Dapo Ayayi

Chief Procurement Officer
AstraZeneca

Dapo has enjoyed a long career with AstraZeneca, holding a variety of senior Operations and Commercial roles. In April 2014 Dapo assumed the role of AZ Chief Procurement Officer accountable for the company’s external spend and supplier base across the end to end value chain. Dapo has held a wide variety of leadership roles across the AZ business, most recently VP Global External Sourcing where she was responsible for Operation’s global supply chain related external spend; and VP Cornerstone in GMSO, where she led the development of a new set of company-wide strategic commercial capabilities, ‘the Cornerstone model and mind-set’, and led the team responsible for the Branded Generics business initiative. Previous roles included leadership of the iPR business and UK manufacturing sites and heading the International Project Management and Asset Capability Group. Dapo has a pharmacy degree and is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

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Day 2 – March 1, 2017

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

08:45 Multi-Perspective Case Study – The Power of Partnering

Find out how AstraZeneca’s global procurement organisation is incentivising and recognising business partnering as a key success factor in procurement performance measurement. Combining a strategic overview from the Chief Procurement Officer with practical ‘how to’ examples from outstanding procurement team members, recognised for their skills in business partnering, this interactive session will challenge you to act differently when you get back to the office.

How do you begin to measure the activity of business partnering?
How to get buy in from senior management to invest time and money in business partnering
Lessons learned creating value for the business by partnering with different internal stakeholders
3 key steps to take to immediately improve the way you partner with your business

10:35 CPO Panel Discussion – How to Enable the Changes Required to Integrate, Connect and Empower Procurement Inside the Business

With so much disruption to the global business environment today it is a constant challenge for leaders of procurement organisations to gain the strongest mandate, engage internal stakeholders early enough, access the best tools and technology whilst optimising multiple processes. Find out how to achieve a better balance for your team during this interactive discussion with senior procurement leaders from big and medium size Pharma businesses.

What do business leaders expect from procurement today?
How to influence successful integration of procurement inside the business
How to develop stronger, deeper more profitable connections between procurement and internal stakeholders in the business
Tools and systems to consider that will truly empower your global procurement organisation