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Samantha McCarthy


Global Procurement Manager IT
Reckitt Benckiser

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Day 2 - Taking your IT procurement to the next level

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017


13:45 Case Study Revolution - What is the skillset needed for future IT sourcing and procurement professionals?

  • What skill set and capabilities should the ideal IT procurement professional have?
  • How to find the best IT procurement talent: those that are technologically competent and able to commercially get the right deals?
  • Conducting an employee skillset analysis: should you recruit from supply chain/procurement or IT?
  • How can you ensure the sourcing team has credibility with IT: do they speak the same language, are they on the same level technically?
  • How can you develop consistently excellent procurement professionals and not pockets of excellence?
  • How can you address talent management in a changing IT procurement function?
  • What good examples are there of talent management programmes?
  • Once you have them, what methods can be used to keep your talent?
  • How do you build an internal talent pipeline and map training needs to the fast moving needs of the IT world?