Richard Silk

Procurement Services Lead
AstraZeneca

Richard has almost 20 years of Procurement experience developed in a broad range of industries and categories. His current role as AstraZeneca’s Procurement Improvement and Innovation Lead provides him with the opportunity to engage with the business on a broad range of major change and improvement programmes. After recently leading the implementation of AZ’s Operational Global Procurement Services Programme (OGPS) his focus is now upon the implementation of their Transactional GPS solution, along with the implementation of AZ’s Procurement Innovation strategic priority.

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Day 3

Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

09:40 Interactive Case Study - How to Strike the Right Balance between Compliance, Risk, Insight & Innovation

When striving for operational excellence it is important to find the right balance of all key competencies. Find out how Martin manages to drive compliance whilst building processes that enable innovation to flow into the business. With senior procurement leadership experience as CPO at Qinetiq, Martin has a working knowledge of what good looks like.

How to set the right goals for improvement before you begin your path to operational excellence
How to develop a culture of compliance to manage risk across your global supply chain
How to leverage breakthroughs in procurement data to gain new insights into spend management
How to bring together all the principles, systems and tools you need to drive innovation