24 - 26 April, 2012
The Tower Guoman, London, United Kingdom

MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONE:

WEDNESDAY 25TH APRIL 2012

08:15 Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
09:00 Chair’s Opening Remarks
Chair’s Opening Remarks
09:10 Aligning procurement and vendor management focus with business leadership to deliver value
Lance Younger, EMEA Services CFO, Goldman Sachs
  • Client, commercial, risk and CSR management strategies impacting vendors
  • Implementing procurement and vendor management opportunities to optimise value
  • Creating a dynamic environment to enable transparent and expedient risk management
  • Integration with the global leadership agenda to deliver performance improvement
Lance Younger

Lance Younger
EMEA Services CFO, Goldman Sachs

Lance is the EMEA Services CFO, and EMEA Services Regional Office General Manager, based in London. Since joining Goldman Sachs in 2009 Lance has also helped lead the establishment of the firmwide Vendor Management Office, co-led the Global Procurement and Commercial Management team and currently is a member of the firmwide EMEA Vendor Management Steering Group and Services Vendor Risk Council. Pr [read more]
09:45 PANEL DISCUSSION: How to encourage innovation in the supplier base to increase product and service offerings
Michael McNulty, Vice President Global Procurement, Lego Company
Kees Gerretse, CPO, Group Director Procurement & Transport, Tatasteel
Karl McEneaney, Head of Procurement, Capital One
  • How to encourage suppliers to bring more to the table which adds value without incurring an additional cost?
  • Keeping the ‘supplier knows best’ mentality to encourage them to innovate and
  • upgrade
  • Challenging the incumbent for better quality, lower cost and innovation in securing supply in a volatile world
Michael McNulty

Michael McNulty
Vice President Global Procurement, Lego Company

Michael McNulty is Senior Vice President with responsibility for Global Procurement within the LEGO Group which is a division of the family-owned and privately-held LEGO Group, one of the world’s largest toy companies, based in Billund, Denmark. Michael McNulty joined LEGO in 2007 as head of their newly established Manufacturing Facility in Kladno in the Czech Republic. Two years later Michael mov [read more]
Kees Gerretse

Kees Gerretse
CPO, Group Director Procurement & Transport, Tatasteel

Kees Gerretse started his career in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. After 13 years service, Kees took up a position in the private sector working for Total oil & gas company. In 1997 Kees joined former Hoogovens and held various directorships across the Company in Logistics and Transport, Commercial and Business Development, and Research and Development. Kees was appointed Group [read more]
Karl McEneaney

Karl McEneaney
Head of Procurement, Capital One

Since finishing full time education I have occupied various commercial roles, and have worked in most major industry sectors and most Procurement categories. As a performer I am used to owning the customer journey through highly complex and impactful strategy /selection / contracting processes, and have led numerous transformational business change programs. I am also an experienced manager and Pr [read more]
10:25 Outsourcing - delivering business benefits beyond cost-elimination
  • Driving sourcing initiatives - using outsourcing as a change agent to promote and implement improvements to business operations
  • Leveraging outsourcing as a vehicle to achieving process enhancements
  • Achieving global process effectiveness
11:00 Morning coffee and networking
Morning coffee and networking
11:30 Leveraging indirect spend in a federated operating model at Centrica
Heather Rodgers, Chief Procurement Officer, Centrica
David Wylie, Head of Procurement, Centrica
Leveraging indirect spend in a federated operating model at Centrica
Heather Rodgers

Heather Rodgers
Chief Procurement Officer, Centrica

Heather Rodgers is the Chief Procurement Officer for Centrica and has responsibility for the overview of procurement spend across the group reporting to the Board. This includes setting strategy and policy with the focus on group level activity, risk management and effective governance .She runs several centres of excellence, including a virtual contract management community across the company for [read more]
David Wylie

David Wylie
Head of Procurement, Centrica

12:00 Globalisation - assessing the impact on procurement and managing the increased complexity in supply chains
Globalisation - assessing the impact on procurement and managing the increased complexity in supply chains
12:45 Structured "Speed" Networking
Structured "Speed" Networking
13:10 Lunch and networking
Lunch and networking
15:50 Afternoon Tea and Networking
Afternoon Tea and Networking
17:20 Interactive Roundtable Session:
Luca Guzzabocca, Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE and Security Management, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A.
Alessandro Spadini, Purchasing Director - Indirect Material, Service, Energy and Investment, Barilla G. e R. Fratelli S.p.A
  • Building services
  • Fleet management
  • Spend management in procuring security
  • Energy management
  • Telecoms
  • Legal services
Luca Guzzabocca

Luca Guzzabocca
Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE and Security Management, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A.

Luca is currently acting as Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE and Security at Montepaschi Group (third Italian leading banking group). Luca has more than 20 years of procurement management experience spent with Italian and multinational companies (Esa Elettronica, Gewiss, Vemer, Black&Decker Power Tools, Riello Group, GlaxoSmithKline) across several market sectors (eg: electr [read more]
Alessandro Spadini

Alessandro Spadini
Purchasing Director - Indirect Material, Service, Energy and Investment, Barilla G. e R. Fratelli S.p.A

Alessandro Spadini is responsible for the procurement of Indirect Spend (Energy, Investment, Corporate and Plant services, IT&TLC) within Barilla. He joined Barilla in 1993 as engineer and project manager for the Technical Department and R&D. Then he moved to Operations, where he covered different roles (Technical Area Manager, Production Manager, Plant Director) in [read more]
18:00 Welcome Drinks Reception and Networking
Welcome Drinks Reception and Networking
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