Day 3: Taking your marketing procurement to the next level

08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee

09:00 - 09:10 Chair’s opening remarks:


Stephanie Bell, Head of Global Procurement, Demand at Diageo

Stephanie Bell

Head of Global Procurement, Demand
Diageo

09:10 - 09:40 Case Study: Category driven procurement agenda – what does great look like?

  • What does great look like for each category? How should best practice be measured?
  • How can category strategies align to optimise global consistency of brands
  • Setting KPIs and measures to become clear around what category maturity will look like
  • Measuring maturity – best in class vs peers
  • Comparing qualitative and quantitative base-lining
  • How to map categories and skillset needs
  • How does the skill set need to evolve to match category needs?
  • Developing plans and opportunities to set procurement up for success
  • Challenge: is leading, truly leading - Understanding what leading truly looks like
  • Linking strategies to corporate ambitions and the customer journey
Stephen Sargeant, Global Category Director Bought, Owned and Earned Media at Diageo

Stephen Sargeant

Global Category Director Bought, Owned and Earned Media
Diageo

09:40 - 10:10 Keynote Case Study – Overcoming the strategic challenges for marketing procurement posed by the unique structure of the Renault-Nissan Alliance

  • The “red thread” for marketing procurement to create and execute a coherent strategy across a highly diverse and decentralized set of internal customers
  • The techniques and practices for managing internal customers that proved effective
  • The techniques and practices for managing the global procurement team that proved effective
  • What were the greatest barriers to success and how were they overcome?
  • What next for marketing procurement at Renault-Nissan? Where are the future opportunities to improve performance?
  • What does good procurement leadership look like in this environment?
  • Lessons learned for women working to be effective procurement leaders in complex, global organizations
Sophie Barthelemy, Deputy General Manager, Global Strategy for Indirect Purchasing at Renault-Nissan

Sophie Barthelemy

Deputy General Manager, Global Strategy for Indirect Purchasing
Renault-Nissan

10:10 - 10:40 Keynote Presentation - Marketing procurement strategy transformation – what’s next?

  • With content led marketing, advertisers are in a midst of an evolving new world- how should you adapt and evolve to capitalise on this change?
  • How to take marketing procurement to the next level - what does marketing procurement 3.0 look like?
  • How are changes in the marketing environment impacting marketing and marketing procurement KPIs?
  • How do you know you’re really contributing to the company goals through marketing procurement?
  • With more agency consolidation and globalisation, how will this impact the function?
  • Integrated marketing – how can you work with agencies and suppliers in a more structured and organised way?
Gerry Preece, Consultant - Marketing Procurement at External View Consulting Group

Gerry Preece

Consultant - Marketing Procurement
External View Consulting Group

10:40 - 11:20 Morning coffee and networking

Stream A: Re-evaluating Partnerships

11:20 - 11:50 Case Study - The step-by-step process of how and why Vodafone changed its media agency to MEC
  • Why the decision was made to change agencies – what measures were used?
  • What early planning took place in the change process?
  • How were stakeholders managed?
  • What were the stages of the pitch - what indicators were used?
  • How agency change management was dealt with internally and assets were transferred
Jo Smallbone, Head of Sales and Marketing Procurement at Vodafone

Jo Smallbone

Head of Sales and Marketing Procurement
Vodafone

Stream C: Future Marketing Trends

11:20 - 11:50 Creative Boardroom - How can you best deal with new marketing industry disruptors
  • What are the biggest disruptors in the marketing industry? Profound changes in the business landscape forcing marketing organisations to undergo significant transformation as oppose to incremental change
  • How are marketers reacting to this- prioritising their investments and building this into their strategy?
  • Are they making a measurable impact?
  • How can procurement step up and respond to the marketing industry disruptions?
  • What resources do procurement need to enable this?


    Maximum 15 attendees
    Simon Soothill, Former Head of Marketing and Travel Sourcing at Lloyds Banking Group

    Simon Soothill

    Former Head of Marketing and Travel Sourcing
    Lloyds Banking Group

Stream A

11:50 - 12:20 Case Study - How the GSK global supplier engagement programme changed internal and external behaviours to maximise transparency and value
• Unveiling the operations of the global supplier engagement programme-what was asked and how results were measured to create a baseline?
• Sharing the positive and negative results from the survey- monitoring 110,000 employees across 115 markets working in a heavily regulated sector
• Extended insight post GSK merger with Novartis consumer division
• How internal and external behaviours have changed to maximise transparency and value- to drive the global agenda but not at the expense of the regional and local quality or delivery

Richard Woodford, Global Procurement Director at GSK

Richard Woodford

Global Procurement Director
GSK

Stream C

11:50 - 12:20 The Creative Boardroom: Continued
• Unveiling the operations of the global supplier engagement programme-what was asked and how results were measured to create a baseline?
• Sharing the positive and negative results from the survey- monitoring 110,000 employees across 115 markets working in a heavily regulated sector
• Extended insight post GSK merger with Novartis consumer division
• How internal and external behaviours have changed to maximise transparency and value- to drive the global agenda but not at the expense of the regional and local quality or delivery

Stream A

12:20 - 12:25 Change over time

Stream B

12:20 - 12:25 Change over time

Stream C

12:20 - 12:25 Change over time

Stream A: Globalising marketing procurement

12:25 - 13:10 Case Study Revolution: How to drive a truly global, centralised agenda - but not at the expense of the regional and local quality of delivery?
People
-Organisational construct and location strategy (alignment?)
-Supplier network strategy/models
-Stakeholder goals alignment
-What skill sets are needed? Where? And when?
Process
-Driving a consistent ways of working?
-Measuring success and value contributed
-Building and refreshing Market Intelligence
-Risk mitigation and supplier assurance
-How to drive Change/ Transformation
-How to understand and reflect global, regional and local differences and similarities
Technology
-E-Sourcing
-Collaboration - among sourcing, stakeholders and suppliers
-Production workflow
-Data and analytics
Specific examples of success stories?
Any examples we could learn from?

