Simon Soothill

Former Head of Marketing and Travel Sourcing
Lloyds Banking Group

Simon's formative career was in brand Marketing Management for Anchor Foods, Kraft Foods and Diageo where Simon stemmed years of decline for Gordon's Gin with a major relaunch, including the first new packaging for 100 years.

The subsequent 14 years of his career have been focused on the Procurement of Marketing in blue chip global Category, Indirect and Outsourcing leadership positions for Diageo, Accenture and latterly Lloyds Banking Group. Simon has delivered sourcing success for Global brands, regional businesses and local brands including Drinks, Telco, FMCG, Business Services, Resources and Financial Services. This has involved working across the world including Ireland, Spain, Brazil, Vietnam, China, Australia, US, Singapore, Netherlands, and Italy. He has also driven Transformation for Procurement and also Marketing organisations.

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Day 3: Taking your marketing procurement to the next level

Monday, April 6th, 2015

11:20 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

12:25 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?