Keith DeMatteo

Center of Sourcing Excellence Director
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Keith works for BMS as Director in Global Procurement’s Center of Excellence. In this position, Keith supports the design and implementation of the BMS Procurement Operating model which includes Business Partnering, Strategic Category Management, and Supplier Relationship Management. He also trains and mentors Procurement professionals in various strategic skills and issues. Prior to BMS, Keith worked in Hewlett Packard’s procurement organization, was the Chief Procurement Officer at TD Ameritrade, and was Verizon’s Head of FiOS Sourcing & Supply Chain organization. He has over 21 years of Sourcing, Procurement and Supply Chain experience. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA with a Finance concentration from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Keith.

Download The Latest Agenda

Strengthening Internal and External Partnerships to Further Today’s Procurement Organization

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

14:00 Panel: Best Practices in Category Management

If you are either a high level strategy manager over several categories or manage only one, unlocking the potential that your category can attain is key to business success. How do you come to best understand the area you are managing or effectively chose the right people to look over certain categories. During this panel you will:

-Learn the elements that will make a category management strategy successful
-Explore what the role of “category manager” should look like
-Understand what skillset to look for in a category manager