About us

Established in 1999, we are one of the UK's leading independent business cost management consultancy practices, reducing the direct and indirect costs associated with the procurement, management and ongoing usage of utilities for a growing number of public and private sector clients throughout the UK.

Our client portfolio includes organisations from both the public and private sectors; from large corporates and local authorities to relatively small companies spending less than £20,000 a year on their utilities.

Methodology

We have a 5-step approach to success:

In-depth audit of current expenditure (carried out at the client's premises);

Data analysis and market analysis/tendering (compliant with client's rules and standing orders for purchasing);

Presentation of our report detailing our findings and recommendations;

Implementation of all agreed recommendations;

Ongoing monitoring, query management and implementation of improved administrative procedures.

As the diagram shows, the process is not linear, but can go through many iterations to ensure that each client is gaining the maximum cost benefit. This is because businesses change; their markets change; and the utility market itself is constantly changing and only by constantly re-evaluating our recommendations are we able to consistently deliver best value.

Our people

Whilst our offices are always staffed during normal business hours, our people are encouraged to work where and when they wish, as long as we always deliver outstanding service for our clients. To this end we are committed to using the very latest technology to enable our people to keep in touch with our clients and for our clients to contact us when they need us.

Steve Bellerby, Managing Partner

In the years before founding Smith Bellerby in May 1999, Steve operated as Head of Procurement and Logistics for group companies of GKN plc, Biwater plc and Anglian Water plc. Steve's primary focus is telecommunications, but he also oversees the marketing function within the business.

Jenny Smith B.Met (Hons), C.Eng., Partner

Jenny Smith graduated from Sheffield University in 1982 with a first class honours degree in metallurgy (and was winner of the Mappin medal). Having qualified as a Chartered Engineer, Jenny rose to senior management level within GKN plc and managed worldwide innovation projects for the group. Jenny joined Smith Bellerby in 2002 and now provides the focus for all energy, energy management and water services management within the business.

David Bate, Utility Analyst

Before joining Smith Bellerby, David gained an in-depth knowledge of the energy industry working as a power forecasting Analyst with Gaz de France ESS and RWE Npower. David's principle responsibilities are the management and processing of client's data received from utility suppliers and dealing with the queries that is generates.

Donnamirelle Joyce, Business Development Manager

Donnamirelle joined Smith Bellerby having held similar positions with two large businesses in the West Midlands. Donna was one of our first "flexible workers", managing the joint demands of a young family and the needs of the business using the latest "remote worker" technology.

Gill Brown, Office Administrator

Gill manages most aspects of company administration and keeps our offices running efficiently with the minimum of fuss. Gill has previously held administrative posts within a major UK plc, in education (both in the UK and overseas) and in local government. In the past she has also simultaneously run her own company, project managed a house self-build and raised a family!

Sharon King, Data Management

Sharon joined Smith Bellerby from the Royal Air Force, where she helped monitor and track emergency search and rescue beacons using sophisticated satellite technology.

Sharon has controlled our data and supervised our document management system since the business went "paperless" in 2006.

Mission and ethics

We are committed to working with our clients to:

reduce their costs
improve the management of their utilities and
reduce waste generally

We seek to work only with organisations whose business ethics are of the very highest order, and we aim to at least match this ourselves in the way that we deal with our clients, our suppliers, and our clients' suppliers.

Regulation

Smith Bellerby Limited are full members of The Association of Cost Management Consultants (ACMC).

The way in which we work with our clients is regulated by the ACMC Code of Conduct, which can be accessed by clicking on the link below:

The ACMC Code of Conduct

Accreditation

We are currently pre-qualified for Public Sector contracts for:

business and management consultancy services,

procurement consultancy services,

general management consultancy services,

mobile telephone services,

telecommunications consultancy services,

energy management services, and

energy efficiency consultancy services

under the Select-Accredit supplier accreditation scheme operated by BiP Solutions and Constructionline. Our accreditation number is 66237.

Environmental Policy

By helping other organisations (our clients) to reduce their carbon footprint, we believe that we are making a positive contribution to the environment. However, we are always looking to reduce our own impact on the environment.

At Smith Bellerby we believe in protecting our environment by ensuring that we are as "green" as is feasibly possible. We will continually monitor our Environmental Policy by looking at where we are able to "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle" in all our business dealings.

As we become aware of new technologies that may help to reduce our clients' environmental impact, we will obviously make them fully aware of these developments and will also publicise details using our e-Newsletter, so that all our clients may benefit.

Business travel

We will only undertake business travel if it is absolutely unavoidable. Where business travel cannot be avoided we will try to minimise it's impact by using public transport wherever reasonably possible.

Communication within the business

At Smith Bellerby we will ensure that all employees are aware of the company's Environmental Policy. We insist that all employees act in accordance with the policy and encourage them to highlight any areas where continuous improvement can be made to reduce our environmental impact.

Purchasing

Smith Bellerby will only purchase items that have already been recycled or which can be recycled/reused when they are no longer required by the business.

Waste

In circumstances where waste means waste - i.e. an item can not be reused, recycled or reduced - then we will ensure that the waste contractors used to dispose of these materials hold the necessary licences and legal documentation to carry out the disposal on our behalf in a manner that is least damaging to the environment.

Progress to date

All paper that we receive is first scanned and then shredded. All packaging we receive is similarly shredded. 100% of our shredded paper and packaging materials are sent to a pulp mill for re-use and recycling.
All printer cartridges and toner cartridges are recycled.
All lighting installed within our offices is now low energy, high efficiency lighting.
Our MD has decided that his next car will be a hybrid!