Transforming Procurement.
Strengthening Third-Party Governance.

Eban Partners is a boutique advisory firm helping organisations transform procurement, strengthen supplier and third-party governance, and build practical operating models that support sustainable performance.

We combine senior leadership experience with hands-on delivery to help clients move from complexity and uncertainty to greater structure, control and confidence.

About Eban Partners

Eban Partners is an independent advisory firm specialising in procurement transformation, third-party risk management, supplier governance and operating model design.

We work with organisations that need experienced leadership to shape strategy, strengthen governance, resolve complex delivery challenges or establish more effective ways of working.

Our approach combines strategic thinking with practical implementation. We do not simply produce recommendations and leave clients to work out what happens next. We work alongside leadership teams and delivery functions to translate priorities into clear plans, practical frameworks and sustainable change.

Eban Partners was founded by an experienced procurement and third-party risk leader with more than 30 years of professional experience, including over 15 years in senior leadership roles across financial services, consulting and FMCG.

Our Services

Procurement Transformation

We help organisations assess, redesign and strengthen procurement functions so that they are better aligned to business priorities.

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Support may include:

  • Procurement strategy
  • Function maturity assessments
  • Target operating model design
  • Governance and decision rights
  • Process redesign and simplification
  • Organisational structure and capability
  • Technology and implementation readiness
  • Transformation programme leadership

Third-Party Risk Management

We help organisations establish and improve practical, proportionate third-party risk management frameworks.

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Support may include:

  • TPRM framework design and enhancement
  • Governance and accountability
  • Risk assessment and due diligence processes
  • Supplier segmentation and tiering
  • Risk appetite and tolerance
  • Control design
  • Issues, exemptions and remediation
  • Regulatory readiness
  • First-line operating models
  • Oversight, reporting and management information

Supplier Governance and Performance

We help clients strengthen the way important supplier relationships are governed, monitored and developed.

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Support may include:

  • Supplier relationship management frameworks
  • Critical and strategic supplier governance
  • Performance measures and scorecards
  • KPIs and KRIs
  • Service review structures
  • Escalation and issue management
  • Supplier resilience and continuity
  • Executive supplier engagement
  • Joint improvement planning

Contracting and Regulatory Remediation

We support organisations dealing with complex contracting requirements, legacy issues and regulatory change.

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Support may include:

  • Contract governance
  • Contract lifecycle management process design
  • Contract remediation programmes
  • Outsourcing and third-party contract requirements
  • Intra-group agreements
  • Regulatory registers
  • Regulatory-related contract remediation
  • Governance over contract deviations and exemptions
  • Stakeholder and supplier negotiation

Operating Model and Programme Leadership

We provide experienced leadership where organisations need additional capacity, direction or specialist expertise.

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Support may include:

  • Interim leadership
  • Fractional leadership
  • Programme mobilisation
  • Transformation programme direction
  • Governance design
  • Workstream leadership
  • Executive advisory support
  • Independent reviews
  • Advisory board and non-executive support

Flexible Support, Focused on Delivery

Every organisation has different priorities, levels of maturity and internal capacity. Eban Partners therefore provides flexible support shaped around the outcome required.

Interim Leadership

Experienced senior leadership embedded within the organisation for a defined period, helping to stabilise, transform or lead a critical function or programme.

Fractional Leadership

Ongoing senior expertise for organisations that need experienced leadership but do not require, or are not yet ready for, a full-time appointment.

Advisory

Independent advice, challenge and practical support for leadership teams addressing strategic, operational or regulatory priorities.

Project-Based Delivery

Clearly defined assignments with agreed objectives, deliverables and timelines, from diagnostic reviews and framework design to programme mobilisation and remediation.

Engagements may range from focused short-term assignments to longer transformation programmes, depending on the client’s requirements.

How We Approach Our Work

  1. Understand

    We begin by understanding the organisation, the current position, the outcome required and the constraints that may affect delivery.

  2. Define

    We establish priorities, clarify accountabilities and develop a practical route from the current state to the desired outcome.

  3. Deliver

    We work alongside stakeholders to implement the agreed approach, resolve issues and maintain momentum.

  4. Embed

    We help ensure that improvements are understood, owned and sustainable after the engagement concludes.

Practical solutions, clear accountability and sustainable change.

Experience That Connects Strategy and Delivery

The founder brings more than 30 years of procurement and commercial experience, built on strong foundations in category management and strategic sourcing and extending through to senior leadership of procurement transformation, third-party risk, supplier governance and complex change.

This includes:

  • More than 15 years in senior leadership roles
  • Deep procurement foundations, including category management and strategic sourcing
  • Procurement and third-party risk transformation
  • Global operating model design
  • Regulatory remediation
  • Supplier and contract governance
  • Executive stakeholder management
  • Complex programme leadership
  • Experience working with regulators and regulatory expectations, including those associated with the PRA, ECB, Federal Reserve and EBA outsourcing requirements

The founder brings experience gained across leading organisations including Deutsche Bank, Diageo, Cadbury Schweppes and Accenture.

Who We Support

We work with organisations that need experienced support to strengthen procurement, supplier management or third-party governance.

This may include:

  • Growing businesses establishing more structured procurement and supplier controls
  • Organisations undertaking procurement or operating model transformation
  • Regulated firms responding to third-party risk and outsourcing requirements
  • Leadership teams requiring independent advice or additional senior capacity
  • Businesses addressing complex supplier, contracting or governance challenges
  • Technology and service providers seeking practical procurement insight

Our approach is proportionate to the organisation’s size, operating environment, risk profile and ambitions.

Partner Solutions

Where appropriate, Eban Partners also works with selected technology and specialist partners whose services can support clients’ procurement and supplier management objectives.

Our approach remains independent and client-led. We recommend solutions only where they are relevant to the client’s requirements and provide clear value.

BuyingStation

Eban Partners is a BuyingStation reseller partner.

BuyingStation provides an accessible procurement platform designed to help organisations manage sourcing, supplier information, contracts and procurement activity through a more structured digital environment.

Eban Partners can support clients in assessing whether the platform is suitable for their requirements and, where appropriate, assist with the wider processes, governance and operating model required to support effective adoption.

Eban Partners may receive a referral or reseller fee where a client purchases a partner solution through Eban Partners. Any such arrangement will be communicated transparently.

Why Eban Partners

Senior Experience

Direct access to experienced senior leadership rather than a heavily layered consulting team.

Practical Delivery

Advice grounded in real-world implementation, stakeholder management and delivery.

Flexible Engagement

Support can be provided on an interim, fractional, advisory or project basis.

Independent Perspective

Clear, objective advice focused on the client’s priorities and operating environment.

Let’s Discuss Your Priorities

Whether you are planning a transformation, strengthening third-party governance, addressing a specific delivery challenge or simply exploring what support may be required, we would be pleased to have an initial conversation.

Prefer email? Contact us directly at bridget@ebanpartners.com.

We aim to respond to enquiries within two working days.