Richard Beaumont

(Space at each table is on a first come, first served basis! Reserve your spot early.)


Roundtable 1
How to Transform to a Highly Competitive Procurement Organisation
Guy Allen, Former Chief Procurement Officer, Fujitsu


Roundtable 2
How to Create Diverse Leadership Teams that Drive Competitiveness in Your Business
Nina Guezennec, Chief Procurement Officer, Orangina Schweppes

Learn how diverse leadership teams can benefit your procurement organization and your business during this interactive roundtable session with the current CPO for Orangina Schweppes Nina Guezennec. During this discussion you will address:

• How to improve diversity in your procurement team
• Benefits to your business of diversifying the procurement team
• How to make change stick for sustainable success


Roundtable 3
How to Choose the Right Metrics to Drive Operational Excellence
Eugene Daly, Procurement Lead Downstream Joint Ventures, Shell International

Join Eugene and 8 of your peers to understand what you need to measure and why to achieve operational excellence across your procurement organization. During this interactive session you will discover:

• Key efficiency metrics to use to drive competitiveness of your business
• Pitfalls to avoid when striving for operational excellence through procurement
• How to change your infrastructure to support new operational efficiencies


Roundtable 4
How to Weigh Up the Pros and Cons of Central versus De-Central Sourcing
Herve Mennasol, Global Capital Purchases Associate Director, Procter and Gamble


Roundtable 5
How to Effectively Manage Risk during Change
Paula Gildert, Head of Development Strategic Sourcing, Novartis Pharma

Attend this discussion if you want to share ideas with your peers about how to eliminate

risk while creating value to improve the competitiveness of your business.

During this discussion you will cover:

» How to create a truly effective risk plan for your business

» Behaviours and attitudes to adopt during periods of change that lower risk

» Lessons learned in risk management during restructuring from different sectors

Roundtable 6
How to Stay Competitive in a High-Growth Environment
Cyril Pourrat, Chief Procurement Officer, Saudi Telecom

Receive a scene-setting introduction to the biggest challenge facing procurement today during the welcome speech from Chairman Duncan Brock: how to continuously deliver value to your business.

Business partnering is the future of procurement – working collaboratively with other functions is how value is created and how value can be continuously delivered too so getting it right is business critical. But there are numerous challenges including language, culture, goals and even targets so how do global businesses achieve good business partnering to sustain value creation? Attend this exclusive panel discussion with SAP’s head of procurement and head of HR as they explain their successful approach. You will learn more about:

• How to understand other functions so you can respond to their needs better

• Ways to align language and culture to achieve a joint approach to value creation

• Tips and advice on how to achieve best practice business collaboration internally

Take notes as your Chairman summarises the day’s activities and take-aways so you have a report ready to send back to the office. The summary will be condensed into 10 key points.

Discover just why relationships and reputation are such a critical element of any procurement strategy today in this introductory session from the chairman before the discussions and debate begin.

Benefit from time with one of the world’s busiest CPOs, the current head of the Co-Op Bank Richard Beaumont. Since the first moment he took the reins at the struggling bank it has been non-stop and Richard has had to make strategic changes from the outset. Join him for this enlightening journey through the first 9 months at the helm of the bank’s procurement team to understand the challenges he is overcoming:

• The Journey so far – separating from the Co-Op group

• Insource versus outsource – how did these decisions impact the pace of success?

• Change leadership during transformation – key skills to develop

• Your thoughts – spend 15 minutes working in groups to solve one of Richard’s current challenges then discuss possible solutions together

Roundtable 1
Key Elements of Successful Stakeholder Management
Richard Beaumont, Chief Procurement Officer, Co-Op Bank

Share your ideas about best practice stakeholder management with 9 of your peers during this interactive discussion on what it takes to get consensus buy-in so you can move forward faster:

• How to improve your communication and influencing skills to achieve better outcomes and more buy-in

• What to avoid when establishing support for a new initiative so you get support faster

• 5 key actions to take to improve stakeholder management in your organisation


Roundtable 2
How to Create More Profitable Supplier Relationships for your Organisation
Professor John Henke, Professor Marketing, Oakland University

Spend time with supply chain expert Professor Henke to understand how you can transform the relationships you have with suppliers into sources of new profit for your organization. Attend to discuss:

• How to improve the contribution of suppliers to your organisation’s profitability

• What to change to make your relationships more sustainable

• How to create trusting relationships that stick


Roundtable 3: Best Practice Category Management to Yield Innovation for Your Business
Andrew Windsor, Director, EMEA Procurement, Kimberly Clark


Roundtable 4:
How to Create Performance-Oriented Supplier Management Strategies
Falk Kohler, Vice President, Head of Procurement Consulting and Head of Healthcare Imaging Systems Procurement Engineering, Philips


Roundtable 5:
Forging Partnerships that Create Value
Christian Linhart, Deputy CPO and Director of Procurement Strategy, MobileTeleSystems (MTS)
Sandro Attanasio, Principal Commercial Manager, Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC), Luxemburg