Michael Connett, Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager at Intel
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Michael Connett


Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager
Intel

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Day 2: Optimising the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marketing Procurement

Friday, March 6th, 2015


11:20 Listen, Learn and Share - How should you attract, nurture and retain marketing procurement talent?

  • What skill set and capabilities should the ideal marketing procurement professional have?
  • Where can you find the best marketing procurement talent?
  • How can you develop consistently excellent procurement professionals and not pockets of excellence?
  • How can you address talent management in a changing marketing procurement function?
  • What good examples are there of talent management programmes?
  • Once you have them, what methods can be used to keep your talent?

14:30 Case Study Revolution: How to use Marketing Procurement “Value Add” proposition to drive closer interaction and collaboration with marketing to create a competitive edge

  • What is your Value Add proposition? What would you list as your top 10?
  • How do you “Sell” Procurement’s Value Add proposition into marketing?
  • How do you go about communicating these Value Add successes to your Marketing stakeholders? How are your successes judged?
  • Do you have examples of either quantitative or qualitative measurements of value success?
  • How do you develop your partner relationships with marketing?
  • How do you build mutual accountability with marketing?
  • How do you translate this value to creating a competitive edge and communicate this?

14:50 Case Study Revolution: Continued

  • How to align procurement targets with KPI’s of marketing- who are measured on delivering sales, brand performance and health
  • Where should marketing procurement sit within the organisation?
  • How to enable your marketing procurement organisation to become a natural ally of the marketing organisation and their supply partners
  • How to build mutual accountability to keep a partnership healthy
  • How you can build a stable foundation of ‘selling’ internally to gain alignment to common goals, showcase wins, and continuously improve
  • Mastering the art and science of partnering with the business to deliver value for the company and meet the collective objectives of Marketing and Procurement