Doing Procurement Right
Welcome to this blog run by two passionate procurement professionals.
Through a prism of 30+ years of joint procurement-related experience here we are – sharing about our perspectives on what makes a great procurement practice, how to successfully drive your procurement function, and how to avoid major pitfalls that a procurement professional may face in his or her career. We hope you will enjoy!
About the Authors
We – two procurement enthusiasts – have joined our experience and knowledge to share the best of what we’ve learned during our careers so far. Learn a bit about who we are:
Oliver is a seasoned procurement expert with more than 1.5 decades of procurement experience. He has also founded and run two companies in his career and worked in the fields of business development, product management and product marketing.
When it comes to procurement, Oliver can biring in his expertise from a wide range of topics he has worked on. He held project tasks and interim (leadership) mandates in strategic and operational procurement, optimizing (procurement) processes, as well as introducing procurement systems and reorganizing procurement teams. In addition, he has repeatedly worked as a project leader for large teams and across multiple countries, being responsible for tasks in area of the supply chain and logistics. Regarding his industries experience, his biggest practical knowledge is in the telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and automotive branch.
As an interim manager, he leads based on trust and makes his teams a little better every day through tailor-made coaching.
Maria is an experienced and passionate procurement professional with over 15 years of extensive sourcing and SCM related experience: from direct procurement, logistics and freight management, import/export operations, to leading business processes and policies optimisation and global indirect procurement responsibilities.
Besides wide experience in the area of indirect procurement and general SCM management, during the last 6 years Maria has been specifically focusing on marketing procurement leading European and Global projects and categories, such as print services, media buying, advertising and creative agencies services, video and TVC production, events, market intelligence. Maria’s geographical focus has been European Region, North and South America, Middle East.
Being a people’s person, Maria believes in ‚human‘ approach to leading, and absolutely loves coaching her more junior peers and helping them develop into future procurement stars.
