JJ van der Meer

Partner
PA Consulting

JJ Van der Meer joined PA Consulting in 2015 as a member of their Management Group in the Consumer & Manufacturing sector. JJ has over 20 years industry experience from global leadership roles in FMCG and Pharmaceutical companies including Unilever, FrieslandCampina and GSK. He has a broad ‘End2End’ experience following leadership roles in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, Co-Manufacturing and R&D / Product Development. He was Global VP Procurement for Unilever, and his most recent role before joining PA was Head of Procurement / CPO for GSKs Global Manufacturing Division, responsible for the supply of all materials and services to around 75 factories around the world. He is experienced in leading significant transformational change projects and was responsible for the delivery of step-change organisational capabilities, spend and working capital savings, complexity reduction, business process outsourcing and building of strategic alliances.

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Day 1

Thursday, August 11th, 2016

09:50 How to Create Belief, Energy and Trust in Your Innovative Procurement Team

Join JJ Van der Meer, former VP and Head of Production Procurement at GSK as he discusses various activities that an innovative procurement organisation must undertake and how they use them to engage reluctant stakeholders. You will discover:

Why procurement teams should be using various innovations levers such as partner to win, different collaboration models, working with suppliers to harness the latest technology
How to engage internal stakeholders early on to be part of the innovation strategy
How to operate beyond the procurement function to drive the innovation agenda in the business
New and different ways to positively engage stakeholders