Simon Soothill, Former Head of Marketing and Travel Sourcing at Lloyds Banking Group

Simon Soothill

Former Head of Marketing and Travel Sourcing
Lloyds Banking Group

Nina Chande

Senior Contract and Partner Manager
Sony Mobile Communications

Roundtable 1: How to find room to negotiate the purchase of market research
Sandrine Huart, Worldwide Consumer and Market Insight Category Leader, L’Oreal

Roundtable 2: The pros and cons of holding company contracts
Jane Dormer, Strategic Procurement Director - Western Europe, Coca-Cola

Roundtable 3: How to manage sponsorship spend and measure awareness and preference of sponsorship led campaigns
Thomas Holzapfel, Global Category Leader Marketing, Deutsche Telekom

Roundtable 4: How to leverage on deep and long-standing relationships with suppliers and agencies
Gavin McClure, Global Procurement Marketing Category Manager, Japan Tobacco International


Thomas Holzapfel, Global Category Leader Marketing at Deutsche Telekom

Thomas Holzapfel

Global Category Leader Marketing
Deutsche Telekom

Sandrine Huart, Worldwide Consumer and Market Insight Category Leader at L’Oreal

Sandrine Huart

Worldwide Consumer and Market Insight Category Leader
L’Oreal

Jane Dormer, Group Marketing & Digital Procurement Director at Sky

Jane Dormer

Group Marketing & Digital Procurement Director
Sky

Gavin McClure, Global Procurement Marketing Category Manager at Japan Tobacco International

Gavin McClure

Global Procurement Marketing Category Manager
Japan Tobacco International

Stream C: Inspiring innovation

12:25 - 13:10 Creative Boardroom: How can you encourage internal and external innovation?
  • How can procurement support in-house innovation?
  • Supplier driven innovation – how can you get suppliers interested in working innovatively with you over your competitors?
  • How can you innovate your internal and external working ways? •Cross organisation innovation – with non-competing advertisers: What can be done?
  • How can you do what you did yesterday differently today to drive better results?

Maximum 15 attendees
Mathilde Garner, Associate Director for Procurement - UK & IE, at Merck Sharpe & Dohme

Mathilde Garner

Associate Director for Procurement - UK & IE,
Merck Sharpe & Dohme

13:10 - 14:10 Networking lunch

14:10 - 14:30 Industry Presentation – How procurement collaborating with their partners can drive top-line contribution

Stephanie Bell, Head of Global Procurement, Demand at Diageo

Stephanie Bell

Head of Global Procurement, Demand
Diageo

Peter Heijstra, Managing Director at Gemaco

Peter Heijstra

Managing Director
Gemaco

14:30 - 14:55 Case Study – How to effectively decouple digital production from marketing creative agencies?

  • Overview of Microsoft’s Digital Efficiency Program and its journey from ideation to proof of concept
  • Why Digital Production Decoupling matters for your business stakeholders and even your agencies?
  • How to leverage your best technical engineering suppliers in this decoupling model
  • Is offshoring to lower cost geos a valid option and what do you need to consider when implementing this approach?
  • Which Digital Services can you best decouple?
Luc Jacob, Global Category Manager Digital Marketing at Microsoft

Luc Jacob

Global Category Manager Digital Marketing
Microsoft

14:55 - 15:30 Afternoon tea and networking

15:30 - 16:15 Case Study Revolution - How to improve efficiencies in tail end spend - working smarter, not harder

  • How to change the internal mindset to improve efficiencies and effectiveness in tail end spend
  • How do you prove to your stakeholder it’s worth addressing!
  • How much can tail end spend be influenced – global vs. local procurement governance?
  • What do you ask yourself to improve processes and efficiencies in the second wave of change, once price has been negotiated?
  • How can procurement add value in fragmented spend when supplier consolidation is not the right route?
  • How can you open up the supply chain for traceability of spend?
  • How can you keep pressure on and look to ways to maximise and add value in market research
  • POS – how much can be consolidated and leveraged on a consistent basis?
  • Strategies for merchandising when promotional products form a part of strategic spend and not tail end –how does this impact the buying of merchandising?
  • How can procurement improve and challenge requirements and scope of work?
Paula O'Reilly, Marketing Procurement Category Lead at BT

Paula O'Reilly

Marketing Procurement Category Lead
BT

16:15 - 16:40 Presentation - How can you use technology to cost efficiently improve the effectiveness of marketing?

• How can technology be implemented to improve the functionality available to marketers and agencies?
• How can it be used to communicate with customers in a personalised way to serve relevant content through the right channel?
• What kind of skill-set should marketing procurement managers be recruiting to manage technology in digital marketing?

Peter Rowe, Senior Marketing Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland

Peter Rowe

Senior Marketing Manager
Royal Bank of Scotland

16:40 - 23:59 Chair’s closing remarks