European procurement provider buyingTeam, has made two new senior appointments within its London office. Gareth Evans has been appointed operations director and joins buyingTeam’s board with immediate effect. Peter Roberts joins as engagement manager, working alongside buyingTeam’s 30-strong engagement team.

As Operations director, Evans is responsible for service delivery to all of buyingTeam’s clients. He brings 18 years of experience across procurement and professional services and was one of the earliest proponents of the procurement outsourcing market. He led the procurement BPO business at PwC, was a partner in Accenture’s BPO business and most recently director of business process consulting at Fujitsu Services.

Roberts joins from Accenture, where he was a solution architect within its Business Process Outsourcing team. There, his role included working with clients to construct outsourcing arrangements to meet their delivery and financial business needs, managing client relationships, defining the scope of services suitable to each client, constructing business cases and preparing transition activities. Prior to working in the Business Process Outsourcing team, he worked with clients such as NTL Telewest, Bank of Ireland and Lloyds TSB, as part of Accenture’s strategic procurement consultancy practice.