Edzard Janssen

Chief Procurement Officer
Raiffeisen International

Edzard Janssen is a German national with 12 years in senior management positions in procurement of Deutsche Telekom Group, in Head Office or leading Procurement of major business units. For the past 6 years he has been in procurement at Raiffeisen Bank International rising to serve the business now as Group Chief Procurement Officer and Head of Group Cost Management reporting to the board member for Retail, IT and Operations. In this role Edzard is also responsible for Procurement of RBI HO/Business Unit Austria, cost Management in the Group and Austria and for leading the group-wide corporate savings programme “Fit for Future”.

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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° Indirect Roundtables

Roundtable 1

Adding Value to Your Business by Getting Control over Spend
Jorgen Zetterstrom, Global Head of Indirect, Sony Mobile

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Roundtable 2
How to Improve Contract Management to Optimise Supplier Performance
Alasdair Fraser, CPO, British Library

Join Alasdair for this in-depth discussion around supplier engagement after the contract to drive better performance without compromising your partnership. In many ways this is a masterclass in contract management you can’t afford to miss. Benefits include:
• Discover the secrets of successful contract management with existing and new suppliers to get better results
• Receive help and advice from your peers to get better results from your current contract management strategy
• Meet new procurement leaders facing similar challenges to benchmark against

Roundtable 3
Supplier Innovation from an Indirect Perspective
Edzard Janssen, Chief Procurement Officer, Raffeissen Bank International

Generate new ideas about how to win more innovation from your supplier base during this interactive discussion:

• What does innovation mean to your business?
• How to create value with suppliers for win-win outcomes
• Pitfalls to avoid when building long term relationships with suppliers

Roundtable 4
Competitive Procurement Strategies for Indirect Buyers
Thierry Bellon, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer, Air France

Join this discussion with Deputy Deputy CPO Thierry Bellon to exchange thinking on how to create more value through Indirect procurement including:

• How to structure category management to create value
• Ways to generate relationships that yield more
• What to avoid when targeting value creation as a strategic objective

Roundtable 5
Sustaining Value Delivery in Fast Moving Sectors
Bjorn Hofbauer, Head of Procurement Germany, Samsung Electronics

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