Duncan Brock

Customer Relationships Director
The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply

Duncan has over 25 years consulting and procurement experience as a change driver working with senior executives and procurement leadership teams in the design and mobilisation of business-wide processes in category management and supplier relationship management. His procurement experience comes from working with Ford, Mars, Black & Decker, NTL, and R&SA, where he has personally had direct line accountability for expenditure in excess of £2bn in both production (direct) and indirect categories. During his 10 years as a senior consultant with both QP Group and Future Purchasing he has successfully implemented category management, and developed the skills and capabilities of procurement teams, in a number of clients such as Diageo, Barclays & Nestlé.

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Sustaining Value Creation to Continuously Contribute to the Top and Bottom Line

Friday, April 11th, 2014

11:45 Stream A : 360° Roundtable Discussions

Roundtable 1
How to Develop a Comprehensive Talent Strategy that Delivers Value to Your Business

Duncan Brock, Director of Client Relationships, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply

Join Duncan Brock for this interactive discussion to understand how your peers are developing talent so you can improve your approach:

How to become a customer of choice
The key factors that talent look for from an organization today
How the procurement function will evolve in the future

Roundtable 2
How to Create Value through Logistics Procurement
Thomas Chaine, Associate Director, EMEA and APAC, Logistics Sourcing, Global Procurement, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Roundtable 3
Capability Building for Sustainable Value Creation
Nicky Gray, Lead, Procurement Operations, Kellogg

Roundtable 4
How to Sustain Value Creation through Operational Efficiency
James Pick, Global Head of Procurement Infrastructure, BP

14:00 Stream B : CPO Live Interview – Value Creation in Emerging Markets – Procurement in Central Eastern Europe

Interviewer - Duncan Brock, Director of Client Relationships, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply

Benefit from this exclusive live interview with the head of one of Europe’s biggest banks, Edzard Janssen, who has 12 years experience in senior management positions including at Deutsche Telekom Group and now Raffeissen Bank International. As the current Group Chief Procurement Officer and Head of Group Cost Management, reporting to the board member for Retail, IT and Operations, Edzard is perfectly placed to help you:

• Understand how the maturity of supply markets in Eastern Europe - in this context from Albania to Poland and Kosovo to Russia, EU vs. Non-EU - represents a challenge to the procurement function

• Get to grip with the challenges to procurement when operating in these regions including staffing, training, language barriers, perception of procurement, processes & systems and supplier readiness, and heterogenous supply market maturity

• Benefit from the lessons learned by RFI Bank International in CEE so you can quickly operate successfully in the region