{"id":28323,"date":"2023-10-12T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/team\/katie-ferrier\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:59:33","slug":"katie-ferrier","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/en-in\/about-us\/executive-team\/katie-ferrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Ferrier"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n \r\n

Regional Director
UK, Ireland and Middle East<\/p>\r\n

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Role at Achilles<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Regional Director, UK, Ireland and Middle East, Katie is focussed on delivering against our commitments and driving value for customers.<\/p>\n

Accountable for transforming the customer focus of the business and developing relationships across buyer and supplier networks, Katie and her team collaborate with customers and internal teams to ensure we deliver quality products and services for customers through detailed business and technical testing.<\/p>\n

Lessons from the past<\/strong><\/p>\n

Katie has been working in major project delivery, transformation and procurement for over 15 years. Starting her career at BAE Systems then Network Rail, Katie held a number of roles including Head of Supplier Engagement, and Senior Programme Manager for Electrification, when she was accountable for over \u00a3500 million of capital projects.<\/p>\n

This experience means Katie is well placed to put herself in the shoes of the customer. Time spent as a buyer, with suppliers means that she can empathise with the challenges and opportunities they face, and thus how Achilles can deliver value and efficiency. In 2011, Katie won Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply \u2013 Supply Management Awards \u2013 People Development Award 2011, and she has been a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply since 2006.<\/p>\n

Katie regularly speaks at events on diversity and inclusion and supply chain collaboration. In terms of her philosophy of business she comments, \u201cI think it\u2019s important to promote a culture of collaborative working and embrace diversity of thought, because I believe this does enable innovation to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Away from work<\/strong><\/p>\n

Katie has a busy life outside work, renovating her house in a village in Northamptonshire.\u00a0 She is a primary school governor, with her project management skills coming in useful in a recent Ofsted inspection!\u00a0 Since her time at Network Rail, Katie has been involved with the charity Railway Children, and in the past has been able to combine this with her passion for rugby, organising charity matches and dinners.\u00a0 When she\u2019s not ferrying children around, Katie is a keen tennis player and loves watching rugby \u2013 whether locally or at Twickenham.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":108928,"template":"","class_list":["post-28323","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/en-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/28323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/en-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/en-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/en-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/en-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}