19 - 21 April, 2010
Le Meridien Piccadilly Hotel, London

Thinking Outside the Box: Adding High Value to the Bottom-line Through Indirect Procurement

Tuesday, 20 April 2010, Le Meridien Piccadilly, London

 

MAIN CONFERENCE DAY I

08:00 Coffee & Registration
Coffee & Registration
08:45 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
09:00 Indirect Procurement Taking the Lead in Becoming a Value Adding Business Partner
Stephen Hayers, Vice President, Services Procurement, BT
  • Step by step processes of delivering innovation, reducing costs and becoming a partner in value
  • Challenges along the way and how they were overcome
  • Mastering the skill of communicating the value of indirect procurement for the bottom-line of your business
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Stephen Hayers
Vice President, Services Procurement, BT

Stephen is the VP of Services Procurement in BT He has over twenty years in leading Procurement and Supply Chain change across a broad industry base, including aerospace, public sector, telecoms, and industrial and consumer products. Before joining BT, Stephen worked at a senior level within BAE Systems before working as a Principle consultant with A. T. Kearney and a Director at Ernst & Young [read more]
09:40 Leveraging Indirect Spend to Deliver Value
Kristine Moore, Vice President, Global Functions Sourcing, Shell
  • Identifying the challenge: Aggregating fragmented enterprise-wide spend
  • How to leverage category management, supplier management and contract management
  • Optimising systems and channel management to deliver value
  • Managing stakeholders and best practice governance methods
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    Kristine Moore
    Vice President, Global Functions Sourcing, Shell

    Kristine joined Shell in 2001 as Business Development Manager for Shell International Exploration & Production. In this capacity she worked on deal teams in pursuit of major upstream opportunities. She implemented the first cross-business, global business development team to manage Shell’s aggregate portfolio of EP business development opportunities. Since 2003 Kristine has been leading segmen [read more]
    10:20 Morning Coffee Networking Break
    Morning Coffee Networking Break
    10:50 Managing the Implications of Global Procurement Agreements and Ensuring Value through the Life-Cycle of Contracts
    Courtney McGovern, UK Vertical Lead, Global Procurement Services, Capital One
    • Measuring how much value, savings and business contribution were generated out of a contract
    • Capturing supplier’s mind to create business advantages
    • Creating tools and techniques to understand and restructure relationships throughout the life-cycle of contracts
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    Courtney McGovern
    UK Vertical Lead, Global Procurement Services, Capital One

    Courtney joined Capital One, a Fortune 200 company specializing in consumer financial lending services, in 2004. Originally based in the U.S., she negotiated complex services and technology contracts for several lines of business, including contracts for data, data processing, software, ASP, hosting, marketing, cross-sell and outsourced services. She also counselled business lines and senior execu [read more]
    11:20 Panel Discussion: How Can Indirect Procurement Add Value to the Bottom-line?
    Marc Lange, VP, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, The Walt Disney Company
    Julian Hooks, CPO, Janssen-Cilag EMEA, Johnson and Johnson
    Sebastian Schubert, Head of Indirect Procurement, Bombardier Transport
    Patric Petit Belleville, Head of Indirect Procurement, Thales
    • Increasing indirect procurement’s contribution to the budget, rather than simply saving costs
    • How can indirect procurement contribute to the availability of net working capital?
    • How can you prepare your business and career for the fast changing values in indirect procurement?
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    Marc Lange
    VP, Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, The Walt Disney Company

    Marc joined Disney's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group in April 2003 to lead the EMEA Sourcing & Procurement department and since 2008, has added the Asia Pacific group. He has spent the last 7 years building up strong business partnerships with the various Disney business executives and delivering value across a broad range of categories. Prior to joining Disney, Marc was based in Fr [read more]
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    Julian Hooks
    CPO, Janssen-Cilag EMEA, Johnson and Johnson

    Julian Hooks is the Global Procurement Category Leader, for Marketing, in Johnson and Johnson.In this capacity, Julian is tasked with providing procurement leadership for Johnson and Johnson’s marketing spends where Johnson and Johnson is a top 10 Global Advertiser (#7, 2008 Advertising Age survey). He does this through delivering outstanding procurement solutions that enhance J&J’s marketing [read more]
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    Sebastian Schubert
    Head of Indirect Procurement, Bombardier Transport

    Sebastian Schubert is the Global Head of Indirect Procurement in Bombardier Transportation, the world's leader in rail technology. His tasks consist in leading a team of Lead Buyers as well as five regions to continuously reduce global indirect spend. Indirect spend includes all categories related to IS, Travel Management, Facility Management and Corporate Services. Sebastian joined Bombardier Tra [read more]
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    Patric Petit Belleville
    Head of Indirect Procurement, Thales

    Patric Petit Belleville is Group Purchasing Director General Expenses and IT Services (GE&ITS) for the Thales Group. With operations in 50 countries and 68,000 employees, Thales is a global technology leader for the aerospace, space, defence, security and transportation markets. His main responsibilities are detailed below:- Manage existing GE&ITS Shared Services (France and UK)- Create ne [read more]
    12:00 Structured “Speed” Networking
    Structured “Speed” Networking
    12:30 Lunch
    Lunch
    14:50 Afternoon Coffee Networking Break
    Afternoon Coffee Networking Break
    15:20 Category Spend Roundtables Round I
    I. Travel & Distribution
    II. Facilities Management
    III. Logistics & Shipping
    IV. Professional Services
    V. Energy/Utilities
    Hosted by Steve Gilliland, Head of Utilities & Energy Category Management, BAE Systems
    VI. Telecommunications
    16:00 Category Spend Roundtables Round II
    Category Spend Roundtables Round II
    16:40 End of Main Conference Day 1
    End of Main Conference Day 1
    17:00 ProcureCon Indirect Drinks Reception
    ProcureCon Indirect Drinks Reception
    18:00 ProcureCon Indirect Dinner
    Shaun McCarthy, Chairman, Commission for a Sustainable London 2010
    Dinner Guest Speaker
    “London Olympics: Swimming Upstream – Sustainable in Difficult Times?”
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    Shaun McCarthy
    Chairman, Commission for a Sustainable London 2010

    Shaun is a leading advocate of sustainable business practices. His current portfolio includes Chair of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, an independent assurance body for the London Olympics, Director of Action Sustainability, a social enterprise to inspire sustainable procurement and associate of the Institute for Sustainability, an international research body and charity. He is also [read more]