Aamir Shaukat

Chief Procurement Officer
Jacobs Douwe Egberts

Aamir has held a variety of senior procurement roles at 3 of the biggest businesses in Europe: Beiersdorf, Mars and now as Chief Procurement Officer at Jacobs Douwe Egberts. Not all of Aamir’s time has been in Europe, nearly 6 years were spent in Asia between Thailand and China, providing him with a truly global perspective on procurement transformation best practice. Don’t miss his session on the topic on November 8th.

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Day 1

Thursday, August 11th, 2016

15:00 Interactive Case Study - Training Behaviours and Processes to Keep Your Procurement Team Agile and Ready for the Future

Find out which behaviours and processes you need to develop across your teams to transform into a world-class procurement organisation. Once mastered these competencies will help you create more value for your stakeholders, faster and still deliver even more savings. Drawing on his experience as a senior procurement manager at a variety of global businesses in Asia and Europe, Aamir is well placed to offer new thinking on the subject.

How to find the right mix of talent to drive behavioural change across your procurement organisation
How to define the capability framework to develop the right training approach for your own team
How to build a ‘start-up’ culture in your procurement organisation that challenges convention and focuses more on the innovation agenda
How to target continuous improvement in your teams to protect procurement from changes in the future