Social Procurement

Brian Finnigan is an advocate for a society where employment for all Victorians is supported.

A consistent and strong presence within the social procurement community, many will know Brian from his days at Outlook Victoria. Brian built alliances across government and industry as their Director of Partnerships and Stakeholder Relations.

Most recently, Brian has worked on strategy and delivery as an Employer Engagement Specialist with Jobsbank and DJPR – Working for Victoria where he was liaising with councils, major employment partners and key stakeholders to generate employment opportunities for Victorian jobseekers who have been affected by the pandemic. Brian has also previously worked for Brotherhood of St Laurence as Employer Engagement.

Mary Ann Xavier is passionate about raising awareness of strategic and operational requirements of Victoria’s Social Procurement Framework.

Mary Ann has previously worked for Health Purchasing Victoria (HPV) to build the social procurement capability of 83 metropolitan and regional health services by working closely with the Department of Treasury and Finance.

Mary Ann has also worked for Officeworks and was responsible for supply chain mapping of more than 14,000 product lines and establishing a continuous improvement framework for ethical compliance. In this capacity, she supported over 1,200 suppliers to improve their ethical compliance.

Lynn Johnson is a champion for authentic impact of Victoria’s Social Procurement Framework and is committed to creating effective systems that support local, social and sustainable measurement to provide these insights.

Lynn has led the build of ICN’s flagship system, VMC that supports the data collection and management of Government project reporting.

Lynn is delivering accessible platforms to collect data from the supply chain and to manage monitoring and reporting requirements for Government and industry clients.