services and expertise I offer.
Vendor Management Staff Augmentation
Vendor Management Baseline Services
Vendor Lifecycle Management Maturity Assessment
Vendor Lifecycle Management
Vendor Management Talks
Vendor Management Mentoring
As a vendor management expert, my typical engagements revolve around enhancing vendor management and procurement teams. This includes bolstering existing vendor management and procurement teams, establishing new vendor management processes, and providing mentorship to leadership teams on best practices in vendor management.
Procurement Specialisations include Professional Services, Telco, Cloud, Software, Infrastructure, IT Security, and Workplace. From multimillion-dollar contracts to interactions with vendors from around the globe, the diversity of responsibilities under my management has been immense.
Experience
Reduce Costs: By negotiating better terms, eliminating unnecessary expenses, and optimising vendor relationships, I’ll help you save money and boost profitability.
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Increase Efficiency: My streamlined processes and tools will enhance efficiency, saving you time and resources so you can focus on growing your business.
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Mitigate Risks: I'll help you identify and mitigate potential risks associated with vendors, ensuring compliance and protecting your business reputation.
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Improve Performance: Through proactive monitoring and management, I'll ensure that your vendors deliver on their promises, meeting or exceeding your expectations.
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Vendor Relationship Management: Acting as a liaison between procurement leaders and business stakeholders, facilitating productive vendor relationships, resolving conflicts, and ensuring alignment between procurement objectives and business needs.
Training and Education: Offering mentoring and training sessions and educational resources to technology and procurement leaders and their teams, equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage vendors and navigate complex vendor relationships.
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“Agostino is a highly skilled leader with expertise in the value of mutually valued relationship building. He thoroughly understands the ecosystem of outsourcing, the benefits, and value creation when parties align their core values in their ongoing actions in business relations. Highly recommend working with Agostino for his positive insights and forward thinking based approach.”
Amanda Pugh - Vice President, Relationship Management - Genpact
“Agostino is a highly commercial sourcing manager with a deep appreciation of deal dynamics and the financial interests of the contracting parties.”
Lazaros Zikou - Senior Legal Counsel - CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy
“Charismatic expert in IT and Sourcing with sensational network of contacts. Agostino can design and deliver with equal depth. Highly recommended.”
David Ward - Managing Director - Mission Dynamics® - Board Chair, Non-Executive Director and Chair Advisory Board - Life Sherpa®
“Agostino is a very experienced senior procurement, vendor management and commercial manager who worked for me for over 3 years within NAB undertaking a large and diverse range of very complex and challenging procurement activities. He engaged very well with colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers alike, to obtain the best value outcome for NAB, whilst taking into consideration impacting factors including risk and regulatory requirements. Agostino was a valued team member who contributed significantly to our organisation.”
Philip Barrett - Head of Strategic Sourcing - Technology Infrastructure - National Australia Bank
“It has been a difficult relationship and you tempered the broader engagements to enable us to get resolutions and outcomes in pointing the NAB business to where they needed to be and that was desperately needed at the time. You also communicated honestly and with integrity enabling us to respond and act accordingly. Your level of experience and expertise is just what was needed for this engagement at this time. ”
Louise Breccione-Mattucci - Regional Sales Manager - Splunk Inc.
“Really appreciate the level of headedness you brought to Splunks discussions with NAB over the past year.”
Pat Breen- Regional Sales Director - Strategic Accounts - Splunk Inc.
“I am thrilled to endorse Agostino Carrideo for his outstanding contribution to the CST program's Gen AI Digitise Service Stream. Agostino played a pivotal role in helping us achieve a historic milestone: the first Generative AI Master Service Agreement and SOW in Australia Post's history.
At a critical juncture, Agostino stepped in to assist our Procurement team, offering invaluable guidance in this complex area. His calm demeanor and extensive experience were instrumental in helping our team accomplish this key strategic and critical path task. Without his expertise, we would have faced significant impacts on our timeline and deliverables.
Agostino's dedication and willingness to go the extra mile truly set him apart. His hard work and commitment were deeply appreciated by the entire team. Thank you, Agostino, for your incredible contribution to Australia Post's success in this groundbreaking initiative.”
Eric Thomas - Gen AI Digitise Service Stream Program Manager
Australia Post
Optimising Vendor Relationships: A Strategic Process Flow for Effective Vendor Management
Unlocking Value: Maximising Efficiency and Savings Through Strategic Vendor Management
Protect Your Savings: The Costly Consequence of Neglecting Vendor Management.
Without a rigorous Vendor Management process, 75% of the sourcing savings can disappear within 18 Months.
Professional Highlights
Over the past three years, I've had the privilege of working within the strategic sourcing function at National Australia Bank (NAB), a prominent player in Australia's banking sector. My journey with NAB and other renowned organisations has been distinguished by multiple callback contracts, a testament to the validation of my professional contracting career. During my time at NAB, I was contracted as a senior strategic sourcing consultant, my role was primarily focused on augmenting the capacity of the technology strategic sourcing team and mentoring technology executives on complex sourcing and vendor management best practices.
I am currently contracting at Australia Post, providing commercial and vendor management services and supporting maturity uplift of the vendor management function and governance.
Previous contracts encompass renowned organisations such as IBM GSA, KPMG, GE Money, BAE Systems/Xchanging, AGL Energy, Sensis, Origin Energy, Telstra, The Faculty, AT Kearney/Phoenix Consulting, SP AusNet, MMG, Entity Solutions, Capgemini Australia, Jetstar, Australian Unity, Asahi, National Australia Bank.
Agostino Carrideo
Learn more about Agostino Carrideo
Beyond my professional career, I have additional interests
With more than 25 years of experience in technology strategic sourcing and vendor management, I serve as a trusted advisor. I hold a Master's degree in Information Management and Systems from Monash University and Graduate Diploma in Business Technolgy from Monash University.
I am Senior Member of the Australian Computer Society and past board member for the Australian Computer Society (2016-2018) Victorian branch, am honored to be recognised as a #1 Amazon best-selling author in this field. I have mentored hundreds of professionals, delivered keynote talks and been guest speaker on podcasts.
As a biohacking advocate, I believe in the potential of self-optimisation to unlock human potential and achieve peak performance.
I find joy in mentoring others to improve their physical and mental well-being, longevity, and overall quality of life.
During my time working with NAB, I arranged lunch and learn sessions and micro talks within the office, where I provided tips to my procurement colleagues on effective stress management, drawing from areas of personal interest.
Takeaway lessons showed by incorporating micro resilience methods into your daily routine, you can build greater resilience to stress and better manage the demands of corporate life.
My motivation stems from personal experience, insights from my mentoring clients and witnessing the high levels of unmanaged stress and burnout prevalent in corporate environments, prompting me to integrate my knowledge and resilience strategies into my daily vendor management interactions.
As part of my commitment to transparency and full disclosure, I offer a range of services beyond vendor management. These include wellbeing talks, services and products tailored to support my corporate clients in managing stress and preventing burnout, which I believe complement and enhance the value I bring to my clients.
It's important to note that these additional services and/or products are not automatically included as part of my vendor management offerings unless specifically requested. By offering a diverse skill set, I aim to provide comprehensive support and avoid any potential conflicts of interest. Rest assured, my commitment is to always deliver within the defined scope of my contracts.
I founded BTM Group and co-own Hypervibe in Australia, two brands that offer wellbeing programs and products based on biofeedback, FDA registered whole-body vibration plate machines, and other cutting-edge technologies.
Hear me on Real Conversations podcast where I share practical ways you can reduce your stress levels in the workplace and at home in order to pursue your life goals.
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