Meet Matthew Fuller, Executive Director, Commercial and Strategic Projects

Matthew is excited to join Corporate Services and lead the Commercial and Strategic Projects team to deliver a diverse range of initiatives.

What are the biggest opportunities for you and your team working in this new operating model?

Partnering with all parts of the organisation to drive real value through the work we do. This comes in varying forms but is intent on the same fairly simplistic outcome – to increase value internally that can be passed on to our customers.

Whether it’s through the coordination of Transport’s Corporate Services, creating effective policy and strategic support for procurement, or as the lead on Transport’s Financial Sustainability strategic priority, our branch is all about increasing value and driving continuous improvement.

What’s your biggest achievement to date (for you and/or your team)?

I admire the way my team has responded to assist Transport’s and the NSW Government’s response to the current pandemic. Our procurement team, working closely with TSS, have secured critical supplies and PPE for all of Government, including a massive order of hand sanitiser, to ensure Health, Education, Transport and others had access to vital supplies. Supporting our Transport Taskforce and the State Emergency Operations Centre in this way is something the team and I are very proud of.

What would you like to see your team achieve this year?

There are quite a few priorities we are already setting ourselves up to deliver. These include reconfiguring our support for Transport to ensure that our Financial Sustainability objectives are delivered in a strong partnership model across all of our operations and support services.

Another is Given we have around $5 billion of contract expiries coming up in the next 12 months across Transport, we will be working with all areas to see what sort of value we can drive from these while also thinking about our social and regional procurement objectives. If we achieve a 2.5% saving, that’s around $125 million saved, but I’m sure we can all do better than that!

I would also like us to deliver on our Reconciliation Action Plan targets and develop a Commercial Strategy that helps Transport support the community better than ever.