Gavin McClure

Global Procurement Marketing Category Manager
Japan Tobacco International

Gavin has spent his entire career to date in purchasing and procurement, within JTI’s HQ (since 2006). For the first 5 years he was in a generalist role, supporting a variety of different business units (e.g. HR, Corp. Communications, Legal). However, since 2012 he has been leading the marketing category within JTI’s Global Procurement Department.

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Day 2: Optimising the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marketing Procurement

Friday, March 6th, 2015

16:55 Industry Presentation - Reducing your agency costs without negotiating on fees: The impact of process redesign and identifying waste in how you work

Day 3: Taking your marketing procurement to the next level

Monday, April 6th, 2015

12:25 Drill Down Roundtables

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